Analytics Job Trends in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Analytics skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 -10
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 201 202 396
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.46% 9.80% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.37% 10.53% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 59 68 117
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.54% -0.74%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,868 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,250 £98,931 £88,866
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,401 1,918 5,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 77.13% 93.02% 93.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,253 939 2,316
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,100 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% -11.02%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,447 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Scotland

Analytics
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Analytics.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Analytics

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -4 110 £65,000 -16.24% 16
Glasgow -12 36 £85,000 +21.43% 21
North Lanarkshire -5 13 - - 1
Renfrewshire -3 9 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -6 6 - -
Lanarkshire +3 4 - - 12
Highlands - 4 - - 1
Ayrshire 0 3 - -
North Ayrshire -3 3 - -
East Ayrshire -4 3 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire -7 3 - -
Stirling -10 3 - -
Aberdeen -13 1 - - 2
West Lothian - 1 - - 4
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.99%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.50%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (17.91%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 21 (10.45%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (4.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.49%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.31%) Azure
2 45 (22.39%) GitHub
3 44 (21.89%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (19.90%) Entra ID
6 32 (15.92%) GitHub Copilot
7 31 (15.42%) Snowflake
8 26 (12.94%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (9.95%) Power Platform
10 19 (9.45%) dbt
11 17 (8.46%) Azure Monitor
12 15 (7.46%) AWS
13 13 (6.47%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (6.47%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (5.97%) Azure Event Grid
14 12 (5.97%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (5.47%) OCI
16 9 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 6 (2.99%) GCP
18 4 (1.99%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.44%) Tableau
2 20 (9.95%) Power BI
3 19 (9.45%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (6.97%) Data Mining
5 12 (5.97%) Metadata
6 11 (5.47%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 11 (5.47%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (3.48%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.99%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.49%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.49%) MySQL
10 2 (1.00%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.00%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 25 (12.44%) JIRA
2 20 (9.95%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (6.97%) Jenkins
4 10 (4.98%) Git
5 2 (1.00%) fastlane
6 1 (0.50%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.50%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.50%) Gradle
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 97 (48.26%) Finance
2 85 (42.29%) Social Skills
3 61 (30.35%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.91%) Back Office
5 7 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.99%) Banking
9 3 (1.49%) Games
9 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Billing
10 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Legal
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (17.91%) Desktop Engineer
1 36 (17.91%) Desktop Support
1 36 (17.91%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 36 (17.91%) Support Engineer
2 32 (15.92%) Analyst
2 32 (15.92%) Site Engineer
3 24 (11.94%) Senior
4 17 (8.46%) Lead
5 16 (7.96%) Architect
5 16 (7.96%) Data Analyst
5 16 (7.96%) Innovation Manager
6 15 (7.46%) Trainee
6 15 (7.46%) Trainee Analyst
6 15 (7.46%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 14 (6.97%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.47%) Lead Data Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (4.98%) ERP Analyst
9 10 (4.98%) Oracle Analyst
9 10 (4.98%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.94%) RESTful
2 22 (10.95%) OAuth
2 22 (10.95%) OAuth2
3 13 (6.47%) JSON
4 10 (4.98%) SAML
5 6 (2.99%) Kafka
6 2 (1.00%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.00%) JPA
6 2 (1.00%) REST
6 2 (1.00%) Spring
6 2 (1.00%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.50%) .NET
7 1 (0.50%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.50%) Core Data
7 1 (0.50%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.50%) NestJS
7 1 (0.50%) React
7 1 (0.50%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.50%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.92%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.49%) Social Media
6 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 38 (18.91%) Windows
2 36 (17.91%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.50%) Android
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (48.26%) Continuous Improvement
2 67 (33.33%) Coaching
3 63 (31.34%) AI
3 63 (31.34%) Asset Management
4 60 (29.85%) Customer Experience
5 53 (26.37%) Agile
6 52 (25.87%) DevOps
7 48 (23.88%) CI/CD
8 45 (22.39%) Decision-Making
8 45 (22.39%) Test Automation
9 44 (21.89%) ITIL
10 42 (20.90%) Cybersecurity
11 39 (19.40%) Customer Service
12 36 (17.91%) Customer Acquisition
12 36 (17.91%) Patch Management
12 36 (17.91%) Software Deployment
12 36 (17.91%) Ticket Management
13 34 (16.92%) Data Engineering
14 32 (15.92%) Business Intelligence
14 32 (15.92%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 51 (25.37%) SQL
2 50 (24.88%) Python
3 16 (7.96%) Java
4 12 (5.97%) Bicep
5 11 (5.47%) PL/SQL
6 10 (4.98%) Shell Script
7 9 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 7 (3.48%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.99%) Bash
10 2 (1.00%) C#
10 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.00%) Scala
11 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.50%) Swift
11 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (18.91%) Degree
2 36 (17.91%) CTC Cleared
2 36 (17.91%) SC Cleared
2 36 (17.91%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.49%) IRCA
4 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.50%) CISA
4 1 (0.50%) CISM
4 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.91%) SLA
2 23 (11.44%) Data Quality
3 18 (8.96%) GDPR
4 7 (3.48%) QA
5 5 (2.49%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.00%) GRC
6 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.00%) WCAG
7 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) NIST
7 1 (0.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
2 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (14.43%) Terraform
2 10 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
3 6 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.00%) SCCM
6 1 (0.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 72 (35.82%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.91%) Cisco
3 26 (12.94%) Oracle
4 17 (8.46%) Databricks
5 12 (5.97%) Ab Initio
6 4 (1.99%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.99%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.99%) SAP
7 3 (1.49%) Google
7 3 (1.49%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.49%) IBM
8 2 (1.00%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.50%) Apple
9 1 (0.50%) Epicor
9 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.50%) Teradata