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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 25 43
Rank change year-on-year +6 +18 +1
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 253 188 240
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.20% 7.12% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.52% 7.70% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 37 55 120
10th Percentile - £43,500 £32,088
25th Percentile £35,000 £46,740 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £63,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -20.63% +5.78% +8.28%
75th Percentile £77,000 £82,958 £72,433
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,750 £92,247
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 2,197 2,443 2,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.92% 92.54% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,028 1,798
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,025 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,538
90th Percentile £82,241 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 +2 132 £65,000 +13.04% 21
Glasgow -2 26 £47,500 -29.63% 9
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 3
Renfrewshire +1 18 - - 3
South Lanarkshire - 12 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 6 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - - 1
Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 4
Stirling - 6 - -
Highlands - 4 - - 2
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 17 (6.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.16%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (12.25%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (5.53%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (5.53%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (5.53%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (5.53%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (5.53%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.79%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.94%) Azure
2 60 (23.72%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (22.92%) GitHub
4 44 (17.39%) GitHub Copilot
5 31 (12.25%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (11.86%) Snowflake
7 28 (11.07%) Power Platform
8 27 (10.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (10.28%) Entra ID
10 25 (9.88%) Azure Monitor
11 24 (9.49%) dbt
12 21 (8.30%) OCI
13 15 (5.93%) Azure Logic Apps
14 14 (5.53%) Azure Event Grid
14 14 (5.53%) Azure Service Bus
14 14 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (3.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (3.16%) Microsoft Purview
16 8 (3.16%) Mimecast
17 6 (2.37%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.65%) Tableau
2 28 (11.07%) Power BI
3 26 (10.28%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.11%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 16 (6.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 12 (4.74%) Data Mining
7 11 (4.35%) Metadata
8 7 (2.77%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.58%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.79%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.79%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.40%) QlikView
11 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (14.23%) JIRA
2 31 (12.25%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (6.72%) Git
3 17 (6.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.40%) JUnit
4 1 (0.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 142 (56.13%) Analytical Skills
2 128 (50.59%) Finance
3 126 (49.80%) Social Skills
4 5 (1.98%) Back Office
4 5 (1.98%) Banking
4 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.79%) Billing
6 2 (0.79%) Legal
6 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.40%) Law
7 1 (0.40%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (37.94%) Innovation Manager
2 31 (12.25%) Analyst
3 29 (11.46%) Senior
4 17 (6.72%) Applications Engineer
4 17 (6.72%) Cloud Engineer
5 14 (5.53%) Oracle Analyst
5 14 (5.53%) Senior Analyst
5 14 (5.53%) Senior Oracle Analyst
6 13 (5.14%) Data Analyst
7 12 (4.74%) Trainee
7 12 (4.74%) Trainee Analyst
7 12 (4.74%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 10 (3.95%) ERP Analyst
8 10 (3.95%) Integration Engineer
8 10 (3.95%) Lead
9 8 (3.16%) Developer
9 8 (3.16%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 7 (2.77%) Architect
11 6 (2.37%) Data Engineer
11 6 (2.37%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.25%) OAuth
1 31 (12.25%) OAuth2
1 31 (12.25%) RESTful
2 17 (6.72%) SAML
3 14 (5.53%) JSON
4 3 (1.19%) Kafka
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.79%) React
6 1 (0.40%) .NET
6 1 (0.40%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.40%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.40%) Blazor
6 1 (0.40%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.40%) NestJS
6 1 (0.40%) Node.js
6 1 (0.40%) REST
6 1 (0.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.79%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.67%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.72%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.16%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.58%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.79%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.40%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.40%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.40%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.40%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.40%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.40%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.40%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.74%) Windows
2 4 (1.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (70.36%) AI
2 162 (64.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 120 (47.43%) Decision-Making
4 103 (40.71%) Customer Experience
4 103 (40.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 101 (39.92%) Coaching
6 100 (39.53%) Asset Management
7 98 (38.74%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 81 (32.02%) Agile
9 76 (30.04%) DevOps
10 59 (23.32%) Test Automation
11 57 (22.53%) CI/CD
12 49 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
12 49 (19.37%) Critical Thinking
13 48 (18.97%) Emotional Intelligence
14 41 (16.21%) Roadmaps
15 39 (15.42%) ETL
16 36 (14.23%) Clean Code
17 34 (13.44%) Data Modelling
17 34 (13.44%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (24.90%) Python
2 60 (23.72%) SQL
3 26 (10.28%) PowerShell
4 22 (8.70%) Java
5 18 (7.11%) Bash
6 17 (6.72%) PL/SQL
6 17 (6.72%) Shell Script
7 14 (5.53%) Bicep
8 7 (2.77%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.79%) C#
9 2 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (4.74%) Degree
2 4 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (1.58%) CTC Cleared
2 4 (1.58%) SC Cleared
2 4 (1.58%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.40%) ACCA
3 1 (0.40%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.40%) CISA
3 1 (0.40%) CISM
3 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.53%) Data Quality
1 14 (5.53%) GDPR
2 4 (1.58%) SLA
3 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.40%) GRC
3 1 (0.40%) NIST
3 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.40%) QA
3 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (7.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 10 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 49 (19.37%) Terraform
2 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (6.72%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.16%) SCCM
5 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.40%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 53 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 38 (15.02%) Oracle
3 14 (5.53%) Ab Initio
4 11 (4.35%) Databricks
5 4 (1.58%) Cisco
6 3 (1.19%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.19%) Anaplan
6 3 (1.19%) Teradata
7 2 (0.79%) Hyperion
7 2 (0.79%) IBM
7 2 (0.79%) SAP
8 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow