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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 49
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 -18
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 117 226 260
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.19% 8.90% 5.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 9.88% 6.38%
Number of salaries quoted 61 48 100
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,700
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,688 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £91,561 £80,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £98,474 £93,772
UK median annual salary £66,722 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.20% -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 2,551 2,288 4,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.49% 90.08% 86.27%
Number of salaries quoted 1,471 1,016 1,825
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,763 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -22.73% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,465
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.84% -7.56%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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
Glasgow +25 63 £49,750 -2.93% 69
Edinburgh -19 37 £72,500 -8.70% 43
Aberdeen - 4 - - 4
Moray - 4 £75,000 -
South Lanarkshire -10 3 - -
Highlands - 3 - -
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
Fife -9 1 £27,000 -46.00% 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 6 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (4.27%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.22%) Azure
2 14 (11.97%) AWS
3 13 (11.11%) GitHub
3 13 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 8 (6.84%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (5.98%) GCP
6 5 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.27%) dbt
6 5 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (4.27%) SaaS
6 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.42%) Azure Databricks
7 4 (3.42%) Datadog
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.56%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.71%) Alation
9 2 (1.71%) Collibra
9 2 (1.71%) Firebase
9 2 (1.71%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) Broadband
2 2 (1.71%) BGP
2 2 (1.71%) Firewall
2 2 (1.71%) Network Security
2 2 (1.71%) OSPF
2 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) AMQP
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.85%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.85%) IPsec
3 1 (0.85%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.85%) SNMP
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) VLAN
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.11%) Power BI
3 10 (8.55%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (8.55%) MySQL
4 9 (7.69%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.84%) Tableau
6 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (4.27%) Metadata
8 4 (3.42%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.71%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.56%) GitLab
2 3 (2.56%) JIRA
3 2 (1.71%) fastlane
3 2 (1.71%) Git
4 1 (0.85%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.85%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.85%) Gradle
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.85%) Xcode
General
1 39 (33.33%) Finance
1 39 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 37 (31.62%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (20.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 21 (17.95%) Marketing
5 15 (12.82%) Law
6 8 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (6.84%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.56%) Back Office
8 3 (2.56%) Legal
9 2 (1.71%) Banking
9 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (13.68%) Lead
2 11 (9.40%) Developer
3 10 (8.55%) Architect
3 10 (8.55%) Data Engineer
4 9 (7.69%) Analyst
4 9 (7.69%) Risk Manager
5 8 (6.84%) Full-Stack Developer
5 8 (6.84%) Senior
6 7 (5.98%) Data Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (5.13%) IT Director
7 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (4.27%) Engineering Manager
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Leader
8 5 (4.27%) Technical Manager
9 4 (3.42%) Head of QA
9 4 (3.42%) Support Engineer
10 3 (2.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.26%) Kafka
2 11 (9.40%) Spring
2 11 (9.40%) Spring Boot
3 8 (6.84%) Hibernate
3 8 (6.84%) JPA
3 8 (6.84%) REST
4 4 (3.42%) .NET
4 4 (3.42%) Terraform
5 2 (1.71%) ODBC
5 2 (1.71%) PySpark
5 2 (1.71%) React
5 2 (1.71%) RESTful
6 1 (0.85%) Android SDK
6 1 (0.85%) Core Data
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) Django
6 1 (0.85%) gRPC
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) iOS SDK
6 1 (0.85%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.42%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.71%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.71%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.71%) Social Media
5 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.85%) Clustering
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Derivative
6 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) IoT
6 1 (0.85%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.56%) Windows
1 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.71%) Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (25.64%) AI
2 29 (24.79%) Agile
3 28 (23.93%) Data Analytics
3 28 (23.93%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (21.37%) Decision-Making
6 21 (17.95%) CI/CD
7 19 (16.24%) Machine Learning
8 17 (14.53%) Collaborative Working
8 17 (14.53%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (14.53%) Service Delivery
9 16 (13.68%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (12.82%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.82%) User Experience
11 14 (11.97%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (11.97%) Data Science
12 13 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
12 13 (11.11%) Data Architecture
12 13 (11.11%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.37%) Python
2 19 (16.24%) SQL
3 14 (11.97%) Java
4 1 (0.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) C#
4 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
4 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.85%) Scala
4 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.85%) Swift
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (9.40%) Degree
2 5 (4.27%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.42%) IRCA
3 4 (3.42%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
4 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.71%) CISM
5 2 (1.71%) CISSP
5 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.71%) PMP
5 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (0.85%) MCT
6 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.85%) PgMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.98%) GDPR
3 4 (3.42%) ISO 9001
3 4 (3.42%) QA
3 4 (3.42%) SLA
4 3 (2.56%) GRC
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.71%) WCAG
6 1 (0.85%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (9.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.42%) Ansible
2 4 (3.42%) Grafana
2 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.85%) Nagios
4 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 17 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.82%) Databricks
3 6 (5.13%) Google
4 5 (4.27%) Alteryx
4 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco
5 3 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.56%) Splunk
6 2 (1.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Apple
7 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.85%) Optimizely
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) SAP
7 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.85%) Workday
7 1 (0.85%) YouTube