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 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 29 52
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -13
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 122 195 379
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.74% 8.73% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.32% 9.42% 6.58%
Number of salaries quoted 64 57 129
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £36,650
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +12.00% +13.55%
75th Percentile £86,563 £95,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £102,375 £98,474 £90,822
UK median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% +6.67% -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 2,293 2,071 5,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.25% 92.70% 88.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,328 853 2,593
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,375 £90,045 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +19 48 £60,000 +14.29% 12
Edinburgh -20 34 £65,000 -15.44% 11
North Lanarkshire -4 9 - -
Renfrewshire -3 6 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -5 4 - -
Lanarkshire +10 3 - - 8
Aberdeen - 3 - - 1
Ayrshire -1 2 - -
East Ayrshire -2 2 - -
North Ayrshire -3 2 - -
Stirling -4 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire -5 2 - -
Highlands - 1 - - 1
Fife - 1 £27,000 - 1
West Lothian - 1 - -
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 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
1 3 (2.46%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 33 (27.05%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (0.82%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.05%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (26.23%) Entra ID
3 20 (16.39%) Azure
4 13 (10.66%) AWS
5 9 (7.38%) Power Platform
5 9 (7.38%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.28%) GCP
6 4 (3.28%) GitHub
6 4 (3.28%) SaaS
7 2 (1.64%) dbt
7 2 (1.64%) Firebase
7 2 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.82%) Google Play
8 1 (0.82%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) Broadband
2 1 (0.82%) AMQP
2 1 (0.82%) BGP
2 1 (0.82%) Firewall
2 1 (0.82%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.82%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.82%) MQTT
2 1 (0.82%) Network Security
2 1 (0.82%) OSPF
2 1 (0.82%) SNMP
2 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.38%) Power BI
1 9 (7.38%) Tableau
2 7 (5.74%) Data Mining
3 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.28%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.28%) MySQL
5 3 (2.46%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.82%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.82%) Metadata
7 1 (0.82%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.82%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (0.82%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.46%) JIRA
3 2 (1.64%) fastlane
4 1 (0.82%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.82%) Crashlytics
4 1 (0.82%) Gradle
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.82%) Xcode
General
1 63 (51.64%) Social Skills
2 33 (27.05%) Back Office
3 30 (24.59%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (22.13%) Finance
5 8 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.46%) Games
9 2 (1.64%) Law
9 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.82%) Legal
10 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (27.87%) Support Engineer
2 33 (27.05%) Desktop Engineer
2 33 (27.05%) Desktop Support
2 33 (27.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 32 (26.23%) Site Engineer
4 17 (13.93%) Architect
5 13 (10.66%) Analyst
6 12 (9.84%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.84%) Lead
7 11 (9.02%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.56%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.56%) Lead Data Engineer
8 8 (6.56%) Trainee
8 8 (6.56%) Trainee Analyst
8 8 (6.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 7 (5.74%) Senior
10 6 (4.92%) Head of QA
11 5 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
12 4 (3.28%) Developer
12 4 (3.28%) IT Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) Kafka
2 2 (1.64%) Hibernate
2 2 (1.64%) JPA
2 2 (1.64%) ODBC
2 2 (1.64%) REST
2 2 (1.64%) RESTful
2 2 (1.64%) Spring
2 2 (1.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.82%) .NET
3 1 (0.82%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (0.82%) Core Data
3 1 (0.82%) Django
3 1 (0.82%) gRPC
3 1 (0.82%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (0.82%) JSON
3 1 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.82%) PySpark
3 1 (0.82%) Retrofit
3 1 (0.82%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.46%) Social Media
5 2 (1.64%) Data Fabric
5 2 (1.64%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.64%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.82%) IoT
6 1 (0.82%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.82%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 33 (27.05%) Windows
1 33 (27.05%) Windows 10
2 2 (1.64%) Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Android
3 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (44.26%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (34.43%) ITIL
3 41 (33.61%) Cybersecurity
4 40 (32.79%) Customer Experience
5 35 (28.69%) Customer Service
6 33 (27.05%) Customer Acquisition
6 33 (27.05%) Patch Management
6 33 (27.05%) Software Deployment
6 33 (27.05%) Ticket Management
7 24 (19.67%) Agile
8 19 (15.57%) Data Engineering
9 18 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (13.93%) Data Analysis
11 16 (13.11%) Data Analytics
12 15 (12.30%) Data Strategy
13 13 (10.66%) AI
13 13 (10.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (9.84%) Actionable Insight
15 11 (9.02%) Decision-Making
15 11 (9.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.93%) Python
2 14 (11.48%) SQL
3 4 (3.28%) Java
4 2 (1.64%) Scala
5 1 (0.82%) Bash
5 1 (0.82%) C#
5 1 (0.82%) Kotlin
5 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.82%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (27.05%) CTC Cleared
1 33 (27.05%) Degree
1 33 (27.05%) SC Cleared
1 33 (27.05%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.92%) IRCA
3 1 (0.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.82%) MCT
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.82%) PMP
3 1 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (27.87%) SLA
2 12 (9.84%) Data Quality
3 7 (5.74%) GDPR
3 7 (5.74%) QA
4 6 (4.92%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.64%) WCAG
6 1 (0.82%) GRC
6 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.82%) Grafana
2 1 (0.82%) Nagios
2 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.82%) Terraform
2 1 (0.82%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (38.52%) Microsoft
2 33 (27.05%) Cisco
3 8 (6.56%) Databricks
4 7 (5.74%) Oracle
5 5 (4.10%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.10%) SAP
6 3 (2.46%) Anaplan
6 3 (2.46%) Google
6 3 (2.46%) Hyperion
6 3 (2.46%) IBM
7 2 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.82%) Apple
8 1 (0.82%) Epicor
8 1 (0.82%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.82%) Workday