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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 28 42
Rank change year-on-year +10 +14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 255 194 231
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.28% 7.07% 8.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.42% 7.68% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 37 62 124
10th Percentile - £39,900 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,372 £59,451
Median % change year-on-year -17.18% +1.55% +8.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £89,750 £100,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

All Process and 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 2,233 2,526 2,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.23% 92.02% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,131 1,096 1,731
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,335 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £64,750 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,250 £87,125 £83,750
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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 2025. 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 +2 130 £53,750 -6.52% 51
Glasgow -6 29 £50,000 -23.08% 39
North Lanarkshire - 25 £45,000 - 1
Renfrewshire +1 18 - - 3
South Lanarkshire - 12 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 6 - - 2
Stirling - 6 - - 1
Ayrshire - 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 6 - - 5
North Ayrshire - 6 - -
East Ayrshire - 6 - -
Highlands - 4 - - 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 17 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 31 (12.16%) Oracle ERP
2 14 (5.49%) Oracle Assets
2 14 (5.49%) Oracle Financials
2 14 (5.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 14 (5.49%) Oracle Payables
2 14 (5.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 96 (37.65%) Azure
2 61 (23.92%) Azure DevOps
3 58 (22.75%) GitHub
4 44 (17.25%) GitHub Copilot
5 32 (12.55%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (11.76%) Snowflake
7 29 (11.37%) Power Platform
8 28 (10.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (10.20%) Entra ID
10 25 (9.80%) Azure Monitor
11 23 (9.02%) dbt
12 21 (8.24%) OCI
13 16 (6.27%) Azure Logic Apps
14 15 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
15 14 (5.49%) Azure Event Grid
15 14 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (3.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Purview
17 8 (3.14%) Mimecast
18 5 (1.96%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.39%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.16%) Tableau
2 28 (10.98%) Power BI
3 26 (10.20%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.06%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 16 (6.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 11 (4.31%) Data Mining
6 11 (4.31%) Metadata
7 8 (3.14%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.57%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.78%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.78%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.39%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.39%) QlikView
11 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 36 (14.12%) JIRA
2 31 (12.16%) Oracle Forms
3 17 (6.67%) Git
3 17 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) JUnit
4 1 (0.39%) Selenium
4 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 141 (55.29%) Analytical Skills
2 125 (49.02%) Finance
3 124 (48.63%) Social Skills
4 5 (1.96%) Back Office
4 5 (1.96%) Banking
4 5 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (1.57%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.18%) Legal
6 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (0.78%) Billing
7 2 (0.78%) Retail
8 1 (0.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.39%) Law
8 1 (0.39%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 96 (37.65%) Innovation Manager
2 33 (12.94%) Senior
3 30 (11.76%) Analyst
4 18 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
6 14 (5.49%) Oracle Analyst
6 14 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
6 14 (5.49%) Senior Oracle Analyst
7 12 (4.71%) Data Analyst
8 11 (4.31%) Trainee
8 11 (4.31%) Trainee Analyst
8 11 (4.31%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 10 (3.92%) ERP Analyst
9 10 (3.92%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.14%) Developer
10 8 (3.14%) Lead
10 8 (3.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 6 (2.35%) Data Manager
12 5 (1.96%) Architect
13 4 (1.57%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.16%) OAuth
1 31 (12.16%) OAuth2
1 31 (12.16%) RESTful
2 17 (6.67%) SAML
3 14 (5.49%) JSON
4 2 (0.78%) Kafka
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.78%) React
5 1 (0.39%) .NET
5 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.39%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (0.39%) Blazor
5 1 (0.39%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.39%) HTML
5 1 (0.39%) NestJS
5 1 (0.39%) Node.js
5 1 (0.39%) REST
5 1 (0.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 27 (10.59%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.14%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.39%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.39%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.39%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.39%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.71%) Windows
2 4 (1.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (70.20%) AI
2 163 (63.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 121 (47.45%) Decision-Making
4 103 (40.39%) Customer Experience
4 103 (40.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 101 (39.61%) Coaching
6 100 (39.22%) Asset Management
7 98 (38.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 79 (30.98%) Agile
9 77 (30.20%) DevOps
10 59 (23.14%) Test Automation
11 58 (22.75%) CI/CD
12 49 (19.22%) Business Intelligence
12 49 (19.22%) Critical Thinking
13 48 (18.82%) Emotional Intelligence
14 42 (16.47%) Roadmaps
15 39 (15.29%) ETL
16 36 (14.12%) Clean Code
17 35 (13.73%) Data Modelling
18 34 (13.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 61 (23.92%) Python
2 60 (23.53%) SQL
3 26 (10.20%) PowerShell
4 21 (8.24%) Java
5 18 (7.06%) Bash
6 17 (6.67%) PL/SQL
6 17 (6.67%) Shell Script
7 15 (5.88%) Bicep
8 7 (2.75%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.78%) C#
9 2 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.39%) Scala
10 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (4.71%) Degree
2 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (1.57%) CTC Cleared
2 4 (1.57%) SC Cleared
2 4 (1.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.39%) ACCA
3 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (0.39%) CISA
3 1 (0.39%) CISM
3 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.39%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.49%) Data Quality
1 14 (5.49%) GDPR
2 4 (1.57%) SLA
3 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.39%) GRC
3 1 (0.39%) NIST
3 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
3 1 (0.39%) QA
3 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 18 (7.06%) Virtual Desktop
2 11 (4.31%) Virtual Machines
3 8 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Docker
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 49 (19.22%) Terraform
2 18 (7.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (3.14%) SCCM
5 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 52 (20.39%) Microsoft
2 36 (14.12%) Oracle
3 14 (5.49%) Ab Initio
4 10 (3.92%) Databricks
5 4 (1.57%) Cisco
6 3 (1.18%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.18%) Teradata
7 1 (0.39%) Anaplan
7 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.39%) VMware