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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 23 48
Rank change year-on-year -3 +25 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 206 201 345
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.90% 8.87% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.78% 9.50% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 51 58 119
10th Percentile - £25,313 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £94,694 £71,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,375 £89,041
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.11%

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 2,346 2,116 4,263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 78.59% 93.34% 93.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,223 916 2,146
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £25,688
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,188 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,889 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 1 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 1 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 +3 123 £65,000 +7.01% 26
Glasgow -12 27 £53,750 -40.28% 23
North Lanarkshire -5 14 £45,000 - 1
Renfrewshire -4 9 - - 3
South Lanarkshire -3 6 - -
Lanarkshire +6 4 - - 14
Highlands - 4 - - 1
Ayrshire -1 3 - -
North Ayrshire -3 3 - -
East Ayrshire -3 3 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire -7 3 - -
Stirling -9 3 - -
West Lothian +2 1 - - 2
Aberdeen -11 1 - - 19
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 14 (6.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.49%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (17.48%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 26 (12.62%) Oracle ERP
2 11 (5.34%) Oracle Assets
2 11 (5.34%) Oracle Financials
2 11 (5.34%) Oracle General Ledger
2 11 (5.34%) Oracle Payables
2 11 (5.34%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.46%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.49%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 86 (41.75%) Azure
2 54 (26.21%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (24.76%) Azure DevOps
3 51 (24.76%) GitHub
4 49 (23.79%) Entra ID
5 37 (17.96%) GitHub Copilot
6 33 (16.02%) Snowflake
7 28 (13.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (12.62%) Power Platform
9 22 (10.68%) Azure Monitor
10 21 (10.19%) dbt
11 16 (7.77%) Azure Logic Apps
11 16 (7.77%) OCI
12 14 (6.80%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (6.80%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (6.31%) AWS
14 9 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 6 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
16 5 (2.43%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.46%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.53%) Tableau
2 26 (12.62%) Power BI
3 21 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (7.28%) Data Mining
4 15 (7.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 14 (6.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 12 (5.83%) Metadata
7 7 (3.40%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.43%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (1.94%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.97%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
12 1 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (14.56%) JIRA
2 25 (12.14%) Oracle Forms
3 14 (6.80%) Git
3 14 (6.80%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle APEX
General
1 113 (54.85%) Finance
2 80 (38.83%) Social Skills
3 64 (31.07%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (17.48%) Back Office
5 6 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (1.94%) Banking
7 3 (1.46%) Games
7 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Billing
8 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.97%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.97%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.49%) Law
9 1 (0.49%) Legal
9 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.49%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (17.48%) Desktop Engineer
1 36 (17.48%) Desktop Support
1 36 (17.48%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 36 (17.48%) Support Engineer
2 34 (16.50%) Analyst
3 32 (15.53%) Site Engineer
4 24 (11.65%) Senior
5 17 (8.25%) Lead
6 16 (7.77%) Data Analyst
6 16 (7.77%) Innovation Manager
7 15 (7.28%) Architect
7 15 (7.28%) Trainee
7 15 (7.28%) Trainee Analyst
7 15 (7.28%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 14 (6.80%) Applications Engineer
8 14 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (5.83%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.34%) Oracle Analyst
10 11 (5.34%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (5.34%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.59%) OAuth
1 28 (13.59%) OAuth2
1 28 (13.59%) RESTful
2 15 (7.28%) JSON
3 14 (6.80%) SAML
4 3 (1.46%) Kafka
4 3 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.49%) .NET
5 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.49%) NestJS
5 1 (0.49%) Node.js
5 1 (0.49%) React
5 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (18.93%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.74%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.80%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.43%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.46%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.46%) Social Media
6 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.49%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.49%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.49%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.49%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.49%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 41 (19.90%) Windows
2 36 (17.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (50.97%) Continuous Improvement
2 86 (41.75%) Coaching
3 82 (39.81%) Asset Management
4 81 (39.32%) AI
5 66 (32.04%) Agile
6 64 (31.07%) DevOps
7 57 (27.67%) Customer Experience
8 53 (25.73%) ITIL
9 52 (25.24%) CI/CD
9 52 (25.24%) Test Automation
10 45 (21.84%) Cybersecurity
11 44 (21.36%) Decision-Making
12 42 (20.39%) Business Intelligence
13 39 (18.93%) Customer Service
14 38 (18.45%) ETL
15 36 (17.48%) Customer Acquisition
15 36 (17.48%) Patch Management
15 36 (17.48%) Software Deployment
15 36 (17.48%) Ticket Management
16 33 (16.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 58 (28.16%) Python
2 57 (27.67%) SQL
3 18 (8.74%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.25%) Java
5 15 (7.28%) PL/SQL
6 14 (6.80%) Bicep
6 14 (6.80%) Shell Script
7 12 (5.83%) Bash
8 7 (3.40%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.97%) C#
9 2 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.97%) Scala
10 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (20.87%) Degree
2 36 (17.48%) CTC Cleared
2 36 (17.48%) SC Cleared
2 36 (17.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.97%) IRCA
5 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.49%) CISA
5 1 (0.49%) CISM
5 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (17.48%) SLA
2 20 (9.71%) Data Quality
3 16 (7.77%) GDPR
4 4 (1.94%) QA
5 2 (0.97%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
6 1 (0.49%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (5.83%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (3.40%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (2.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (19.42%) Terraform
2 14 (6.80%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (2.43%) SCCM
5 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.49%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 81 (39.32%) Microsoft
2 36 (17.48%) Cisco
3 34 (16.50%) Oracle
4 14 (6.80%) Ab Initio
5 12 (5.83%) Databricks
6 4 (1.94%) Anaplan
6 4 (1.94%) SAP
7 3 (1.46%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.46%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.46%) IBM
7 3 (1.46%) Teradata
8 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.49%) Epicor
9 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow