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 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 24 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +28 -8
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 148 194 423
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.52% 9.73% 6.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.37% 10.42% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 64 67 119
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,438 £44,375 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.18% +1.21%
75th Percentile £85,938 £98,474 £73,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +8.33% -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 2,323 1,861 5,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.93% 93.33% 91.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 858 2,382
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -11 66 £65,000 -16.24% 27
Glasgow -9 43 £62,500 - 22
North Lanarkshire -2 9 - - 1
Renfrewshire -5 6 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -5 4 - - 1
Lanarkshire +12 3 - - 8
Aberdeen - 3 - - 7
Ayrshire -2 2 - -
East Ayrshire -2 2 - - 1
North Ayrshire -4 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire -6 2 - -
Stirling -8 2 - -
West Lothian - 1 - - 2
Highlands - 1 - - 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 6 (4.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.03%) Confluence
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 33 (22.30%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 13 (8.78%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle Assets
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle Financials
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle General Ledger
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle Payables
2 6 (4.05%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (2.03%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.68%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (27.70%) Azure
2 33 (22.30%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (21.62%) Entra ID
4 24 (16.22%) GitHub
5 20 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (11.49%) Snowflake
7 16 (10.81%) GitHub Copilot
8 15 (10.14%) AWS
9 12 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (8.11%) Power Platform
10 8 (5.41%) dbt
10 8 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (4.73%) Azure Logic Apps
11 7 (4.73%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (4.73%) OCI
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Event Grid
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 6 (4.05%) GCP
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 2 (1.35%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.03%) Broadband
2 1 (0.68%) BGP
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) IPFIX
2 1 (0.68%) Network Security
2 1 (0.68%) OSPF
2 1 (0.68%) SNMP
2 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.68%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.81%) Tableau
2 12 (8.11%) Power BI
3 9 (6.08%) Data Mining
4 7 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.73%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 6 (4.05%) Metadata
6 5 (3.38%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.70%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.70%) MySQL
8 3 (2.03%) Snowflake Schema
9 2 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.68%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (8.78%) JIRA
1 13 (8.78%) Oracle Forms
2 10 (6.76%) Jenkins
3 6 (4.05%) Git
4 2 (1.35%) fastlane
5 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.68%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.68%) Gradle
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.68%) Xcode
General
1 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 55 (37.16%) Finance
3 34 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (22.30%) Back Office
5 8 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.03%) Games
8 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Law
10 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.68%) Banking
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (22.97%) Support Engineer
2 33 (22.30%) Desktop Engineer
2 33 (22.30%) Desktop Support
2 33 (22.30%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 32 (21.62%) Site Engineer
4 21 (14.19%) Analyst
5 16 (10.81%) Architect
6 15 (10.14%) Lead
6 15 (10.14%) Senior
7 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
8 10 (6.76%) Data Analyst
8 10 (6.76%) Lead Data Engineer
8 10 (6.76%) Trainee
8 10 (6.76%) Trainee Analyst
8 10 (6.76%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 9 (6.08%) Data Architect
10 7 (4.73%) ERP Analyst
11 6 (4.05%) Head of QA
11 6 (4.05%) Oracle Analyst
11 6 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.46%) RESTful
2 12 (8.11%) OAuth
2 12 (8.11%) OAuth2
3 7 (4.73%) JSON
4 6 (4.05%) Kafka
4 6 (4.05%) SAML
5 2 (1.35%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.35%) JPA
5 2 (1.35%) ODBC
5 2 (1.35%) REST
5 2 (1.35%) Spring
5 2 (1.35%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.68%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.68%) Core Data
6 1 (0.68%) gRPC
6 1 (0.68%) NestJS
6 1 (0.68%) PySpark
6 1 (0.68%) React
6 1 (0.68%) Retrofit
6 1 (0.68%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.81%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Social Media
6 2 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.35%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.30%) Windows
1 33 (22.30%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.68%) Android
2 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 42 (28.38%) ITIL
3 41 (27.70%) Customer Experience
3 41 (27.70%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (26.35%) Agile
5 36 (24.32%) Customer Service
6 33 (22.30%) Customer Acquisition
6 33 (22.30%) Patch Management
6 33 (22.30%) Software Deployment
6 33 (22.30%) Ticket Management
7 32 (21.62%) Coaching
8 30 (20.27%) Data Engineering
9 27 (18.24%) CI/CD
10 26 (17.57%) Asset Management
11 25 (16.89%) DevOps
12 24 (16.22%) AI
13 23 (15.54%) Data Pipeline
13 23 (15.54%) Test Automation
14 19 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (12.84%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.62%) Python
1 32 (21.62%) SQL
2 12 (8.11%) Java
3 7 (4.73%) PL/SQL
4 6 (4.05%) Bicep
4 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
5 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.03%) Scala
7 2 (1.35%) C#
8 1 (0.68%) Bash
8 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.68%) Swift
8 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (22.30%) CTC Cleared
1 33 (22.30%) Degree
1 33 (22.30%) SC Cleared
1 33 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.05%) IRCA
3 1 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.68%) PMP
3 1 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.97%) SLA
2 16 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 13 (8.78%) GDPR
4 7 (4.73%) QA
5 6 (4.05%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.35%) WCAG
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.78%) Terraform
2 6 (4.05%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (2.03%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.68%) Grafana
4 1 (0.68%) Nagios
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 54 (36.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.30%) Cisco
3 19 (12.84%) Oracle
4 14 (9.46%) Databricks
5 6 (4.05%) Ab Initio
6 5 (3.38%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.38%) SAP
7 4 (2.70%) Anaplan
8 3 (2.03%) Google
8 3 (2.03%) Hyperion
8 3 (2.03%) IBM
9 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.68%) Apple
10 1 (0.68%) Epicor
10 1 (0.68%) SolarWinds