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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 52
Rank change year-on-year -9 +37 -14
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 196 196 429
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.86% 10.18% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.02% 11.04% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 64 72 124
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,313 £38,750
25th Percentile £35,500 £45,000 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £59,556
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.54% -0.74%
75th Percentile £89,375 £95,868 £71,750
90th Percentile £95,875 £99,847 £90,287
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,367 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.06% +10.61% -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 2,444 1,775 5,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 73.11% 92.21% 92.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,321 896 2,402
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,125 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,188 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -7 94 £65,000 -16.24% 10
Glasgow -11 45 £60,000 -14.29% 20
North Lanarkshire -4 13 - - 1
Renfrewshire -1 9 - - 3
South Lanarkshire -7 6 - -
Lanarkshire +3 4 - - 11
Highlands - 4 - - 1
Ayrshire +1 3 - -
East Ayrshire -1 3 - - 1
North Ayrshire -2 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire -6 3 - -
Stirling -12 3 - -
Aberdeen - 3 - - 5
West Lothian - 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 8 (4.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (2.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.53%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (18.37%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (9.69%) Oracle ERP
2 10 (5.10%) Oracle Assets
2 10 (5.10%) Oracle Financials
2 10 (5.10%) Oracle General Ledger
2 10 (5.10%) Oracle Payables
2 10 (5.10%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.53%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.65%) Azure
2 40 (20.41%) GitHub
3 38 (19.39%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (17.35%) Entra ID
6 29 (14.80%) Snowflake
7 28 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 23 (11.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (8.67%) dbt
9 17 (8.67%) Power Platform
10 16 (8.16%) AWS
11 13 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (5.61%) Azure Logic Apps
14 10 (5.10%) Azure Event Grid
14 10 (5.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 9 (4.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (4.59%) OCI
16 7 (3.57%) GCP
17 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.51%) Firewall
2 1 (0.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.71%) Tableau
2 17 (8.67%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (8.67%) Power BI
3 12 (6.12%) Data Mining
3 12 (6.12%) Metadata
4 11 (5.61%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 9 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
6 7 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.57%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.04%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.04%) MySQL
8 3 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.53%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.02%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.51%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 22 (11.22%) JIRA
2 18 (9.18%) Oracle Forms
3 12 (6.12%) Jenkins
4 8 (4.08%) Git
5 2 (1.02%) fastlane
6 1 (0.51%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.51%) Crashlytics
6 1 (0.51%) Gradle
6 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.51%) Xcode
General
1 94 (47.96%) Social Skills
2 85 (43.37%) Finance
3 63 (32.14%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (18.37%) Back Office
5 7 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.53%) Banking
7 3 (1.53%) Games
7 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.51%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.51%) Billing
8 1 (0.51%) Law
8 1 (0.51%) Legal
8 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.51%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.51%) Retail
8 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 37 (18.88%) Support Engineer
2 36 (18.37%) Desktop Engineer
2 36 (18.37%) Desktop Support
2 36 (18.37%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 32 (16.33%) Site Engineer
4 30 (15.31%) Analyst
5 23 (11.73%) Senior
6 17 (8.67%) Architect
7 16 (8.16%) Innovation Manager
7 16 (8.16%) Lead
8 14 (7.14%) Data Analyst
9 13 (6.63%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.63%) Trainee
9 13 (6.63%) Trainee Analyst
9 13 (6.63%) Trainee Data Analyst
10 11 (5.61%) ERP Analyst
11 10 (5.10%) Data Architect
11 10 (5.10%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (5.10%) Oracle Analyst
11 10 (5.10%) Senior Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.20%) RESTful
2 18 (9.18%) OAuth
2 18 (9.18%) OAuth2
3 11 (5.61%) JSON
4 8 (4.08%) SAML
5 6 (3.06%) Kafka
6 2 (1.02%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.02%) JPA
6 2 (1.02%) ODBC
6 2 (1.02%) REST
6 2 (1.02%) Spring
6 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.51%) Android Jetpack
7 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.51%) Core Data
7 1 (0.51%) Jetpack Compose
7 1 (0.51%) NestJS
7 1 (0.51%) PySpark
7 1 (0.51%) Retrofit
7 1 (0.51%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 29 (14.80%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.59%) Management Information System
3 8 (4.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.53%) Social Media
6 2 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.02%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.51%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.51%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.51%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 36 (18.37%) Windows
1 36 (18.37%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.51%) Android
2 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (46.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (31.12%) Customer Experience
3 56 (28.57%) Coaching
4 55 (28.06%) AI
5 54 (27.55%) Agile
6 51 (26.02%) Asset Management
7 47 (23.98%) ITIL
8 46 (23.47%) Cybersecurity
9 44 (22.45%) Decision-Making
10 43 (21.94%) CI/CD
10 43 (21.94%) DevOps
11 39 (19.90%) Customer Service
11 39 (19.90%) Test Automation
12 36 (18.37%) Customer Acquisition
12 36 (18.37%) Patch Management
12 36 (18.37%) Software Deployment
12 36 (18.37%) Ticket Management
13 34 (17.35%) Data Engineering
14 30 (15.31%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (14.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 47 (23.98%) SQL
2 41 (20.92%) Python
3 14 (7.14%) Java
4 10 (5.10%) Bicep
5 9 (4.59%) PL/SQL
6 8 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 7 (3.57%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.53%) Scala
9 2 (1.02%) Bash
9 2 (1.02%) C#
9 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.51%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.51%) Swift
10 1 (0.51%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (18.88%) Degree
2 36 (18.37%) CTC Cleared
2 36 (18.37%) SC Cleared
2 36 (18.37%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.06%) IRCA
4 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (0.51%) PMP
5 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (18.37%) SLA
2 22 (11.22%) Data Quality
3 17 (8.67%) GDPR
4 7 (3.57%) QA
5 6 (3.06%) ISO 9001
6 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.02%) WCAG
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) GRC
7 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.51%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (1.02%) Docker
1 2 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (10.71%) Terraform
2 8 (4.08%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 62 (31.63%) Microsoft
2 36 (18.37%) Cisco
3 24 (12.24%) Oracle
4 18 (9.18%) Databricks
5 10 (5.10%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 5 (2.55%) SAP
7 4 (2.04%) Anaplan
8 3 (1.53%) Google
8 3 (1.53%) Hyperion
8 3 (1.53%) IBM
9 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.51%) Apple
10 1 (0.51%) Epicor