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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 27 44
Rank change year-on-year -21 +17 -15
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 117 218 227
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.89% 8.65% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 9.62% 6.50%
Number of salaries quoted 58 37 92
10th Percentile £35,350 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,438 £37,000 £49,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £54,441 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.76% -16.24% +9.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £85,243 £99,847
UK median annual salary £66,763 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +11.27% -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 2,764 2,267 3,491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.18% 89.96% 85.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,634 993 1,570
10th Percentile £28,150 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,194 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.62% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 September 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 September 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 +22 61 £55,000 +10.00% 214
Edinburgh -15 36 £96,250 +60.42% 166
South Lanarkshire -13 5 - -
Moray - 4 £75,000 -
Aberdeen - 4 - - 13
Highlands - 3 - - 4
West Lothian - 2 - - 3
Stirling -6 1 - - 5
Fife -10 1 £27,000 -46.00% 4
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 5 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Ethereum
Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (19.66%) Azure
2 16 (13.68%) AWS
3 15 (12.82%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.55%) GitHub
5 6 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (4.27%) GCP
6 5 (4.27%) SaaS
6 5 (4.27%) Snowflake
7 4 (3.42%) Datadog
7 4 (3.42%) dbt
7 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.42%) Google Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Alation
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (2.56%) Collibra
8 3 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.71%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.71%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.56%) Broadband
2 2 (1.71%) BGP
2 2 (1.71%) OSPF
2 2 (1.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) AMQP
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.85%) Internet
3 1 (0.85%) IPFIX
3 1 (0.85%) IPsec
3 1 (0.85%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.85%) SNMP
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) VLAN
3 1 (0.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) Power BI
2 12 (10.26%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.40%) Data Lake
4 9 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.98%) MySQL
5 7 (5.98%) Tableau
6 6 (5.13%) Metadata
6 6 (5.13%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.71%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.71%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.71%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.71%) Parquet
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.85%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 9 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.42%) Git
3 3 (2.56%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) ER Studio
4 1 (0.85%) JIRA
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 39 (33.33%) Finance
1 39 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (18.80%) Marketing
4 20 (17.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (12.82%) Law
6 11 (9.40%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.98%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.27%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.42%) Legal
10 3 (2.56%) Back Office
11 2 (1.71%) Banking
11 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.71%) Retail
12 1 (0.85%) Advertising
12 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.85%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.85%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (20.51%) Lead
2 11 (9.40%) Data Engineer
3 10 (8.55%) Architect
3 10 (8.55%) Senior
4 9 (7.69%) Risk Manager
5 8 (6.84%) Analyst
5 8 (6.84%) Data Manager
5 8 (6.84%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (6.84%) Software Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Applications Engineer
6 7 (5.98%) Applications Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Developer
6 7 (5.98%) Release Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Software Manager
6 7 (5.98%) Software Release Manager
7 6 (5.13%) Data Architect
7 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 6 (5.13%) IT Director
7 6 (5.13%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.69%) Kafka
1 9 (7.69%) Spring
1 9 (7.69%) Spring Boot
2 6 (5.13%) Hibernate
2 6 (5.13%) JPA
2 6 (5.13%) REST
3 4 (3.42%) .NET
3 4 (3.42%) PySpark
4 3 (2.56%) Terraform
5 2 (1.71%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.71%) JSON
5 2 (1.71%) React
6 1 (0.85%) CSS
6 1 (0.85%) Django
6 1 (0.85%) gRPC
6 1 (0.85%) HTML
6 1 (0.85%) ODBC
6 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.26%) Cloud Native
1 12 (10.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.56%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.56%) Social Media
4 2 (1.71%) Credit Risk
4 2 (1.71%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.85%) Bitcoin
5 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.85%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) IoT
5 1 (0.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.42%) Windows
2 3 (2.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.91%) AI
2 34 (29.06%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (25.64%) Agile
4 27 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 25 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (21.37%) Data Analytics
6 19 (16.24%) Collaborative Working
6 19 (16.24%) Mentoring
7 18 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 18 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (13.68%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (13.68%) Machine Learning
9 15 (12.82%) Software Engineering
10 14 (11.97%) Customer-Centricity
11 13 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (11.11%) Data Science
11 13 (11.11%) Risk Management
11 13 (11.11%) Service Delivery
11 13 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.51%) Python
2 18 (15.38%) SQL
3 14 (11.97%) Java
4 1 (0.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.85%) C#
4 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.85%) Scala
4 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (11.11%) Degree
2 7 (5.98%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.42%) CISM
4 4 (3.42%) CISSP
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.56%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.71%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.71%) PMP
6 2 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.85%) ACCA
7 1 (0.85%) CIMA
7 1 (0.85%) CISA
7 1 (0.85%) IRCA
7 1 (0.85%) MCT
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.42%) GDPR
2 4 (3.42%) SLA
3 3 (2.56%) GRC
3 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (8.55%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.42%) Ansible
2 4 (3.42%) Grafana
2 4 (3.42%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.56%) Argo
4 1 (0.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.85%) Nagios
4 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.40%) Databricks
3 5 (4.27%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.42%) Google
5 3 (2.56%) Cisco
5 3 (2.56%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.56%) Informatica
5 3 (2.56%) Splunk
5 3 (2.56%) YouTube
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe
6 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.85%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.85%) Workday