Analytics Jobs in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 54 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 231 429 284
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.62% 6.28% 6.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.27% 6.89% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 85 125 145
10th Percentile £25,313 £39,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £46,306 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,743 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% +5.64% +4.55%
75th Percentile £93,778 £73,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £94,252 £78,336
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -

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 2,794 6,223 4,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.12% 91.17% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,309 2,465 2,077
10th Percentile £30,400 £28,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Analytics in Scotland.

Salary trend for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 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 31 May 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 +20 120 £83,738 +28.70% 73
Glasgow +28 45 £52,000 -5.45% 56
Renfrewshire -1 24 £52,000 +59.79% 32
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
North Lanarkshire +3 8 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 3 £55,000 -
East Ayrshire - 3 £40,101 -
Lanarkshire -10 2 - - 4
Moray - 2 £40,101 -
North Ayrshire - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 - - 1
Ayrshire - 2 - - 2
South Ayrshire -31 1 £40,101 -38.31%
Fife - 1 £40,101 - 1
Analytics
UK

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (6.49%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (4.76%) Umbraco
3 8 (3.46%) Apache
4 6 (2.60%) CMS
4 6 (2.60%) SAS
5 5 (2.16%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.30%) Drupal
7 2 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.87%) Confluence
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 36 (15.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.30%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (1.30%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.15%) Azure
2 33 (14.29%) AWS
3 24 (10.39%) GCP
4 20 (8.66%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.76%) Google Analytics
5 11 (4.76%) Snowflake
6 8 (3.46%) Amazon SageMaker
6 8 (3.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (1.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.30%) Azure Stack
9 3 (1.30%) GitHub
9 3 (1.30%) Serverless
10 2 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.87%) Collibra
10 2 (0.87%) Contentsquare
10 2 (0.87%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (23.81%) Tableau
2 21 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.66%) Big Data
3 20 (8.66%) Power BI
4 15 (6.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 15 (6.49%) Oracle Reports
5 11 (4.76%) BigQuery
6 7 (3.03%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.16%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.73%) SQL Server
9 3 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.87%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (0.87%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.87%) Impala
10 2 (0.87%) Looker
10 2 (0.87%) Oracle ODI
10 2 (0.87%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.87%) Redshift Spectrum
10 2 (0.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (15.15%) JIRA
2 8 (3.46%) Git
3 6 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.16%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.16%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (1.73%) webpack
6 2 (0.87%) ERwin
7 1 (0.43%) GitLab
General
1 100 (43.29%) Finance
2 87 (37.66%) Social Skills
3 80 (34.63%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (25.97%) Banking
5 16 (6.93%) Marketing
5 16 (6.93%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.49%) Military
7 12 (5.19%) Law
7 12 (5.19%) Retail
8 11 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.60%) Wholesale Banking
11 4 (1.73%) Advertising
11 4 (1.73%) Legal
12 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Private Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.87%) Publishing
12 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.29%) Analyst
1 33 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
2 32 (13.85%) Innovation Manager
3 31 (13.42%) Senior
4 24 (10.39%) Lead
5 23 (9.96%) Architect
6 20 (8.66%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.36%) Data Analyst
8 14 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.76%) Data Manager
9 11 (4.76%) Lead Architect
9 11 (4.76%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.76%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.33%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.90%) Audit Manager
11 9 (3.90%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.60%) Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.60%) Data Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.23%) React
2 18 (7.79%) CSS
3 14 (6.06%) OAuth
3 14 (6.06%) OpenID
3 14 (6.06%) SAML
4 11 (4.76%) Ajax
4 11 (4.76%) jQuery
5 7 (3.03%) HTML
6 6 (2.60%) PySpark
7 5 (2.16%) JSP
7 5 (2.16%) Kafka
7 5 (2.16%) Middleware
7 5 (2.16%) RESTful
8 4 (1.73%) Enzyme
8 4 (1.73%) Jest
8 4 (1.73%) Redux
8 4 (1.73%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.30%) NumPy
9 3 (1.30%) OAuth2
9 3 (1.30%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.03%) Algorithms
1 7 (3.03%) Cloud Native
2 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.73%) Credit Risk
3 4 (1.73%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.30%) Blog
4 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.30%) Social Media
5 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.87%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (0.87%) Replication
6 1 (0.43%) FMCG
6 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.43%) Life Science
6 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.43%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.43%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.16%) Linux
1 5 (2.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (35.93%) Data Analytics
2 74 (32.03%) Data Management
3 68 (29.44%) Customer Experience
4 64 (27.71%) Decision-Making
5 58 (25.11%) Data Modelling
6 56 (24.24%) Artificial Intelligence
7 53 (22.94%) Agile
8 52 (22.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (20.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (17.32%) Data Governance
11 38 (16.45%) Visualisation
12 34 (14.72%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 31 (13.42%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (12.55%) Data Science
14 29 (12.55%) Mathematics
15 26 (11.26%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (10.82%) DevOps
16 25 (10.82%) Software Engineering
17 23 (9.96%) Statistical Modelling
18 21 (9.09%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.65%) SQL
2 40 (17.32%) Python
3 20 (8.66%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.33%) Java
5 5 (2.16%) Ada
5 5 (2.16%) C#
5 5 (2.16%) Rust
6 4 (1.73%) R
7 3 (1.30%) Go
8 1 (0.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.43%) Bicep
8 1 (0.43%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (15.15%) Degree
2 15 (6.49%) DBS Check
3 7 (3.03%) CISA
4 5 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.30%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.30%) PhD
6 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.87%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.87%) PMP
7 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
2 5 (2.16%) QA
3 4 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.43%) ITGC
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (3.03%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 11 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (1.30%) Terraform
3 1 (0.43%) Grafana
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (25.54%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.96%) Oracle
3 18 (7.79%) Google
4 9 (3.90%) Adobe
5 4 (1.73%) Databricks
5 4 (1.73%) Tealium
6 3 (1.30%) Facebook
6 3 (1.30%) Genesys
6 3 (1.30%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.30%) Verint
7 2 (0.87%) Charles River
7 2 (0.87%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.43%) Maxymiser
8 1 (0.43%) Medallia
8 1 (0.43%) SAP