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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 54 44
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 -3
Permanent jobs citing Analytics 226 436 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.59% 6.40% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.19% 7.00% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 84 125 142
10th Percentile £25,313 £39,750 £32,625
25th Percentile £42,206 £46,306 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +0.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £93,778 £73,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £96,539 £78,646
UK median annual salary £64,000 £59,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.47% -9.23% -

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 2,758 6,226 4,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.64% 91.40% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 2,433 2,111
10th Percentile £30,650 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 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 28 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 +17 120 £83,738 +28.70% 204
Glasgow +37 40 £52,250 -5.00% 183
Renfrewshire -1 24 £52,000 +59.79% 37
Inverclyde - 12 £52,000 -
North Lanarkshire +1 8 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 3 £55,000 -
East Ayrshire - 3 £40,101 -
Lanarkshire -8 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 - 19
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 (6.64%) Oracle Application Server
2 11 (4.87%) Umbraco
3 7 (3.10%) Apache
4 6 (2.65%) CMS
4 6 (2.65%) SAS
5 3 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.33%) Drupal
6 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.88%) Confluence
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (15.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Adobe Premiere
2 3 (1.33%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.44%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
2 1 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.16%) Azure
2 27 (11.95%) AWS
3 21 (9.29%) GCP
4 19 (8.41%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.87%) Google Analytics
6 9 (3.98%) Snowflake
7 8 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (3.10%) Adobe Analytics
8 7 (3.10%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.33%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.33%) GitHub
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.88%) Collibra
11 2 (0.88%) Contentsquare
11 2 (0.88%) dbt
11 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (24.34%) Tableau
2 22 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (8.41%) Power BI
4 18 (7.96%) Big Data
5 15 (6.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 15 (6.64%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (4.87%) BigQuery
7 5 (2.21%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.33%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.88%) Looker
10 1 (0.44%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.44%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.44%) Impala
10 1 (0.44%) Metadata
10 1 (0.44%) Redshift Spectrum
Development Applications
1 35 (15.49%) JIRA
2 8 (3.54%) Git
3 6 (2.65%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.21%) Eclipse
4 5 (2.21%) Eclipse RCP
5 4 (1.77%) webpack
6 2 (0.88%) ERwin
7 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 95 (42.04%) Finance
2 87 (38.50%) Social Skills
3 81 (35.84%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (25.66%) Banking
5 16 (7.08%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (6.64%) Military
7 14 (6.19%) Marketing
8 11 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (4.87%) Retail
9 7 (3.10%) Law
10 6 (2.65%) Wholesale Banking
11 5 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.21%) Legal
12 4 (1.77%) Advertising
13 2 (0.88%) Private Banking
13 2 (0.88%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.88%) Retail Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Billing
14 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (14.60%) Analyst
1 33 (14.60%) Principal Engineer
2 32 (14.16%) Innovation Manager
3 30 (13.27%) Senior
4 23 (10.18%) Architect
5 22 (9.73%) Lead
6 17 (7.52%) Data Analyst
7 15 (6.64%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.87%) Data Manager
9 11 (4.87%) Lead Architect
9 11 (4.87%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.87%) Senior Manager
10 10 (4.42%) Data Scientist
11 9 (3.98%) Audit Manager
11 9 (3.98%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.65%) Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.65%) Data Analytics Manager
13 6 (2.65%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.96%) CSS
2 17 (7.52%) React
3 12 (5.31%) OAuth
3 12 (5.31%) OpenID
3 12 (5.31%) SAML
4 11 (4.87%) Ajax
4 11 (4.87%) jQuery
5 7 (3.10%) HTML
6 5 (2.21%) JSP
6 5 (2.21%) Middleware
6 5 (2.21%) PySpark
7 4 (1.77%) Enzyme
7 4 (1.77%) Jest
7 4 (1.77%) Redux
7 4 (1.77%) RESTful
7 4 (1.77%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.33%) JSON
8 3 (1.33%) Kafka
8 3 (1.33%) NumPy
8 3 (1.33%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (3.10%) Algorithms
2 5 (2.21%) Credit Risk
2 5 (2.21%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.77%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.33%) Blog
4 3 (1.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.33%) Social Media
5 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.88%) Learning Management System
5 2 (0.88%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.44%) Life Science
6 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.44%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.44%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.44%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.44%) Replication
6 1 (0.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.21%) Linux
1 5 (2.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (36.73%) Data Analytics
2 73 (32.30%) Data Management
3 68 (30.09%) Customer Experience
4 62 (27.43%) Decision-Making
5 58 (25.66%) Data Modelling
6 56 (24.78%) Artificial Intelligence
7 52 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (21.24%) Agile
9 46 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (17.70%) Data Governance
11 38 (16.81%) Visualisation
12 34 (15.04%) Data-Driven Decision Making
13 30 (13.27%) Business Intelligence
13 30 (13.27%) Data Science
14 29 (12.83%) Mathematics
15 25 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
16 24 (10.62%) DevOps
16 24 (10.62%) Statistical Modelling
17 21 (9.29%) Coaching
17 21 (9.29%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (20.80%) SQL
2 38 (16.81%) Python
3 20 (8.85%) JavaScript
4 7 (3.10%) Java
5 5 (2.21%) Ada
5 5 (2.21%) C#
5 5 (2.21%) Rust
6 4 (1.77%) R
7 1 (0.44%) Bash
7 1 (0.44%) Bicep
7 1 (0.44%) C++
7 1 (0.44%) Go
7 1 (0.44%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (15.49%) Degree
2 15 (6.64%) DBS Check
3 7 (3.10%) CISA
4 6 (2.65%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.77%) PhD
7 3 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.88%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.88%) PMP
9 1 (0.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (19.91%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
3 4 (1.77%) QA
3 4 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.44%) ITGC
6 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (2.21%) Docker
2 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.87%) Single Sign-On
2 9 (3.98%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.33%) Terraform
4 1 (0.44%) Grafana
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (26.11%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.85%) Oracle
3 16 (7.08%) Google
4 9 (3.98%) Adobe
5 4 (1.77%) Tealium
6 3 (1.33%) Databricks
6 3 (1.33%) Genesys
6 3 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.33%) Verint
7 2 (0.88%) Charles River
7 2 (0.88%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.44%) Facebook
8 1 (0.44%) Maxymiser
8 1 (0.44%) Medallia
8 1 (0.44%) SAP