Data Analysis Jobs in Scotland

Data Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 126 106
Rank change year-on-year +28 -20 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 69 165 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.25% 2.40% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 2.70% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 17 51 48
10th Percentile £32,700 £31,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £48,750 £31,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £38,221
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +43.90% -20.37%
75th Percentile £71,250 £59,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £68,114 £69,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +0.96% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analysis 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 2,760 6,113 4,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.17% 88.83% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,248 2,603 2,027
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £31,569
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year - -9.54% +1.33%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 June 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 +49 37 £67,500 -1.00% 112
Glasgow +44 15 £38,000 -30.91% 99
West Lothian +7 4 - - 6
Lanarkshire - 3 - -
Midlothian - 2 - - 6
Aberdeen +32 1 £45,000 -14.29% 27
East Lothian -1 1 - - 1
Fife -2 1 - - 6
Renfrewshire - 1 £60,000 - 17
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 3 (4.35%) Confluence
1 3 (4.35%) SAS
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) AWS
2 11 (15.94%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.70%) Azure
4 4 (5.80%) GCP
5 3 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.90%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.90%) SaaS
6 2 (2.90%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.45%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.45%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Tableau
2 11 (15.94%) Power BI
3 5 (7.25%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.90%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.90%) OLAP
5 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.45%) Big Data
6 1 (1.45%) Flink
6 1 (1.45%) GIS
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) ER Studio
1 3 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Git
General
1 30 (43.48%) Finance
2 17 (24.64%) Social Skills
3 16 (23.19%) Banking
4 12 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (7.25%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (7.25%) Law
6 5 (7.25%) Marketing
6 5 (7.25%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.90%) Electronics
8 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.45%) Agriculture
9 1 (1.45%) Automotive
9 1 (1.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Analyst
2 24 (34.78%) Senior
3 17 (24.64%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (13.04%) Data Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Financial Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Governance Analyst
5 7 (10.14%) Risk Analyst
6 6 (8.70%) Software Engineer
7 5 (7.25%) Data Modeller
7 5 (7.25%) Finance Modeller
7 5 (7.25%) SQL Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Data Manager
8 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Lead
8 4 (5.80%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Senior Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Digital Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) React
1 4 (5.80%) Web Services
2 3 (4.35%) JSON
2 3 (4.35%) scikit-learn
3 2 (2.90%) Pandas
3 2 (2.90%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.45%) CSS
4 1 (1.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.45%) gRPC
4 1 (1.45%) HTML
4 1 (1.45%) LangChain
4 1 (1.45%) Node.js
4 1 (1.45%) NumPy
4 1 (1.45%) REST
4 1 (1.45%) RESTful
4 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.94%) Social Media
2 5 (7.25%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) IoT
6 1 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.45%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 13 (18.84%) Windows
2 2 (2.90%) AIX
2 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.90%) Solaris
2 2 (2.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (26.09%) Data Modelling
3 15 (21.74%) Agile
4 13 (18.84%) Artificial Intelligence
4 13 (18.84%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (18.84%) Project Delivery
5 12 (17.39%) Analytics
5 12 (17.39%) Benchmarking
5 12 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (17.39%) Risk Management
6 11 (15.94%) Compliance Audit
7 10 (14.49%) Migration
7 10 (14.49%) Visualisation
8 9 (13.04%) Data Science
8 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
9 8 (11.59%) Data Migration
9 8 (11.59%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.14%) Data Extraction
10 7 (10.14%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (31.88%) SQL
2 16 (23.19%) Python
3 8 (11.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 4 (5.80%) R
6 3 (4.35%) Java
7 2 (2.90%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (10.14%) Degree
2 3 (4.35%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.90%) CISM
3 2 (2.90%) CISSP
3 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) HNC
4 1 (1.45%) HND
4 1 (1.45%) PhD
4 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.90%) NIST
4 1 (1.45%) GDPR
4 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (2.90%) Google
1 2 (2.90%) Ping Identity
1 2 (2.90%) SAP
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe
2 1 (1.45%) Maxymiser
2 1 (1.45%) Medallia