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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 116 105
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 -4
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 57 193 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.93% 2.89% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 3.13% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 20 47 38
10th Percentile £35,925 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £44,688 £45,595 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £55,000 £36,510
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +50.64% -23.94%
75th Percentile £72,647 £59,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,958 £63,218 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -2.78%

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 2,735 6,175 4,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.71% 92.38% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,355 2,389 2,175
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,133
25th Percentile £43,750 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,650 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 May 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 16 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 +57 46 £67,500 +17.39% 29
Glasgow +54 6 £38,000 -30.91% 22
Lanarkshire - 2 £62,500 - 1
Renfrewshire - 1 £60,000 - 11
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 2 (3.51%) Apache Spark
1 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.56%) AWS
2 12 (21.05%) Power Platform
3 7 (12.28%) Azure
4 5 (8.77%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (7.02%) GCP
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.51%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
6 2 (3.51%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.75%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Tableau
2 12 (21.05%) Power BI
3 5 (8.77%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) Big Data
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.51%) OLAP
5 2 (3.51%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.75%) Flink
6 1 (1.75%) GIS
6 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.75%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
General
1 28 (49.12%) Finance
2 20 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 16 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (26.32%) Banking
5 5 (8.77%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (8.77%) Marketing
5 5 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.51%) Electronics
7 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.75%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.75%) Automotive
8 1 (1.75%) Billing
8 1 (1.75%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (52.63%) Analyst
2 17 (29.82%) Senior
3 8 (14.04%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Governance Analyst
4 7 (12.28%) Risk Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Data Manager
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Data Scientist
6 4 (7.02%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Applications Support
7 3 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Digital Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Operations Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.02%) scikit-learn
2 3 (5.26%) JSON
2 3 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 3 (5.26%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.51%) Google JAX
3 2 (3.51%) JAX
3 2 (3.51%) NumPy
4 1 (1.75%) CSS
4 1 (1.75%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.75%) gRPC
4 1 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (1.75%) LangChain
4 1 (1.75%) Node.js
4 1 (1.75%) Pandas
4 1 (1.75%) REST
4 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (7.02%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.51%) IoT
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.51%) AIX
1 2 (3.51%) Linux
1 2 (3.51%) Solaris
1 2 (3.51%) Windows
1 2 (3.51%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Analytics
2 14 (24.56%) Artificial Intelligence
3 13 (22.81%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (21.05%) Agile
5 11 (19.30%) Data Science
5 11 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
6 10 (17.54%) Migration
7 8 (14.04%) Data Migration
7 8 (14.04%) Machine Learning
7 8 (14.04%) Mathematics
7 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
7 8 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.28%) Data Extraction
8 7 (12.28%) Data Management
8 7 (12.28%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.28%) Visualisation
9 6 (10.53%) Customer Experience
10 5 (8.77%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (35.09%) SQL
2 9 (15.79%) Python
3 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.26%) Java
5 2 (3.51%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.75%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.26%) PhD
4 2 (3.51%) CISM
4 2 (3.51%) CISSP
4 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.75%) HNC
5 1 (1.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) NIST
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.51%) Google
1 2 (3.51%) Ping Identity
1 2 (3.51%) SAP
2 1 (1.75%) Adobe
2 1 (1.75%) Maxymiser
2 1 (1.75%) Medallia
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft