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 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 105 110
Rank change year-on-year -22 +5 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 168 118 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.46% 2.76% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 2.91% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 51 46 119
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £34,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £30,688 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £36,699 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +49.87% -23.54% +1.05%
75th Percentile £59,500 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,114 £71,250 £64,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.70% +8.00%

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 6,115 4,054 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.41% 94.68% 91.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,571 2,031 2,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

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 14 June 2024.

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 14 June 2024. 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 -20 139 £55,000 +50.26% 12
Edinburgh +7 13 £68,184 +9.09% 21
Aberdeen -15 5 £52,500 +69.35% 5
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 - 1
Stirling -4 2 £32,500 -
East Lothian - 2 - -
Fife -10 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 -
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 12 (7.14%) Apache
2 10 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.98%) SAS
4 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.19%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (10.12%) Windchill
2 14 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.60%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (10.12%) Teamcenter
2 11 (6.55%) Primavera
3 2 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 79 (47.02%) AWS
2 35 (20.83%) Cloud Computing
3 32 (19.05%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.95%) Azure
5 2 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.19%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.19%) Figma
5 2 (1.19%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.60%) GitHub
6 1 (0.60%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.95%) DSL
2 4 (2.38%) Network Security
3 2 (1.19%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 32 (19.05%) Power BI
2 32 (19.05%) Tableau
3 11 (6.55%) Big Data
4 10 (5.95%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.95%) DB2
4 10 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (3.57%) Data Vault
6 6 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.19%) Metadata
8 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 2 (1.19%) JIRA
1 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.60%) Git
General
1 105 (62.50%) Finance
2 101 (60.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (55.95%) Law
4 62 (36.90%) Marketing
5 42 (25.00%) Legal
6 38 (22.62%) Presentation Skills
7 33 (19.64%) Banking
8 31 (18.45%) Social Skills
9 30 (17.86%) Financial Institution
10 29 (17.26%) Investment Banking
11 26 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
12 20 (11.90%) Games
13 7 (4.17%) Publishing
14 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (1.19%) Aviation
15 2 (1.19%) Manufacturing
15 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
16 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
16 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 48 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (28.57%) AWS Software Engineer
3 22 (13.10%) Software Engineering Director
4 20 (11.90%) Principal Engineer
4 20 (11.90%) Principal Software Engineer
5 19 (11.31%) Lead
6 17 (10.12%) Configuration Specialist
7 15 (8.93%) Python Engineer
7 15 (8.93%) Python Software Engineer
8 14 (8.33%) Data Engineer
9 13 (7.74%) Analyst
10 12 (7.14%) Technology Director
11 11 (6.55%) User Experience Researcher
12 10 (5.95%) Architect
12 10 (5.95%) Principal Modelling Engineer
13 8 (4.76%) Data Architect
14 6 (3.57%) Principal Architect
14 6 (3.57%) Principal Data Architect
14 6 (3.57%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
1 12 (7.14%) Kafka
2 6 (3.57%) CSS
2 6 (3.57%) HTML
3 2 (1.19%) .NET
3 2 (1.19%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.19%) D3.js
3 2 (1.19%) HTML5
4 1 (0.60%) Keras
4 1 (0.60%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.60%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 42 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 38 (22.62%) Algorithms
2 38 (22.62%) Onboarding
3 34 (20.24%) Product Ownership
4 12 (7.14%) Taxonomies
5 11 (6.55%) Market Risk
6 10 (5.95%) Management Information System
6 10 (5.95%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.98%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.19%) Life Science
10 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.60%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.19%) Software Engineering
2 83 (49.40%) Machine Learning
3 74 (44.05%) Agile
4 72 (42.86%) Analytics
5 65 (38.69%) Artificial Intelligence
5 65 (38.69%) SDLC
6 64 (38.10%) Operational Stability
7 56 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 56 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
8 50 (29.76%) Risk Management
9 49 (29.17%) Visualisation
10 48 (28.57%) ETL
10 48 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (26.19%) Community of Practice
12 42 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
13 40 (23.81%) Project Management
14 37 (22.02%) Client Onboarding
15 36 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 36 (21.43%) Use Case
16 35 (20.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 83 (49.40%) Python
2 65 (38.69%) SQL
3 10 (5.95%) Java
3 10 (5.95%) PL/SQL
3 10 (5.95%) Scala
4 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.19%) C
5 2 (1.19%) C#
5 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.60%) C++
6 1 (0.60%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 22 (13.10%) Degree
2 15 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 13 (7.74%) Master's Degree
3 13 (7.74%) PhD
4 3 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.60%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.12%) PMO
2 11 (6.55%) SLA
3 4 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.38%) IFRS
3 4 (2.38%) IFRS 9
3 4 (2.38%) QA
4 2 (1.19%) GLP
Systems Management
1 10 (5.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (34.52%) Databricks
2 18 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.14%) Oracle
4 10 (5.95%) Alteryx
4 10 (5.95%) Cognos
4 10 (5.95%) Sybase
5 4 (2.38%) Splunk
6 2 (1.19%) Charles River
6 2 (1.19%) Sparx
7 1 (0.60%) Google