Data Analytics Jobs in Scotland

Data Analytics
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 111 132
Rank change year-on-year -29 +21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Data Analytics 158 114 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.35% 2.42% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 2.57% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 30 54 50
10th Percentile £44,925 £36,328 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,306 £37,885 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,149 £53,183 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -11.36% +17.07%
75th Percentile £72,688 £67,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £98,626 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% - +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,250 4,437 5,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.80% 94.24% 90.89%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,226 2,810
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data 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 Data Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -53 96 £28,250 -41.75% 1
Edinburgh +47 49 £69,500 +26.31% 10
Dundee - 8 £50,000 -
Highlands - 2 £45,250 -
Data Analytics
UK

Data 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 22 (13.92%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.90%) Apache
2 3 (1.90%) SAS
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (20.25%) UserZoom
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (7.59%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 34 (21.52%) AWS
2 32 (20.25%) Figma
2 32 (20.25%) SurveyMonkey
3 18 (11.39%) Azure
3 18 (11.39%) Power Platform
4 16 (10.13%) GCP
5 9 (5.70%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (3.80%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.63%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (0.63%) Apigee
9 1 (0.63%) npm
9 1 (0.63%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.39%) DSL
2 8 (5.06%) HTTP
2 8 (5.06%) MQTT
3 1 (0.63%) RSVP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.99%) DB2
1 30 (18.99%) Tableau
2 22 (13.92%) Big Data
3 18 (11.39%) Data Lake
3 18 (11.39%) MongoDB
3 18 (11.39%) Power BI
4 11 (6.96%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.53%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.90%) Data Hub
6 3 (1.90%) Flink
6 3 (1.90%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.90%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.27%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.27%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.27%) Metadata
8 1 (0.63%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Desktop
8 1 (0.63%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 35 (22.15%) Jenkins
2 9 (5.70%) Git
2 9 (5.70%) JIRA
3 2 (1.27%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.63%) Gradle
4 1 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.63%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.63%) Spinnaker
General
1 115 (72.78%) Finance
2 85 (53.80%) Marketing
3 83 (52.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 83 (52.53%) Social Skills
4 77 (48.73%) Law
5 28 (17.72%) Banking
6 23 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (12.66%) Public Sector
8 18 (11.39%) Financial Institution
8 18 (11.39%) Investment Banking
9 11 (6.96%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (5.70%) Telecoms
11 8 (5.06%) Electronics
11 8 (5.06%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.27%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (20.25%) Architect
1 32 (20.25%) User Experience Researcher
2 21 (13.29%) Software Engineering Director
3 20 (12.66%) Data Engineer
3 20 (12.66%) Senior
4 15 (9.49%) Presales Solution Architect
4 15 (9.49%) Solutions Architect
5 14 (8.86%) Principal Architect
6 12 (7.59%) Audit Manager
6 12 (7.59%) Cloud Architect
6 12 (7.59%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 12 (7.59%) Principal Solutions Architect
6 12 (7.59%) Product Manager
7 11 (6.96%) Consultant
8 10 (6.33%) IT Audit Manager
8 10 (6.33%) IT Manager
9 9 (5.70%) Developer
10 8 (5.06%) Data Manager
10 8 (5.06%) Data Science Manager
10 8 (5.06%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.29%) Kafka
2 11 (6.96%) React
3 10 (6.33%) Django
4 8 (5.06%) CSS
4 8 (5.06%) Flask
4 8 (5.06%) HTML
5 3 (1.90%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.90%) Spring
5 3 (1.90%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.27%) jQuery
6 2 (1.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (0.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (22.15%) Cloud Native
2 21 (13.29%) Public Cloud
3 18 (11.39%) Management Information System
3 18 (11.39%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.06%) Arduino
4 8 (5.06%) Raspberry Pi
5 7 (4.43%) IoT
6 3 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.63%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.86%) Linux
1 14 (8.86%) Windows
2 12 (7.59%) Unix
2 12 (7.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (100.00%) Analytics
2 87 (55.06%) Agile
3 60 (37.97%) User Experience
4 58 (36.71%) Product Management
4 58 (36.71%) SDLC
5 55 (34.81%) Machine Learning
6 53 (33.54%) Actionable Insight
7 51 (32.28%) Roadmaps
8 49 (31.01%) Software Engineering
9 46 (29.11%) Mentoring
9 46 (29.11%) Visualisation
10 42 (26.58%) Artificial Intelligence
11 39 (24.68%) DevOps
12 37 (23.42%) Market Research
12 37 (23.42%) Strategic Roadmap
13 36 (22.78%) Data Visualisation
14 35 (22.15%) Decision-Making
15 34 (21.52%) Strategic Thinking
16 33 (20.89%) Continuous Integration
16 33 (20.89%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 60 (37.97%) SQL
2 49 (31.01%) Python
3 24 (15.19%) Java
4 20 (12.66%) Scala
5 18 (11.39%) PL/SQL
6 9 (5.70%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.43%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.16%) R
9 3 (1.90%) Bash
9 3 (1.90%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.63%) C#
10 1 (0.63%) C++
10 1 (0.63%) Groovy
10 1 (0.63%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 60 (37.97%) Degree
2 16 (10.13%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.49%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.59%) CISA
5 8 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.27%) ISACA
7 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.63%) OCP
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (22.15%) Actionable Recommendations
2 18 (11.39%) SLA
3 12 (7.59%) ITGC
3 12 (7.59%) PMO
4 4 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 8 (5.06%) Firmware
2 3 (1.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (13.29%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.16%) Terraform
3 3 (1.90%) Ansible
4 2 (1.27%) Grafana
4 2 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (24.05%) Oracle
2 32 (20.25%) Qualtrics
3 26 (16.46%) Databricks
4 20 (12.66%) SAP
5 18 (11.39%) Alteryx
5 18 (11.39%) Cognos
5 18 (11.39%) Sybase
6 16 (10.13%) Microsoft
7 15 (9.49%) Google
8 12 (7.59%) Sage
9 8 (5.06%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.63%) Adobe
10 1 (0.63%) Coverity
10 1 (0.63%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.63%) JD Edwards
10 1 (0.63%) Klocwork
10 1 (0.63%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.63%) Teradata
10 1 (0.63%) Thales