Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 327 430 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 15.40% 16.04% 16.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.25% 16.84% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 292 396
10th Percentile £163 £154 £151
25th Percentile £275 £303 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% +4.38% +5.26%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £450
90th Percentile £538 £525 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £451
% change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 6
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.46 £12.22
25th Percentile £12.41 £13.13 £13.30
Median hourly rate £13.63 £14.50 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% -14.07% -59.82%
75th Percentile £17.96 £15.99 £36.88
90th Percentile £24.11 £17.24 £43.21
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.75
% change year-on-year -10.56% +15.71% -3.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,012 2,553 3,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 95.23% 95.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,227 1,773 2,329
10th Percentile £200 £225 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £633 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 48 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.62 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.75 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £20.22 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -45.98% +7.71%
75th Percentile £57.50 £58.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +1 125 £356 -16.18% 29
Edinburgh 0 118 £450 +8.43% 32
West Lothian +5 13 £168 +29.23% 3
Renfrewshire +4 11 £175 +7.69%
Perthshire +1 8 £463 -5.37%
Lanarkshire 0 7 £400 +6.67% 8
South Lanarkshire +1 6 £465 +16.25% 2
Aberdeen -1 4 £350 +100.00% 10
Highlands - 3 - -
Midlothian +2 2 - - 10
Fife 0 2 - - 3
Perth and Kinross +1 1 £525 +23.53%
Argyll and Bute - 1 - - 2
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 9 June 2024, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 119 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.91%) Finance
3 82 (25.08%) Microsoft
4 79 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (23.85%) Public Sector
6 76 (23.24%) Agile
7 63 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (16.51%) Microsoft Excel
9 52 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
10 46 (14.07%) Business Analysis
11 36 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
12 33 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
13 32 (9.79%) Power BI
13 32 (9.79%) Power Platform
14 31 (9.48%) SharePoint
14 31 (9.48%) Banking
15 30 (9.17%) Analytics
16 28 (8.56%) JIRA
17 27 (8.26%) Project Management
17 27 (8.26%) Data Analysis
17 27 (8.26%) Customer Service
18 26 (7.95%) Azure
19 25 (7.65%) User Stories
19 25 (7.65%) PMO
19 25 (7.65%) Change Management
20 24 (7.34%) User Acceptance Testing
20 24 (7.34%) ITIL
20 24 (7.34%) Active Directory
20 24 (7.34%) Requirements Gathering
21 23 (7.03%) Roadmaps

Analyst Skill Set
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 31 (9.48%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.14%) Confluence
4 3 (0.92%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 54 (16.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (6.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 18 (5.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.45%) Maximo
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.31%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 36 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (9.79%) Power Platform
3 26 (7.95%) Azure
4 15 (4.59%) Yammer
5 13 (3.98%) Power Automate
6 11 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (3.36%) PowerApps
7 10 (3.06%) AWS
8 9 (2.75%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.75%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (1.83%) OCI
11 5 (1.53%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.22%) GCP
12 4 (1.22%) SaaS
13 3 (0.92%) Adverity
13 3 (0.92%) Google Data Studio
13 3 (0.92%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.92%) Sprout Social
14 2 (0.61%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.53%) Internet
2 3 (0.92%) Skype
3 2 (0.61%) Intranet
3 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.31%) Firewall
4 1 (0.31%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.79%) Power BI
2 9 (2.75%) Tableau
3 5 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.22%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.92%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.92%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.92%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) GIS
7 1 (0.31%) Big Data
7 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (0.31%) Power Query
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.56%) JIRA
2 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.61%) ERwin
2 2 (0.61%) Git
2 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.61%) Postman
2 2 (0.61%) Selenium
2 2 (0.61%) Subversion
2 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.61%) TestComplete
2 2 (0.61%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (0.61%) WebDriver
2 2 (0.61%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.31%) SilkCentral
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 119 (36.39%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.91%) Finance
3 79 (24.16%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (23.85%) Public Sector
5 31 (9.48%) Banking
6 17 (5.20%) Legal
7 16 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.98%) Publishing
9 9 (2.75%) Back Office
9 9 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.53%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.22%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.22%) Marketing
13 3 (0.92%) Police
13 3 (0.92%) Retail
14 2 (0.61%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.22%) SailPoint
3 3 (0.92%) .NET
4 2 (0.61%) JSON
4 2 (0.61%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.31%) Web Services
5 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.50%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.14%) Credit Risk
3 7 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.83%) Wiki
5 5 (1.53%) iPhone
5 5 (1.53%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.22%) DTCC
6 4 (1.22%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.92%) CMDB
7 3 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.92%) Social Media
8 2 (0.61%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.31%) BYOD
9 1 (0.31%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.31%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.20%) Windows
2 12 (3.67%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.45%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.53%) Android
4 5 (1.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.31%) Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.31%) Unix
5 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (23.24%) Agile
2 63 (19.27%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (15.90%) Stakeholder Management
4 46 (14.07%) Business Analysis
5 33 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (9.17%) Analytics
7 27 (8.26%) Customer Service
7 27 (8.26%) Data Analysis
7 27 (8.26%) Project Management
8 25 (7.65%) Change Management
8 25 (7.65%) User Stories
9 24 (7.34%) ITIL
9 24 (7.34%) Requirements Gathering
9 24 (7.34%) User Acceptance Testing
10 23 (7.03%) Roadmaps
11 21 (6.42%) Scrum
12 20 (6.12%) ERP
13 18 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (5.50%) DevOps
13 18 (5.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.42%) SQL
2 5 (1.53%) Python
3 4 (1.22%) C#
4 3 (0.92%) Java
4 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.61%) C++
5 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.61%) VBA
5 2 (0.61%) VBScript
6 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 21 (6.42%) Degree
2 19 (5.81%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.53%) ACCA
4 5 (1.53%) CIMA
4 5 (1.53%) HNC
4 5 (1.53%) ISTQB
5 3 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
5 3 (0.92%) ISEB
5 3 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (0.61%) CISM
6 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.31%) CGEIT
7 1 (0.31%) CISA
7 1 (0.31%) CISSP
7 1 (0.31%) GCIH
7 1 (0.31%) IIBA
7 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.65%) PMO
2 17 (5.20%) Disclosure Scotland
3 12 (3.67%) QA
4 10 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.75%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (1.53%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 2 (0.61%) P3O
8 1 (0.31%) Basel III
8 1 (0.31%) COREP
8 1 (0.31%) FINREP
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS
8 1 (0.31%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.31%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (7.34%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.92%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.31%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.31%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.31%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.14%) SCCM
2 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.61%) Terraform
5 1 (0.31%) Nessus
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (25.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.81%) Oracle
3 11 (3.36%) Atlassian
3 11 (3.36%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.75%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.75%) Cadence
5 6 (1.83%) Apple
5 6 (1.83%) CyberArk
6 5 (1.53%) Google
7 4 (1.22%) Ariba
7 4 (1.22%) IFS
7 4 (1.22%) SAP
7 4 (1.22%) Splunk
8 3 (0.92%) Brandwatch
8 3 (0.92%) Citrix
8 3 (0.92%) Facebook
8 3 (0.92%) Hootsuite
8 3 (0.92%) HP
8 3 (0.92%) Instagram
8 3 (0.92%) Twitter