Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 49 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 -2 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytics 103 137 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.79% 5.07% 4.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 5.48% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 104 121
10th Percentile £321 £365 £345
25th Percentile £435 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% +2.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £617 £614 £533
90th Percentile £750 £743 £610
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 £55.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -61.01% - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -8.57% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,901 2,502 3,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.56% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,771 2,249
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 54 47
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.51 £18.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.22 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Scotland

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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 Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +13 43 £480 -10.70% 23
Edinburgh +14 39 £516 +7.62% 33
South Lanarkshire +10 11 £750 +79.64%
Dundee - 1 £204 - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 2
Fife - 1 - -
Analytics
UK

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 10 (9.71%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.94%) Maximo
2 2 (1.94%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.97%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (25.24%) Power Platform
2 12 (11.65%) Power Automate
3 11 (10.68%) AWS
3 11 (10.68%) PowerApps
4 10 (9.71%) OCI
5 9 (8.74%) Azure
6 7 (6.80%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.80%) Serverless
7 6 (5.83%) OpenShift
7 6 (5.83%) SaaS
7 6 (5.83%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.88%) Figma
8 4 (3.88%) GCP
9 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.91%) PaaS
10 2 (1.94%) Google Sheets
10 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.91%) IPsec
1 3 (2.91%) VPN
2 2 (1.94%) LAN
2 2 (1.94%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (25.24%) Power BI
2 15 (14.56%) Tableau
3 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.77%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.85%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (3.88%) Big Data
6 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.91%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 3 (2.91%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.94%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.94%) GIS
8 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.97%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.97%) MySQL
9 1 (0.97%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (20.39%) JIRA
2 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.91%) JMeter
3 3 (2.91%) LoadRunner
3 3 (2.91%) Selenium
4 1 (0.97%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.97%) GitLab
4 1 (0.97%) Gradle
4 1 (0.97%) gulp
4 1 (0.97%) Maven
4 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.97%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.97%) Travis CI
General
1 36 (34.95%) Public Sector
2 28 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
4 23 (22.33%) Finance
5 6 (5.83%) Legal
6 5 (4.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.88%) Banking
8 3 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Marketing
9 2 (1.94%) Military
9 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Local Government
10 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (29.13%) Analyst
2 24 (23.30%) Data Analyst
3 15 (14.56%) Developer
4 12 (11.65%) Lead
5 11 (10.68%) Senior
6 10 (9.71%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) JIRA Engineer
7 9 (8.74%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (7.77%) Senior Data Analyst
9 7 (6.80%) Applications Support
9 7 (6.80%) Applications Support Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Support Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Lead Data Analyst
11 5 (4.85%) Architect
11 5 (4.85%) Consultant
11 5 (4.85%) Operations Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) Administrator
12 4 (3.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Java Developer
12 4 (3.88%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.62%) REST
2 9 (8.74%) AWS CDK
3 8 (7.77%) Web Services
4 7 (6.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 7 (6.80%) React
5 6 (5.83%) Spring
5 6 (5.83%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.85%) CSS
6 5 (4.85%) HTML
6 5 (4.85%) Node.js
7 4 (3.88%) OAuth
7 4 (3.88%) OAuth2
7 4 (3.88%) Spring Security
8 3 (2.91%) PostGIS
8 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (1.94%) Middleware
9 2 (1.94%) SOAP
9 2 (1.94%) Spring MVC
9 2 (1.94%) Spring Web Flow
9 2 (1.94%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Management Information System
2 10 (9.71%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.77%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (6.80%) Credit Risk
4 7 (6.80%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.85%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.88%) CMDB
6 4 (3.88%) Social Media
7 2 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.97%) Blog
8 1 (0.97%) BYOD
8 1 (0.97%) IoT
8 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.97%) SCADA
8 1 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.97%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.74%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.24%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (22.33%) Visualisation
3 20 (19.42%) Data Visualisation
4 17 (16.50%) Agile
5 16 (15.53%) Data Migration
5 16 (15.53%) Migration
6 15 (14.56%) CI/CD
6 15 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (13.59%) Data Analysis
8 13 (12.62%) Decision-Making
9 12 (11.65%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (11.65%) DevOps
10 11 (10.68%) ERP
10 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (10.68%) Performance Metrics
10 11 (10.68%) Roadmaps
10 11 (10.68%) User Experience
11 10 (9.71%) Code Quality
11 10 (9.71%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.50%) SQL
2 10 (9.71%) Java
2 10 (9.71%) JavaScript
2 10 (9.71%) Python
3 7 (6.80%) TypeScript
4 4 (3.88%) Bash
4 4 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.94%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.97%) C
6 1 (0.97%) C#
6 1 (0.97%) Go
6 1 (0.97%) Groovy
6 1 (0.97%) PHP
6 1 (0.97%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 14 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.62%) Degree
4 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
6 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.97%) FFIEC
6 1 (0.97%) IIBA
6 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (8.74%) Accessibility
3 8 (7.77%) PMO
4 4 (3.88%) GDPR
4 4 (3.88%) QA
5 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.80%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.77%) Grafana
2 3 (2.91%) Kibana
3 2 (1.94%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.97%) Ansible
4 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (20.39%) Atlassian
2 18 (17.48%) Oracle
3 14 (13.59%) Microsoft
4 7 (6.80%) Google
5 6 (5.83%) Alteryx
6 5 (4.85%) Databricks
7 4 (3.88%) Facebook
7 4 (3.88%) Instagram
7 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.91%) Okta
8 3 (2.91%) SAP
8 3 (2.91%) Twitter
8 3 (2.91%) YouTube
9 2 (1.94%) Brandwatch
9 2 (1.94%) Hootsuite
9 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.94%) Workday
10 1 (0.97%) Adobe