Statistics Jobs in Scotland

Statistics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Statistics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Statistics over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 178 188
Rank change year-on-year -76 +10 -24
Permanent jobs citing Statistics 19 36 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.84% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.89% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 11
10th Percentile £35,987 £41,000 £41,500
25th Percentile £45,133 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,055 £46,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +33.45% -19.13% +64.29%
75th Percentile £69,647 £68,750 £61,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £71,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.26% +8.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Statistics 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 6,171 4,065 5,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.66% 94.60% 91.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,562 2,034 2,888
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,569 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Statistics in Scotland

Statistics
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Statistics in Scotland

Statistics
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Statistics in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Statistics in Scotland

Statistics
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Statistics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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 -108 8 £62,055 +35.64% 1
Edinburgh +31 3 £70,000 +12.00% 3
Lanarkshire - 2 - -
North Lanarkshire - 2 - -
South Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £44,436 -
Dundee - 1 £49,990 -
Statistics
UK

Statistics
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:

Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
2 1 (5.26%) QlikView
2 1 (5.26%) Tableau
General
1 7 (36.84%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (10.53%) Head of Analytics
1 2 (10.53%) Head of Data Analytics
1 2 (10.53%) Network Engineer
1 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) Data Analyst
2 1 (5.26%) Data Engineer
2 1 (5.26%) Report Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) CSS
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (36.84%) Line Management
2 7 (36.84%) Mathematics
2 7 (36.84%) Quality Management
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
3 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) Information Security
5 4 (21.05%) Budgeting
5 4 (21.05%) Commercial Awareness
5 4 (21.05%) Data Protection
5 4 (21.05%) ERP
5 4 (21.05%) Service Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
7 2 (10.53%) Data Analytics
7 2 (10.53%) Decision-Making
7 2 (10.53%) MapReduce
7 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
8 1 (5.26%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) Python
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) CCDP
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) CCSP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) ISO 14001
1 7 (36.84%) ISO 9001
2 4 (21.05%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Splunk