Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 49 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytics 96 135 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 4.48% 5.05% 4.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 5.49% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 122
10th Percentile £315 £373 £360
25th Percentile £435 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £499 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.85% +5.11% +8.57%
75th Percentile £619 £614 £538
90th Percentile £750 £743 £609
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £39.10 -
25th Percentile - £45.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 £55.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.01% +217.14% -
75th Percentile - £65.75 £18.75
90th Percentile - £71.90 -
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £32.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.22% -7.71% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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

Analytics
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

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Scotland

Analytics
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 12 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 +11 40 £480 -12.73% 27
Edinburgh +6 33 £494 +3.13% 29
South Lanarkshire +15 12 £750 +66.67% 1
Dundee - 1 £204 - 2
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
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 11 (11.46%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) CMS
3 1 (1.04%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Maximo
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.04%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (27.08%) Power Platform
2 13 (13.54%) AWS
3 12 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 11 (11.46%) PowerApps
5 9 (9.38%) Amazon S3
5 9 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (9.38%) Serverless
6 8 (8.33%) Azure
6 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.25%) Snowflake
8 5 (5.21%) GCP
9 4 (4.17%) Figma
10 3 (3.13%) Adverity
10 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.13%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (3.13%) Google Sheets
10 3 (3.13%) Sprout Social
11 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) LAN
1 2 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.08%) Power BI
2 15 (15.63%) Tableau
3 12 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (10.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.17%) Big Data
6 4 (4.17%) Data Lake
6 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.13%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.13%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.08%) GIS
8 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.04%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.04%) Looker
9 1 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (22.92%) JIRA
2 9 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) JMeter
3 3 (3.13%) LoadRunner
3 3 (3.13%) Selenium
4 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 30 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 25 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
3 21 (21.88%) Finance
4 6 (6.25%) Legal
5 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.21%) Marketing
6 4 (4.17%) Banking
7 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Military
8 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
9 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Analyst
2 23 (23.96%) Data Analyst
3 17 (17.71%) Developer
4 12 (12.50%) Lead
4 12 (12.50%) Senior
5 11 (11.46%) Applications Engineer
5 11 (11.46%) JIRA Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Applications Support
7 8 (8.33%) Applications Support Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Data Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Lead Data Analyst
9 4 (4.17%) Consultant
9 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Product Owner
9 4 (4.17%) Tableau Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.67%) REST
2 11 (11.46%) AWS CDK
3 9 (9.38%) React
3 9 (9.38%) Web Services
4 7 (7.29%) CSS
4 7 (7.29%) HTML
4 7 (7.29%) Spring
4 7 (7.29%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.21%) Node.js
5 5 (5.21%) OAuth
5 5 (5.21%) OAuth2
5 5 (5.21%) Spring Security
6 3 (3.13%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (3.13%) PostGIS
6 3 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.13%) Spring MVC
6 3 (3.13%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (3.13%) Thymeleaf
7 2 (2.08%) Middleware
7 2 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.46%) Data Centre
2 9 (9.38%) Management Information System
3 8 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (7.29%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (6.25%) Credit Risk
5 6 (6.25%) Social Media
6 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
6 5 (5.21%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.17%) CMDB
8 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (2.08%) Video Editing
9 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
9 1 (1.04%) Blog
9 1 (1.04%) BYOD
9 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Linux
2 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.13%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (21.88%) Visualisation
3 20 (20.83%) Agile
4 19 (19.79%) Data Visualisation
5 17 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (15.63%) CI/CD
6 15 (15.63%) Data Analysis
7 14 (14.58%) Data Migration
7 14 (14.58%) Migration
8 13 (13.54%) Actionable Insight
8 13 (13.54%) Decision-Making
8 13 (13.54%) DevOps
8 13 (13.54%) User Experience
9 12 (12.50%) Code Quality
9 12 (12.50%) Inclusive Design
9 12 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
10 11 (11.46%) Kalman Filter
10 11 (11.46%) Service Management
10 11 (11.46%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) SQL
2 11 (11.46%) Java
2 11 (11.46%) JavaScript
2 11 (11.46%) Python
3 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
4 3 (3.13%) Bash
4 3 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.04%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) Degree
4 4 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.04%) CISSP
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) IIBA
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.46%) Accessibility
2 8 (8.33%) PMO
3 7 (7.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (4.17%) GDPR
5 3 (3.13%) QA
6 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.08%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.38%) Grafana
2 3 (3.13%) Kibana
3 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (22.92%) Atlassian
2 14 (14.58%) Microsoft
3 10 (10.42%) Oracle
4 8 (8.33%) Google
5 6 (6.25%) Alteryx
5 6 (6.25%) Facebook
5 6 (6.25%) Instagram
6 5 (5.21%) Databricks
6 5 (5.21%) Twitter
6 5 (5.21%) YouTube
7 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
8 3 (3.13%) Brandwatch
8 3 (3.13%) Hootsuite
8 3 (3.13%) SAP
9 2 (2.08%) Adobe
9 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (2.08%) Workday