Data Analysis Jobs in Scotland

Data Analysis
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 99 103
Rank change year-on-year -16 +4 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 195 127 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.91% 2.77% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 2.93% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 47 39 112
10th Percentile £31,250 - £34,500
25th Percentile £45,595 £30,500 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £36,510 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.64% -23.94% +1.05%
75th Percentile £59,500 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £63,218 £75,000 £64,875
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year - -2.78% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analysis 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 6,183 4,333 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.19% 94.34% 91.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,156 2,833
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
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 Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 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 -25 171 £55,000 +50.64% 11
Edinburgh +5 9 £57,500 -9.80% 17
Aberdeen -12 6 £52,500 +69.35% 1
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 -
Stirling -5 2 £32,500 - 1
Fife - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 - 1
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 21 (10.77%) Apache
2 18 (9.23%) Apache Spark
3 11 (5.64%) Confluence
4 5 (2.56%) SAS
4 5 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (8.72%) Windchill
2 16 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.72%) Teamcenter
2 11 (5.64%) Primavera
3 2 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 102 (52.31%) AWS
2 43 (22.05%) Cloud Computing
3 29 (14.87%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.10%) Azure
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
5 2 (1.03%) Yammer
6 1 (0.51%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.23%) DSL
2 2 (1.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (23.08%) NoSQL
2 36 (18.46%) Tableau
3 29 (14.87%) Power BI
4 28 (14.36%) Big Data
5 19 (9.74%) Data Lake
6 18 (9.23%) DB2
6 18 (9.23%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (2.05%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.03%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.03%) Metadata
10 1 (0.51%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.51%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (5.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.51%) Git
General
1 140 (71.79%) Finance
2 128 (65.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 128 (65.64%) Law
3 85 (43.59%) Marketing
4 50 (25.64%) Legal
5 45 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
6 43 (22.05%) Banking
7 38 (19.49%) Financial Institution
7 38 (19.49%) Social Skills
8 37 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (18.97%) Investment Banking
9 20 (10.26%) Games
10 7 (3.59%) Publishing
11 5 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.03%) Aviation
12 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (35.38%) Software Engineer
2 48 (24.62%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (24.62%) AWS Software Engineer
3 39 (20.00%) Software Engineering Director
4 28 (14.36%) Data Engineer
5 22 (11.28%) Analyst
6 21 (10.77%) Technology Director
7 20 (10.26%) Principal Engineer
7 20 (10.26%) Principal Software Engineer
8 19 (9.74%) Lead
9 17 (8.72%) Configuration Specialist
10 16 (8.21%) Python Engineer
10 16 (8.21%) Python Software Engineer
11 11 (5.64%) User Experience Researcher
12 10 (5.13%) Principal Modelling Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Big Data Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Big Data Software Engineer
13 9 (4.62%) Business Analyst
14 8 (4.10%) Architect
14 8 (4.10%) Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.77%) Apache NiFi
2 20 (10.26%) Kafka
3 2 (1.03%) .NET
3 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.03%) CSS
3 2 (1.03%) HTML
3 2 (1.03%) HTML5
4 1 (0.51%) Keras
4 1 (0.51%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 59 (30.26%) Cloud Native
2 51 (26.15%) Product Ownership
3 46 (23.59%) Algorithms
3 46 (23.59%) Onboarding
4 21 (10.77%) Taxonomies
5 18 (9.23%) Management Information System
5 18 (9.23%) Market Risk
5 18 (9.23%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.56%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.51%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.03%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (59.49%) Software Engineering
2 108 (55.38%) Machine Learning
3 98 (50.26%) Agile
4 83 (42.56%) Analytics
4 83 (42.56%) CI/CD
4 83 (42.56%) SDLC
5 82 (42.05%) Data Pipeline
6 81 (41.54%) Artificial Intelligence
6 81 (41.54%) Operational Stability
7 66 (33.85%) ETL
8 61 (31.28%) Community of Practice
9 59 (30.26%) Risk Management
10 56 (28.72%) Decision-Making
11 55 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
12 53 (27.18%) Visualisation
13 49 (25.13%) Business Analysis
14 48 (24.62%) Data Modelling
15 47 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
15 47 (24.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 47 (24.10%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 105 (53.85%) Python
2 80 (41.03%) SQL
3 19 (9.74%) PL/SQL
4 18 (9.23%) Java
4 18 (9.23%) Scala
5 2 (1.03%) C
5 2 (1.03%) C#
5 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.51%) C++
6 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (13.33%) Degree
2 15 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.67%) PhD
4 1 (0.51%) ACCA
4 1 (0.51%) CBAP
4 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.26%) SLA
2 17 (8.72%) PMO
3 4 (2.05%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.05%) IFRS
3 4 (2.05%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.51%) QA
4 1 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 18 (9.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (42.56%) Databricks
2 20 (10.26%) Oracle
3 18 (9.23%) Alteryx
3 18 (9.23%) Cognos
3 18 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 18 (9.23%) Sybase
4 2 (1.03%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.03%) Sparx
5 1 (0.51%) CA
5 1 (0.51%) Informatica