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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 108 106
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +37
Permanent jobs citing Data Analysis 194 116 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.83% 2.67% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.12% 2.83% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 49 44 116
10th Percentile £30,500 - £34,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £30,500 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £36,604 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.26% -23.74% +1.05%
75th Percentile £59,500 £65,625 £61,250
90th Percentile £67,623 £72,750 £64,375
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.70% +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 6,209 4,095 5,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.63% 94.38% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,482 2,059 2,878
10th Percentile £28,025 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,625 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 3 June 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 3 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 -18 165 £55,000 +50.64% 14
Edinburgh +15 12 £66,367 +6.19% 19
Aberdeen -11 6 £52,500 +69.35% 2
West Lothian - 3 £30,000 -
Stirling -5 2 £32,500 - 3
East Lothian - 2 - -
Fife -8 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £65,000 -
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 19 (9.79%) Apache
2 16 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.64%) Confluence
4 5 (2.58%) SAS
5 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (8.76%) Windchill
2 14 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (5.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (8.76%) Teamcenter
2 11 (5.67%) Primavera
3 2 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 98 (50.52%) AWS
2 41 (21.13%) Cloud Computing
3 31 (15.98%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.15%) Azure
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.03%) Figma
5 2 (1.03%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.25%) DSL
2 3 (1.55%) Network Security
3 2 (1.03%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (22.16%) NoSQL
2 38 (19.59%) Tableau
3 31 (15.98%) Power BI
4 23 (11.86%) Big Data
5 16 (8.25%) Data Lake
5 16 (8.25%) DB2
5 16 (8.25%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (3.09%) Data Vault
8 5 (2.58%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.03%) Metadata
10 1 (0.52%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (4.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.52%) Git
General
1 133 (68.56%) Finance
2 127 (65.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 121 (62.37%) Law
4 82 (42.27%) Marketing
5 50 (25.77%) Legal
6 45 (23.20%) Presentation Skills
7 39 (20.10%) Banking
7 39 (20.10%) Social Skills
8 36 (18.56%) Financial Institution
9 35 (18.04%) Investment Banking
10 33 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
11 20 (10.31%) Games
12 7 (3.61%) Publishing
13 5 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.03%) Aviation
14 2 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 2 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
15 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 69 (35.57%) Software Engineer
2 48 (24.74%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (24.74%) AWS Software Engineer
3 35 (18.04%) Software Engineering Director
4 26 (13.40%) Data Engineer
5 20 (10.31%) Analyst
5 20 (10.31%) Principal Engineer
5 20 (10.31%) Principal Software Engineer
6 19 (9.79%) Lead
6 19 (9.79%) Technology Director
7 17 (8.76%) Configuration Specialist
8 15 (7.73%) Python Engineer
8 15 (7.73%) Python Software Engineer
9 11 (5.67%) User Experience Researcher
10 10 (5.15%) Architect
10 10 (5.15%) Principal Modelling Engineer
11 9 (4.64%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.12%) Data Architect
12 8 (4.12%) Risk Analyst
13 7 (3.61%) Market Risk Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.79%) Apache NiFi
2 18 (9.28%) Kafka
3 5 (2.58%) CSS
3 5 (2.58%) HTML
4 2 (1.03%) .NET
4 2 (1.03%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.03%) D3.js
4 2 (1.03%) HTML5
5 1 (0.52%) Keras
5 1 (0.52%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.52%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 55 (28.35%) Cloud Native
2 46 (23.71%) Product Ownership
3 44 (22.68%) Algorithms
3 44 (22.68%) Onboarding
4 19 (9.79%) Taxonomies
5 18 (9.28%) Market Risk
6 16 (8.25%) Management Information System
6 16 (8.25%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.58%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.03%) Life Science
10 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (57.73%) Software Engineering
2 102 (52.58%) Machine Learning
3 93 (47.94%) Agile
4 84 (43.30%) Analytics
5 78 (40.21%) SDLC
6 77 (39.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 77 (39.69%) Operational Stability
7 76 (39.18%) CI/CD
7 76 (39.18%) Data Pipeline
8 62 (31.96%) ETL
9 57 (29.38%) Risk Management
10 56 (28.87%) Community of Practice
11 55 (28.35%) Visualisation
12 54 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (25.77%) Decision-Making
14 47 (24.23%) Business Analysis
14 47 (24.23%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (24.23%) Project Management
15 46 (23.71%) Data Modelling
16 43 (22.16%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 101 (52.06%) Python
2 77 (39.69%) SQL
3 17 (8.76%) PL/SQL
4 16 (8.25%) Java
4 16 (8.25%) Scala
5 5 (2.58%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.03%) C
6 2 (1.03%) C#
6 2 (1.03%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.52%) C++
7 1 (0.52%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.52%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (14.95%) Degree
2 15 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.70%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.70%) PhD
4 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.52%) ACCA
5 1 (0.52%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.28%) SLA
2 17 (8.76%) PMO
3 4 (2.06%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.06%) IFRS
3 4 (2.06%) IFRS 9
3 4 (2.06%) QA
4 2 (1.03%) GLP
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 16 (8.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 77 (39.69%) Databricks
2 18 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.28%) Oracle
3 16 (8.25%) Alteryx
3 16 (8.25%) Cognos
3 16 (8.25%) Sybase
4 3 (1.55%) Splunk
5 2 (1.03%) Charles River
5 2 (1.03%) Sparx
6 1 (0.52%) CA
6 1 (0.52%) Informatica