Technical Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Technical Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 158 143
Rank change year-on-year +69 -15 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 26 6 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.21% 0.22% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 0.24% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 20
10th Percentile £174 £186 £231
25th Percentile £333 £241 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £338 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -25.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £530 £441 £488
90th Percentile £535 £499 £558
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £478
% change year-on-year - +4.71% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.98
Median hourly rate - - £41.95
75th Percentile - - £42.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 £22.86 £15.50
% change year-on-year -38.76% +47.48% -12.68%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,029 2,543 3,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.17% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,767 2,315
10th Percentile £200 £230 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £632 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 50 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.71 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.73 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £66.78 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Technical Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in Scotland

Technical Analyst
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 Technical Analyst 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
Edinburgh +40 13 £425 - 3
Glasgow +23 7 £338 +125.33%
Perthshire - 1 £475 -
Fife - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 1
West Lothian - 1 £168 -
Technical Analyst
UK

Technical Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Technical Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Banking
3 7 (26.92%) Requirements Gathering
4 6 (23.08%) Finance
5 5 (19.23%) Scrum
5 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
5 5 (19.23%) Systems Analysis
5 5 (19.23%) User Stories
5 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 4 (15.38%) JIRA
6 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
7 3 (11.54%) Epics
7 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
7 3 (11.54%) Confluence
7 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
7 3 (11.54%) Use Case
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Functional Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
7 3 (11.54%) SQL
7 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
8 2 (7.69%) Data Modelling
8 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
8 2 (7.69%) DevOps
8 2 (7.69%) Data Lineage
8 2 (7.69%) Data Architecture
9 1 (3.85%) Italian Language

Technical Analyst Skill Set
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 3 (11.54%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 9 (34.62%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) NoSQL
1 3 (11.54%) RDBMS
1 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.85%) GIS
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 7 (26.92%) Banking
2 6 (23.08%) Finance
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Italian Language
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
1 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
1 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 7 (26.92%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (19.23%) Scrum
3 5 (19.23%) Systems Analysis
3 5 (19.23%) User Stories
4 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
4 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.54%) Epics
5 3 (11.54%) Functional Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.54%) Use Case
6 2 (7.69%) Data Architecture
6 2 (7.69%) Data Lineage
6 2 (7.69%) Data Modelling
6 2 (7.69%) DevOps
7 1 (3.85%) SDLC
7 1 (3.85%) Smoke Testing
7 1 (3.85%) Systems Thinking
7 1 (3.85%) Ticket Management
7 1 (3.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) SQL
2 1 (3.85%) C#
2 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft