Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £413 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 5 6 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 330 437 550
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 15.39% 16.21% 16.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 16.29% 17.01% 16.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 294 394
10th Percentile £166 £151 £150
25th Percentile £275 £270 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £418 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +4.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £450
90th Percentile £538 £525 £500
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 5
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.46 £13.40
25th Percentile £12.41 £13.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £13.63 £14.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% -17.14% -53.33%
75th Percentile £17.96 £15.99 £42.93
90th Percentile £24.11 £17.24 £43.27
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.14% +15.25% -3.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,026 2,569 3,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 95.29% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,786 2,312
10th Percentile £200 £224 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.15
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Scotland

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Scotland

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 Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 +1 130 £363 -14.71% 25
Edinburgh 0 121 £475 +14.46% 28
West Lothian +3 12 £174 +33.85% 2
Renfrewshire +4 11 £175 +7.69% 1
Lanarkshire +1 7 £400 +6.67% 4
South Lanarkshire +1 6 £465 +16.25%
Perthshire 0 5 £488 -0.26% 1
Aberdeen -1 4 £350 +100.00% 14
Highlands - 3 - -
Midlothian +2 2 - - 6
Fife +1 2 - - 3
Inverclyde - 2 £172 -
Perth and Kinross +1 1 £525 +23.53%
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 122 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.67%) Finance
2 88 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 87 (26.36%) Public Sector
4 78 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
5 77 (23.33%) Agile
6 62 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
8 50 (15.15%) Business Analysis
9 47 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 36 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
11 33 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (9.70%) Power BI
12 32 (9.70%) Power Platform
13 30 (9.09%) Analytics
13 30 (9.09%) SharePoint
13 30 (9.09%) Banking
14 29 (8.79%) JIRA
15 28 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
16 27 (8.18%) Data Analysis
16 27 (8.18%) ITIL
16 27 (8.18%) Change Management
16 27 (8.18%) User Stories
17 26 (7.88%) Project Management
17 26 (7.88%) Requirements Gathering
17 26 (7.88%) Customer Service
18 25 (7.58%) Azure
19 24 (7.27%) PMO
19 24 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
19 24 (7.27%) Active Directory

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 30 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.12%) Confluence
4 3 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.61%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 57 (17.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (2.42%) Maximo
2 4 (1.21%) Oracle Cash Management
2 4 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.30%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 36 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (9.70%) Power Platform
3 25 (7.58%) Azure
4 15 (4.55%) Yammer
5 13 (3.94%) Power Automate
6 11 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 10 (3.03%) AWS
7 10 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.73%) OCI
8 9 (2.73%) Snowflake
9 8 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.52%) OneDrive
11 4 (1.21%) GCP
11 4 (1.21%) SaaS
12 3 (0.91%) Adverity
12 3 (0.91%) Google Data Studio
12 3 (0.91%) Google Sheets
12 3 (0.91%) Sprout Social
13 2 (0.61%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.21%) Internet
2 3 (0.91%) Skype
3 2 (0.61%) Intranet
3 2 (0.61%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.30%) Firewall
4 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.70%) Power BI
2 9 (2.73%) Tableau
3 5 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.21%) Data Mining
5 3 (0.91%) BigQuery
5 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.91%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.91%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.61%) GIS
7 1 (0.30%) Big Data
7 1 (0.30%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle8/8i Database
7 1 (0.30%) Power Query
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (8.79%) JIRA
2 2 (0.61%) Cucumber
2 2 (0.61%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.61%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.61%) ERwin
2 2 (0.61%) Git
2 2 (0.61%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.61%) Postman
2 2 (0.61%) Selenium
2 2 (0.61%) Subversion
2 2 (0.61%) TeamCity
2 2 (0.61%) TestComplete
2 2 (0.61%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (0.61%) WebDriver
2 2 (0.61%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.30%) SilkCentral
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 122 (36.97%) Social Skills
2 88 (26.67%) Finance
3 87 (26.36%) Public Sector
4 78 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (9.09%) Banking
6 16 (4.85%) Legal
6 16 (4.85%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (3.94%) Publishing
8 9 (2.73%) Back Office
8 9 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
11 4 (1.21%) Marketing
11 4 (1.21%) Retail Banking
12 3 (0.91%) Police
12 3 (0.91%) Retail
13 2 (0.61%) Billing
13 2 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (1.21%) SailPoint
3 3 (0.91%) .NET
4 2 (0.61%) JSON
4 2 (0.61%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.30%) Web Services
5 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.85%) Management Information System
2 10 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (2.12%) Credit Risk
3 7 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.82%) Wiki
5 5 (1.52%) iPhone
5 5 (1.52%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.21%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.21%) DTCC
6 4 (1.21%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.21%) Mobile App
7 3 (0.91%) CMDB
7 3 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (0.91%) Social Media
8 2 (0.61%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.61%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.30%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.15%) Windows
2 12 (3.64%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.42%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.52%) Android
4 5 (1.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.30%) Linux
5 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (23.33%) Agile
2 62 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (15.15%) Business Analysis
4 47 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 33 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (9.09%) Analytics
7 28 (8.48%) User Acceptance Testing
8 27 (8.18%) Change Management
8 27 (8.18%) Data Analysis
8 27 (8.18%) ITIL
8 27 (8.18%) User Stories
9 26 (7.88%) Customer Service
9 26 (7.88%) Project Management
9 26 (7.88%) Requirements Gathering
10 24 (7.27%) Roadmaps
11 21 (6.36%) ERP
11 21 (6.36%) Scrum
12 20 (6.06%) Use Case
13 18 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
14 17 (5.15%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.36%) SQL
2 5 (1.52%) Python
3 4 (1.21%) C#
4 3 (0.91%) Java
4 3 (0.91%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.61%) C++
5 2 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.61%) PowerShell
5 2 (0.61%) VBA
5 2 (0.61%) VBScript
6 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 22 (6.67%) Degree
2 18 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.52%) ACCA
4 5 (1.52%) CIMA
4 5 (1.52%) HNC
4 5 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (0.91%) ISEB
6 3 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (0.91%) MCP
7 2 (0.61%) CISM
7 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CISA
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) GCIH
8 1 (0.30%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.27%) PMO
2 18 (5.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 12 (3.64%) QA
4 10 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (2.73%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 5 (1.52%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 2 (0.61%) P3O
8 1 (0.30%) Basel III
8 1 (0.30%) COREP
8 1 (0.30%) FINREP
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
8 1 (0.30%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 24 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.91%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.30%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.12%) SCCM
2 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.61%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (0.61%) Terraform
5 1 (0.30%) Nessus
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 22 (6.67%) Oracle
3 11 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 11 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 9 (2.73%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.73%) Cadence
5 6 (1.82%) Apple
5 6 (1.82%) CyberArk
5 6 (1.82%) HP
6 5 (1.52%) Google
6 5 (1.52%) IFS
7 4 (1.21%) Ariba
7 4 (1.21%) Dell
7 4 (1.21%) SAP
7 4 (1.21%) Splunk
8 3 (0.91%) Brandwatch
8 3 (0.91%) Citrix
8 3 (0.91%) Facebook
8 3 (0.91%) Hootsuite
8 3 (0.91%) Twitter