Big Data Contracts in Edinburgh

Big Data
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 106 89
Rank change year-on-year +41 -17 -21
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 6 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.97% 0.47% 1.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.37% 1.97% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 27
10th Percentile £475 £594 £393
25th Percentile £528 £688 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +50.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £653 £775 £586
90th Percentile £694 £781 £695
Scotland median daily rate £575 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -17.86% +40.00% +17.65%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 149 304 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.13% 23.57% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 253 208
10th Percentile £385 £401 £374
25th Percentile £430 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% -2.20% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £575
90th Percentile £668 £623 £629
Scotland median daily rate £475 £495 £478
% change year-on-year -4.04% +3.66% +12.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.44
25th Percentile - - £16.76
Median hourly rate - - £21.75
75th Percentile - - £29.00
90th Percentile - - £33.50
Scotland median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (25.00%) Apache
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) Flink
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JMeter
1 3 (37.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Gradle
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 2 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) GCP Architect
2 1 (12.50%) GCP Data Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Python Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Analytics
1 4 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Scalability Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (37.50%) Test Management
2 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Usability Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft