The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Analyst
Rank 34 45 45
Rank change year-on-year
+11 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 28 19 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.084% 1.782% 2.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.271% 1.879% 2.169%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 11
Average daily rate £300 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £339
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -7.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +11.11%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
856 1011 1245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.27% 94.84% 93.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 475 609
Average daily rate £391 £365 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.19% -2.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 30
Average hourly rate £13.93 £20.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.35% +30.80%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £9.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.40 £32.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Data Analyst
Scotland

Data Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Analyst across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Data Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Analyst across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Data Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Analyst across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh Data Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Analyst across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Data Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Data Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Data Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Analyst in their job title.

1 20 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) Banking
4 9 (22.50%) Migration
4 9 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (20.00%) ETL
5 8 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 7 (17.50%) SAS
6 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
6 7 (17.50%) Oracle
6 7 (17.50%) Data Mapping
7 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
8 5 (12.50%) Business Analysis
8 5 (12.50%) Data Mining
8 5 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
9 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.00%) Project Planning
9 4 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
10 3 (7.500%) Retail
10 3 (7.500%) Asset Management
10 3 (7.500%) Data Management
10 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (7.500%) Retail Banking
10 3 (7.500%) Mainframe
10 3 (7.500%) MS Excel
10 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
10 3 (7.500%) Business Objects
10 3 (7.500%) Marketing
10 3 (7.500%) Data Integration

Data Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region that cited Data Analyst in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Data Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.000%) MDX
2 1 (2.500%) SAP XI
2 1 (2.500%) XML
2 1 (2.500%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) SAS
2 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.000%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 3 (7.500%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.000%) MS Office
3 1 (2.500%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.500%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.500%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.50%) Data Mining
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.000%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (5.000%) QlikView
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (5.000%) Oracle ODI
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (5.000%) OLAP
4 2 (5.000%) DTS
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.500%) TOAD
5 1 (2.500%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.500%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.500%) GIS
5 1 (2.500%) MS Access
5 1 (2.500%) DB2
5 1 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
General
1 20 (50.00%) Finance
2 12 (30.00%) Banking
3 3 (7.500%) Retail
3 3 (7.500%) Retail Banking
3 3 (7.500%) Marketing
4 2 (5.000%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.500%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.500%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.500%) Mainframe
1 3 (7.500%) Data Integration
2 2 (5.000%) Mathematics
2 2 (5.000%) Data Conversion
3 1 (2.500%) Statistics
3 1 (2.500%) VSAM
3 1 (2.500%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.500%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Migration
2 8 (20.00%) ETL
2 8 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
3 7 (17.50%) Data Mapping
4 5 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 5 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (12.50%) Data Migration
5 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (10.00%) Project Planning
5 4 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
6 3 (7.500%) Asset Management
6 3 (7.500%) Data Management
7 2 (5.000%) Data Architecture
7 2 (5.000%) Master Data Management
7 2 (5.000%) Metadata Management
7 2 (5.000%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (5.000%) CRM
8 1 (2.500%) Validation
8 1 (2.500%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (5.000%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
2 2 (5.000%) T-SQL
3 1 (2.500%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
1 1 (2.500%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Oracle
2 3 (7.500%) Business Objects
3 2 (5.000%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.000%) Informatica
3 2 (5.000%) Trillium
3 2 (5.000%) DataFlux
4 1 (2.500%) Google
4 1 (2.500%) Teradata
4 1 (2.500%) SAP
4 1 (2.500%) TSYS
Edinburgh, Midlothian
This will be a fixed term contract for 6-12 months*** You will need to have: Performing Data migration in financial services Experience of working within preservation of...
Sanderson
Rate: £25000 - £39000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will need to have excellent Data Analysis, ETL, SQL, Data Mining and Documentation skills as you will be defining the data to map it from current state...
Aston Carter
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013