Data Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 90 91
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 12 15 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.46% 1.19% 2.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 1.24% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 30
10th Percentile £243 £219 £346
25th Percentile £294 £288 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £422
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +5.45% +3.24%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £497
90th Percentile £560 £788 £553
Scotland median daily rate £465 £425 £406
% change year-on-year +9.41% +4.62% -1.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 780 1,212 1,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 95.89% 95.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 861 1,253
10th Percentile £200 £236 £230
25th Percentile £363 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £565
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 11 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £27.90 £21.75 £26.85
% change year-on-year +28.25% -18.99% -28.40%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Data 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 Edinburgh region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Power BI
3 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
3 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
3 5 (41.67%) Oracle
3 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
4 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (25.00%) QA
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (25.00%) Data Management
6 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (16.67%) People Analytics
6 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) Scorecard
6 2 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 1 (8.33%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (8.33%) Google Sheets
3 1 (8.33%) OCI
3 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Data Mining
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (8.33%) Power Query
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) ER Studio
1 2 (16.67%) ERwin
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) XML
2 1 (8.33%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (8.33%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Analytics
1 5 (41.67%) Data Analysis
1 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
3 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) People Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) IDERA
3 2 (16.67%) Informatica
4 1 (8.33%) Brandwatch
4 1 (8.33%) Facebook
4 1 (8.33%) Hootsuite
4 1 (8.33%) Instagram
4 1 (8.33%) Twitter
4 1 (8.33%) YouTube