Data Analysis Contracts in Scotland

Data Analysis
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 95 79
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 45 73 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.04% 2.56% 2.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.76% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 50 68
10th Percentile £406 £321 £375
25th Percentile £458 £416 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +10.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £539
90th Percentile £560 £590 £604
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - £12.67 £28.40
25th Percentile £12.30 £13.22 £32.75
Median hourly rate £22.87 £14.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -64.64% -
75th Percentile £25.17 £15.07 £41.75
90th Percentile £30.32 £15.62 £42.80
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £33.65 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.82% -3.86% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

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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 Data Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 0 18 £440 -2.22% 7
Edinburgh +23 16 £550 +10.00% 11
Renfrewshire +2 5 - -
South Lanarkshire -8 2 £465 +1.09%
Perthshire +10 1 £525 +0.48%
Perth and Kinross - 1 £525 -
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 20 (44.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 9 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 9 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 8 (17.78%) OCI
4 2 (4.44%) Azure
4 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (33.33%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (15.56%) Tableau
4 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database 10g
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database 11g
4 2 (4.44%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (2.22%) Big Data
5 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.22%) Flink
Development Applications
1 13 (28.89%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) ER Studio
2 2 (4.44%) ERwin
3 1 (2.22%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Forms
General
1 21 (46.67%) Finance
2 18 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (35.56%) Social Skills
4 15 (33.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.89%) Back Office
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Analyst
2 20 (44.44%) Data Analyst
3 9 (20.00%) Senior
4 7 (15.56%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Senior Data Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Junior
6 4 (8.89%) Junior Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Junior Data Analyst
6 4 (8.89%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.67%) Finance Business Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (6.67%) Technical Manager
8 2 (4.44%) Administrator
8 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) DBA
8 2 (4.44%) Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (4.44%) Senior DBA
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.44%) XML
3 1 (2.22%) Middleware
3 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.22%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (37.78%) Visualisation
3 16 (35.56%) Data Visualisation
4 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (31.11%) Analytics
5 14 (31.11%) Data Modelling
6 11 (24.44%) ERP
7 10 (22.22%) Data Management
8 9 (20.00%) Project Management
9 8 (17.78%) Project Delivery
10 7 (15.56%) Agile
10 7 (15.56%) Business Analysis
11 5 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (11.11%) Migration
12 4 (8.89%) Portfolio Management
12 4 (8.89%) Process Improvement
12 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
12 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (8.89%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) ACCA
3 3 (6.67%) CIMA
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) PMO
2 5 (11.11%) QA
3 4 (8.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Data Guard
1 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.89%) Oracle
3 9 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (4.44%) IDERA
4 2 (4.44%) Informatica
5 1 (2.22%) Databricks
5 1 (2.22%) Google