Data Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Data Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £461 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 138 110
Rank change year-on-year +60 -28 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 53 27 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.40% 0.94% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 0.99% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 46
10th Percentile £264 £244 £328
25th Percentile £369 £306 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £425 £406
Median % change year-on-year +8.35% +4.62% -2.11%
75th Percentile £533 £478 £484
90th Percentile £586 £500 £536
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £13.04 -
25th Percentile £12.30 £14.15 -
Median hourly rate £16.97 £15.99 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.13% - -
75th Percentile £22.52 £19.87 -
90th Percentile £24.11 £22.20 -
UK median hourly rate £21.66 £20.47 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.81% +4.87% -2.40%

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 2,090 2,720 3,376
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.14% 95.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,951 2,390
10th Percentile £204 £238 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 44 53
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.86 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.25 £16.91 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.22 £54.20
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data 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 Data Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +24 31 £452 +29.00% 4
Edinburgh +37 12 £475 +9.83% 3
Renfrewshire +1 4 - -
South Lanarkshire - 3 £473 -
Aberdeen - 1 £425 - 1
Fife - 1 - -
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Scotland region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 26 (49.06%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (45.28%) Analytics
3 23 (43.40%) Finance
4 20 (37.74%) Data Analysis
4 20 (37.74%) Power BI
4 20 (37.74%) Power Platform
5 19 (35.85%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (30.19%) Data Management
6 16 (30.19%) Visualisation
7 15 (28.30%) Data Visualisation
7 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
7 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (24.53%) Power Automate
8 13 (24.53%) Public Sector
8 13 (24.53%) SQL
9 12 (22.64%) Microsoft Excel
10 11 (20.75%) JIRA
10 11 (20.75%) Atlassian
10 11 (20.75%) Decision-Making
10 11 (20.75%) PowerApps
11 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
11 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
11 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
12 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
12 9 (16.98%) Alteryx
12 9 (16.98%) Snowflake
13 8 (15.09%) Tableau
14 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
14 7 (13.21%) Dashboard Development

Data 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:

Applications
1 12 (22.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.77%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Power Platform
2 13 (24.53%) Power Automate
3 11 (20.75%) PowerApps
4 9 (16.98%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.77%) OCI
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (37.74%) Power BI
2 8 (15.09%) Tableau
3 3 (5.66%) Data Mining
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.89%) Big Data
5 1 (1.89%) Power Query
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) ER Studio
2 2 (3.77%) ERwin
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 26 (49.06%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (43.40%) Finance
3 13 (24.53%) Public Sector
4 10 (18.87%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.32%) Legal
6 4 (7.55%) Back Office
7 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.77%) Banking
8 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.89%) Local Government
9 1 (1.89%) Marketing
9 1 (1.89%) Military
9 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.89%) Middleware
2 1 (1.89%) XML
2 1 (1.89%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Credit Risk
2 5 (9.43%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) Analytics
2 20 (37.74%) Data Analysis
3 19 (35.85%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (30.19%) Data Management
4 16 (30.19%) Visualisation
5 15 (28.30%) Data Visualisation
5 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (20.75%) Decision-Making
7 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
7 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (13.21%) Dashboard Development
8 7 (13.21%) Data Governance
9 6 (11.32%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.32%) Project Delivery
10 5 (9.43%) Portfolio Management
10 5 (9.43%) Process Improvement
11 4 (7.55%) Data Architecture
11 4 (7.55%) Data Extraction
11 4 (7.55%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) SQL
2 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.32%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
1 6 (11.32%) PMO
2 5 (9.43%) QA
3 3 (5.66%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
2 11 (20.75%) Atlassian
3 9 (16.98%) Alteryx
4 6 (11.32%) Oracle
5 2 (3.77%) IDERA
5 2 (3.77%) Informatica
6 1 (1.89%) Google