Data Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Data Analytics
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 121 130
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 8 42 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 1.47% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 1.58% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 37 33
10th Percentile £418 £358 £311
25th Percentile £425 £425 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £725 £523
90th Percentile £584 £750 £570
UK median daily rate £550 £540 £575
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £30.25 £40.25 £32.75
% change year-on-year -24.84% +22.90% +14.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analytics 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 1,967 2,651 3,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.60% 92.63% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,198 1,908 2,312
10th Percentile £229 £263 £240
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £624
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 46
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £18.35
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -55.69% -0.01%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £49.34
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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
Edinburgh +27 3 £425 -26.09% 11
Glasgow -16 3 £521 -25.54% 3
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Audit Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) IT Project Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Project Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (12.50%) PostGIS
1 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) SCADA
1 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Kanban
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 1 (12.50%) ETL Development
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) PMO
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle