Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 5 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 101 131 192
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.16% 16.07% 14.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.38% 16.84% 15.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 67 129
10th Percentile £325 £200 £150
25th Percentile £409 £409 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £510 £525 £440
90th Percentile £525 £555 £488
Scotland median daily rate £425 £418 £418
% change year-on-year +1.80% - +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £16.83 - -
25th Percentile £17.93 - -
Median hourly rate £23.36 £18.27 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% - -
75th Percentile £29.86 - -
90th Percentile £32.52 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.37 £15.42 £15.25
% change year-on-year +25.58% +1.15% +8.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 38 (37.62%) Public Sector
1 38 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 34 (33.66%) Business Analysis
3 27 (26.73%) Finance
4 25 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (23.76%) User Stories
5 24 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (23.76%) Agile
6 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (20.79%) Banking
7 21 (20.79%) Degree
8 15 (14.85%) Data Analysis
8 15 (14.85%) SQL
8 15 (14.85%) Translating Business Requirements
8 15 (14.85%) Requirements Gathering
9 13 (12.87%) MS Visio
9 13 (12.87%) JIRA
10 12 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (11.88%) ETL
10 12 (11.88%) Oracle
10 12 (11.88%) Analytics
11 11 (10.89%) User Research
11 11 (10.89%) Data Quality
11 11 (10.89%) Confluence
12 10 (9.90%) Requirements Analysis
12 10 (9.90%) QA
12 10 (9.90%) Use Case
12 10 (9.90%) Data Modelling
12 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
12 10 (9.90%) Wireframes

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 11 (10.89%) Confluence
2 8 (7.92%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) IIS
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (12.87%) MS Visio
2 10 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.97%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.97%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Cash Management
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.98%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.99%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.99%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 9 (8.91%) AWS
2 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.94%) OCI
4 4 (3.96%) Azure
4 4 (3.96%) SaaS
5 3 (2.97%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.97%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (1.98%) Apigee
6 2 (1.98%) IBM Blueworks
6 2 (1.98%) Oracle CX
6 2 (1.98%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.98%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.99%) GCP
7 1 (0.99%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Firewall
1 1 (0.99%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.93%) Power BI
2 7 (6.93%) Tableau
3 6 (5.94%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.96%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.97%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.98%) Metadata
6 2 (1.98%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.98%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.99%) MS Access
7 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.99%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.99%) QlikView
7 1 (0.99%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) JIRA
2 2 (1.98%) Git
2 2 (1.98%) GitLab
3 1 (0.99%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (0.99%) Postman
3 1 (0.99%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.99%) TestRail
General
1 38 (37.62%) Public Sector
1 38 (37.62%) Social Skills
2 27 (26.73%) Finance
3 25 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (20.79%) Banking
5 5 (4.95%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (4.95%) Retail Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.96%) Retail
7 3 (2.97%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Back Office
8 2 (1.98%) Front Office
8 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (0.99%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.97%) Middleware
3 2 (1.98%) WebCenter
4 1 (0.99%) .NET
4 1 (0.99%) REST
4 1 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.95%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.96%) CMDB
3 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.97%) Derivative
4 2 (1.98%) Device Driver
4 2 (1.98%) Educational Technology
4 2 (1.98%) Equities
4 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.98%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
5 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Android
2 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (33.66%) Business Analysis
2 24 (23.76%) Agile
2 24 (23.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (23.76%) User Stories
3 22 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (14.85%) Data Analysis
4 15 (14.85%) Requirements Gathering
4 15 (14.85%) Translating Business Requirements
5 12 (11.88%) Analytics
5 12 (11.88%) ETL
6 11 (10.89%) User Research
7 10 (9.90%) Data Modelling
7 10 (9.90%) Requirements Analysis
7 10 (9.90%) Use Case
7 10 (9.90%) Wireframes
8 9 (8.91%) GAP Analysis
8 9 (8.91%) Project Management
8 9 (8.91%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (7.92%) Target Operating Model
9 8 (7.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.85%) SQL
2 3 (2.97%) Java
2 3 (2.97%) PL/SQL
2 3 (2.97%) ProC
2 3 (2.97%) Python
3 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.99%) R
4 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.99%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) IIBA
3 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.99%) ACCA
4 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.99%) CISA
4 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.90%) QA
3 8 (7.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.98%) GDPR
4 2 (1.98%) P3O
4 2 (1.98%) PMO
5 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.99%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.99%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) Oracle
2 9 (8.91%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) Google
4 2 (1.98%) Fiserv
4 2 (1.98%) IBM
4 2 (1.98%) Splunk
5 1 (0.99%) Adobe
5 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.99%) Calypso
5 1 (0.99%) Cisco
5 1 (0.99%) Commvault
5 1 (0.99%) Dell
5 1 (0.99%) Equitrac
5 1 (0.99%) Informatica
5 1 (0.99%) Murex
5 1 (0.99%) Progress
5 1 (0.99%) Reuters
5 1 (0.99%) SonicWALL
5 1 (0.99%) TSYS