Analytics Contracts in Edinburgh

Analytics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 31 40
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytics 49 42 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.84% 5.15% 6.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.25% 5.83% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 66
10th Percentile £406 £415 £331
25th Percentile £436 £445 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £506 £479
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% +5.64% +3.01%
75th Percentile £534 £619 £550
90th Percentile £611 £695 £650
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £479
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.33% +3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in Edinburgh

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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 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (8.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.12%) WordPress
3 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.08%) Confluence
4 1 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) CMS
4 1 (2.04%) GeoServer
4 1 (2.04%) Jupyter
4 1 (2.04%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.12%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (4.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) AWS
2 9 (18.37%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (14.29%) Google Analytics
4 6 (12.24%) Amazon S3
5 5 (10.20%) OCI
5 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (8.16%) Oracle CX
6 4 (8.16%) Serverless
6 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.12%) Google Data Studio
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (4.08%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (4.08%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.08%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.29%) Tableau
3 5 (10.20%) Oracle Database
4 4 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.16%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.12%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (6.12%) Power BI
6 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.08%) Big Data
6 2 (4.08%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.08%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.08%) Metadata
6 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.08%) MySQL
6 2 (4.08%) Power Query
6 2 (4.08%) Redis
7 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.04%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.04%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) PyCharm
2 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (8.16%) Marketing
5 4 (8.16%) Retail
6 3 (6.12%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Front Office
8 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Analyst
2 10 (20.41%) Lead
3 8 (16.33%) Data Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Senior
4 7 (14.29%) Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Performance Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Product Owner
7 3 (6.12%) Web Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Business Analytics Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Google Analytics Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Oracle Business Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Payments Analyst
9 1 (2.04%) Python Engineer
9 1 (2.04%) Senior Content Editor
9 1 (2.04%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (8.16%) Middleware
3 3 (6.12%) RESTful
3 3 (6.12%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.08%) ARM Templates
4 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
4 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (4.08%) AWS CDK
4 2 (4.08%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (4.08%) JSON
4 2 (4.08%) Pandas
4 2 (4.08%) PySpark
4 2 (4.08%) YAML
5 1 (2.04%) Great Expectations
5 1 (2.04%) PostGIS
5 1 (2.04%) React
5 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.12%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.08%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Licensing
4 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.04%) Replication
4 1 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.69%) Agile
2 16 (32.65%) DevOps
3 13 (26.53%) ETL
4 10 (20.41%) Business Analytics
4 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (18.37%) Data Analytics
5 9 (18.37%) Data Engineering
6 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (14.29%) Data Analysis
6 7 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
7 6 (12.24%) Data Science
7 6 (12.24%) Decision-Making
7 6 (12.24%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.20%) Data Pipeline
8 5 (10.20%) ERP
8 5 (10.20%) Systematic Trading
8 5 (10.20%) Validation
8 5 (10.20%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) SQL
2 12 (24.49%) Python
3 7 (14.29%) Java
4 3 (6.12%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.08%) Bash
5 2 (4.08%) Bicep
5 2 (4.08%) C#
5 2 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.20%) QA
3 4 (8.16%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (8.16%) WCAG
4 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (6.12%) PERC
5 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Grafana
1 3 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle
2 7 (14.29%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Databricks
3 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.04%) Adobe
4 1 (2.04%) Fiserv
4 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.04%) Sparx