Analytics Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Analytics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 21 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 25 58 48
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.28% 9.06% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 9.95% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 27 30
10th Percentile £446 £375 £398
25th Percentile £450 £419 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £503
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.57% +5.01%
75th Percentile £550 £599 £575
90th Percentile £591 £624 £653
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.20 - -
Median hourly rate £13.91 - -
75th Percentile £14.61 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.91 £44.04 -
% change year-on-year -68.43% - -

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 535 583 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.61% 91.09% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 305 502
10th Percentile £221 £226 £205
25th Percentile £406 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £635 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 8
10th Percentile £16.55 £16.86 £12.79
25th Percentile - £21.00 £15.32
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £20.30
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +16.24% -4.54%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.18 £39.68
90th Percentile £65.00 - £56.04
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.59
% change year-on-year -13.04% +23.72% +2.65%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Analytics job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Edinburgh

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Analytics

Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.00%) Apache
3 1 (4.00%) CMS
3 1 (4.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (12.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (4.00%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Canva
5 1 (4.00%) dbt
5 1 (4.00%) Figma
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) MQTT
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (12.00%) Power BI
3 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 2 (8.00%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.00%) Git
3 1 (4.00%) Axure RP
3 1 (4.00%) Storybook
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Banking
4 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (8.00%) Legal
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) Local Government
7 1 (4.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Senior
2 4 (16.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Migration Project Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Analytics Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Designer
5 1 (4.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (4.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) PySpark
2 2 (8.00%) CSS
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) Flask
3 1 (4.00%) Jest
3 1 (4.00%) JWT
3 1 (4.00%) Kafka
3 1 (4.00%) NumPy
3 1 (4.00%) OAuth
3 1 (4.00%) Pandas
3 1 (4.00%) PostGIS
3 1 (4.00%) React
3 1 (4.00%) Redux
3 1 (4.00%) Streamlit
3 1 (4.00%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Derivative
2 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.00%) Replication
2 1 (4.00%) Social Media
2 1 (4.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (24.00%) Data Analysis
2 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (24.00%) Data Transformation
2 6 (24.00%) ETL
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Data Management
4 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (16.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (12.00%) Data Munging
5 3 (12.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (4.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (12.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (8.00%) GDPR
4 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
1 1 (4.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kibana
2 1 (4.00%) logstash
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Databricks
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe
3 1 (4.00%) Facebook
3 1 (4.00%) Informatica
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Talend