Big Data Contracts in Edinburgh

Big Data
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data 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 65 64 106
Rank change year-on-year -1 +42 -10
Contract jobs citing Big Data 2 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.32% 0.98% 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.39% 5.48% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
10th Percentile - £475 £594
25th Percentile £456 £528 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £631 £750
Median % change year-on-year -26.73% -15.83% +50.00%
75th Percentile £469 £653 £775
90th Percentile - £694 £781
Scotland median daily rate £409 £575 £700
% change year-on-year -28.87% -17.86% +40.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
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 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (50.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker