Business Analytics Contracts in Edinburgh

Business Analytics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Business Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Business 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 57 71 110
Rank change year-on-year +14 +39 +19
Contract jobs citing Business Analytics 10 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £408 - £410
25th Percentile £419 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% - -20.35%
75th Percentile £509 - £475
90th Percentile £510 - £490
Scotland median daily rate £463 £456 £450
% change year-on-year +1.37% +1.39% -20.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Business 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%

Business Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Analytics in Edinburgh

Business Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Business Analytics in Edinburgh

Business Analytics
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 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) OCI
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle CX
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata
4 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analytics Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Middleware
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) Great Expectations
2 1 (10.00%) Pandas
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (60.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) CRM
4 4 (40.00%) ERP
4 4 (40.00%) Human Resource Management
4 4 (40.00%) SOA
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
4 4 (40.00%) Validation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
5 3 (30.00%) Data Science
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 1 (10.00%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle