Data Analysis Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Analysis
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis 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 37 56 77
Rank change year-on-year +19 +21 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 30 16 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.80% 1.96% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.05% 2.22% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 25
10th Percentile £263 £494 £255
25th Percentile £394 £522 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile £519 £569 £550
90th Percentile £540 £609 £590
Scotland median daily rate £425 £525 £495
% change year-on-year -19.05% +6.06% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.87 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £22.87 £14.15
% change year-on-year - +61.68% -64.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Analysis 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 Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis 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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
1 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
3 1 (3.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (13.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.33%) AWS
3 3 (10.00%) OCI
3 3 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.33%) Apigee
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Tableau
2 7 (23.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (20.00%) Power BI
4 4 (13.33%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (10.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.33%) Metadata
7 1 (3.33%) MS Access
7 1 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.33%) QlikView
7 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Postman
General
1 16 (53.33%) Finance
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Banking
2 11 (36.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (6.67%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Re-Platforming Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Consultant
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Support Officer
5 2 (6.67%) User Researcher
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Management Consultant
6 1 (3.33%) Tableau Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Tableau Specialist
6 1 (3.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (3.33%) PySpark
1 1 (3.33%) REST
1 1 (3.33%) Swagger
1 1 (3.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.67%) Derivative
2 2 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Equities
3 1 (3.33%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Data Modelling
2 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (30.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (23.33%) Analytics
5 7 (23.33%) Business Analysis
5 7 (23.33%) Data Governance
5 7 (23.33%) Migration
6 6 (20.00%) Data Transformation
6 6 (20.00%) ETL
6 6 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
7 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 5 (16.67%) Data Science
8 4 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
8 4 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
8 4 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (13.33%) DevOps
8 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) QA
2 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (10.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (3.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.33%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.33%) Reuters