Data Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £457, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 60 97
Rank change year-on-year +5 +37 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 12 12 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.92% 1.47% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.54% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 13
10th Percentile £330 £294 £213
25th Percentile £375 £344 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +7.95% +4.27%
75th Percentile £516 £550 £500
90th Percentile £521 £563 £730
Scotland median daily rate £400 £461 £425
% change year-on-year -13.14% +8.35% +4.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Finance
3 7 (58.33%) SQL
3 7 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (58.33%) ETL
3 7 (58.33%) QA
4 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 5 (41.67%) Banking
5 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
5 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
5 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
5 5 (41.67%) Data Transformation
6 4 (33.33%) AWS
6 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
6 4 (33.33%) Degree
6 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (33.33%) Power BI
6 4 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (33.33%) Data Science
6 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
7 3 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
7 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
7 3 (25.00%) JIRA
7 3 (25.00%) Use Case

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 (25.00%) Confluence
1 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) AWS
1 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (33.33%) Power BI
3 3 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Database
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (16.67%) Tableau
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
5 1 (8.33%) Metadata
5 1 (8.33%) MS Access
5 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (8.33%) PowerCenter
5 1 (8.33%) QlikView
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Banking
4 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
6 1 (8.33%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Front Office
6 1 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 7 (58.33%) ETL
3 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (41.67%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
4 5 (41.67%) Data Integration
4 5 (41.67%) Data Transformation
4 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
5 4 (33.33%) Data Science
6 3 (25.00%) Business Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Re-Platforming
6 3 (25.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (25.00%) Use Case
6 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Alteryx
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) Teradata
3 1 (8.33%) TSYS