Data Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 July 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 65 87
Rank change year-on-year +18 +22 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 17 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.68% 1.36% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.91% 1.43% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 16
10th Percentile £300 £248 £263
25th Percentile - £309 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -18.92%
75th Percentile £513 £572 £500
90th Percentile £520 £641 £788
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £425
% change year-on-year -0.55% +6.47% +3.03%

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 585 840 1,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 95.02% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 460 785
10th Percentile £229 £178 £225
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £543 £538
90th Percentile £600 £646 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 49 13
10th Percentile - £13.61 £14.07
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 -
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +20.42% +3.10% -8.89%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £21.67
90th Percentile £74.00 £60.80 £51.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.83 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.54% +3.10% -52.66%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 14 (82.35%) Finance
2 10 (58.82%) Migration
2 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
3 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (41.18%) SQL
4 6 (35.29%) Banking
4 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
5 5 (29.41%) Data Transformation
5 5 (29.41%) Data Mapping
5 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
5 5 (29.41%) Confluence
5 5 (29.41%) Business Analysis
5 5 (29.41%) Data Analysis
5 5 (29.41%) JIRA
5 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
6 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (23.53%) Python
6 4 (23.53%) QA
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Google
6 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
6 4 (23.53%) GCP
6 4 (23.53%) Dashboard Development
6 4 (23.53%) Power BI
6 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
7 3 (17.65%) ER Studio
7 3 (17.65%) Data Ingestion

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 5 (29.41%) Confluence
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Collibra
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Power BI
3 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (17.65%) Star Schema
4 2 (11.76%) Metadata
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.88%) MS Access
5 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.88%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.88%) QlikView
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) ER Studio
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 14 (82.35%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Banking
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Health
5 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
1 10 (58.82%) Migration
2 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
3 5 (29.41%) Business Analysis
3 5 (29.41%) Data Analysis
3 5 (29.41%) Data Integration
3 5 (29.41%) Data Mapping
3 5 (29.41%) Data Transformation
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Dashboard Development
4 4 (23.53%) ETL
5 3 (17.65%) Data Architecture
5 3 (17.65%) Logical Data Model
5 3 (17.65%) Physical Data Model
5 3 (17.65%) Re-Platforming
5 3 (17.65%) Software Delivery
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Google
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.88%) Alteryx
4 1 (5.88%) Informatica
4 1 (5.88%) Teradata
4 1 (5.88%) TSYS