Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Analytics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 46 76
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 1 22 7
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.16% 3.53% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 3.76% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 5
10th Percentile - £463 £448
25th Percentile - £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £619 £600
90th Percentile - £650 £630
Scotland median daily rate £350 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -30.00% - -15.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data 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 549 585 800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 89.27% 93.90% 90.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 320 483
10th Percentile £188 £195 £230
25th Percentile £406 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £561
90th Percentile £675 £638 £643
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £482
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 27
10th Percentile £17.23 £20.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.01 £16.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +111.95% -32.60% +63.06%
75th Percentile £68.00 £24.18 £60.75
90th Percentile £81.24 £26.52 -
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +10.05%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana