Data Design Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Design
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design 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 63 71 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Design 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.12% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.14% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% - -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -23.81% -16.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Design 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%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in Edinburgh

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in Edinburgh

Data Design
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Internet
1 1 (25.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) CMDB
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (25.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (50.00%) Time Management
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Security
4 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) ITSM
4 1 (25.00%) Process Management
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) Security Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow