Data Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 73 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 +3 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 18 37 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.21% 2.86% 2.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 2.99% 2.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 32 43
10th Percentile £404 £367 £425
25th Percentile £417 £425 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £527 £504 £550
90th Percentile £546 £586 £720
Scotland median daily rate £453 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -6.60% -3.00% +17.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 779 1,236 1,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.47% 95.59% 96.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 882 1,275
10th Percentile £200 £253 £230
25th Percentile £409 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £458
% change year-on-year - +3.83% +7.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 14 24
10th Percentile £16.08 £14.53 £12.30
25th Percentile £17.79 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £63.60 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
% change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 12 (66.67%) Python
3 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 10 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (55.56%) AWS CDK
4 8 (44.44%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) Kanban
5 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
5 7 (38.89%) Scrum
5 7 (38.89%) AWS CodePipeline
6 6 (33.33%) Serverless
6 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
6 6 (33.33%) GitLab
6 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
6 6 (33.33%) REST
6 6 (33.33%) Docker
6 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
7 5 (27.78%) Data Transformation
7 5 (27.78%) Migration
7 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (27.78%) Grafana
8 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
8 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling

Data Engineer 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 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) AWS
2 10 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
3 7 (38.89%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (33.33%) OpenShift
4 6 (33.33%) Serverless
5 5 (27.78%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (16.67%) Azure
7 3 (16.67%) GCP
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (11.11%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (5.56%) Cloud Run
9 1 (5.56%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Informix
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) GIS
5 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (5.56%) InfluxDB
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Gradle
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) AWS CDK
2 6 (33.33%) REST
3 3 (16.67%) PostGIS
4 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Agile
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Kanban
3 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Data Integration
5 5 (27.78%) Data Transformation
5 5 (27.78%) Migration
6 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
7 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) ETL
7 3 (16.67%) High Availability
7 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (11.11%) Analytics
8 2 (11.11%) Community of Practice
8 2 (11.11%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
8 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
8 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Python
1 12 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) Perl
3 1 (5.56%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Grafana
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Commvault
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat