Data Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 98 96
Rank change year-on-year +29 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 14 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.25% 1.09% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 1.15% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 23
10th Percentile £498 £379 £433
25th Percentile £500 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £490 £503
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -2.49% +0.50%
75th Percentile £528 £498 £538
90th Percentile £534 £510 £612
Scotland median daily rate £453 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -7.55% -6.67% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 716 1,219 1,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.29% 94.94% 93.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 870 1,255
10th Percentile £220 £250 £263
25th Percentile £409 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £570
90th Percentile £669 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £470
% change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 11 16
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.16 £16.27
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.72 £19.94
Median hourly rate £21.02 £21.26 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% -47.18% -26.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile - £54.50 £54.03
Scotland median hourly rate £18.79 £16.86 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.48% -57.86% -0.01%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) Python