Data Engineering Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering 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 43 70 98
Rank change year-on-year +27 +28 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 24 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.84% 0.25% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 0.28% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 14
10th Percentile £423 £498 £379
25th Percentile £456 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £511 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +4.34% -2.49%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £498
90th Percentile £538 £534 £510
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £490
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.55% -4.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Engineering 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 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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.17%) Apache
3 1 (4.17%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 14 (58.33%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 8 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (33.33%) Serverless
4 5 (20.83%) Azure
5 4 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
6 2 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.33%) Big Data
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.17%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (4.17%) PyCharm
3 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (25.00%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Tech for Good
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (20.83%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
4 2 (8.33%) PL/SQL Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Snowflake Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) PySpark
2 2 (8.33%) .NET
2 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
2 2 (8.33%) Pandas
2 2 (8.33%) PostGIS
2 2 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) Great Expectations
3 1 (4.17%) NumPy
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) OpenID
3 1 (4.17%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
1 9 (37.50%) Analytics
1 9 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (37.50%) ETL
2 7 (29.17%) Decision-Making
3 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 6 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Data Transformation
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Optimisation
5 4 (16.67%) Workflow
6 3 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (12.50%) Data Extraction
6 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.50%) Workflow Development
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
1 19 (79.17%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.33%) C#
3 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Grafana
1 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (4.17%) Hitachi
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.17%) Pega
3 1 (4.17%) SAP