Data Extraction Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Extraction
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Extraction skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 69 78
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Extraction 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.85% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.34% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £310 - £244
25th Percentile £370 - £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £471 £313
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% +50.72% -16.67%
75th Percentile £504 - £341
90th Percentile £524 - £369
Scotland median daily rate £425 £450 £313
% change year-on-year -5.56% +44.00% -47.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Extraction 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 537 587 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.33% 91.29% 92.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 306 488
10th Percentile £221 £227 £200
25th Percentile £406 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £634 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 25 10
10th Percentile £17.62 £16.86 £13.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +33.96% -14.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £31.97
90th Percentile £66.00 - £54.48
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% +1.58%

Data Extraction
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Extraction job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Extraction
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Data Extraction
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Extraction in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Extraction in Edinburgh

Data Extraction
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (20.00%) PostGIS
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) DataOps
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (20.00%) Inventory Management
4 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft