Data Lake Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Lakes
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake 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 62 67 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 +40 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 5 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.80% 0.61% 0.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.47% 3.42% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £458 £443 £415
25th Percentile £498 £469 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year +7.71% -6.83% +9.95%
75th Percentile £633 £619 £664
90th Percentile £673 £668 £731
Scotland median daily rate £577 £488 £538
% change year-on-year +18.36% -9.30% +13.16%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 144 146 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.04% 17.91% 23.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 106 256
10th Percentile £413 £381 £402
25th Percentile £450 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £497 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +1.64% -2.20%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £544
90th Percentile £612 £669 £625
Scotland median daily rate £471 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 - -
Median hourly rate £27.35 - -
75th Percentile £28.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Edinburgh

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Edinburgh

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Edinburgh

Data Lake
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (20.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Data Design
2 1 (20.00%) Data Management
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Confluent
3 1 (20.00%) Hitachi
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) Pega
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) StreamSets