Data Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management 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 60 58 92
Rank change year-on-year -2 +34 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Management 7 14 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.12% 1.72% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.94% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 10
10th Percentile £378 £475 £231
25th Percentile £400 £517 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% +16.25% -
75th Percentile £519 £605 £534
90th Percentile £575 £641 £619
Scotland median daily rate £428 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -18.48% +10.53% -9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Edinburgh

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Edinburgh

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Edinburgh

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Edinburgh

Data Management
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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Asana
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) OLTP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) ER Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Publishing
4 1 (14.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Configuration Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Data Modeller
1 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
1 3 (42.86%) ETL
1 3 (42.86%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Data Design
2 2 (28.57%) Data Security
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Metadata Management
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
1 3 (42.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (14.29%) Def Stans
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx