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 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 59 83
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Management 10 14 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.58% 1.61% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.90% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 9
10th Percentile - £431 £307
25th Percentile £413 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year -24.75% +13.75% -
75th Percentile £441 £605 £588
90th Percentile £446 £641 £660
Scotland median daily rate £425 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -17.48% +3.00% -

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 607 738 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.89% 84.83% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 431 777
10th Percentile £241 £219 £225
25th Percentile £401 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 33 6
10th Percentile - £13.30 £11.83
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £14.30
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -1.64% -13.18%
75th Percentile £27.45 £60.75 £21.57
90th Percentile £50.06 - £37.71
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +2.41% +34.48% -61.26%

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
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 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Asana
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Retail Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Analyst
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Risk Manager
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (10.00%) WireMock
1 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Time Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Data Security
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Data Design
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (40.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow