Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Strategy
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 72 80
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.68% 0.16% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.17% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +40.00% -37.50%
Scotland median daily rate £525 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -36.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Strategy 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 535 584 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 91.61% 90.97% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 304 502
10th Percentile £221 £213 £208
25th Percentile £406 £382 £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 £635 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 25 9
10th Percentile £16.55 £16.86 £12.95
25th Percentile - £21.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +3.15% +7.57%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £65.00 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.06
% change year-on-year -13.04% +20.70% +3.00%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Data Strategy
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) ER Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ERwin
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modeller
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 4 (100.00%) Coaching
1 4 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 4 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 4 (100.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL