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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 79 90
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.12% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.14% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile - £650 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +21.74% -29.23%
75th Percentile - £750 £631
90th Percentile - - £658
Scotland median daily rate £506 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -27.71% +40.00% -35.48%

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 590 690 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 93.95% 85.08% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 367 636
10th Percentile £306 £223 £213
25th Percentile £413 £363 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 6
10th Percentile - £13.27 £12.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.50 £20.18
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.77% -53.68% +160.49%
75th Percentile £44.35 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.13 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.40 £21.59 £18.93
% change year-on-year -5.52% +14.05% -7.32%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Strategy 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 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 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
2 2 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (50.00%) Looker
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (25.00%) PowerCenter
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) ER Studio
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Health
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Task Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Flow Diagram
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Lineage
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Informatica
2 1 (25.00%) Teradata
2 1 (25.00%) TSYS