Data Transformation Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Transformation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Transformation 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 50 65 111
Rank change year-on-year +15 +46 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 17 7 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.72% 0.86% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 0.97% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 0
10th Percentile £413 £423 -
25th Percentile £417 £437 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +0.65% - -
75th Percentile £486 £531 -
90th Percentile £526 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £375
% change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -53.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Transformation 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 Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in Edinburgh

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in Edinburgh

Data Transformation
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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) AWS
2 8 (47.06%) Amazon S3
3 7 (41.18%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (41.18%) Serverless
4 6 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (29.41%) AWS CodePipeline
5 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
5 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
6 4 (23.53%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (11.76%) Azure
7 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
8 1 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (5.88%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (64.71%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (41.18%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (29.41%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.88%) GIS
5 1 (5.88%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.88%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) GitLab
2 3 (17.65%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Git
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Data Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Re-Platforming Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) AWS CDK
2 5 (29.41%) REST
3 3 (17.65%) PostGIS
4 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Data Integration
1 10 (58.82%) Migration
2 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 9 (52.94%) ETL
3 8 (47.06%) Data Migration
4 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
6 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
6 4 (23.53%) Kanban
6 4 (23.53%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
6 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (35.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Teradata
3 1 (5.88%) TSYS