Data Transformation Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Transformation
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 69 95
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 -
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 11 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.74% 0.61% 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 0.72% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £325
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +53.85% -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
Scotland median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%

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 596 697 979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.15% 85.42% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 365 622
10th Percentile £307 £223 £226
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 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% +152.32%
75th Percentile £42.90 £24.18 £53.74
90th Percentile £61.00 £48.84 £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) GCP
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Boomi
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
3 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
3 2 (18.18%) Looker
3 2 (18.18%) Metadata
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) PowerCenter
4 1 (9.09%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) ER Studio
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 9 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 2 (18.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Business Data Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Data Modeller
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) ETL Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Modeller
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) CRM Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Modelling
2 5 (45.45%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (36.36%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (27.27%) Analytics
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
4 3 (27.27%) Data Migration
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Data Strategy
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
5 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (18.18%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Informatica
3 1 (9.09%) Teradata
3 1 (9.09%) TSYS