Statistics Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Statistics
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Statistics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - +22
Contract jobs citing Statistics 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.38% - 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £159 - -
Scotland median daily rate £402 - £438
% change year-on-year - - -14.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Statistics 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 672 602 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.28% 94.95% 84.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 311 398
10th Percentile £350 £250 £212
25th Percentile £409 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £550
90th Percentile £625 £599 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 23
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.93 £13.22
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.30 £14.37
Median hourly rate £50.00 £17.59 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +184.33% -2.31% -57.65%
75th Percentile £65.75 £32.73 £24.18
90th Percentile £80.61 £62.50 £38.00
Scotland median hourly rate £18.00 £20.00 £20.29
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.40% +10.70%

Statistics
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Statistics job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Statistics
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Statistics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Statistics

Statistics
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Statistics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Statistics

Statistics
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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (33.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GIS Technician
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) z/OS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Keras
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
1 1 (33.33%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Aerial Photography
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 1 (33.33%) Linear Algebra
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) MLOps
1 1 (33.33%) Neural Network
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow