Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Perth and Kinross

Data Engineer
Scotland > Perth and Kinross

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Perth and Kinross is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 1 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Perth and Kinross 30.00% 36.36% -
As % of the Job Titles category 30.00% 36.36% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £450 £444 £500
% change year-on-year +1.41% -11.25% +4.71%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Perth and Kinross

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Perth and Kinross. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Perth and Kinross with a recognized job title 10 11 2
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 2
10th Percentile - £469 £531
25th Percentile £176 £497 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £178 £563 £638
Median % change year-on-year -68.44% -11.76% +15.91%
75th Percentile £335 £600 £734
90th Percentile £388 - £774
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Perth and Kinross

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Perth and Kinross.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Perth and Kinross

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Perth and Kinross

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Perth and Kinross region over the 6 months to 5 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Auchterarder - 3 £375 - 4
Data Engineer
Scotland

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perth and Kinross

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Perth and Kinross region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Matillion
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Perth and Kinross 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) dbt
1 1 (33.33%) Matillion
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle