Data Analyst Contracts in Scotland

Data Analyst
UK > Scotland

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Scotland is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 76 135
Rank change year-on-year -20 +59 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 20 53 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.23% 2.39% 0.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 2.53% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 22 19
10th Percentile £310 £264 £250
25th Percentile £368 £369 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £461 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% +8.35% +4.62%
75th Percentile £513 £533 £494
90th Percentile £545 £586 £558
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - £13.04
25th Percentile - £12.30 £14.15
Median hourly rate - £16.97 £15.99
Median % change year-on-year - +6.13% -
75th Percentile - £22.52 £19.87
90th Percentile - £24.11 £22.20
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £21.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year +25.23% +5.81% +4.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Scotland

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh +5 12 £457 -3.89% 8
Glasgow -20 8 £400 -11.41% 7
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Finance
3 10 (50.00%) SQL
3 10 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 8 (40.00%) ETL
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
5 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (35.00%) QA
6 6 (30.00%) Migration
6 6 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 5 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (25.00%) Data Science
7 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 5 (25.00%) Data Transformation
7 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
7 5 (25.00%) Banking
8 4 (20.00%) Degree
8 4 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
8 4 (20.00%) Validation
8 4 (20.00%) Analytics
8 4 (20.00%) AWS
8 4 (20.00%) Power BI
8 4 (20.00%) Power Platform

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 3 (15.00%) SAS
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) Power BI
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (10.00%) Tableau
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) MS Access
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.00%) QlikView
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Finance
3 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (25.00%) Banking
5 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Front Office
7 1 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Data Analysis
2 10 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (40.00%) ETL
3 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 5 (25.00%) Data Integration
5 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 5 (25.00%) Data Science
5 5 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) Business Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (35.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Alteryx
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Teradata
3 1 (5.00%) TSYS