Data Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Data Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics 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 98 121 121
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 0
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 18 8 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.11% 0.36% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 0.41% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 37
10th Percentile £436 £418 £358
25th Percentile £463 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% +27.78%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £725
90th Percentile £570 £584 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.64 -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -7.44% -24.84% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analytics 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
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 Analytics 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 +11 9 £475 +11.76% 12
Glasgow +7 7 £538 +3.12% 11
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (5.56%) Jupyter
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe XD
1 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) AWS
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (16.67%) Serverless
4 2 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.56%) Figma
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) PyCharm
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Finance
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (11.11%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Designer
2 2 (11.11%) Lead
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Designer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior Service Designer
2 2 (11.11%) Senior UX Designer
2 2 (11.11%) Service Designer
2 2 (11.11%) UX Designer
2 2 (11.11%) UX Service Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Data Governance Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
3 1 (5.56%) Governance Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (5.56%) Project Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Node.js
2 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) NumPy
3 1 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Licensing
2 1 (5.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
2 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Analytics
2 10 (55.56%) Agile
3 7 (38.89%) Data Engineering
4 6 (33.33%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 4 (22.22%) Data Security
6 4 (22.22%) Microservices
6 4 (22.22%) Migration
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 3 (16.67%) ETL
7 3 (16.67%) Information Governance
7 3 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
7 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 3 (16.67%) Usability Testing
7 3 (16.67%) User Experience
7 3 (16.67%) UX Design
7 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CISM
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.56%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (11.11%) WCAG
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) CASB
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Adobe
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint