Data Collection Contracts in Scotland

Data Collection
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Collection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Collection over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 166 167
Rank change year-on-year +48 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.078% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £139 - £175
25th Percentile £152 £425 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £181 £450 £278
Median % change year-on-year -59.72% +62.16% -44.50%
75th Percentile £214 £475 £358
90th Percentile £228 - £394
UK median daily rate £490 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.94% +15.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Collection is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,904 2,559 3,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.23% 92.55% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,839 2,293
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £577 £557 £550
90th Percentile £661 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.86 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.71% -57.86% -0.01%
75th Percentile £46.24 £49.24 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in Scotland

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in Scotland

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in Scotland

Data Collection
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 Collection within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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 +38 4 £181 - 1
Renfrewshire -2 1 - -
Data Collection
UK

Data Collection
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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
1 2 (40.00%) Google Data Studio
1 2 (40.00%) Google Sheets
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Blueworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
1 2 (40.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Social Media Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Web Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) BPMN
3 1 (20.00%) Business Case
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Social Listening
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Brandwatch
1 2 (40.00%) Facebook
1 2 (40.00%) Google
1 2 (40.00%) Hootsuite
1 2 (40.00%) Instagram
1 2 (40.00%) Twitter
1 2 (40.00%) YouTube
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft