Data Deduplication Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Deduplication
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Deduplication skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 113 134
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Deduplication 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.32% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.46% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £413 - £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% - +29.41%
75th Percentile £438 - £623
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £425 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -22.73% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Deduplication 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 1,324 1,526 2,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 84.71% 91.76% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 899 1,293
10th Percentile £215 £223 £288
25th Percentile £371 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £570 £547 £588
90th Percentile £656 £626 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 42 82
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.17 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.46 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +15.15%
75th Percentile £50.00 £24.18 £59.38
90th Percentile £64.40 £41.68 £73.18
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.53
% change year-on-year -22.62% -3.06% +3.15%

Data Deduplication
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Deduplication relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Data Deduplication job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Deduplication
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Deduplication.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Deduplication

Data Deduplication
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 Deduplication within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Glasgow +3 5 £425 -22.73% 1
Data Deduplication
UK

Data Deduplication
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) NAS
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Site Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Loki
1 5 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Veritas