Data Design Contracts in Scotland

Data Design
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design 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 104 127 161
Rank change year-on-year +23 +34 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Design 12 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.74% 0.090% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.10% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile - £513 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £431 £538 £638
90th Percentile £489 - -
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Design 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 Design
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in Scotland

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in Scotland

Data Design
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 Design 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
Glasgow - 5 £464 - 5
Edinburgh +8 4 £431 -17.90% 6
Stirling - 2 £400 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
Data Design
UK

Data Design
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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (58.33%) Relational Database
2 6 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Git
2 3 (25.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 7 (58.33%) Back Office
2 6 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Publishing
6 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Systems Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 4 (33.33%) Data Architect
3 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) CMDB
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (66.67%) DevOps
4 5 (41.67%) Time Management
5 4 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 4 (33.33%) Data Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) Data Management
5 4 (33.33%) Data Security
5 4 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (33.33%) IT Strategy
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) ITSM
5 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (33.33%) Programme Management
5 4 (33.33%) Security Management
5 4 (33.33%) Service Management
5 4 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) API Development
6 3 (25.00%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (8.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Databricks
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft