Data Development Contracts in Scotland

Data Development
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 - 150
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Development 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% - 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £444
25th Percentile £313 - £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £484
75th Percentile £456 - £512
90th Percentile £528 - £523
UK median daily rate £500 £570 £638
% change year-on-year -12.28% -10.59% +8.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Development 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,479 1,605 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.07% 86.62% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 792 993 1,552
10th Percentile £263 £205 £248
25th Percentile £368 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £589 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 48 56
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £13.60 £13.03
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -4.01%
75th Percentile £25.15 £27.50 £58.75
90th Percentile £29.60 £57.50 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in Scotland

Data Development
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Development in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in Scotland

Data Development
DemandTrendContract 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 Development within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 3 £325 - 2
Data Development
UK

Data Development
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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Report Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) NumPy
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Analytics
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Sequence Diagram
3 1 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PL/SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks