Data Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £453 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 102 101
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 31 65 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.43% 2.31% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.51% 2.43% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 54 64
10th Percentile £188 £408 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% -3.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £489 £528 £556
90th Percentile £550 £590 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,054 2,677 3,368
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 95.30% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,920 2,393
10th Percentile £200 £232 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £580 £554 £550
90th Percentile £654 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 45 52
10th Percentile £12.32 £12.90 £14.65
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £24.29 £21.75 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -18.99% -28.40%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.13 £54.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 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 +22 19 £450 -5.26% 9
Glasgow -12 7 £432 -11.94% 7
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 - 1
South Lanarkshire - 1 £600 -
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (64.52%) AWS
2 17 (54.84%) Python
3 15 (48.39%) SQL
4 13 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (41.94%) DevOps
4 13 (41.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (41.94%) AWS CDK
5 12 (38.71%) Agile
6 11 (35.48%) Docker
7 10 (32.26%) AWS CodePipeline
8 9 (29.03%) Kanban
8 9 (29.03%) Amazon S3
8 9 (29.03%) Scrum
8 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (25.81%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (25.81%) OpenShift
9 8 (25.81%) REST
9 8 (25.81%) GitLab
9 8 (25.81%) Serverless
9 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
10 7 (22.58%) Databricks
10 7 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (22.58%) Grafana
10 7 (22.58%) Migration
10 7 (22.58%) Azure
10 7 (22.58%) Data Integration
11 6 (19.35%) ETL
11 6 (19.35%) Data Engineering
11 6 (19.35%) Data Transformation
11 6 (19.35%) Public Sector

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (64.52%) AWS
2 13 (41.94%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (32.26%) AWS CodePipeline
4 9 (29.03%) Amazon S3
5 8 (25.81%) OpenShift
5 8 (25.81%) Serverless
6 7 (22.58%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (22.58%) Azure
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (16.13%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (12.90%) Snowflake
9 3 (9.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 3 (9.68%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (9.68%) GCP
10 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeBuild
10 2 (6.45%) AWS CodeCommit
10 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (3.23%) Cloud Run
11 1 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (3.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (25.81%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (16.13%) MongoDB
5 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
5 3 (9.68%) Informix
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (6.45%) InfluxDB
6 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.23%) Big Data
7 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
7 1 (3.23%) DTS
7 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.23%) Metadata
7 1 (3.23%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
7 1 (3.23%) Power BI
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (25.81%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Gradle
General
1 6 (19.35%) Public Sector
1 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 5 (16.13%) Finance
3 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.45%) Banking
3 2 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.23%) Legal
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (41.94%) AWS CDK
2 8 (25.81%) REST
3 4 (12.90%) PostGIS
4 3 (9.68%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Replication
2 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.23%) iPad
4 1 (3.23%) iPhone
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.23%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.68%) Linux
2 2 (6.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Android
3 1 (3.23%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) DevOps
2 12 (38.71%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Kanban
3 9 (29.03%) Scrum
4 8 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 7 (22.58%) Data Integration
5 7 (22.58%) Migration
6 6 (19.35%) Data Engineering
6 6 (19.35%) Data Transformation
6 6 (19.35%) ETL
7 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) Community of Practice
7 4 (12.90%) Computer Science
7 4 (12.90%) Data Modelling
7 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (12.90%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (12.90%) High Availability
7 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (9.68%) DataOps
8 3 (9.68%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) Python
2 15 (48.39%) SQL
3 5 (16.13%) TypeScript
4 4 (12.90%) Java
4 4 (12.90%) Scala
5 1 (3.23%) Bash
5 1 (3.23%) Perl
5 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) CISSP
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Grafana
2 5 (16.13%) Ansible
3 4 (12.90%) Terraform
4 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (22.58%) Databricks
2 4 (12.90%) Oracle
3 2 (6.45%) Commvault
3 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.23%) Qualys
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk