Data Extraction Contracts in Scotland

Data Extraction
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Extraction skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Extraction 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 107 121 162
Rank change year-on-year +14 +41 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Extraction 9 8 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.55% 0.36% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.41% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £398 £224 -
25th Percentile £413 £230 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £469 £469 -
90th Percentile £487 £473 -
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.71% +8.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Extraction 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 Extraction
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Extraction in Scotland

Data Extraction
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Extraction in Scotland

Data Extraction
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Extraction in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Extraction in Scotland

Data Extraction
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 Extraction 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
Edinburgh +6 4 £471 +57.00% 2
Glasgow +3 4 £425 +84.78% 1
Data Extraction
UK

Data Extraction
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 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Step Functions
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
1 4 (44.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Python Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Open Source Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) AWS CDK
1 2 (22.22%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Great Expectations
2 1 (11.11%) Pandas
2 1 (11.11%) PostGIS
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Algorithms
1 4 (44.44%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (44.44%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Data Encryption
3 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Inventory Management
3 4 (44.44%) Time Management
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Data Management
6 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana