Data Ingestion Contracts in Scotland

Data Ingestion
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Ingestion skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Ingestion over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 167 168
Rank change year-on-year +42 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Ingestion 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.035% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.038% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £438 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £475
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +31.58% -
75th Percentile £463 £638 £613
90th Percentile - - £785
UK median daily rate £525 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -10.38% -2.36% +14.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Ingestion is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,980 2,655 3,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.55% 92.57% 92.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 1,918 2,353
10th Percentile £250 £263 £239
25th Percentile £400 £408 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £549
90th Percentile £675 £650 £622
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 53 52
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.72 £28.43
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -37.66% -32.32%
75th Percentile £46.24 £54.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.28 £67.31 £55.61
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Ingestion in Scotland

Data Ingestion
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Ingestion in Scotland

Data Ingestion
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 Ingestion within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 - 2 - -
Glasgow +7 1 £450 -28.00% 2
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
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 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Run
2 1 (33.33%) Google Data Studio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Spark SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
3 1 (33.33%) ETL Development
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google