Data Integration Contracts in Scotland

Data Integration
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Integration skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Integration over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 112 136
Rank change year-on-year +9 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Integration 16 16 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.99% 0.72% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 0.81% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 22
10th Percentile £420 £434 £415
25th Percentile £428 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £479 £675 £590
90th Percentile £531 £698 £622
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Integration 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 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 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 £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -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 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

Data Integration
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Integration in Scotland

Data Integration
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Integration in Scotland

Data Integration
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Integration in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Integration in Scotland

Data Integration
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Integration in Scotland

Data Integration
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 Integration within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +11 13 £460 -0.54% 5
Glasgow +1 2 £512 -12.85% 6
Data Integration
UK

Data Integration
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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 6 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (31.25%) AWS CodePipeline
3 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (25.00%) Azure
4 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (25.00%) Serverless
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (37.50%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (31.25%) Power BI
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (12.50%) PowerCenter
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
6 1 (6.25%) GIS
6 1 (6.25%) Metadata
6 1 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 8 (50.00%) GitLab
2 3 (18.75%) JIRA
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
1 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
2 5 (31.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Data Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Business Data Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) ETL Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Re-Platforming Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Configuration Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) AWS CDK
1 6 (37.50%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) PostGIS
3 1 (6.25%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) CMDB
3 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Transformation
2 10 (62.50%) DevOps
2 10 (62.50%) Migration
3 9 (56.25%) Data Migration
4 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (43.75%) ETL
6 6 (37.50%) Agile
6 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
7 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
7 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
8 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Kanban
8 4 (25.00%) Scrum
8 4 (25.00%) TDD
8 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 4 (25.00%) Unit Testing
9 3 (18.75%) Dashboard Development
9 3 (18.75%) Software Delivery
9 3 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Informatica
2 2 (12.50%) Teradata
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) F5
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) TSYS