Data Lake Contracts in Scotland

Data Lakes
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 147 159
Rank change year-on-year +30 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 11 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.50% 0.56% 0.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.76% 2.62% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 15
10th Percentile £371 £416 £318
25th Percentile £398 £465 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +13.16% +16.92%
75th Percentile £559 £581 £600
90th Percentile £648 £624 £625
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £575
% change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence 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 database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 398 610 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.93% 21.31% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 486 385
10th Percentile £325 £400 £356
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £563
90th Percentile £663 £688 £633
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.78% +9.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +59.00%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Scotland over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
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 Lake within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 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 +41 5 £525 -6.83% 4
Glasgow -2 4 £430 -21.82% 3
Aberdeenshire - 1 £525 -
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
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 2 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Maximo
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
4 1 (9.09%) DTS
4 1 (9.09%) Power Query
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
1 1 (9.09%) TestComplete
1 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
1 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Change Manager
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) SOAP
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) CMDB
2 1 (9.09%) BYOD
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) ITSM
5 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (9.09%) CRM
5 1 (9.09%) Culture Change
5 1 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lineage
5 1 (9.09%) Data Management
5 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (9.09%) Data Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Information Management
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) Databricks
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) Cognos
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft