Data Mining Contracts in Scotland

Data Mining
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining 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 112 125 160
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.25% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 1.01% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £339 £400 £373
25th Percentile £362 £456 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +29.41% -22.73%
75th Percentile £550 - £613
90th Percentile £595 - £718
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.86% -11.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 358 398 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.03% 17.95% 21.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 295 486
10th Percentile £300 £325 £400
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £550
90th Percentile £589 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £20.72 £24.60 £19.83
25th Percentile £22.42 £29.04 £27.94
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +5.91% +34.62%
75th Percentile £28.07 £45.72 £67.66
90th Percentile £28.25 £50.54 £69.25
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in Scotland

Data Mining
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Mining in Scotland

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Mining in Scotland

Data Mining
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Mining in Scotland

Data Mining
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 Mining 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
Glasgow +3 2 £361 -3.61% 1
Edinburgh +4 1 £525 -4.55% 8
Data Mining
UK

Data Mining
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Calypso