Data Transformation Contracts in Scotland

Data Transformation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Transformation 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 87 114 160
Rank change year-on-year +27 +46 0
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 29 15 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.78% 0.68% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 0.76% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 1
10th Percentile £414 £324 -
25th Percentile £428 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +20.00% -53.13%
75th Percentile £569 £484 £388
90th Percentile £688 £531 -
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -4.29% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Transformation 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 Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Transformation in Scotland

Data Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Transformation in Scotland

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Transformation in Scotland

Data Transformation
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 Transformation 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 +15 17 £466 +0.65% 3
Glasgow +7 11 £650 +85.71% 4
Data Transformation
UK

Data Transformation
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 (10.34%) Confluence
1 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) AWS
1 12 (41.38%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) Amazon S3
3 8 (27.59%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (27.59%) Serverless
4 7 (24.14%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (24.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 6 (20.69%) AWS CodePipeline
6 5 (17.24%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (17.24%) GitHub
6 5 (17.24%) OpenShift
6 5 (17.24%) Power Platform
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (3.45%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (27.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (20.69%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (17.24%) Power BI
5 2 (6.90%) Oracle Database
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.45%) Data Mining
6 1 (3.45%) GIS
6 1 (3.45%) PowerCenter
6 1 (3.45%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) GitLab
2 3 (10.34%) JIRA
3 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Data Engineer
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Architect
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Data Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Business Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Data Architect
4 3 (10.34%) ETL Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Re-Platforming Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Architect
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) AWS CDK
2 6 (20.69%) REST
3 5 (17.24%) PySpark
4 3 (10.34%) PostGIS
5 1 (3.45%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Derivative
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
1 15 (51.72%) ETL
2 14 (48.28%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Data Integration
3 11 (37.93%) Migration
4 9 (31.03%) Data Migration
5 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
6 6 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (20.69%) Data Analysis
6 6 (20.69%) Data Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 5 (17.24%) Agile
7 5 (17.24%) Cloud Security
7 5 (17.24%) Kanban
7 5 (17.24%) TDD
8 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
8 4 (13.79%) RBAC
8 4 (13.79%) Unit Testing
8 4 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (68.97%) SQL
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Databricks
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Informatica
4 1 (3.45%) Teradata
4 1 (3.45%) TSYS