Data Transformation Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Data Transformation
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Transformation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 99 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +44 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Transformation 19 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.19% 0.75% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 0.87% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 7
10th Percentile £357 - £423
25th Percentile £446 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £641 £500 £547
90th Percentile £725 - £583
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £553
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.98% +0.45%

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 1,450 1,603 2,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 91.19% 86.37% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 974 1,501
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £388 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 46 59
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.30 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.63 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.18
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +9.16% -12.82%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.89
90th Percentile £30.00 £51.50 £74.60
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Transformation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Transformation

Data Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Transformation in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 September 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 16 September 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 +10 11 £475 -5.00% 3
Glasgow -18 7 £575 +27.78% 2
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 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Confluence
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
2 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (10.53%) Boomi
3 2 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (21.05%) Metadata
3 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
3 3 (15.79%) Power BI
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
4 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
4 2 (10.53%) Looker
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.26%) PowerCenter
5 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.26%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) ER Studio
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 15 (78.95%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Banking
3 7 (36.84%) Finance
4 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Retail Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Business Engagement Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Business Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Community Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.53%) Engagement Manager
4 2 (10.53%) ETL Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Re-Platforming Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Modeller
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analytics Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Head of AI
5 1 (5.26%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.26%) Hibernate
3 1 (5.26%) jQuery
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) NumPy
3 1 (5.26%) Pandas
3 1 (5.26%) RESTful
3 1 (5.26%) SOAP
3 1 (5.26%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Streamlit
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Data Modelling
2 7 (36.84%) ETL
2 7 (36.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (31.58%) Analytics
4 5 (26.32%) Data Analysis
4 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (26.32%) Migration
4 5 (26.32%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
5 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
6 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
6 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
6 3 (15.79%) Data Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) IT Strategy
6 3 (15.79%) Logical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (42.11%) SQL
2 7 (36.84%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (5.26%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Databricks
3 3 (15.79%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Cloudera
4 1 (5.26%) Informatica
4 1 (5.26%) Sybase
4 1 (5.26%) Teradata
4 1 (5.26%) Thunderhead
4 1 (5.26%) TSYS
4 1 (5.26%) Xceptor