Dataform Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Google Cloud Dataform
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Dataform skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dataform 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.067% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £419 £318 £100
% change year-on-year +31.68% +218.00% -83.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

Dataform falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 576 573 723
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.48% 34.66% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 364 489
10th Percentile £313 £295 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% +3.16%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £575
90th Percentile £641 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.77 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +55.64% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.04 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £25.38
% change year-on-year -0.53% +8.35% +12.80%

Dataform
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 Dataform within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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 - 1 £500 -
Dataform
UK

Dataform
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Physical Data Model
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks