Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 6 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 121 189 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.99% 16.06% 16.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.74% 16.81% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 126 206
10th Percentile £196 £149 £144
25th Percentile £316 £181 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £408 £400
Median % change year-on-year +16.56% +1.88% +1.27%
75th Percentile £525 £450 £449
90th Percentile £550 £488 £524
Scotland median daily rate £413 £418 £400
% change year-on-year -1.20% +4.38% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.27 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £13.63 £14.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.03% -17.14% -53.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 821 1,124 1,814
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 95.50% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 784 1,246
10th Percentile £179 £220 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £569
90th Percentile £650 £601 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 9 14
10th Percentile £15.38 £12.63 -
25th Percentile £16.44 £17.70 £17.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.72 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +153.95% -22.96% -60.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.26 £46.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £28.09 £52.64
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Edinburgh

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 46 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 45 (37.19%) Public Sector
3 37 (30.58%) Finance
4 30 (24.79%) Agile
5 25 (20.66%) Business Analysis
6 24 (19.83%) Microsoft
7 23 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (16.53%) Banking
8 20 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
9 17 (14.05%) User Stories
10 15 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.57%) Oracle
12 13 (10.74%) Use Case
13 12 (9.92%) Management Information System
14 11 (9.09%) Incident Management
14 11 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
14 11 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
14 11 (9.09%) Customer Service
14 11 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
14 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
15 10 (8.26%) Service Design
15 10 (8.26%) Privileged Access Management
15 10 (8.26%) Impact Analysis
15 10 (8.26%) Business Impact Analysis
15 10 (8.26%) Technical Analysis
15 10 (8.26%) JIRA
15 10 (8.26%) Scrum

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (4.13%) Confluence
1 5 (4.13%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.31%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle Financials
1 3 (2.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Cash Management
2 2 (1.65%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.79%) OCI
2 6 (4.96%) AWS
2 6 (4.96%) Azure
2 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (4.96%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
4 4 (3.31%) GCP
5 3 (2.48%) Adverity
5 3 (2.48%) Google Data Studio
5 3 (2.48%) Google Sheets
5 3 (2.48%) SaaS
5 3 (2.48%) Sprout Social
6 2 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.65%) IaaS
6 2 (1.65%) IBM Blueworks
6 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.65%) PaaS
7 1 (0.83%) Datadog
7 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.96%) Power BI
2 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
2 3 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (2.48%) Tableau
3 2 (1.65%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.83%) Big Data
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) Power Query
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
2 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
2 2 (1.65%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.65%) ERwin
2 2 (1.65%) Git
2 2 (1.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.65%) Selenium
2 2 (1.65%) Subversion
2 2 (1.65%) TeamCity
2 2 (1.65%) WebDriver
3 1 (0.83%) SilkCentral
3 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 46 (38.02%) Social Skills
2 45 (37.19%) Public Sector
3 37 (30.58%) Finance
4 23 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (16.53%) Banking
6 8 (6.61%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.31%) Legal
7 4 (3.31%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.48%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) German Language
10 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.31%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.65%) .NET
3 2 (1.65%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.44%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.48%) Social Media
5 2 (1.65%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) BYOD
6 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.83%) iPhone
6 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.83%) NHS
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.83%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.31%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Android
2 3 (2.48%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (24.79%) Agile
2 25 (20.66%) Business Analysis
3 20 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 17 (14.05%) User Stories
5 15 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
6 13 (10.74%) Use Case
7 11 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 11 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
7 11 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
8 10 (8.26%) Business Impact Analysis
8 10 (8.26%) Impact Analysis
8 10 (8.26%) Privileged Access Management
8 10 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
8 10 (8.26%) Scrum
8 10 (8.26%) Service Design
8 10 (8.26%) Technical Analysis
9 9 (7.44%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.26%) SQL
2 3 (2.48%) Python
3 2 (1.65%) C#
3 2 (1.65%) C++
3 2 (1.65%) Java
3 2 (1.65%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.65%) Shell Script
3 2 (1.65%) VBA
3 2 (1.65%) VBScript
4 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (4.13%) Degree
2 4 (3.31%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.65%) ISEB
3 2 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.83%) IIBA
4 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (7.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 9 (7.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.79%) QA
4 3 (2.48%) PMO
5 2 (1.65%) SLA
6 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.83%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (6.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.83%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.83%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (1.65%) SCCM
1 2 (1.65%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.57%) Oracle
3 7 (5.79%) Cadence
4 5 (4.13%) Google
5 4 (3.31%) CyberArk
6 3 (2.48%) Brandwatch
6 3 (2.48%) Facebook
6 3 (2.48%) Hootsuite
6 3 (2.48%) Instagram
6 3 (2.48%) Twitter
6 3 (2.48%) YouTube
7 2 (1.65%) Apple
7 2 (1.65%) IDERA
7 2 (1.65%) Informatica
7 2 (1.65%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.65%) Splunk
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco
8 1 (0.83%) Dell
8 1 (0.83%) HP
8 1 (0.83%) VMware