Big Data Contracts in Edinburgh

Big Data
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 95 96
Rank change year-on-year +26 +1 -27
Contract jobs citing Big Data 7 7 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.81% 0.59% 2.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.58% 2.66% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 29
10th Percentile £470 £520 £423
25th Percentile £500 £600 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +50.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £656 £775 £575
90th Percentile £702 £780 £660
Scotland median daily rate £494 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -29.46% +40.00% +11.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 153 263 340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.69% 22.34% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 209 255
10th Percentile £363 £407 £413
25th Percentile £416 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% -1.20% +12.99%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £573
90th Percentile £663 £628 £625
Scotland median daily rate £460 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -7.39% -0.66% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £19.10
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £31.50
90th Percentile - - £34.50
Scotland median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
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 2 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JMeter
1 3 (42.86%) LoadRunner
1 3 (42.86%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Gradle
General
1 4 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Architect
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Metrics
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Scalability Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
2 3 (42.86%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Usability Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) Scala
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft