Data Analyst Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Edinburgh is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 81 98
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 11 18 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.29% 1.53% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.60% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 24
10th Percentile £238 £219 £368
25th Percentile £278 £288 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -13.51% +14.20%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £529
90th Percentile £550 £788 £568
Scotland median daily rate £453 £425 £419
% change year-on-year +6.47% +1.49% +1.52%

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 812 1,126 1,816
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.97% 95.67% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 786 1,243
10th Percentile £185 £221 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £566
90th Percentile £650 £610 £638
Scotland median daily rate £453 £475 £470
% change year-on-year -4.63% +1.06% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 8 17
10th Percentile £15.22 £12.36 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.57 £17.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £17.72 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year +153.95% -12.21% -64.90%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.36 £40.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £31.29 £50.97
Scotland median hourly rate £20.57 £19.88 £37.43
% change year-on-year +3.47% -46.89% +7.71%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 29 May 2024, Data 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (45.45%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Oracle
4 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Power BI
4 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
4 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
5 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) Informatica
6 2 (18.18%) ERwin
6 2 (18.18%) CRM
6 2 (18.18%) QA
6 2 (18.18%) Google
6 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
6 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
6 2 (18.18%) Agile
6 2 (18.18%) Data Management
6 2 (18.18%) Data Integration

Data 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 1 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) Adverity
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (9.09%) Google Sheets
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) Sprout Social
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data
3 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) Power Query
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) ER Studio
1 2 (18.18%) ERwin
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 8 (72.73%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) XML
2 1 (9.09%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Analytics
1 4 (36.36%) Data Analysis
1 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
2 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
2 3 (27.27%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) CRM
3 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
3 2 (18.18%) Data Management
3 2 (18.18%) Data Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) Data Transformation
3 2 (18.18%) People Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Reverse Engineering
3 2 (18.18%) Scorecard
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Google
3 2 (18.18%) IDERA
3 2 (18.18%) Informatica
4 1 (9.09%) Brandwatch
4 1 (9.09%) Facebook
4 1 (9.09%) Hootsuite
4 1 (9.09%) Instagram
4 1 (9.09%) Twitter
4 1 (9.09%) YouTube