Data Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 71 74
Rank change year-on-year +19 +3 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 22 31 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.53% 2.62% 2.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.67% 2.74% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 47
10th Percentile £308 £389 £425
25th Percentile £416 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £503
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -1.49% +11.67%
75th Percentile £538 £526 £644
90th Percentile £645 £590 £765
Scotland median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.40% - +14.29%

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 825 1,130 1,811
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 95.60% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 783 1,245
10th Percentile £179 £220 £230
25th Percentile £340 £400 £406
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 64 9 14
10th Percentile £15.45 £12.63 -
25th Percentile £16.37 £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%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 13 (59.09%) Python
3 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 10 (45.45%) AWS CDK
4 8 (36.36%) DevOps
5 7 (31.82%) AWS CodePipeline
5 7 (31.82%) Scrum
5 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (31.82%) Kanban
5 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
6 6 (27.27%) Data Integration
6 6 (27.27%) REST
6 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (27.27%) Finance
6 6 (27.27%) Serverless
6 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
6 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
6 6 (27.27%) Docker
6 6 (27.27%) GitLab
7 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (22.73%) Grafana
7 5 (22.73%) Migration
7 5 (22.73%) Data Transformation
8 4 (18.18%) Kafka
8 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
8 4 (18.18%) Azure

Data Engineer 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 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.55%) Apache
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 10 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (31.82%) Amazon S3
3 7 (31.82%) AWS CodePipeline
4 6 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 6 (27.27%) Serverless
5 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (18.18%) Azure
7 3 (13.64%) GCP
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeBuild
9 1 (4.55%) AWS CodeCommit
9 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (4.55%) Cloud Run
9 1 (4.55%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (31.82%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
5 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
6 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
6 2 (9.09%) Informix
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.55%) Big Data
7 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.55%) GIS
7 1 (4.55%) Hadoop
7 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
7 1 (4.55%) Power BI
7 1 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
7 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Git
2 1 (4.55%) Gradle
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) AWS CDK
2 6 (27.27%) REST
3 4 (18.18%) Kafka
4 3 (13.64%) PostGIS
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 2 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) zOS
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 7 (31.82%) Kanban
3 7 (31.82%) Scrum
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Data Integration
5 5 (22.73%) Data Transformation
5 5 (22.73%) Migration
6 4 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 4 (18.18%) ETL
7 3 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.64%) High Availability
7 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (9.09%) Analytics
8 2 (9.09%) Community of Practice
8 2 (9.09%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (9.09%) Data Security
8 2 (9.09%) Ethical Hacking
8 2 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Python
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (4.55%) Java
3 1 (4.55%) Perl
3 1 (4.55%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Grafana
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Databricks
2 2 (9.09%) F5
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Qualys
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat