Data Lake Contracts in Scotland

Data Lakes
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 154 156
Rank change year-on-year +42 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 10 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.46% 0.55% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.54% 2.57% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 13
10th Percentile £370 £413 £315
25th Percentile £390 £441 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +7.89% +15.15%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £625
90th Percentile £655 £598 -
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £575
% change year-on-year - - +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.71% - -21.79%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Lake 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 Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 393 583 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.23% 21.43% 16.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 453 406
10th Percentile £324 £400 £360
25th Percentile £400 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.66% +13.18%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £641 £658 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 6
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.03
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £19.50
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +18.64% -26.25%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £39.13
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £44.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
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 Data Lake within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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 +35 5 £525 +5.00% 3
Glasgow +11 4 £430 -17.31% 1
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Maximo
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (10.00%) DTS
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) TestComplete
1 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) IT Change Manager
3 1 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (10.00%) ITSM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) REST
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
5 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lineage
5 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
5 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (10.00%) Cognos
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft