Data Analysis Contracts in Scotland

Data Analysis
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 71 90 95
Rank change year-on-year +19 +5 +19
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 45 77 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.10% 2.88% 2.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 3.13% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 52 60
10th Percentile £377 £363 £362
25th Percentile £443 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% +5.56% +11.80%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £545
90th Percentile £550 £590 £600
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.46% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile - £12.67 £13.64
25th Percentile £12.30 £13.22 £15.32
Median hourly rate £13.40 £14.15 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% -34.97% -
75th Percentile £22.50 £15.07 £30.75
90th Percentile £29.46 £15.62 £38.40
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £23.15 £32.60
% change year-on-year +15.16% -28.99% +34.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,857 2,457 3,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.65% 91.95% 93.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,716 2,260
10th Percentile £221 £258 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £573 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.07 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in Scotland

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in Scotland

Data Analysis
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 Analysis within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Glasgow +11 16 £465 +6.29% 12
Edinburgh +9 14 £525 +5.79% 19
Renfrewshire +5 7 - -
South Lanarkshire -1 2 £465 +1.09% 1
Perthshire +8 1 £525 +0.48%
Perth and Kinross - 1 £525 -
Data Analysis
UK

Data Analysis
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 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (48.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (35.56%) Power Platform
2 9 (20.00%) Power Automate
2 9 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 6 (13.33%) OCI
4 3 (6.67%) Adverity
4 3 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (6.67%) GCP
4 3 (6.67%) Google Data Studio
4 3 (6.67%) Google Sheets
4 3 (6.67%) Serverless
4 3 (6.67%) Sprout Social
5 2 (4.44%) Azure
5 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.44%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.44%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) 4G
1 1 (2.22%) 5G
1 1 (2.22%) LoRaWAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) Power BI
2 8 (17.78%) Tableau
3 6 (13.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 5 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (4.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JIRA
2 2 (4.44%) ER Studio
2 2 (4.44%) ERwin
General
1 19 (42.22%) Finance
2 14 (31.11%) Public Sector
3 13 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
5 8 (17.78%) Back Office
6 2 (4.44%) Local Government
6 2 (4.44%) Marketing
6 2 (4.44%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Military
7 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 27 (60.00%) Analyst
2 21 (46.67%) Data Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Junior
3 7 (15.56%) Junior Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Junior Data Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Senior
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Analyst
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Data Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Automation Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Finance Business Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Social Media Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Power BI Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Procurement Officer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 3 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (6.67%) SpaCy
2 2 (4.44%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.44%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.67%) Social Media
2 2 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.22%) Housing Association
3 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.22%) NHS
3 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (48.89%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (37.78%) Data Visualisation
2 17 (37.78%) Visualisation
3 15 (33.33%) Analytics
3 15 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (20.00%) ERP
5 8 (17.78%) Project Delivery
6 7 (15.56%) Data Management
7 6 (13.33%) Agile
8 5 (11.11%) Business Analysis
8 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
9 4 (8.89%) Portfolio Management
9 4 (8.89%) Process Improvement
9 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (6.67%) Data Collection
10 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 3 (6.67%) Programme Management
10 3 (6.67%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) SQL
2 8 (17.78%) Python
3 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (17.78%) SC Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.67%) ACCA
3 3 (6.67%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.78%) PMO
2 3 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Oracle
3 9 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.67%) Brandwatch
4 3 (6.67%) Facebook
4 3 (6.67%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) Hootsuite
4 3 (6.67%) Instagram
4 3 (6.67%) Twitter
4 3 (6.67%) YouTube
5 2 (4.44%) IDERA
5 2 (4.44%) Informatica
6 1 (2.22%) Databricks