Data Analytics Contracts in Scotland

Data Analytics
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 128 135
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 6 36 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 1.35% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 1.47% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 33 25
10th Percentile - £413 £342
25th Percentile £413 £500 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £605 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.75% +21.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £438 £750 £550
90th Percentile - - £590
UK median daily rate £526 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.45% -4.35% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £78.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -67.95% +122.86% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Analytics 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 Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in Scotland

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 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
Edinburgh +22 4 £425 -30.61% 9
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 - -
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Audit Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Project Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Risk Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Risk Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (16.67%) PostGIS
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Control
4 1 (16.67%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 1 (16.67%) People Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle