The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Quality over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category for the Edinburgh region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Quality
Rank 52 49 61
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 5 14 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.600% 1.288% 0.541%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.63% 25.00% 10.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 4
Average daily rate £325 £275 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -16.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £321 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £370 £400
% change year-on-year
+1.35% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 £19.58
% change year-on-year
- -13.15%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
32 56 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.842% 5.152% 5.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 34
Average daily rate £350 £320 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% -28.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £225 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £422 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.07 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £16.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year
+8.56% -46.39%
Data Quality
Scotland

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Quality across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Edinburgh Data Quality Jobs Demand Trend

Data Quality
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Quality across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Data Quality Daily Rate Trend

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Quality across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh Data Quality Daily Rate Histogram

Data Quality
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Quality also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality.

1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Google Maps API
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Inmon Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (16.67%) DataFlux
3 1 (16.67%) GIS
3 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Informatica
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) ERwin
3 1 (16.67%) BPR
3 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Data Quality also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Google Maps API
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 4 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Services Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (16.67%) Inmon Methodology
2 1 (16.67%) Metadata Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) ETL
2 1 (16.67%) BPR
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) DataFlux
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio