Data Management Contracts in Scotland

Data Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 133 132
Rank change year-on-year +42 -1 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Management 40 32 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.81% 1.12% 1.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.21% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 16 29
10th Percentile £425 £188 £413
25th Percentile £453 £397 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% +23.53%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £588
90th Percentile £661 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,648 3,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.62% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,905 2,309
10th Percentile £230 £263 £244
25th Percentile £400 £408 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 48
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -51.45% -10.99%
75th Percentile £40.94 £53.75 £48.95
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
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 Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 18 £456 -17.09% 7
Edinburgh +33 14 £581 +16.25% 12
Perthshire - 2 £708 -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £465 -
Data Management
UK

Data Management
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 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 5 (12.50%) PowerApps
3 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.00%) OCI
5 2 (5.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (32.50%) Power BI
2 4 (10.00%) Metadata
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.00%) Tableau
4 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.50%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Gradle
2 2 (5.00%) JUnit
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 3 (7.50%) Publishing
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Military
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (40.00%) Analyst
1 16 (40.00%) Data Analyst
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Change Manager
2 6 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Data Manager
3 4 (10.00%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Senior Data Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Data Quality Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) IT Change Manager
4 3 (7.50%) IT Manager
4 3 (7.50%) Quality Analyst
4 3 (7.50%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Business Change Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Business Manager
5 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Risk Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (2.50%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) CSS
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
1 3 (7.50%) XML
2 2 (5.00%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (5.00%) Dagger
2 2 (5.00%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.00%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) Analytics
1 10 (25.00%) Data Analysis
1 10 (25.00%) Data Governance
1 10 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (25.00%) Visualisation
2 9 (22.50%) Agile
2 9 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (22.50%) Data Visualisation
2 9 (22.50%) Project Management
3 8 (20.00%) Data Strategy
4 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
5 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (12.50%) Change Management
6 5 (12.50%) Culture Change
7 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (10.00%) Data Lineage
7 4 (10.00%) Metadata Management
7 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (10.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
4 1 (2.50%) Perl
4 1 (2.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (17.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (22.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.50%) PMO
3 3 (7.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (5.00%) QA
5 1 (2.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Atlassian
2 5 (12.50%) Informatica
3 4 (10.00%) Databricks
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Cadence