The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Quality over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Quality
Rank 109 94 99
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 11 14 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.451% 0.531% 0.604%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.483% 10.94% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
Average daily rate £300 £275 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -16.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £321 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £383 £370 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.37% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.00 £19.79
% change year-on-year
- -14.08%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
147 128 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 6.022% 4.850% 5.117%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 68 66
Average daily rate £325 £338 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -15.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £538 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 3
Average hourly rate £10.93 £9.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -54.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £8.65 £12.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.14 £24.03 £27.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Scotland Data Quality Daily Rate Histogram

Data Quality
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Quality within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Edinburgh 0 5 £325 +18.18%
Glasgow - 5 £250 -
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
3 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) MS Office
4 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
4 2 (15.38%) QA
4 2 (15.38%) Investment Management
4 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
5 1 (7.692%) Google Maps API
5 1 (7.692%) Time Management
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
5 1 (7.692%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (7.692%) Data Entry
5 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.692%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (7.692%) Inmon Methodology
5 1 (7.692%) Metadata Management
5 1 (7.692%) Data Transformation
5 1 (7.692%) Wealth Management
5 1 (7.692%) French Language
5 1 (7.692%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (7.692%) Private Banking
5 1 (7.692%) Degree
5 1 (7.692%) DataFlux

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (7.692%) Google Maps API
1 1 (7.692%) XML
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (7.692%) GIS
1 1 (7.692%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.692%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) ERwin
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 1 (7.692%) French Language
3 1 (7.692%) Corporate Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Private Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Business Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Data Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Quality Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Data Quality Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Financial Services Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Junior Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Financial Business Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Junior
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Consultant
5 1 (7.692%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
3 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
3 2 (15.38%) Investment Management
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.692%) Time Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Data Entry
4 1 (7.692%) Waterfall
4 1 (7.692%) Data Governance
4 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.692%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (7.692%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (7.692%) Metadata Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Transformation
4 1 (7.692%) Wealth Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Management
4 1 (7.692%) Zachman Framework
4 1 (7.692%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.692%) DataFlux
1 1 (7.692%) Google
1 1 (7.692%) Ab Initio
1 1 (7.692%) IBM
1 1 (7.692%) Informatica