The first table below looks at the demand for the Data Consultant role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Consultant in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Consultant
Rank 79 87 98
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Consultant 5 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.467% 0.220% 0.191%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.486% 0.231% 0.201%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 1
Average salary £54,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year
-8.69% -
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1029 1301 1496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 96.08% 95.52% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 603 952 1084
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Data Consultant
Scotland

Data Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Data Consultant across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Edinburgh Data Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Data Consultant
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Data Consultant across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Data Consultant Salary Trend

Data Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) SAS
3 5 (38.46%) LAN
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) DHCP
3 5 (38.46%) IKE
3 5 (38.46%) SNMP
3 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
3 5 (38.46%) DNS
3 5 (38.46%) IPv4
3 5 (38.46%) IPv6
3 5 (38.46%) Internet
3 5 (38.46%) OSPF
3 5 (38.46%) BCP
3 5 (38.46%) BGP-4
3 5 (38.46%) EIGRP
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 5 (38.46%) SPSS
3 5 (38.46%) Wireless
3 5 (38.46%) IPsec
3 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity
3 5 (38.46%) Network Design
3 5 (38.46%) Network Architecture
3 5 (38.46%) Network Management
3 5 (38.46%) Unified Communications
3 5 (38.46%) Data Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Credit Risk

Data Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (46.15%) SAS
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) SPSS
2 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) LAN
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
1 5 (38.46%) DHCP
1 5 (38.46%) IKE
1 5 (38.46%) SNMP
1 5 (38.46%) TCP/IP
1 5 (38.46%) DNS
1 5 (38.46%) IPv4
1 5 (38.46%) IPv6
1 5 (38.46%) Internet
1 5 (38.46%) OSPF
1 5 (38.46%) BGP-4
1 5 (38.46%) EIGRP
1 5 (38.46%) Wireless
1 5 (38.46%) IPsec
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
1 5 (38.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle BI EE
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (7.692%) DataStage
3 1 (7.692%) Spotfire
3 1 (7.692%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (7.692%) QlikView
3 1 (7.692%) Pentaho
3 1 (7.692%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.692%) Big Data
3 1 (7.692%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (7.692%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.692%) OLAP
3 1 (7.692%) IBM InfoSphere
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (38.46%) BCP
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
2 5 (38.46%) Business Continuity
2 5 (38.46%) Network Design
2 5 (38.46%) Network Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Network Management
2 5 (38.46%) Data Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 3 (23.08%) Information Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (7.692%) Data Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Governance
4 1 (7.692%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.692%) ETL
4 1 (7.692%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Business Objects
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Informatica
2 2 (15.38%) Teradata
3 1 (7.692%) Ab Initio
3 1 (7.692%) Netezza
3 1 (7.692%) DataFlux
3 1 (7.692%) Tableau
3 1 (7.692%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (7.692%) IBM
3 1 (7.692%) SAP
3 1 (7.692%) Cognos