The first table below looks at the demand for Data Quality skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Data Quality over the 3 months to 21 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Data Quality
Rank 80 90 104
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 5 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.466% 0.364% 0.066%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 6.024% 5.682% 0.709%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 1
Average salary £68,000 £45,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.11% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +10.00%
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
83 88 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.735% 6.409% 9.252%
Number of salaries quoted 44 59 101
Average salary £41,250 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.50% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,950 £31,950 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,950 £65,000 £64,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
Data Quality
Scotland

Data Quality
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT 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
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Data Quality Salary Trend

Data Quality
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality.

1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Teradata
2 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (58.33%) Banking
3 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Change Management
4 5 (41.67%) SAS
5 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (16.67%) Data Security
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) SPSS
5 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Credit Risk
5 2 (16.67%) Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
6 1 (8.333%) Inmon Methodology
6 1 (8.333%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (8.333%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (8.333%) Kimball Methodology
6 1 (8.333%) Informatica
6 1 (8.333%) PowerCenter
6 1 (8.333%) ETL
6 1 (8.333%) Oracle
6 1 (8.333%) Business Objects

Data Quality
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Data Quality. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (41.67%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SPSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (8.333%) PowerCenter
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 7 (58.33%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Senior Consultant
1 7 (58.33%) Consultant
2 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (50.00%) Teradata Consultant
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Data Manager
3 2 (16.67%) SAS Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Informatica Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Informatica Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) Data Security
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
3 2 (16.67%) Data Management
3 2 (16.67%) Predictive Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Master Data Management
4 1 (8.333%) Inmon Methodology
4 1 (8.333%) Dimensional Modelling
4 1 (8.333%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (8.333%) ETL
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Teradata
2 1 (8.333%) Informatica
2 1 (8.333%) Oracle
2 1 (8.333%) Business Objects
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