Data Quality Contracts in Edinburgh

Data Quality
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 68 103
Rank change year-on-year +19 +35 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 18 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.88% 0.49% 0.69%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 12.68% 1.92% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £340 £276 £165
25th Percentile £413 £297 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £338 £358
Median % change year-on-year +27.70% -5.59% -31.58%
75th Percentile £469 £372 £500
90th Percentile £508 £389 £513
Scotland median daily rate £428 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.89% -5.00% -4.76%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Edinburgh

Data Quality falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 142 208 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 22.72% 25.52% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 128 280
10th Percentile £184 £219 £224
25th Percentile £354 £348 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £484
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.88% +13.82%
75th Percentile £534 £571 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £602
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile £20.88 £17.72 -
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.14 £51.25
Median hourly rate £27.35 £19.17 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.67% -63.49% +13.51%
75th Percentile £38.79 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £57.51 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £18.27 £47.73
% change year-on-year +49.70% -61.72% +44.64%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Quality as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Edinburgh

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Edinburgh

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Edinburgh

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Quality in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Edinburgh

Data Quality
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (5.56%) Apache
4 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS Visio
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (5.56%) InfoPath
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Snowflake
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (5.56%) OCI
4 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
1 1 (5.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Database
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (11.11%) Big Data
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Hadoop
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) PowerCenter
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 7 (38.89%) Public Sector
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Publishing
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Business Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Data Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Great Expectations
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (5.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) CMDB
1 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.56%) Derivative
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Low-Code
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (5.56%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) ETL
2 9 (50.00%) Analytics
3 8 (44.44%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (27.78%) Business Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Data Governance
4 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
4 5 (27.78%) Data Science
4 5 (27.78%) Requirements Gathering
4 5 (27.78%) Validation
5 4 (22.22%) Business Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 3 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
6 3 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Data Management
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Use Case
7 2 (11.11%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Disclosure Scotland
1 5 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Teradata
3 1 (5.56%) TSYS