Data Management Contracts in Scotland

Data Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management 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 100 89 131
Rank change year-on-year -11 +42 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Management 16 40 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.98% 1.80% 1.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 2.04% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 16
10th Percentile £358 £425 £188
25th Percentile £413 £453 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.48% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £553 £600 £541
90th Percentile £716 £661 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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
Edinburgh -2 7 £428 -26.37% 25
Glasgow -8 7 £425 -6.80% 19
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 1 (6.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Asana
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.25%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.25%) Collibra
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.25%) DB2
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) OLTP
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) ER Studio
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (12.50%) Publishing
5 2 (12.50%) Retail Banking
6 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (6.25%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Head of Data Management
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Configuration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) JMS
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (18.75%) CMDB
2 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.25%) Equities
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) NHS
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
4 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (6.25%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Data Architecture
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
4 4 (25.00%) Change Control
4 4 (25.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (25.00%) Data Design
4 4 (25.00%) Data Security
4 4 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (18.75%) ETL
5 3 (18.75%) IT Strategy
5 3 (18.75%) ITIL
5 3 (18.75%) ITSM
5 3 (18.75%) Process Management
5 3 (18.75%) SDLC
5 3 (18.75%) Security Management
5 3 (18.75%) Service Management
5 3 (18.75%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (18.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (6.25%) Def Stans
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) Sparx
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase