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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 131
Rank change year-on-year -4 +34 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Management 15 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 1.38% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.57% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 20
10th Percentile £348 £423 £164
25th Percentile £400 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £455 £602 £588
90th Percentile £514 £695 £704
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 1,535 1,846 2,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.60% 87.57% 92.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 887 1,153 1,740
10th Percentile £263 £219 £253
25th Percentile £374 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £646 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 95 54
10th Percentile £16.05 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.84 £11.25
Median hourly rate £20.38 £19.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% +34.48% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.94 £35.00
90th Percentile £60.50 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 +4 8 £425 -25.27% 36
Glasgow -12 6 £425 -5.56% 33
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 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.67%) Asana
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) DB2
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (6.67%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
5 3 (20.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (13.33%) Publishing
6 2 (13.33%) Retail Banking
7 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (6.67%) Front Office
7 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Data Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.67%) JMS
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) CMDB
2 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.67%) Equities
4 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.67%) NHS
4 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) Time Management
4 5 (33.33%) Waterfall
5 4 (26.67%) Change Control
5 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
5 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Data Design
5 4 (26.67%) Data Security
6 3 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) ETL
6 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
6 3 (20.00%) ITIL
6 3 (20.00%) ITSM
6 3 (20.00%) Process Management
6 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (20.00%) Security Management
6 3 (20.00%) Service Management
6 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (6.67%) Def Stans
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Bloomberg
3 1 (6.67%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) Sybase