Data Quality Contracts in Scotland

Data Quality
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 113 148
Rank change year-on-year +18 +35 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 18 34 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.96% 1.38% 0.98%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.01% 6.77% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 23
10th Percentile £305 £360 £195
25th Percentile £355 £472 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +29.41%
75th Percentile £475 £588 £619
90th Percentile - £723 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £36.25 £35.32 £20.09
% change year-on-year +2.65% +75.83% -24.15%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 359 502 656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.16% 20.41% 19.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 367 515
10th Percentile £181 £200 £230
25th Percentile £312 £400 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £529 £530 £550
90th Percentile £600 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 5 19
10th Percentile - £13.70 £12.99
25th Percentile £13.52 £14.50 £13.16
Median hourly rate £14.98 £21.75 £18.90
Median % change year-on-year -31.13% +15.08% +19.17%
75th Percentile £18.27 £47.73 £37.43
90th Percentile £19.50 £56.59 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £27.09 £35.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year -23.69% +54.35% +15.00%

Data Quality
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
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 Quality within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
Glasgow +9 10 £450 -10.00% 9
Edinburgh +4 5 £150 -70.73% 9
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Data Quality
UK

Data Quality
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:

Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Big Data
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (22.22%) Parquet
2 3 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (5.56%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.56%) EDRMS
3 1 (5.56%) Metadata
3 1 (5.56%) Tableau
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Data Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 4 (22.22%) Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) ETL Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Maximo Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Governance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Information Governance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Information Manager
6 1 (5.56%) IT Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (44.44%) PySpark
2 4 (22.22%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) FMCG
3 1 (5.56%) LIMS
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Data Analysis
2 8 (44.44%) ETL
3 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 6 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 5 (27.78%) Data Science
5 4 (22.22%) Agile Project Management
5 4 (22.22%) Data Governance
5 4 (22.22%) Data Management
5 4 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 4 (22.22%) Project Management
5 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 4 (22.22%) Statistics
6 3 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (16.67%) Data Extraction
6 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 3 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.11%) Data Lineage
7 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 5 (27.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) IBM