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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 110 146
Rank change year-on-year +24 +36 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 31 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.91% 0.61% 0.67%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 11.40% 3.36% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 12
10th Percentile £384 £443 £140
25th Percentile £413 £475 £199
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.06% -3.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £478 £671 £526
90th Percentile £544 £716 £537
UK median daily rate £513 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.68% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.64 -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £15.81 £22.49
% change year-on-year +100.13% -29.69% +18.34%

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 272 387 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.72% 18.08% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 246 445
10th Percentile £200 £181 £199
25th Percentile £363 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £440 £470
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -6.28% +10.47%
75th Percentile £525 £510 £545
90th Percentile £600 £603 £601
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 4
10th Percentile £16.80 £13.52 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.52 £15.77 £14.17
Median hourly rate £23.36 £18.27 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +27.85% +0.80% -48.53%
75th Percentile £59.60 £60.75 £28.90
90th Percentile £76.60 - £40.20
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +64.29% -40.00% +12.90%

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 19 May 2025.

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 19 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 +21 18 £431 +56.73% 11
Glasgow +2 13 £425 -10.53% 16
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) Confluence
2 4 (12.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (9.68%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (3.23%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (16.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.23%) InfoPath
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) Power Platform
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
3 3 (9.68%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) PowerApps
3 3 (9.68%) Snowflake
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (6.45%) Copilot Studio
4 2 (6.45%) GCP
4 2 (6.45%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.23%) OCI
5 1 (3.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) Internet
1 1 (3.23%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.13%) Power BI
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Database
3 3 (9.68%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (6.45%) Big Data
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.23%) PowerCenter
5 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) GitLab
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 13 (41.94%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Finance
3 10 (32.26%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Publishing
6 1 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Retail
6 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Analyst
2 8 (25.81%) Business Analyst
3 7 (22.58%) Data Analyst
4 6 (19.35%) Architect
5 5 (16.13%) Data Architect
6 4 (12.90%) Consultant
6 4 (12.90%) Data Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) ServiceNow Architect
8 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Power Apps Consultant
8 2 (6.45%) SharePoint Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) AWS Data Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) AWS Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
9 1 (3.23%) Functional Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) Open Source Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Power Platform Consultant
9 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) Risk Officer
9 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) Great Expectations
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) CMDB
2 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (9.68%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.23%) Derivative
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Low-Code
5 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.23%) Reference Data
5 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (3.23%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) ETL
1 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (35.48%) Analytics
2 11 (35.48%) Data Modelling
3 9 (29.03%) Translating Business Requirements
4 7 (22.58%) Business Analysis
4 7 (22.58%) Data Governance
4 7 (22.58%) Data Management
5 6 (19.35%) Agile
5 6 (19.35%) Data Analysis
5 6 (19.35%) Data Science
5 6 (19.35%) ITIL
5 6 (19.35%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (16.13%) Configuration Management
6 5 (16.13%) Data Design
6 5 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (16.13%) ITSM
6 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (16.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) SQL
2 5 (16.13%) Python
3 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) ISACA
3 1 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (22.58%) QA
2 5 (16.13%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) ServiceNow
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.23%) Databricks
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) Teradata
4 1 (3.23%) TSYS