Data Quality Contracts in Scotland

Data Quality
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 152 149
Rank change year-on-year +42 -3 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 13 18 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.60% 0.65% 0.61%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.36% 3.21% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 18
10th Percentile £443 £140 £391
25th Percentile £475 £199 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +22.81%
75th Percentile £671 £526 £600
90th Percentile £716 £537 £649
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £21.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £16.34 £22.49 £18.75
% change year-on-year -27.35% +19.92% -10.29%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Scotland

Data Quality is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 387 560 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.94% 20.27% 19.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 241 467 497
10th Percentile £183 £200 £225
25th Percentile £300 £400 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £470 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.28% +10.47% +2.41%
75th Percentile £523 £549 £538
90th Percentile £606 £624 £600
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -2.38% +2.24% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 19
10th Percentile £14.15 £13.56 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.36 £14.17 £20.50
Median hourly rate £18.27 £18.13 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -51.58% +31.33%
75th Percentile £60.75 £28.90 £50.88
90th Percentile - £40.20 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £21.06 £35.00 £32.37
% change year-on-year -39.84% +8.12% +54.14%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +19 5 £475 - 3
Edinburgh +31 3 £275 -26.67% 4
Perthshire +10 3 £700 +26.70%
Fife - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Big Data
1 4 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (30.77%) Parquet
1 4 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (23.08%) Metadata
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (7.69%) Power Query
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (53.85%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Financial Institution
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Data Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Python Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Finance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Apache Avro
1 4 (30.77%) PySpark
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
2 5 (38.46%) Data Strategy
3 4 (30.77%) Data Management
3 4 (30.77%) ETL
3 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (15.38%) Analytics
5 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
5 2 (15.38%) ERP
5 2 (15.38%) Metadata Management
5 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 1 (7.69%) Behavioural Change
6 1 (7.69%) Data Lineage
6 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 1 (7.69%) People Analytics
6 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (7.69%) Risk Register
6 1 (7.69%) Roadmaps
6 1 (7.69%) SDLC
6 1 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Cadence
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Informatica