Data Management Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 35 95
Rank change year-on-year -28 +60 +49
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 43 81 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 4.19% 6.84% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 7.16% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 8
10th Percentile - - £49,450
25th Percentile - £35,105 £57,748
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £58,750 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year -55.74% -2.49% +9.54%
75th Percentile £35,938 £101,563 £72,433
90th Percentile £48,500 £106,250 £76,203
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% -8.33% +20.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 885 1,131 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.26% 95.52% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 378 432 759
10th Percentile £25,925 £36,375 £31,650
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% -4.91% +4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,875 £93,778 £96,539
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -8.54%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Data Management job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Management
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Management

Data Management
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Management in Edinburgh

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (32.56%) Oracle Smart View
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (4.65%) Weka
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle Assets
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle Financials
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle General Ledger
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle Payables
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle Receivables
2 18 (41.86%) Oracle ERP
3 14 (32.56%) Hyperion Planning
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (9.30%) OCI
2 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
2 4 (9.30%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.65%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (32.56%) Essbase
1 14 (32.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 4 (9.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.30%) Metadata
2 4 (9.30%) Power BI
2 4 (9.30%) Tableau
3 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle Forms
2 4 (9.30%) JIRA
General
1 36 (83.72%) Finance
2 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (18.60%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.65%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.33%) Back Office
6 1 (2.33%) Banking
6 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (81.40%) Analyst
2 28 (65.12%) Oracle Analyst
2 28 (65.12%) Senior
2 28 (65.12%) Senior Analyst
2 28 (65.12%) Senior Oracle Analyst
3 10 (23.26%) ERP Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Data Management Specialist
5 4 (9.30%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Associate Director
6 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) IT Director
7 1 (2.33%) Analytics Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Data Analytics Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Data Manager
7 1 (2.33%) Data Quality Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (2.33%) Quality Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.33%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (74.42%) Asset Management
1 32 (74.42%) Coaching
2 28 (65.12%) Enterprise Data Management
2 28 (65.12%) ERP
2 28 (65.12%) Planning and Forecasting
2 28 (65.12%) Roadmaps
3 18 (41.86%) Business Intelligence
3 18 (41.86%) Migration
3 18 (41.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 15 (34.88%) Analytics
4 15 (34.88%) Impact Assessments
5 14 (32.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (32.56%) Data Integration
5 14 (32.56%) Data Migration
5 14 (32.56%) Enterprise Architecture
5 14 (32.56%) Financial Modelling
5 14 (32.56%) Performance Management
5 14 (32.56%) Requirements Gathering
5 14 (32.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 14 (32.56%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 33 (76.74%) SQL
2 14 (32.56%) Groovy
3 4 (9.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (4.65%) AWS Certification
1 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
1 2 (4.65%) CISM
1 2 (4.65%) CISSP
1 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (4.65%) Degree
1 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.65%) GxP
2 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
1 2 (4.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.65%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (65.12%) Oracle
2 14 (32.56%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.33%) Databricks
3 1 (2.33%) Dataiku