DAMA Job Trends in Scotland

DAMA International
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring DAMA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing DAMA 6 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% - -
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £48,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +66.67% -40.00% +28.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

DAMA 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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,781 2,297 3,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.86% 90.26% 84.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,650 1,001 1,533
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,125 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,194 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.62% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,265 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £81,900
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,560
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.45% -4.07%

DAMA
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DAMA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

DAMA job vacancy trend in Scotland

DAMA
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DAMA within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 September 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 3 £110,000 - 1
Midlothian - 3 - -
DAMA
UK

DAMA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Alation
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Collibra
1 3 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Governance Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Data Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Governance Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DAMA DMBOK
1 6 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 6 (100.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) AI
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (50.00%) Information Management
2 3 (50.00%) Information Security
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (50.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCA
1 3 (50.00%) CISM
1 3 (50.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 3 (50.00%) GRC
2 3 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Informatica