Data Management Jobs in Scotland

Data Management
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 152 160
Rank change year-on-year +83 +8 -32
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 112 133 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.68% 1.94% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 2.14% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 38 51 37
10th Percentile £50,852 £42,500 £39,000
25th Percentile - £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £60,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +0.80% +54.07%
75th Percentile £58,438 £67,500 £62,833
90th Percentile £96,500 £73,250 £72,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,803 6,215 4,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.14% 90.53% 94.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1,295 2,486 2,057
10th Percentile £29,700 £28,125 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £62,342 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.69% +1.50%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Management in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +44 50 £67,500 +12.50% 30
Glasgow +118 24 £52,000 -16.80% 36
Renfrewshire +1 23 £52,000 +48.57% 4
Inverclyde - 14 £52,000 -
Highlands - 1 - -
Data Management
UK

Data Management
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 15 (13.39%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (5.36%) Apache
2 6 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.89%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (31.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.36%) Windchill
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.89%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.89%) Revit
Business Applications
1 6 (5.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.75%) AWS
2 15 (13.39%) Azure
3 4 (3.57%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.57%) SaaS
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (2.68%) Azure Stack
4 3 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (2.68%) GCP
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (1.79%) Amazon S3
5 2 (1.79%) Collibra
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (1.79%) Smartsheet
5 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (37.50%) Tableau
2 21 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (13.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 15 (13.39%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.57%) Metadata
5 4 (3.57%) Power BI
6 3 (2.68%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (2.68%) Big Data
6 3 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.79%) OLAP
7 2 (1.79%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.79%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.89%) GIS
Development Applications
1 33 (29.46%) JIRA
2 2 (1.79%) ERwin
3 1 (0.89%) Jenkins
General
1 48 (42.86%) Finance
2 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
3 33 (29.46%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.39%) Military
4 15 (13.39%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (8.04%) Banking
6 7 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.36%) Marketing
8 3 (2.68%) Law
8 3 (2.68%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.89%) Advertising
10 1 (0.89%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (29.46%) Principal Engineer
2 13 (11.61%) Architect
2 13 (11.61%) Data Architect
3 12 (10.71%) Data Manager
4 9 (8.04%) Lead
5 8 (7.14%) Analyst
6 7 (6.25%) Data Analyst
6 7 (6.25%) Senior
7 6 (5.36%) Analytics Manager
7 6 (5.36%) Data Analytics Manager
8 5 (4.46%) Database Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Finance Manager
10 3 (2.68%) Head of Analytics
10 3 (2.68%) Head of Data Analytics
10 3 (2.68%) Lead Software Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Python Software Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) PySpark
2 3 (2.68%) JSON
3 2 (1.79%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.79%) Genomics
3 2 (1.79%) Life Science
3 2 (1.79%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.79%) Linux
1 2 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (67.86%) Analytics
2 56 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 45 (40.18%) Data Governance
4 44 (39.29%) Data Analytics
5 33 (29.46%) Agile
6 21 (18.75%) Data Architecture
6 21 (18.75%) DevOps
7 20 (17.86%) Data Integration
8 17 (15.18%) Business Analysis
9 16 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 16 (14.29%) Service Management
10 15 (13.39%) Customer Experience
10 15 (13.39%) Decision-Making
10 15 (13.39%) ITIL
11 13 (11.61%) ETL
12 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (10.71%) Visualisation
13 11 (9.82%) Coaching
13 11 (9.82%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (9.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.39%) SQL
2 7 (6.25%) Python
3 3 (2.68%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.79%) C#
4 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.39%) DBS Check
2 9 (8.04%) Degree
3 6 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.36%) HNC
3 6 (5.36%) HND
4 4 (3.57%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (44.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.46%) QA
3 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.89%) ITGC
4 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (34.82%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.39%) Oracle
3 4 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (0.89%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.89%) Databricks
4 1 (0.89%) ESRI