Data Quality Jobs in Scotland

Data Quality
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 189 184
Rank change year-on-year -16 -5 -43
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 47 21 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.82% 0.55% 1.10%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 7.99% 4.83% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 13 16 29
10th Percentile £29,087 £37,697 £39,659
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,704 £44,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% +12.99%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £71,600 - £71,250
UK median annual salary £72,246 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +11.15% +8.33% +4.35%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 588 435 1,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.32% 11.47% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 264 199 422
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,044 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £48,763
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +8.69% +14.74%
75th Percentile £60,313 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,250 £87,419 £75,000
UK median annual salary £53,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.96% +4.55% +2.33%

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
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
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 Quality within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -59 22 £47,500 -21.16% 1
Edinburgh +35 16 £29,392 -46.56% 4
Aberdeen -5 3 £60,000 +20.00%
Lanarkshire -8 3 £42,500 -
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 15 (31.91%) Apache Spark
2 8 (17.02%) SharePoint
3 4 (8.51%) Apache
4 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) AWS
2 15 (31.91%) Power Platform
3 9 (19.15%) Azure
4 5 (10.64%) GCP
5 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (6.38%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.13%) Alation
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.13%) Collibra
8 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.91%) Power BI
2 7 (14.89%) Data Lake
2 7 (14.89%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (12.77%) Big Data
4 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.64%) SQL Server
5 3 (6.38%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (6.38%) Metadata
6 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
6 2 (4.26%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (2.13%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.13%) Delta Lake
7 1 (2.13%) Looker
7 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) JIRA
General
1 31 (65.96%) Finance
2 17 (36.17%) Social Skills
3 14 (29.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (23.40%) Legal
5 10 (21.28%) Law
5 10 (21.28%) Marketing
6 6 (12.77%) Banking
7 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Lead
2 13 (27.66%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) Lead Software Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior Software Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Software Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Data Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) Data Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Analytics Manager
6 5 (10.64%) Data Analytics Manager
7 4 (8.51%) Architect
7 4 (8.51%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Analyst
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Senior Data Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Database Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Product Lead
10 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Architect
10 1 (2.13%) Lead Data Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Principal Data Engineer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) PySpark
2 2 (4.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.26%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (48.94%) Data Management
2 20 (42.55%) ETL
3 19 (40.43%) Data Modelling
3 19 (40.43%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 15 (31.91%) Analytics
4 15 (31.91%) Data Engineering
5 14 (29.79%) Data Governance
5 14 (29.79%) Decision-Making
6 13 (27.66%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (23.40%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (23.40%) Machine Learning
7 11 (23.40%) Quality Management
7 11 (23.40%) SDLC
7 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
8 10 (21.28%) Coaching
8 10 (21.28%) Data Transformation
8 10 (21.28%) Microservices
8 10 (21.28%) Operational Stability
8 10 (21.28%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.53%) Java
1 12 (25.53%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) SQL
3 2 (4.26%) Scala
3 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.13%) C++
4 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) Degree
2 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Google
3 3 (6.38%) Databricks
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) Informatica
5 1 (2.13%) Teradata