Data Quality Jobs in Scotland

Data Quality
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Quality skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Quality over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 189 205
Rank change year-on-year -29 +16 -57
Permanent jobs citing Data Quality 69 38 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.03% 0.80% 0.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.52% 5.16% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 22 18 40
10th Percentile £41,369 £35,575 £34,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,235 £39,659
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £51,201
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +7.42% +1.39%
75th Percentile £71,019 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £66,625 £67,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 810 737 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 12.08% 15.50% 17.23%
Number of salaries quoted 344 207 460
10th Percentile £22,400 £31,441 £25,450
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +3.45%
75th Percentile £61,250 £72,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £72,433 £89,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -64 45 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Edinburgh +15 8 £52,500 -4.55% 1
Aberdeen -8 4 £80,000 +60.00% 2
Lanarkshire - 3 £42,500 - 1
Clackmannanshire - 2 £51,500 -
Renfrewshire - 1 £28,921 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £225,000 -
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 38 (55.07%) Apache Spark
2 8 (11.59%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.35%) Apache
4 1 (1.45%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (53.62%) AWS
2 13 (18.84%) Power Platform
3 10 (14.49%) Azure
4 6 (8.70%) GCP
5 5 (7.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (4.35%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.90%) Collibra
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Power BI
2 9 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.80%) Big Data
4 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.35%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.35%) Metadata
5 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.45%) Ataccama
7 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.45%) Looker
7 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) Tableau
7 1 (1.45%) Tableau Desktop
7 1 (1.45%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.90%) CA Release Automation
2 2 (2.90%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.90%) IBM UrbanCode
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) Mocha
2 2 (2.90%) Selenium
2 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
2 2 (2.90%) Subversion
2 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.90%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (69.57%) Finance
2 37 (53.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 36 (52.17%) Marketing
4 34 (49.28%) Law
5 12 (17.39%) Social Skills
6 10 (14.49%) Banking
7 8 (11.59%) Legal
8 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.90%) Local Government
9 2 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (59.42%) Lead
2 40 (57.97%) Senior
3 34 (49.28%) Lead Software Engineer
3 34 (49.28%) Senior Software Engineer
3 34 (49.28%) Software Engineer
4 8 (11.59%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Data Architect
5 4 (5.80%) Data Manager
6 3 (4.35%) Data Quality Officer
6 3 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Lead Data Architect
6 3 (4.35%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Database Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.90%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (49.28%) PySpark
2 3 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.35%) Algorithms
2 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (63.77%) Agile
2 43 (62.32%) ETL
2 43 (62.32%) Problem-Solving
3 41 (59.42%) Data Engineering
4 38 (55.07%) Decision-Making
5 35 (50.72%) Quality Management
5 35 (50.72%) SDLC
6 34 (49.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 34 (49.28%) Machine Learning
6 34 (49.28%) Microservices
6 34 (49.28%) Operational Stability
6 34 (49.28%) Software Engineering
6 34 (49.28%) Tech Ops
7 17 (24.64%) Data Governance
8 16 (23.19%) Data Management
9 13 (18.84%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (15.94%) Analytics
11 10 (14.49%) Data Modelling
12 8 (11.59%) Process Improvement
12 8 (11.59%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 36 (52.17%) Java
1 36 (52.17%) Python
2 16 (23.19%) SQL
3 2 (2.90%) Scala
3 2 (2.90%) SOQL
3 2 (2.90%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.45%) C++
4 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.80%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) HND
3 1 (1.45%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) GDPR
2 5 (7.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Kibana
1 2 (2.90%) Nagios
1 2 (2.90%) Prometheus
1 2 (2.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) Databricks
3 4 (5.80%) Google
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.90%) New Relic
4 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.90%) Splunk
4 2 (2.90%) Veracode
5 1 (1.45%) Informatica
5 1 (1.45%) Teradata