Data Management Contracts in Scotland

Data Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 129 143
Rank change year-on-year +36 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Management 29 32 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.36% 1.18% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.28% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 28
10th Percentile £425 £285 £413
25th Percentile £458 £416 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £497 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% -0.60% +17.65%
75th Percentile £601 £534 £568
90th Percentile £691 £633 £613
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,881 2,508 3,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.02% 92.44% 93.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,773 2,247
10th Percentile £219 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Scotland

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +25 12 £581 +16.25% 12
Glasgow +13 11 £465 -6.44% 4
Perthshire - 2 £708 -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £465 -
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 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Power Platform
2 5 (17.24%) Power Automate
2 5 (17.24%) PowerApps
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.45%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (34.48%) Power BI
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Data Mart
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) JIRA
2 2 (6.90%) Gradle
2 2 (6.90%) JUnit
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
4 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Publishing
6 2 (6.90%) Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Military
7 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Analyst
1 12 (41.38%) Data Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Data Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Data Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Change Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Business Change Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Business Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Report Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Risk Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) CSS
1 3 (10.34%) HTML
1 3 (10.34%) XML
2 2 (6.90%) Android Jetpack
2 2 (6.90%) Dagger
2 2 (6.90%) Jetpack Compose
2 2 (6.90%) Retrofit
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Analytics
1 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (31.03%) Visualisation
2 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (27.59%) Data Analysis
2 8 (27.59%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (20.69%) Data Governance
3 6 (20.69%) Data Modelling
3 6 (20.69%) Project Management
4 5 (17.24%) Data Strategy
4 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
5 4 (13.79%) Data Lineage
5 4 (13.79%) Project Delivery
6 3 (10.34%) Computer Science
6 3 (10.34%) ITSM
6 3 (10.34%) Portfolio Management
6 3 (10.34%) Service Management
6 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) Kotlin
4 1 (3.45%) Perl
4 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Degree
2 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) PMO
2 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Atlassian
2 5 (17.24%) Informatica
3 4 (13.79%) Databricks
4 3 (10.34%) Oracle
5 1 (3.45%) Cadence