Data Management Jobs in Scotland

Data Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 165 159 134
Rank change year-on-year -6 -25 -8
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 130 60 118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.94% 1.31% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.39% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 53 41 51
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,526 £38,635
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +54.07% -29.75%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,833 £47,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £72,500 £62,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.62%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,195 4,321 5,392
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.21% 94.32% 90.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,159 2,811
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,211 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

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 19 May 2024.

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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -60 67 £62,500 +56.25% 7
Aberdeen - 26 £60,000 - 13
Edinburgh +21 24 £60,125 +1.01% 12
Stirling - 4 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £35,000 -
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 8 (6.15%) Confluence
1 8 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (16.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.23%) Sketch
3 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.54%) Power Platform
2 13 (10.00%) Azure
3 12 (9.23%) Figma
4 6 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.62%) GCP
5 5 (3.85%) AWS
5 5 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.08%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.54%) Collibra
8 2 (1.54%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.77%) IaaS
9 1 (0.77%) PaaS
9 1 (0.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (0.77%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (11.54%) Power BI
3 13 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (9.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (6.15%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (4.62%) OLAP
8 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.08%) Metadata
8 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.31%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.31%) Tableau
10 2 (1.54%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.77%) Ataccama
11 1 (0.77%) Big Data
11 1 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.77%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (26.15%) JIRA
2 10 (7.69%) Git
3 2 (1.54%) Maven
General
1 67 (51.54%) Finance
2 40 (30.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (26.92%) Law
4 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
5 31 (23.85%) Marketing
6 23 (17.69%) Banking
6 23 (17.69%) Legal
7 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (7.69%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.54%) Private Banking
12 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) Senior
2 25 (19.23%) Analyst
3 24 (18.46%) Lead
4 14 (10.77%) Database Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 12 (9.23%) Senior Software Engineer
7 11 (8.46%) Data Engineer
8 10 (7.69%) Business Analyst
8 10 (7.69%) Data Manager
8 10 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Market Risk Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Market Risk Business Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Risk Analyst
9 7 (5.38%) Risk Business Analyst
10 6 (4.62%) Architect
10 6 (4.62%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.62%) Principal Data Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Data Architect
11 5 (3.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.85%) Kafka
2 3 (2.31%) Middleware
3 2 (1.54%) Spring
3 2 (1.54%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.77%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.15%) Management Information System
2 16 (12.31%) Product Ownership
3 14 (10.77%) Algorithms
4 13 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (6.15%) Virtual Team
6 7 (5.38%) Market Risk
7 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (3.08%) Life Science
8 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (2.31%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.54%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.77%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 1 (0.77%) IoT
11 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.77%) Linux
1 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (33.85%) Agile
2 39 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 36 (27.69%) Analytics
4 25 (19.23%) Coaching
4 25 (19.23%) Process Improvement
5 24 (18.46%) Mentoring
6 21 (16.15%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (16.15%) Computer Science
6 21 (16.15%) Migration
6 21 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 20 (15.38%) ETL
7 20 (15.38%) Software Engineering
7 20 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
7 20 (15.38%) Visualisation
8 19 (14.62%) DevOps
8 19 (14.62%) Roadmaps
9 18 (13.85%) Data Privacy
9 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (13.08%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (16.92%) SQL
2 13 (10.00%) C
3 12 (9.23%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.46%) Java
5 8 (6.15%) C#
6 6 (4.62%) C++
7 5 (3.85%) Go
7 5 (3.85%) Rust
7 5 (3.85%) VBA
8 3 (2.31%) Python
9 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.77%) R
9 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (30.00%) Degree
2 9 (6.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.62%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.85%) PhD
5 3 (2.31%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.31%) PMP
6 2 (1.54%) OCP
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.77%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.69%) GDPR
2 16 (12.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.77%) Ansible
Vendors
1 27 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.92%) Databricks
4 5 (3.85%) Oracle
5 2 (1.54%) Informatica
6 1 (0.77%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.77%) Cisco
6 1 (0.77%) EMC
6 1 (0.77%) Nintex
6 1 (0.77%) Teradata
6 1 (0.77%) VMware