Data Quality Contracts in Scotland

Data Quality
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Quality skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Quality over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 146 151
Rank change year-on-year +43 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Quality 12 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.56% 0.67% 0.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 3.09% 3.36% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 18
10th Percentile £423 £153 £391
25th Percentile - £244 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +31.58%
75th Percentile £699 £573 £638
90th Percentile £717 £596 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.64 - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £22.49 £22.50
% change year-on-year -29.78% -0.07% -8.16%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 388 535 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.11% 20.02% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 430 510
10th Percentile £182 £181 £225
25th Percentile £313 £395 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +5.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £523 £538 £545
90th Percentile £600 £600 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 20
10th Percentile - £13.56 £12.28
25th Percentile £13.52 £14.17 £16.09
Median hourly rate £14.98 £18.13 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% -39.00% +32.07%
75th Percentile £19.79 £28.90 £44.63
90th Percentile £60.75 £40.20 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £37.75 £27.73
% change year-on-year -36.95% +36.13% +32.05%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Quality in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Quality in Scotland

Data Quality
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 Quality within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Glasgow +19 4 £475 -17.39%
Edinburgh +24 3 £275 -26.67% 4
Perthshire +10 3 £700 +26.70% 1
Fife - 1 - -
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 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) OCI
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
1 4 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (33.33%) Parquet
2 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (16.67%) Metadata
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (8.33%) Power Query
4 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 4 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Finance Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Avro
1 4 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) ETL
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (25.00%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Analytics
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
5 1 (8.33%) Data Lineage
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
5 1 (8.33%) Mathematics
5 1 (8.33%) Metadata Management
5 1 (8.33%) People Analytics
5 1 (8.33%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Register
5 1 (8.33%) SDLC
5 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica