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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 152 132
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 -10
Permanent jobs citing Data Management 133 57 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.95% 1.31% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.39% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 51 38 55
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £36,568
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 £48,750
90th Percentile £73,250 £72,500 £62,752
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +4.17%

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 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -57 67 £62,500 +56.25% 15
Aberdeen - 30 £60,000 - 16
Edinburgh +14 22 £60,000 +0.80% 11
Stirling - 4 - -
Aberdeenshire +5 1 - - 5
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 (6.02%) Confluence
1 8 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (16.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.02%) Sketch
3 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.28%) Power Platform
2 13 (9.77%) Azure
3 12 (9.02%) Figma
4 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.76%) AWS
5 5 (3.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (3.01%) GCP
6 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.50%) Collibra
8 2 (1.50%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.75%) IaaS
9 1 (0.75%) PaaS
9 1 (0.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (0.75%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (11.28%) Power BI
3 14 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 13 (9.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (8.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (4.51%) OLAP
8 4 (3.01%) Data Lake
8 4 (3.01%) Metadata
8 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.26%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.26%) Tableau
10 2 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.75%) Big Data
11 1 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (25.56%) JIRA
2 10 (7.52%) Git
3 2 (1.50%) Maven
General
1 65 (48.87%) Finance
2 40 (30.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 35 (26.32%) Law
4 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
5 31 (23.31%) Marketing
6 23 (17.29%) Legal
7 21 (15.79%) Banking
8 14 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
9 11 (8.27%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.76%) Telecoms
11 4 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.50%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Senior
2 25 (18.80%) Analyst
3 24 (18.05%) Lead
4 15 (11.28%) Database Engineer
5 14 (10.53%) Data Manager
6 13 (9.77%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Business Analyst
9 10 (7.52%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Market Risk Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Market Risk Business Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Risk Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Risk Business Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Architect
11 6 (4.51%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.51%) Principal Data Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Principal Engineer
12 5 (3.76%) Data Architect
12 5 (3.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.76%) Kafka
2 3 (2.26%) Middleware
3 2 (1.50%) Spring
3 2 (1.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.75%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 16 (12.03%) Product Ownership
3 14 (10.53%) Algorithms
4 13 (9.77%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (6.02%) Virtual Team
6 7 (5.26%) Market Risk
7 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.76%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.76%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (3.01%) Life Science
8 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
9 3 (2.26%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 2 (1.50%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.50%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 1 (0.75%) IoT
11 1 (0.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.75%) Linux
1 1 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) Agile
2 39 (29.32%) Data Governance
3 34 (25.56%) Analytics
4 25 (18.80%) Coaching
4 25 (18.80%) Process Improvement
5 24 (18.05%) Mentoring
6 21 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 21 (15.79%) Computer Science
6 21 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (15.04%) Data Protection
7 20 (15.04%) ETL
7 20 (15.04%) Software Engineering
7 20 (15.04%) Strategic Thinking
8 19 (14.29%) DevOps
8 19 (14.29%) Migration
9 18 (13.53%) Data Privacy
9 18 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (13.53%) Visualisation
10 17 (12.78%) Project Planning
10 17 (12.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.29%) SQL
2 13 (9.77%) C
2 13 (9.77%) T-SQL
3 11 (8.27%) Java
4 8 (6.02%) C#
5 6 (4.51%) C++
6 5 (3.76%) Go
6 5 (3.76%) Rust
6 5 (3.76%) VBA
7 3 (2.26%) Python
8 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.75%) R
8 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 40 (30.08%) Degree
2 9 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.51%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.76%) PhD
5 3 (2.26%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.26%) PMP
6 1 (0.75%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (17.29%) GDPR
2 16 (12.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.76%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.77%) ServiceNow
3 9 (6.77%) Databricks
4 5 (3.76%) Oracle
5 2 (1.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.75%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (0.75%) Cisco
6 1 (0.75%) EMC
6 1 (0.75%) Nintex
6 1 (0.75%) Teradata
6 1 (0.75%) VMware