Big Data Jobs in Edinburgh

Big Data
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 114 111
Rank change year-on-year +48 -3 -17
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 45 37 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.93% 1.72% 2.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.66% 8.30% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 14
10th Percentile - £49,400 £36,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,688 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £63,750 £41,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +52.69% -16.50%
75th Percentile £78,459 £70,313 £63,313
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £72,325
Scotland median annual salary £70,576 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.82% +21.74% +17.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 307 446 476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.01% 20.77% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 189 238 266
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £35,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,934 £101,250 £73,125
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% +10.53%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 24 (53.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 31 (68.89%) SaaS
2 26 (57.78%) GCP
3 24 (53.33%) AWS
4 23 (51.11%) Amazon S3
4 23 (51.11%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (51.11%) Google Docs
4 23 (51.11%) Lucidchart
4 23 (51.11%) Miro
4 23 (51.11%) Slack
5 6 (13.33%) Azure
6 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (53.33%) Hadoop
2 23 (51.11%) Elasticsearch
2 23 (51.11%) Redis
2 23 (51.11%) Scylla
3 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Accumulo
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.22%) Flink
4 1 (2.22%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JUnit
General
1 23 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 21 (46.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (33.33%) Banking
4 12 (26.67%) Finance
5 10 (22.22%) Legal
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (53.33%) Principal Engineer
1 24 (53.33%) Principal Software Engineer
1 24 (53.33%) Software Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) Architect
3 12 (26.67%) Solutions Architect
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (75.56%) Kafka
2 23 (51.11%) GraphQL
3 12 (26.67%) Spring
3 12 (26.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (6.67%) PySpark
5 1 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (51.11%) Algorithms
1 23 (51.11%) Data Structures
2 10 (22.22%) Blockchain
2 10 (22.22%) Robotics
3 7 (15.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Windows
1 3 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) Data Science
2 24 (53.33%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 24 (53.33%) Cybersecurity
2 24 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 24 (53.33%) Threat Intelligence
3 23 (51.11%) Computer Security
3 23 (51.11%) High Availability
3 23 (51.11%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (51.11%) User Experience
3 23 (51.11%) UX Research
4 15 (33.33%) Agile
5 13 (28.89%) Architectural Patterns
6 12 (26.67%) Microservices
6 12 (26.67%) Open Source
7 10 (22.22%) API Design
7 10 (22.22%) SDLC
7 10 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
7 10 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (15.56%) Fintech
8 7 (15.56%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) Java
2 29 (64.44%) Python
3 24 (53.33%) Bash
3 24 (53.33%) Go
3 24 (53.33%) Scala
4 5 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (75.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.22%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (53.33%) Dell
1 24 (53.33%) Google
2 3 (6.67%) Citrix
2 3 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (2.22%) StreamSets