Data Science Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Science
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science 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 42 107 89
Rank change year-on-year +65 -18 -14
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 85 44 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.54% 2.05% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.13% 2.13% 3.27%
Number of salaries quoted 40 19 46
10th Percentile £46,306 £51,466 £34,500
25th Percentile £58,664 £53,595 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £59,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.79% -4.40%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,567 £74,375
90th Percentile £97,310 £92,435 £82,500
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £68,474 £59,750
% change year-on-year +2.23% +14.60% +8.64%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Science 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 Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,387 2,065 2,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 90.42% 96.18% 93.74%
Number of salaries quoted 973 1,192 1,335
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £96,539 £92,404 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Salary histogram for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
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 (28.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.35%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 49 (57.65%) GCP
2 33 (38.82%) SaaS
3 26 (30.59%) AWS
4 23 (27.06%) Amazon S3
4 23 (27.06%) Amazon SQS
4 23 (27.06%) Google Docs
4 23 (27.06%) Lucidchart
4 23 (27.06%) Miro
4 23 (27.06%) Slack
5 18 (21.18%) Power Platform
6 8 (9.41%) Azure
7 3 (3.53%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.53%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.18%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (31.76%) Big Data
2 24 (28.24%) Hadoop
3 23 (27.06%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (27.06%) Redis
3 23 (27.06%) Scylla
4 18 (21.18%) Power BI
5 11 (12.94%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (11.76%) Tableau
7 6 (7.06%) BigQuery
8 3 (3.53%) Looker
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Accumulo
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.18%) Data Vault
9 1 (1.18%) Flink
9 1 (1.18%) HBase
9 1 (1.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.18%) JUnit
General
1 37 (43.53%) Finance
2 36 (42.35%) Social Skills
3 21 (24.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (21.18%) Banking
5 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.53%) Marketing
7 3 (3.53%) Retail Banking
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (45.88%) Software Engineer
2 36 (42.35%) Principal Engineer
3 33 (38.82%) Principal Software Engineer
4 22 (25.88%) Senior
5 16 (18.82%) Data Manager
5 16 (18.82%) Data Science Manager
6 14 (16.47%) Engineering Manager
7 9 (10.59%) Data Scientist
7 9 (10.59%) Lead
7 9 (10.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 9 (10.59%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Audit Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
8 6 (7.06%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.06%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (5.88%) Audit Manager
9 5 (5.88%) Data Science Analyst
9 5 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (28.24%) Kafka
2 23 (27.06%) GraphQL
3 8 (9.41%) Pandas
4 5 (5.88%) XGBoost
5 3 (3.53%) PySpark
6 2 (2.35%) Django
6 2 (2.35%) jQuery
6 2 (2.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (36.47%) Data Structures
2 23 (27.06%) Algorithms
3 15 (17.65%) Cloud Native
4 9 (10.59%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Linux
2 9 (10.59%) Mac OS
2 9 (10.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.59%) Software Engineering
2 35 (41.18%) Agile
3 33 (38.82%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 33 (38.82%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (38.82%) Threat Intelligence
4 32 (37.65%) Analytics
4 32 (37.65%) Computer Security
5 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (28.24%) Machine Learning
6 24 (28.24%) User Experience
7 23 (27.06%) High Availability
7 23 (27.06%) UX Research
8 19 (22.35%) Data Engineering
9 16 (18.82%) Technical Leadership
10 15 (17.65%) Data Analytics
11 14 (16.47%) Natural Language Processing
12 12 (14.12%) Artificial Intelligence
12 12 (14.12%) Visualisation
13 11 (12.94%) DevOps
14 10 (11.76%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (58.82%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) SQL
3 24 (28.24%) Bash
3 24 (28.24%) Go
3 24 (28.24%) Java
3 24 (28.24%) Scala
4 2 (2.35%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (3.53%) OCP
1 3 (3.53%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (1.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 1 (1.18%) Basel III
System Software
1 1 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (31.76%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (52.94%) Google
2 33 (38.82%) Dell
3 3 (3.53%) Databricks
4 1 (1.18%) StreamSets