Data Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Engineer salary in Glasgow is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 121 80
Rank change year-on-year +53 -41 +14
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 280 7 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 7.03% 0.45% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.17% 0.53% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 22
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,743 £35,625
25th Percentile £50,625 £64,356 £42,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,003 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +26.42% +32.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,649 £63,438
90th Percentile £85,000 - £66,250
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +13.21% -15.20%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,904 1,321 1,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.04% 85.72% 98.00%
Number of salaries quoted 852 658 861
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +14.58% +3.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £72,500
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,043 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +4.84% +10.53%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 249 (88.93%) Agile
2 248 (88.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 246 (87.86%) CI/CD
4 245 (87.50%) Law
5 241 (86.07%) Finance
5 241 (86.07%) Software Engineering
6 206 (73.57%) Python
7 204 (72.86%) AWS
7 204 (72.86%) Big Data
8 198 (70.71%) SDLC
8 198 (70.71%) Operational Stability
9 192 (68.57%) Apache Spark
10 178 (63.57%) Community of Practice
11 173 (61.79%) Legal
12 166 (59.29%) Risk Management
13 144 (51.43%) Artificial Intelligence
13 144 (51.43%) Machine Learning
14 128 (45.71%) Visualisation
14 128 (45.71%) Algorithms
15 123 (43.93%) Continuous Improvement
16 121 (43.21%) SQL
17 119 (42.50%) PySpark
18 117 (41.79%) Cloud Native
19 108 (38.57%) Java
20 80 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
21 75 (26.79%) Data Modelling
21 75 (26.79%) Marketing
22 71 (25.36%) Databricks
23 61 (21.79%) Data Lake
24 60 (21.43%) Hadoop

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 192 (68.57%) Apache Spark
2 80 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.43%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 204 (72.86%) AWS
2 51 (18.21%) Azure
3 46 (16.43%) GCP
4 13 (4.64%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (2.86%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.43%) IaaS
6 4 (1.43%) PaaS
6 4 (1.43%) SaaS
7 2 (0.71%) Fivetran
8 1 (0.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.43%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (72.86%) Big Data
2 61 (21.79%) Data Lake
3 60 (21.43%) Hadoop
4 46 (16.43%) Apache Hive
5 41 (14.64%) NoSQL
6 39 (13.93%) Qlik Sense
7 30 (10.71%) HBase
8 20 (7.14%) Tableau
9 18 (6.43%) DB2
9 18 (6.43%) MongoDB
10 16 (5.71%) Impala
11 15 (5.36%) SQL Server
12 8 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
12 8 (2.86%) Power BI
13 6 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.07%) BigQuery
16 3 (1.07%) Looker
17 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (10.71%) Git
1 30 (10.71%) Jenkins
General
1 248 (88.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 245 (87.50%) Law
3 241 (86.07%) Finance
4 173 (61.79%) Legal
5 75 (26.79%) Marketing
6 21 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.43%) Banking
7 18 (6.43%) Financial Institution
7 18 (6.43%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.50%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.43%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (42.50%) PySpark
2 59 (21.07%) Kafka
3 43 (15.36%) Spring
3 43 (15.36%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.71%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.71%) REST
4 2 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 128 (45.71%) Algorithms
2 117 (41.79%) Cloud Native
3 48 (17.14%) Onboarding
4 43 (15.36%) Legacy Code
5 34 (12.14%) Public Cloud
6 21 (7.50%) Management Information System
6 21 (7.50%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.43%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (88.93%) Agile
2 246 (87.86%) CI/CD
3 241 (86.07%) Software Engineering
4 198 (70.71%) Operational Stability
4 198 (70.71%) SDLC
5 178 (63.57%) Community of Practice
6 166 (59.29%) Risk Management
7 144 (51.43%) Artificial Intelligence
7 144 (51.43%) Machine Learning
8 128 (45.71%) Visualisation
9 123 (43.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (26.79%) Data Modelling
11 48 (17.14%) Client Onboarding
11 48 (17.14%) KYC
11 48 (17.14%) Test Automation
12 46 (16.43%) Data Pipeline
13 44 (15.71%) Decision-Making
14 43 (15.36%) Mentoring
14 43 (15.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (14.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 206 (73.57%) Python
2 121 (43.21%) SQL
3 108 (38.57%) Java
4 49 (17.50%) PL/SQL
5 38 (13.57%) Scala
6 3 (1.07%) R
7 2 (0.71%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.36%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (1.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.50%) SLA
2 5 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.07%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (10.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (20.71%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 71 (25.36%) Databricks
2 57 (20.36%) Alteryx
3 31 (11.07%) Informatica
4 21 (7.50%) Oracle
5 18 (6.43%) Cognos
5 18 (6.43%) Sybase
6 7 (2.50%) Google
7 5 (1.79%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.36%) Teradata