Data Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Data Engineering
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 137 186
Rank change year-on-year -27 +49 -42
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 121 93 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.80% 2.00% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.12% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 34 36 30
10th Percentile £58,664 £51,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £63,353 £53,625 £41,403
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £68,275
90th Percentile £85,000 - £77,219
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Engineering 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 6,204 4,392 5,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.46% 94.27% 90.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,420 2,203 2,786
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,938 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Scotland

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Scotland.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Scotland

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Scotland

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 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 -68 72 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Edinburgh +24 33 £70,000 +3.70% 6
Lanarkshire -1 8 - - 1
Aberdeen - 3 - -
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 36 (29.75%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.48%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 56 (46.28%) AWS
2 35 (28.93%) GCP
3 18 (14.88%) Azure
4 12 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.13%) Snowflake
7 3 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.65%) Collibra
8 2 (1.65%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.88%) BigQuery
2 17 (14.05%) Looker
3 16 (13.22%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (12.40%) Relational Database
5 14 (11.57%) RDBMS
6 13 (10.74%) MySQL
7 8 (6.61%) Power BI
8 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
8 5 (4.13%) Tableau
9 3 (2.48%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.65%) Big Data
10 2 (1.65%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.83%) Apache Accumulo
11 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.83%) Ataccama
11 1 (0.83%) Flink
11 1 (0.83%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1 (0.83%) JUnit
General
1 77 (63.64%) Finance
2 61 (50.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 58 (47.93%) Law
4 48 (39.67%) Marketing
5 17 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (9.09%) Social Skills
7 10 (8.26%) Banking
8 8 (6.61%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (5.79%) Billing
10 5 (4.13%) Games
11 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (47.11%) Software Engineer
2 43 (35.54%) Lead
3 39 (32.23%) Senior
4 34 (28.10%) Lead Software Engineer
4 34 (28.10%) Senior Software Engineer
5 24 (19.83%) Data Manager
6 21 (17.36%) Data Engineer
7 16 (13.22%) Engineering Manager
8 14 (11.57%) Full Stack Engineer
8 14 (11.57%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Java Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Java Software Engineer
9 11 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
10 10 (8.26%) Principal Data Engineer
11 9 (7.44%) Data Science Manager
11 9 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.96%) Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Python Developer
13 5 (4.13%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (28.10%) PySpark
2 29 (23.97%) React
3 24 (19.83%) AngularJS
3 24 (19.83%) Spring
4 14 (11.57%) Kafka
5 13 (10.74%) JPA
5 13 (10.74%) REST
6 12 (9.92%) Web Services
7 11 (9.09%) Hibernate
7 11 (9.09%) RESTful
7 11 (9.09%) SOAP
7 11 (9.09%) Spring Boot
7 11 (9.09%) Vue
8 7 (5.79%) Django
9 2 (1.65%) jQuery
9 2 (1.65%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 1 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.31%) Algorithms
2 15 (12.40%) Cloud Native
3 11 (9.09%) Reference Data
4 10 (8.26%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (5.79%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.31%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (77.69%) Agile
2 61 (50.41%) Software Engineering
3 59 (48.76%) SDLC
4 58 (47.93%) Machine Learning
4 58 (47.93%) Operational Stability
5 54 (44.63%) ETL
6 53 (43.80%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (41.32%) Artificial Intelligence
8 46 (38.02%) Analytics
9 37 (30.58%) Decision-Making
9 37 (30.58%) Microservices
10 34 (28.10%) Quality Management
10 34 (28.10%) Tech Ops
11 31 (25.62%) Visualisation
12 29 (23.97%) Data Science
12 29 (23.97%) Full Stack Development
13 24 (19.83%) CI/CD
13 24 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (19.83%) DevOps
14 20 (16.53%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (54.55%) Java
2 53 (43.80%) Python
3 30 (24.79%) SQL
4 4 (3.31%) R
5 3 (2.48%) Scala
6 2 (1.65%) C#
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) C++
7 1 (0.83%) Go
7 1 (0.83%) Ruby
7 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (4.13%) Degree
2 3 (2.48%) OCP
2 3 (2.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (33.88%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.26%) QA
3 9 (7.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (9.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (9.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (23.14%) Oracle
2 22 (18.18%) Google
3 5 (4.13%) Databricks
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.83%) Dell
5 1 (0.83%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.83%) Teradata