Data Science Jobs in Scotland

Data Science
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 104 127
Rank change year-on-year -55 +23 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 130 120 127
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.93% 2.53% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.68% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 53 32 65
10th Percentile £46,306 £39,875 £34,500
25th Percentile £58,664 £53,595 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +14.41% +7.27%
75th Percentile £73,886 £89,002 £72,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £94,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,258 4,470 5,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.83% 94.26% 90.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,424 2,249 2,792
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,440 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,654 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +9.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Scotland

Data Science
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Scotland

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Scotland

Data Science
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 Science within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Edinburgh +62 86 £70,000 +12.00% 11
Glasgow -115 37 £60,000 -35.14% 10
Aberdeen - 3 - -
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 25 (19.23%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.85%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.85%) GCP
2 46 (35.38%) AWS
3 34 (26.15%) SaaS
4 24 (18.46%) Power Platform
5 23 (17.69%) Amazon S3
5 23 (17.69%) Amazon SQS
5 23 (17.69%) Google Docs
5 23 (17.69%) Lucidchart
5 23 (17.69%) Miro
5 23 (17.69%) Slack
6 16 (12.31%) Azure
7 6 (4.62%) Snowflake
8 5 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.77%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.77%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.85%) Big Data
2 27 (20.77%) Hadoop
3 23 (17.69%) Elasticsearch
3 23 (17.69%) Redis
3 23 (17.69%) Scylla
4 21 (16.15%) Power BI
5 17 (13.08%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (9.23%) BigQuery
7 11 (8.46%) Tableau
8 9 (6.92%) Looker
9 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.54%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.54%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.54%) Metadata
10 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.77%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (0.77%) Flink
11 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.77%) Git
2 1 (0.77%) GoCD
2 1 (0.77%) JUnit
General
1 59 (45.38%) Finance
2 43 (33.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 43 (33.08%) Social Skills
3 37 (28.46%) Banking
4 26 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 23 (17.69%) Marketing
6 21 (16.15%) Games
7 20 (15.38%) Financial Institution
7 20 (15.38%) Law
8 19 (14.62%) Investment Banking
9 15 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.08%) Retail
11 3 (2.31%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (47.69%) Principal Engineer
2 59 (45.38%) Software Engineer
3 53 (40.77%) Principal Software Engineer
4 28 (21.54%) Senior
5 18 (13.85%) Data Manager
6 16 (12.31%) Data Science Manager
6 16 (12.31%) Engineering Manager
7 15 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) AWS Software Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) Data Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) Lead
7 15 (11.54%) Python Engineer
7 15 (11.54%) Python Software Engineer
8 12 (9.23%) Data Scientist
9 10 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.69%) Principal Modelling Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Principal Data Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Senior Windows Engineer
10 9 (6.92%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (20.77%) Kafka
2 23 (17.69%) GraphQL
3 9 (6.92%) Pandas
4 5 (3.85%) XGBoost
5 3 (2.31%) PySpark
6 2 (1.54%) Django
6 2 (1.54%) jQuery
6 2 (1.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 1 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.77%) NumPy
7 1 (0.77%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.77%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 31 (23.85%) Data Structures
3 26 (20.00%) Algorithms
4 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (6.92%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.31%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.31%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Life Science
7 1 (0.77%) NHS
7 1 (0.77%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.46%) Linux
2 10 (7.69%) Windows
3 9 (6.92%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (55.38%) Agile
2 64 (49.23%) Software Engineering
3 59 (45.38%) Analytics
4 50 (38.46%) Machine Learning
5 37 (28.46%) Artificial Intelligence
6 36 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (25.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 33 (25.38%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (25.38%) Threat Intelligence
8 32 (24.62%) Computer Security
9 29 (22.31%) Data Engineering
9 29 (22.31%) Use Case
10 27 (20.77%) User Experience
11 25 (19.23%) Coaching
11 25 (19.23%) DevOps
12 24 (18.46%) Data Analysis
13 23 (17.69%) High Availability
13 23 (17.69%) UX Research
14 22 (16.92%) SDLC
15 20 (15.38%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (53.85%) Python
2 33 (25.38%) SQL
3 26 (20.00%) Java
4 25 (19.23%) Bash
4 25 (19.23%) Scala
5 24 (18.46%) Go
6 6 (4.62%) R
7 1 (0.77%) C#
7 1 (0.77%) C++
7 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.31%) OCP
1 3 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (1.54%) Degree
3 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) GDPR
2 5 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.54%) IFRS
3 2 (1.54%) IFRS 9
3 2 (1.54%) QA
4 1 (0.77%) Basel III
System Software
1 2 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (21.54%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.85%) Terraform
3 1 (0.77%) Grafana
3 1 (0.77%) Rancher
Vendors
1 51 (39.23%) Google
2 33 (25.38%) Dell
3 8 (6.15%) Databricks
4 7 (5.38%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.31%) Oracle
6 1 (0.77%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.77%) Teradata
6 1 (0.77%) VMware