Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 September 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 173 227
Rank change year-on-year -20 +54 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 18 7 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.36% 0.22% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.23% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 12
10th Percentile £51,250 £53,250 £50,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,375 £53,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% +20.83% -17.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £86,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £70,500 £88,500 £87,000
UK median annual salary £72,900 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.88% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 4,917 3,070 5,169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.10% 95.91% 93.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 2,022 3,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Scotland

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
West Lothian - 7 - -
Edinburgh +29 4 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Glasgow -36 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 2024, Senior 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 Scotland region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) Data Engineering
1 14 (77.78%) SQL
1 14 (77.78%) Analytics
2 13 (72.22%) Python
2 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (66.67%) Unix
4 11 (61.11%) Agile
4 11 (61.11%) Google
4 11 (61.11%) GCP
5 10 (55.56%) BigQuery
5 10 (55.56%) API Development
5 10 (55.56%) Data Transformation
5 10 (55.56%) Google Compute Engine
5 10 (55.56%) Amazon S3
5 10 (55.56%) Scrum
5 10 (55.56%) Broadband
5 10 (55.56%) Data Hub
5 10 (55.56%) Customer Experience
5 10 (55.56%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (33.33%) Azure
7 5 (27.78%) DevOps
7 5 (27.78%) ETL
8 4 (22.22%) Data Management
8 4 (22.22%) Databricks
9 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (61.11%) GCP
2 10 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 10 (55.56%) Google Compute Engine
3 6 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) BigQuery
1 10 (55.56%) Data Hub
2 3 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
1 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (11.11%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) NumPy
1 1 (5.56%) Pandas
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
1 1 (5.56%) scikit-learn
1 1 (5.56%) SciPy
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Analytics
1 14 (77.78%) Data Engineering
2 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (61.11%) Agile
4 10 (55.56%) API Development
4 10 (55.56%) Customer Experience
4 10 (55.56%) Data Transformation
4 10 (55.56%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (55.56%) Scrum
5 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) ETL
7 4 (22.22%) Data Management
8 3 (16.67%) Change Control
8 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
8 3 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) SQL
2 13 (72.22%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Google
2 4 (22.22%) Databricks
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft