Big Data Jobs in Edinburgh

Big Data
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 72 104
Rank change year-on-year +4 +32 +9
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 22 38 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.41% 2.55% 1.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.02% 13.52% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 17 14 11
10th Percentile - - £52,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £65,000 £52,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £70,576 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -63.69% +8.58% +7.44%
75th Percentile £61,250 £96,539 £73,644
90th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £25,625 £70,576 £70,000
% change year-on-year -63.69% +0.82% +19.15%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Edinburgh

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 169 281 444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.49% 18.87% 22.06%
Number of salaries quoted 102 162 241
10th Percentile £26,005 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,750 £46,306 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £76,840 £72,483 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £81,800 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Edinburgh

Big Data
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 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) Tableau
General
1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 12 (54.55%) Banking
3 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.55%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
1 10 (45.45%) Data Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Data Scientist
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Data Scientist
3 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Graduate
5 1 (4.55%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) gRPC
3 1 (4.55%) LangChain
3 1 (4.55%) Pandas
3 1 (4.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 2 (9.09%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Analytics
1 16 (72.73%) Visualisation
2 14 (63.64%) Storytelling
3 13 (59.09%) Mathematics
4 10 (45.45%) Data Analytics
4 10 (45.45%) Data Extraction
4 10 (45.45%) Predictive Modelling
4 10 (45.45%) Statistical Modelling
4 10 (45.45%) Statistics
5 8 (36.36%) Machine Learning
6 7 (31.82%) Data Science
6 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
7 6 (27.27%) Business Strategy
8 5 (22.73%) Risk Management
9 4 (18.18%) Statistical Analysis
10 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
10 3 (13.64%) Microservices
11 2 (9.09%) Concurrent Programming
11 2 (9.09%) DevOps
11 2 (9.09%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Java
4 2 (9.09%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes