Data Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Engineer salary in Glasgow is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
18 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 78 64
Rank change year-on-year -7 -14 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 3 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.35% 0.32% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.33% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £51,250 £42,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,875 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £67,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -29.63% +42.11% +2.70%
75th Percentile £48,750 £76,875 £51,250
90th Percentile - £81,750 -
Scotland median annual salary £87,500 £70,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year +25.00% +47.19% -20.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 793 918 639
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 97.14% 97.86%
Number of salaries quoted 367 499 492
10th Percentile £29,400 £29,950 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £74,875
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.09% +6.00% -9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Apache
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) Bash
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Git

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Hudi
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) NumPy
1 1 (33.33%) Pandas
1 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
12 Data Engineer jobs in Glasgow