Algorithms Jobs in Scotland

Algorithms
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 143 136
Rank change year-on-year +117 -7 +14
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 596 69 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 10.46% 1.82% 1.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 23.96% 4.95% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 27 20 10
10th Percentile £50,250 £42,500 £44,197
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £59,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £89,852 £80,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +15.38%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 2,487 1,393 2,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.65% 36.72% 46.54%
Number of salaries quoted 702 729 1,249
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,562 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,200 £42,874 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,433 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 +60 556 £65,000 +34.02% 2
Edinburgh +36 29 £67,500 +35.00% 1
Aberdeen -6 3 £50,000 -4.76%
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 1
Midlothian - 3 - - 1
Dundee - 1 £60,000 -
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
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
1 117 (19.63%) Apache Spark
2 31 (5.20%) Apache
3 21 (3.52%) FileNet
4 2 (0.34%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 280 (46.98%) AWS
2 56 (9.40%) Azure
3 44 (7.38%) Amazon ECS
3 44 (7.38%) GCP
4 34 (5.70%) Datadog
5 33 (5.54%) Amazon SQS
6 31 (5.20%) Serverless
7 30 (5.03%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (4.87%) Amazon EKS
8 29 (4.87%) Amazon EMR
8 29 (4.87%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (4.36%) Amazon S3
10 25 (4.19%) Google Play
11 5 (0.84%) GitHub
12 4 (0.67%) Google Docs
12 4 (0.67%) Lucidchart
12 4 (0.67%) Miro
12 4 (0.67%) SaaS
12 4 (0.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (31.38%) NoSQL
2 91 (15.27%) Big Data
3 87 (14.60%) Hadoop
4 60 (10.07%) Apache Hive
4 60 (10.07%) HBase
5 45 (7.55%) Relational Database
6 36 (6.04%) Data Lake
7 35 (5.87%) Qlik Sense
8 29 (4.87%) Electronic Patient Records
9 25 (4.19%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (3.52%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (1.85%) RDBMS
12 7 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.67%) Redis
13 4 (0.67%) Scylla
14 3 (0.50%) MySQL
15 1 (0.17%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.17%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 81 (13.59%) Jenkins
2 64 (10.74%) Git
3 63 (10.57%) JUnit
4 60 (10.07%) Bitbucket Server
5 25 (4.19%) Android Studio
6 21 (3.52%) Cypress.io
6 21 (3.52%) Jasmine
6 21 (3.52%) Karma Test Runner
6 21 (3.52%) Protractor
6 21 (3.52%) Selenium
6 21 (3.52%) WebDriver
7 17 (2.85%) GitLab
8 6 (1.01%) Maven
9 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 561 (94.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 552 (92.62%) Law
3 551 (92.45%) Finance
4 358 (60.07%) Legal
5 96 (16.11%) Banking
5 96 (16.11%) Investment Banking
6 86 (14.43%) Marketing
7 49 (8.22%) Social Skills
8 10 (1.68%) Front Office
9 4 (0.67%) Multimedia
10 3 (0.50%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
11 2 (0.34%) Electronics
11 2 (0.34%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.17%) Aviation
12 1 (0.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 543 (91.11%) Software Engineer
2 186 (31.21%) Java Engineer
2 186 (31.21%) Java Software Engineer
3 141 (23.66%) AWS Engineer
3 141 (23.66%) AWS Software Engineer
4 100 (16.78%) Data Engineer
5 95 (15.94%) Full Stack Engineer
5 95 (15.94%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 84 (14.09%) Python Engineer
6 84 (14.09%) Python Software Engineer
7 80 (13.42%) Big Data Engineer
7 80 (13.42%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 46 (7.72%) Developer
9 41 (6.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 30 (5.03%) AWS Database Engineer
10 30 (5.03%) AWS Developer
10 30 (5.03%) Database Developer
10 30 (5.03%) Database Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Scala Engineer
11 29 (4.87%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (25.34%) React
1 151 (25.34%) Spring
2 102 (17.11%) AngularJS
3 93 (15.60%) J2EE
4 92 (15.44%) Node.js
5 91 (15.27%) JMS
6 90 (15.10%) HTML
7 84 (14.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
8 72 (12.08%) Hibernate
9 71 (11.91%) CSS
10 68 (11.41%) Kafka
11 63 (10.57%) JSON
12 61 (10.23%) jQuery
13 53 (8.89%) Spring Boot
14 43 (7.21%) Web Services
15 35 (5.87%) PySpark
16 32 (5.37%) XML
17 30 (5.03%) JavaBeans
18 25 (4.19%) Android Jetpack
18 25 (4.19%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 118 (19.80%) Onboarding
2 64 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 64 (10.74%) Data Structures
3 21 (3.52%) Legacy Code
3 21 (3.52%) Public Cloud
4 11 (1.85%) Reference Data
5 7 (1.17%) Credit Risk
5 7 (1.17%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.01%) Product Ownership
7 4 (0.67%) Augmented Reality
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Reality
8 3 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.34%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.34%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.34%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.17%) Arduino
10 1 (0.17%) ASIC
10 1 (0.17%) FPGA
10 1 (0.17%) Verilog
10 1 (0.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 80 (13.42%) Unix
2 31 (5.20%) Linux
3 25 (4.19%) Android
4 2 (0.34%) Windows
5 1 (0.17%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (94.97%) Software Engineering
2 537 (90.10%) CI/CD
3 534 (89.60%) Agile
4 514 (86.24%) Visualisation
5 509 (85.40%) SDLC
6 507 (85.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 484 (81.21%) Community of Practice
8 461 (77.35%) Operational Stability
9 449 (75.34%) Artificial Intelligence
10 435 (72.99%) Machine Learning
11 348 (58.39%) Risk Management
12 115 (19.30%) Client Onboarding
13 97 (16.28%) Full Stack Development
14 92 (15.44%) KYC
15 84 (14.09%) TDD
16 66 (11.07%) OO
17 64 (10.74%) Open Source
17 64 (10.74%) Test Automation
18 60 (10.07%) Batch Processing
19 54 (9.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 359 (60.23%) Java
2 269 (45.13%) SQL
3 265 (44.46%) Python
4 94 (15.77%) JavaScript
5 85 (14.26%) PL/SQL
5 85 (14.26%) TypeScript
6 33 (5.54%) Scala
7 25 (4.19%) Kotlin
8 10 (1.68%) C++
9 9 (1.51%) Go
10 7 (1.17%) C
11 4 (0.67%) Bash
11 4 (0.67%) Rust
12 3 (0.50%) Haskell
13 2 (0.34%) C#
13 2 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.17%) Fortran
14 1 (0.17%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 25 (4.19%) Degree
2 13 (2.18%) PhD
3 12 (2.01%) Master's Degree
4 11 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.17%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.17%) GDPR
1 1 (0.17%) JTAG
1 1 (0.17%) QA
System Software
1 60 (10.07%) HDFS
2 31 (5.20%) Docker
3 2 (0.34%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (14.26%) Kubernetes
2 77 (12.92%) Terraform
3 34 (5.70%) Grafana
3 34 (5.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 125 (20.97%) Databricks
2 80 (13.42%) Oracle
3 60 (10.07%) Informatica
4 47 (7.89%) Google
5 35 (5.87%) Alteryx
6 34 (5.70%) Dynatrace
6 34 (5.70%) Splunk
7 30 (5.03%) Cloudera
8 4 (0.67%) Dell
9 3 (0.50%) IBM
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft
10 2 (0.34%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.17%) Intel
11 1 (0.17%) Keysight
11 1 (0.17%) SAP
11 1 (0.17%) Xilinx