Algorithms Jobs in Scotland

Algorithms
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 125 202
Rank change year-on-year +100 +77 -87
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 908 101 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.52% 2.13% 0.77%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 27.99% 5.26% 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 47 14 14
10th Percentile £49,500 £40,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £43,500 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £49,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.31% -29.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,852 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.33% +7.14% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,244 1,919 2,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.32% 40.51% 47.83%
Number of salaries quoted 850 814 1,033
10th Percentile £28,795 £32,500 £28,039
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,125 £39,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,611 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +6.57% +10.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £89,956 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +47 803 £65,000 +30.00% 7
Edinburgh +69 68 £70,000 +40.02% 14
Fife +2 12 - -
Stirling - 12 - - 1
Aberdeen - 4 £51,250 - 1
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 3
Midlothian - 3 - - 6
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
1 219 (24.12%) Apache Spark
2 56 (6.17%) Apache
3 20 (2.20%) FileNet
4 7 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 35 (3.85%) Simulink
1 35 (3.85%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 424 (46.70%) AWS
2 74 (8.15%) Amazon SQS
2 74 (8.15%) GCP
3 67 (7.38%) Azure
4 66 (7.27%) Amazon ECS
5 54 (5.95%) Serverless
6 51 (5.62%) Amazon EC2
6 51 (5.62%) Amazon EKS
6 51 (5.62%) Amazon EMR
6 51 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
7 48 (5.29%) Cloud Computing
8 43 (4.74%) Amazon S3
9 34 (3.74%) Datadog
10 24 (2.64%) Google Play
11 23 (2.53%) Google Docs
11 23 (2.53%) Lucidchart
11 23 (2.53%) Miro
11 23 (2.53%) SaaS
11 23 (2.53%) Slack
12 10 (1.10%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.22%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 257 (28.30%) NoSQL
2 179 (19.71%) Big Data
3 176 (19.38%) Hadoop
4 99 (10.90%) Apache Hive
5 86 (9.47%) HBase
6 59 (6.50%) Relational Database
7 51 (5.62%) Electronic Patient Records
8 50 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
9 40 (4.41%) Data Lake
10 37 (4.07%) Qlik Sense
11 30 (3.30%) Redis
12 23 (2.53%) Scylla
13 20 (2.20%) Apache Cassandra
14 14 (1.54%) MySQL
14 14 (1.54%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
16 8 (0.88%) SQL Server
17 3 (0.33%) Delta Lake
18 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 114 (12.56%) Jenkins
2 104 (11.45%) Git
3 86 (9.47%) Bitbucket Server
4 65 (7.16%) JUnit
5 24 (2.64%) Android Studio
6 21 (2.31%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.31%) Jasmine
6 21 (2.31%) Karma Test Runner
6 21 (2.31%) Protractor
6 21 (2.31%) Selenium
6 21 (2.31%) WebDriver
7 18 (1.98%) GitLab
8 9 (0.99%) Maven
9 7 (0.77%) Moq
10 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
General
1 832 (91.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 791 (87.11%) Law
3 786 (86.56%) Finance
4 477 (52.53%) Legal
5 171 (18.83%) Marketing
6 120 (13.22%) Banking
7 97 (10.68%) Investment Banking
8 74 (8.15%) Social Skills
9 23 (2.53%) Private Banking
10 18 (1.98%) Front Office
11 9 (0.99%) Multimedia
12 6 (0.66%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.33%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.22%) Aviation
15 1 (0.11%) Electronics
15 1 (0.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 805 (88.66%) Software Engineer
2 268 (29.52%) Java Engineer
2 268 (29.52%) Java Software Engineer
3 196 (21.59%) AWS Engineer
3 196 (21.59%) AWS Software Engineer
4 136 (14.98%) Python Engineer
4 136 (14.98%) Python Software Engineer
5 135 (14.87%) Data Engineer
6 133 (14.65%) Big Data Engineer
6 133 (14.65%) Big Data Software Engineer
7 131 (14.43%) Full Stack Engineer
7 131 (14.43%) Full Stack Software Engineer
8 91 (10.02%) Developer
9 80 (8.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 56 (6.17%) Database Developer
10 56 (6.17%) Database Engineer
11 51 (5.62%) Scala Engineer
11 51 (5.62%) Scala Software Engineer
12 45 (4.96%) Principal Engineer
13 43 (4.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (23.35%) Spring
2 187 (20.59%) React
3 151 (16.63%) AngularJS
4 106 (11.67%) HTML
5 104 (11.45%) J2EE
5 104 (11.45%) Node.js
6 99 (10.90%) JMS
7 97 (10.68%) Kafka
8 91 (10.02%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 84 (9.25%) CSS
10 81 (8.92%) Spring Boot
11 74 (8.15%) Hibernate
12 67 (7.38%) jQuery
13 65 (7.16%) JSON
14 58 (6.39%) Web Services
15 44 (4.85%) XML
16 43 (4.74%) GraphQL
17 40 (4.41%) HTML5
18 39 (4.30%) JavaBeans
19 37 (4.07%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 156 (17.18%) Onboarding
2 116 (12.78%) Cloud Native
3 106 (11.67%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.74%) Legacy Code
5 35 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
6 33 (3.63%) Public Cloud
7 15 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 14 (1.54%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
10 9 (0.99%) Augmented Reality
10 9 (0.99%) Virtual Reality
11 7 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (0.66%) Credit Risk
12 6 (0.66%) Product Ownership
13 5 (0.55%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.33%) Distributed Systems
15 2 (0.22%) Video\Live Streaming
16 1 (0.11%) Life Science
16 1 (0.11%) Verilog
16 1 (0.11%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 106 (11.67%) Unix
2 48 (5.29%) Linux
3 24 (2.64%) Android
4 2 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 827 (91.08%) Software Engineering
2 774 (85.24%) Agile
3 767 (84.47%) CI/CD
4 746 (82.16%) Visualisation
5 738 (81.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 726 (79.96%) SDLC
7 669 (73.68%) Community of Practice
8 656 (72.25%) Operational Stability
9 628 (69.16%) Artificial Intelligence
10 609 (67.07%) Machine Learning
11 471 (51.87%) Risk Management
12 153 (16.85%) Client Onboarding
13 142 (15.64%) Full Stack Development
14 122 (13.44%) KYC
15 109 (12.00%) TDD
16 108 (11.89%) Microservices
17 103 (11.34%) Test Automation
18 96 (10.57%) Open Source
19 86 (9.47%) Batch Processing
20 85 (9.36%) OO
Programming Languages
1 573 (63.11%) Java
2 417 (45.93%) Python
3 394 (43.39%) SQL
4 139 (15.31%) JavaScript
5 125 (13.77%) PL/SQL
6 89 (9.80%) TypeScript
7 74 (8.15%) Scala
8 46 (5.07%) Go
9 36 (3.96%) MATLAB
10 24 (2.64%) Bash
10 24 (2.64%) Kotlin
11 22 (2.42%) C#
12 17 (1.87%) C++
13 14 (1.54%) C
14 12 (1.32%) Rust
15 7 (0.77%) Haskell
15 7 (0.77%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.55%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 47 (5.18%) Degree
2 21 (2.31%) PhD
3 19 (2.09%) Master's Degree
4 14 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.55%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.44%) QA
3 3 (0.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (9.47%) HDFS
2 39 (4.30%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 121 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 119 (13.11%) Terraform
3 45 (4.96%) Grafana
4 34 (3.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 174 (19.16%) Databricks
2 106 (11.67%) Oracle
3 86 (9.47%) Informatica
4 70 (7.71%) Google
5 56 (6.17%) Cloudera
6 45 (4.96%) Dynatrace
6 45 (4.96%) Splunk
7 37 (4.07%) Alteryx
8 23 (2.53%) Dell
9 11 (1.21%) Microsoft
10 8 (0.88%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.11%) IBM
11 1 (0.11%) Intel
11 1 (0.11%) Keysight
11 1 (0.11%) Xilinx