Big Data Jobs in Scotland

Big Data
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 60 106 109
Rank change year-on-year +46 +3 +10
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 303 113 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.32% 2.98% 2.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 22.61% 14.68% 13.09%
Number of salaries quoted 14 42 33
10th Percentile £46,250 £58,994 £31,000
25th Percentile £48,478 £64,356 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £100,313 £77,253 £72,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £74,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +14.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,340 770 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.52% 20.30% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 355 483 589
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,654 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +4.83% +15.79%
75th Percentile £64,875 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £82,548 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Scotland

Big Data
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Scotland

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Scotland

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

Salary histogram for Big Data in Scotland

Big Data
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data 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 +21 288 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Edinburgh +3 11 £95,000 +40.46% 1
Midlothian - 3 - -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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
1 287 (94.72%) Apache Spark
2 61 (20.13%) Apache Airflow
3 59 (19.47%) Apache
4 2 (0.66%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 209 (68.98%) AWS
2 33 (10.89%) Amazon SQS
3 29 (9.57%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
3 29 (9.57%) Amazon EKS
3 29 (9.57%) Amazon EMR
3 29 (9.57%) AWS Lambda
3 29 (9.57%) Serverless
4 12 (3.96%) Azure
5 11 (3.63%) GCP
6 7 (2.31%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.31%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.32%) Google Docs
7 4 (1.32%) Lucidchart
7 4 (1.32%) Miro
7 4 (1.32%) SaaS
7 4 (1.32%) Slack
8 3 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.99%) Firewall
1 3 (0.99%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (59.08%) NoSQL
2 99 (32.67%) Hadoop
3 44 (14.52%) Apache Hive
4 30 (9.90%) HBase
5 29 (9.57%) Electronic Patient Records
6 14 (4.62%) Impala
7 5 (1.65%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.32%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.32%) Power BI
8 4 (1.32%) Redis
8 4 (1.32%) Scylla
9 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.33%) Metadata
9 1 (0.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (9.90%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (9.90%) Git
1 30 (9.90%) Jenkins
General
1 280 (92.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 278 (91.75%) Finance
3 275 (90.76%) Law
4 140 (46.20%) Marketing
5 135 (44.55%) Legal
6 93 (30.69%) Influencing Skills
7 33 (10.89%) Financial Institution
8 14 (4.62%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.32%) Banking
10 3 (0.99%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Games
11 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 248 (81.85%) Software Engineer
2 242 (79.87%) Big Data Engineer
2 242 (79.87%) Big Data Software Engineer
3 131 (43.23%) Data Engineer
4 116 (38.28%) Scala Engineer
4 116 (38.28%) Scala Software Engineer
5 95 (31.35%) Lead
5 95 (31.35%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 95 (31.35%) Lead Software Engineer
6 86 (28.38%) AWS Engineer
6 86 (28.38%) AWS Software Engineer
7 83 (27.39%) Java Engineer
7 83 (27.39%) Java Software Engineer
8 73 (24.09%) Python Engineer
8 73 (24.09%) Python Software Engineer
9 61 (20.13%) Java Scala Software Engineer
9 61 (20.13%) Lead Java Engineer
10 37 (12.21%) Senior
11 34 (11.22%) Lead Data Engineer
12 32 (10.56%) Big Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (20.13%) PySpark
2 33 (10.89%) Kafka
3 21 (6.93%) Spring
3 21 (6.93%) Spring Boot
4 4 (1.32%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.99%) MLlib
5 3 (0.99%) MXNet
5 3 (0.99%) NumPy
5 3 (0.99%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.99%) scikit-learn
5 3 (0.99%) SciPy
5 3 (0.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 104 (34.32%) Cloud Native
2 91 (30.03%) Algorithms
3 21 (6.93%) Legacy Code
4 20 (6.60%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 3 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.33%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.33%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.33%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.33%) IoT
7 1 (0.33%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.90%) Unix
2 5 (1.65%) Linux
2 5 (1.65%) Windows
3 3 (0.99%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.66%) Mesosphere
Processes & Methodologies
1 286 (94.39%) Software Engineering
2 283 (93.40%) Agile
3 256 (84.49%) SDLC
4 245 (80.86%) CI/CD
5 222 (73.27%) Operational Stability
6 138 (45.54%) Risk Management
7 123 (40.59%) Community of Practice
8 122 (40.26%) Performance Tuning
9 94 (31.02%) Artificial Intelligence
10 93 (30.69%) Machine Learning
11 89 (29.37%) Visualisation
12 83 (27.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 69 (22.77%) Mentoring
14 67 (22.11%) Coaching
15 59 (19.47%) Problem-Solving
16 41 (13.53%) Decision-Making
17 35 (11.55%) Technical Leadership
18 32 (10.56%) Continuous Delivery
19 31 (10.23%) TDD
20 30 (9.90%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 204 (67.33%) SQL
2 178 (58.75%) Java
3 168 (55.45%) Scala
4 113 (37.29%) Python
5 30 (9.90%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.32%) Bash
6 4 (1.32%) Go
7 2 (0.66%) C++
8 1 (0.33%) C
8 1 (0.33%) Fortran
8 1 (0.33%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (3.30%) Degree
2 4 (1.32%) PhD
3 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
3 3 (0.99%) CCNA
3 3 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
3 3 (0.99%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (0.66%) AWS Certification
4 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.33%) CISSP
5 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.33%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.62%) SLA
2 6 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 30 (9.90%) HDFS
2 2 (0.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 36 (11.88%) Kubernetes
2 33 (10.89%) Terraform
3 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.66%) Ansible
4 2 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (13.53%) Databricks
2 30 (9.90%) Informatica
3 8 (2.64%) Google
4 7 (2.31%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.32%) Dell
6 3 (0.99%) Cisco
6 3 (0.99%) Citrix
7 2 (0.66%) VMware
8 1 (0.33%) IBM
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle
8 1 (0.33%) Teradata