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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 55 100
Rank change year-on-year -75 +45 -4
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 39 372 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.20% 5.76% 2.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 10.00% 23.69% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 41
10th Percentile £25,000 £46,250 £58,882
25th Percentile £25,078 £65,000 £64,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -65.83% +7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £76,385
90th Percentile - £101,250 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%

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 390 1,570 811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.95% 24.31% 19.81%
Number of salaries quoted 140 420 491
10th Percentile £36,000 £33,625 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £77,005 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £75,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +5.22% -8.00% +4.17%

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 10 July 2025.

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 10 July 2025. 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 -18 25 - - 1
Edinburgh +27 14 £25,625 -67.97% 7
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 21 (53.85%) Apache Spark
2 9 (23.08%) Apache
3 4 (10.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 5 (12.82%) Amazon S3
2 5 (12.82%) Snowflake
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 4 (10.26%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Dagster
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub
4 3 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (7.69%) Prefect
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Amazon Redshift
1 9 (23.08%) Apache Hive
1 9 (23.08%) Apache Iceberg
2 8 (20.51%) Hadoop
2 8 (20.51%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (12.82%) Apache Hudi
3 5 (12.82%) HBase
3 5 (12.82%) Parquet
4 4 (10.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (10.26%) DynamoDB
4 4 (10.26%) Impala
4 4 (10.26%) Redshift Spectrum
4 4 (10.26%) Relational Database
4 4 (10.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Gradle
1 5 (12.82%) JUnit
1 5 (12.82%) Maven
2 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 32 (82.05%) Finance
2 25 (64.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 25 (64.10%) Law
3 17 (43.59%) Banking
4 16 (41.03%) Marketing
5 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (12.82%) Social Skills
6 4 (10.26%) Investment Banking
6 4 (10.26%) Publishing
7 1 (2.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 27 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 13 (33.33%) Python Engineer
2 13 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
3 12 (30.77%) Lead
3 12 (30.77%) Lead Software Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Java Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) Senior
6 6 (15.38%) Analyst
6 6 (15.38%) Data Analyst
7 5 (12.82%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (12.82%) Data Scientist
7 5 (12.82%) Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Java Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Java Software Developer
7 5 (12.82%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (48.72%) Kafka
2 9 (23.08%) Spring
3 5 (12.82%) JPA
3 5 (12.82%) PySpark
3 5 (12.82%) REST
4 4 (10.26%) RESTful
4 4 (10.26%) Web Services
5 2 (5.13%) gRPC
6 1 (2.56%) LangChain
6 1 (2.56%) Pandas
6 1 (2.56%) React
6 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Cloud Native
2 7 (17.95%) Algorithms
2 7 (17.95%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (10.26%) Credit Risk
5 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.13%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.13%) Reference Data
5 2 (5.13%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (74.36%) Software Engineering
2 26 (66.67%) Agile
3 25 (64.10%) Operational Stability
4 21 (53.85%) SDLC
5 19 (48.72%) Analytics
6 18 (46.15%) Machine Learning
7 16 (41.03%) Community of Practice
7 16 (41.03%) Visualisation
8 14 (35.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (30.77%) CI/CD
10 12 (30.77%) TDD
11 11 (28.21%) Architectural Design
11 11 (28.21%) Information Architecture
11 11 (28.21%) Test Automation
12 10 (25.64%) Data Analytics
12 10 (25.64%) Storytelling
13 9 (23.08%) Decision-Making
13 9 (23.08%) Risk Management
14 8 (20.51%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 24 (61.54%) SQL
2 18 (46.15%) Python
3 16 (41.03%) Java
4 5 (12.82%) PL/SQL
5 2 (5.13%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) HDFS
2 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) Terraform
2 6 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Databricks
2 8 (20.51%) Oracle
3 5 (12.82%) Cloudera