Data Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Data Engineer salary in Scotland is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 164 128
Rank change year-on-year +81 -36 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 303 58 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.51% 1.23% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.66% 1.37% 2.02%
Number of salaries quoted 35 32 54
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £41,434
25th Percentile £57,375 £51,875 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.21% -7.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £73,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.71% +14.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,505 4,245 5,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.17% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,309 2,967
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,530 £28,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,550 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +53 276 £66,250 -1.12% 6
Edinburgh +21 14 £65,000 +8.33% 10
Lanarkshire -6 4 £80,000 - 1
Aberdeen - 4 - - 2
Perthshire +6 2 - -
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 253 (83.50%) Agile
2 249 (82.18%) CI/CD
3 247 (81.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 245 (80.86%) Law
5 238 (78.55%) Finance
5 238 (78.55%) Software Engineering
6 210 (69.31%) Big Data
7 209 (68.98%) Python
8 200 (66.01%) AWS
9 196 (64.69%) SDLC
10 195 (64.36%) Operational Stability
11 191 (63.04%) Apache Spark
12 177 (58.42%) Legal
13 175 (57.76%) Community of Practice
14 164 (54.13%) Risk Management
15 141 (46.53%) Artificial Intelligence
15 141 (46.53%) Machine Learning
16 135 (44.55%) Algorithms
17 129 (42.57%) SQL
18 124 (40.92%) Visualisation
19 120 (39.60%) Continuous Improvement
19 120 (39.60%) PySpark
20 117 (38.61%) Cloud Native
21 107 (35.31%) Java
22 85 (28.05%) Data Modelling
23 80 (26.40%) Apache Airflow
24 77 (25.41%) Databricks
25 74 (24.42%) Marketing
26 62 (20.46%) Data Lake
27 61 (20.13%) Azure

Data Engineer Skill Set
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
1 191 (63.04%) Apache Spark
2 80 (26.40%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.99%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 200 (66.01%) AWS
2 61 (20.13%) Azure
3 50 (16.50%) GCP
4 12 (3.96%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (2.31%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.32%) IaaS
6 4 (1.32%) PaaS
6 4 (1.32%) SaaS
7 2 (0.66%) Fivetran
8 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.94%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (69.31%) Big Data
2 62 (20.46%) Data Lake
3 60 (19.80%) Hadoop
4 46 (15.18%) Apache Hive
5 42 (13.86%) NoSQL
6 37 (12.21%) Qlik Sense
7 30 (9.90%) HBase
8 19 (6.27%) Tableau
9 18 (5.94%) DB2
9 18 (5.94%) MongoDB
10 16 (5.28%) Impala
11 14 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
11 14 (4.62%) SQL Server
12 10 (3.30%) BigQuery
12 10 (3.30%) Looker
13 7 (2.31%) Power BI
14 5 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.99%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (9.90%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (9.90%) Git
1 30 (9.90%) Jenkins
General
1 247 (81.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 245 (80.86%) Law
3 238 (78.55%) Finance
4 177 (58.42%) Legal
5 74 (24.42%) Marketing
6 27 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (5.94%) Banking
7 18 (5.94%) Financial Institution
7 18 (5.94%) Investment Banking
8 14 (4.62%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.32%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (39.60%) PySpark
2 59 (19.47%) Kafka
3 43 (14.19%) Spring
3 43 (14.19%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.66%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.66%) REST
4 2 (0.66%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 135 (44.55%) Algorithms
2 117 (38.61%) Cloud Native
3 46 (15.18%) Onboarding
4 43 (14.19%) Legacy Code
5 34 (11.22%) Public Cloud
6 25 (8.25%) Management Information System
7 24 (7.92%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.64%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.32%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.32%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (83.50%) Agile
2 249 (82.18%) CI/CD
3 238 (78.55%) Software Engineering
4 196 (64.69%) SDLC
5 195 (64.36%) Operational Stability
6 175 (57.76%) Community of Practice
7 164 (54.13%) Risk Management
8 141 (46.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 141 (46.53%) Machine Learning
9 124 (40.92%) Visualisation
10 120 (39.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 85 (28.05%) Data Modelling
12 56 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
13 50 (16.50%) Mentoring
14 48 (15.84%) Test Automation
15 47 (15.51%) Decision-Making
16 46 (15.18%) Client Onboarding
16 46 (15.18%) KYC
17 43 (14.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 42 (13.86%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 209 (68.98%) Python
2 129 (42.57%) SQL
3 107 (35.31%) Java
4 49 (16.17%) PL/SQL
5 39 (12.87%) Scala
6 3 (0.99%) R
7 2 (0.66%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (1.98%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.55%) SLA
2 9 (2.97%) GDPR
3 8 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 30 (9.90%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 58 (19.14%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.90%) Terraform
Vendors
1 77 (25.41%) Databricks
2 55 (18.15%) Alteryx
3 31 (10.23%) Informatica
4 21 (6.93%) Oracle
5 18 (5.94%) Cognos
5 18 (5.94%) Sybase
6 13 (4.29%) Google
7 8 (2.64%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.33%) Teradata