Data Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Data Engineer salary in Scotland is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 75 174
Rank change year-on-year -80 +99 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 15 273 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.47% 4.15% 0.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 4.28% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 8 51 26
10th Percentile £40,250 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,188 £57,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,688 £80,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,685 6,379 3,778
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.39% 97.00% 90.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,249 2,918 2,090
10th Percentile £26,968 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £39,750 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,400 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 2 July 2025.

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 2 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
Edinburgh +14 10 £57,500 -14.81% 40
Glasgow -15 3 £52,500 -20.75% 20
Fife - 1 £50,000 - 2
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, 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 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (53.33%) ETL
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
4 6 (40.00%) Analytics
4 6 (40.00%) Python
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (33.33%) Data Science
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (33.33%) Azure
6 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Data Management
6 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
6 4 (26.67%) Agile
6 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
7 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (20.00%) Serverless
7 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
7 3 (20.00%) DevOps

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 3 (20.00%) Apache
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
4 3 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (13.33%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Hudi
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Flink
3 1 (6.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JUnit
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Law
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Electronics
5 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) NumPy
1 1 (6.67%) Pandas
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (53.33%) ETL
3 6 (40.00%) Analytics
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Data Science
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
5 4 (26.67%) Data Management
5 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (13.33%) Client Onboarding
7 2 (13.33%) Data Encryption
7 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) NIST
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) StreamSets