Data Engineering Jobs in Scotland

Data Engineering
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 162 126
Rank change year-on-year +44 -36 +51
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 30 121 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.05% 1.80% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.94% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17 34 37
10th Percentile - £58,664 £51,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £63,353 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +3.70% +17.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,000 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,644 6,252 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.25% 92.83% 94.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1,349 2,420 2,252
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,732
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.06% +9.97%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,853
90th Percentile £83,148 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Scotland

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Scotland

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Scotland over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Scotland

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 27 £55,000 -21.43% 14
Glasgow +111 3 £110,000 +37.50% 10
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (3.33%) SAS
3 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) Snowflake
3 3 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (3.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (3.33%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.00%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) MLflow
General
1 16 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Finance
3 9 (30.00%) Legal
4 7 (23.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 9 (30.00%) Data Manager
2 7 (23.33%) Data Science Graduate
2 7 (23.33%) Graduate
3 6 (20.00%) Analytics Manager
3 6 (20.00%) Data Analytics Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Engineering Manager
5 3 (10.00%) Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Architect
6 2 (6.67%) Data Scientist
6 2 (6.67%) Informatica Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Architect
7 1 (3.33%) Data Analytics Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Data Visualisation Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Power BI Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) PySpark
2 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (23.33%) Credit Risk
2 7 (23.33%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.33%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Analytics
2 16 (53.33%) Visualisation
3 15 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
4 14 (46.67%) Data Analytics
4 14 (46.67%) Data Science
4 14 (46.67%) Decision-Making
5 13 (43.33%) Agile
6 12 (40.00%) ETL
7 11 (36.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 11 (36.67%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (33.33%) Data Management
8 10 (33.33%) Machine Learning
9 8 (26.67%) Data Architecture
9 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (23.33%) Credit Risk Modelling
10 7 (23.33%) Customer Segmentation
10 7 (23.33%) Fraud Detection
10 7 (23.33%) Statistical Modelling
11 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) Python
2 13 (43.33%) SQL
3 2 (6.67%) R
4 1 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (3.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Degree
2 7 (23.33%) Master's Degree
2 7 (23.33%) PhD
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.33%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubeflow
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Databricks
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Informatica
4 1 (3.33%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Hitachi
4 1 (3.33%) StreamSets