Data Ingestion Job Trends in Scotland

Data Ingestion
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Data Ingestion skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 144 195
Rank change year-on-year +7 +51 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Ingestion 4 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.14% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £53,250 - £48,500
25th Percentile £54,375 - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £100,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.50% +53.85% -21.52%
75th Percentile £59,375 - £73,750
90th Percentile £59,750 - £77,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £68,750 £75,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Ingestion 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 2,206 2,381 2,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.84% 92.90% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1,076 1,004 1,812
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,325 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £41,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,370 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Ingestion
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Ingestion relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Data Ingestion job vacancy trend in Scotland

Data Ingestion
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Ingestion.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Data Ingestion

Data Ingestion
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 Ingestion within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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 -11 2 - - 1
Glasgow - 2 £57,500 - 2
Data Ingestion
UK

Data Ingestion
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (50.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Compliance Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dataiku
1 1 (25.00%) Meraki
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft