Data Lake Jobs in Scotland

Data Lakes
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 149 215
Rank change year-on-year -45 +66 -40
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 58 62 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.02% 1.63% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.33% 8.05% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 6 11 22
10th Percentile - - £31,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £61,180 £45,791
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £69,447 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.60% +26.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,625 £84,056 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,250 £85,000 £66,125
UK median annual salary £105,000 £76,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +38.16% +1.33% +7.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Lake 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 1,340 770 1,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.52% 20.30% 20.44%
Number of salaries quoted 355 483 589
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,000 £45,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,654 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +4.83% +15.79%
75th Percentile £64,875 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,886 £82,548 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
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 Lake within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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 -43 49 £47,500 -
Edinburgh -5 6 - -
Lanarkshire -10 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
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 4 (6.90%) Apache
1 4 (6.90%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 52 (89.66%) AWS
2 50 (86.21%) Azure
3 44 (75.86%) GCP
4 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) Alation
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.72%) Collibra
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (60.34%) Qlik Sense
2 16 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (15.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 5 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (8.62%) Power BI
5 4 (6.90%) Big Data
5 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.72%) Looker
6 1 (1.72%) Power Query
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 48 (82.76%) Finance
2 43 (74.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (68.97%) Law
4 35 (60.34%) Legal
5 8 (13.79%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Marketing
7 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (72.41%) Data Engineer
2 39 (67.24%) Software Engineer
3 13 (22.41%) Senior
4 8 (13.79%) Consultant
4 8 (13.79%) Data Consultant
4 8 (13.79%) Senior Consultant
4 8 (13.79%) Senior Technology Consultant
4 8 (13.79%) Technology Consultant
5 7 (12.07%) Lead
6 4 (6.90%) Lead Software Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Junior
7 2 (3.45%) Junior Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Junior Technical Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Technical Architect
8 1 (1.72%) Data Manager
8 1 (1.72%) Engineering Manager
8 1 (1.72%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (1.72%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (60.34%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (62.07%) Algorithms
2 35 (60.34%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.72%) Replication
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 43 (74.14%) Agile
3 40 (68.97%) Operational Stability
3 40 (68.97%) SDLC
3 40 (68.97%) Visualisation
4 39 (67.24%) Software Engineering
5 37 (63.79%) CI/CD
6 36 (62.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (62.07%) Machine Learning
6 36 (62.07%) Risk Management
7 35 (60.34%) Client Onboarding
7 35 (60.34%) Community of Practice
7 35 (60.34%) KYC
7 35 (60.34%) OO
8 12 (20.69%) ETL
9 11 (18.97%) Roadmaps
10 9 (15.52%) Workflow
11 8 (13.79%) Data Architecture
11 8 (13.79%) Presales
11 8 (13.79%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 40 (68.97%) Java
1 40 (68.97%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) SQL
3 1 (1.72%) C#
3 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) AWS Certification
1 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) QA
Vendors
1 35 (60.34%) Alteryx
2 7 (12.07%) Databricks
3 5 (8.62%) Google
4 3 (5.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.72%) Informatica
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle