Data Lake Jobs in Scotland

Data Lakes
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Data Lake skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lake over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 177 201
Rank change year-on-year -21 +24 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 84 46 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.25% 0.99% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.32% 5.37% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 29
10th Percentile - £54,400 £39,200
25th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.62% +18.18% -22.81%
75th Percentile £100,064 £81,357 £70,000
90th Percentile - £85,000 £85,500
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% +14.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Lake is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,946 857 1,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 28.95% 18.50% 18.49%
Number of salaries quoted 475 481 577
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,800 £43,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +13.21% +11.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £89,852 £73,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -46 71 £47,500 -16.67% 1
Edinburgh +10 9 £95,128 +52.20% 5
Lanarkshire - 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 22 (26.19%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (90.48%) AWS
2 58 (69.05%) Azure
3 52 (61.90%) GCP
4 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (4.76%) IaaS
5 4 (4.76%) PaaS
5 4 (4.76%) SaaS
6 3 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.43%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (46.43%) Qlik Sense
2 23 (27.38%) Big Data
3 18 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (21.43%) DB2
3 18 (21.43%) MongoDB
3 18 (21.43%) Tableau
4 6 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.95%) Power BI
5 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 4 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.57%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.19%) Looker
General
1 73 (86.90%) Finance
2 66 (78.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (75.00%) Law
4 39 (46.43%) Legal
5 23 (27.38%) Marketing
6 22 (26.19%) Banking
7 19 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (21.43%) Financial Institution
8 18 (21.43%) Investment Banking
9 6 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.38%) Aerospace
10 2 (2.38%) Social Skills
11 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 65 (77.38%) Data Engineer
2 44 (52.38%) Software Engineer
3 18 (21.43%) Software Engineering Director
4 11 (13.10%) Senior
5 7 (8.33%) Architect
5 7 (8.33%) Consultant
5 7 (8.33%) Lead
5 7 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Data Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Senior Technology Consultant
6 6 (7.14%) Technology Consultant
7 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
7 4 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (3.57%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Data Manager
9 2 (2.38%) Engineering Manager
9 2 (2.38%) Junior Technical Architect
9 2 (2.38%) Microsoft Engineer
9 2 (2.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (46.43%) PySpark
2 18 (21.43%) Kafka
3 4 (4.76%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 42 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 39 (46.43%) Onboarding
3 20 (23.81%) Cloud Native
4 19 (22.62%) Product Ownership
5 18 (21.43%) Management Information System
5 18 (21.43%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.76%) Blockchain
6 4 (4.76%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.19%) IoT
8 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Unix
2 2 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (83.33%) Agile
2 67 (79.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 63 (75.00%) SDLC
4 62 (73.81%) Software Engineering
5 61 (72.62%) Machine Learning
5 61 (72.62%) Operational Stability
6 60 (71.43%) CI/CD
7 58 (69.05%) Community of Practice
8 44 (52.38%) Visualisation
9 40 (47.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 39 (46.43%) Client Onboarding
10 39 (46.43%) KYC
10 39 (46.43%) OO
10 39 (46.43%) Risk Management
11 27 (32.14%) Data Pipeline
12 26 (30.95%) Analytics
13 23 (27.38%) Data Modelling
14 22 (26.19%) Decision-Making
15 19 (22.62%) Business Intelligence
15 19 (22.62%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (75.00%) Python
2 62 (73.81%) Java
3 29 (34.52%) SQL
4 19 (22.62%) Scala
5 18 (21.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 6 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.43%) SLA
2 8 (9.52%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 18 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 57 (67.86%) Alteryx
2 25 (29.76%) Databricks
3 18 (21.43%) Cognos
3 18 (21.43%) Oracle
3 18 (21.43%) Sybase
4 5 (5.95%) Google
5 3 (3.57%) Microsoft