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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 205 157
Rank change year-on-year +49 -48 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 7 85 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 1.27% 1.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.94% 4.40% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1 11 15
10th Percentile - - £54,400
25th Percentile - £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £66,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% +2.31% +22.64%
75th Percentile - £95,032 £81,357
90th Percentile - £100,064 £85,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% +14.29%

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 361 1,930 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.76% 28.73% 19.07%
Number of salaries quoted 188 459 487
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,708 £75,250 £89,852
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

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
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 20 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 +15 5 £85,000 -10.65% 6
Glasgow +115 2 - - 8
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 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
3 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
3 3 (42.86%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (42.86%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Product Roadmap
3 3 (42.86%) Product Vision
3 3 (42.86%) Storytelling
3 3 (42.86%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Databricks