Data Mining Jobs in Scotland

Data Mining
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 - 216
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 4 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.14% - 0.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.05% - 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £45,000
25th Percentile - - £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £66,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.85%
75th Percentile - - £75,000
90th Percentile - - £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -5.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Mining 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 381 1,948 862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.24% 29.05% 18.40%
Number of salaries quoted 202 481 484
10th Percentile £35,100 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,800 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,739 £76,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in Scotland

Data Mining
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Mining in Scotland

Data Mining
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 Mining within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 8 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 - 4 - - 5
Data Mining
UK

Data Mining
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 (25.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Fraud Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Fraud Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Information Security
1 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (50.00%) Operations Research
1 2 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Statistics
1 2 (50.00%) Tech Ops
2 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) New Relic