Data Science Jobs in Scotland

Data Science
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 178 97
Rank change year-on-year +53 -81 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 45 89 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.38% 1.38% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.56% 3.14%
Number of salaries quoted 19 29 45
10th Percentile £45,500 £46,600 £50,733
25th Percentile £53,125 £65,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% +11.30%
75th Percentile £83,738 £73,250 £80,627
90th Percentile £91,657 £79,450 £93,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Data Science 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 2,852 5,708 3,882
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.38% 88.72% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,365 2,443 2,042
10th Percentile £28,350 £28,300 £32,000
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £70,600
90th Percentile £80,750 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Scotland

Data Science
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Scotland

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Scotland

Data Science
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 Science within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 July 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 +10 33 £70,000 - 24
Glasgow +103 7 £55,000 - 15
Aberdeen +31 1 £45,000 - 5
Data Science
UK

Data Science
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 3 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
3 1 (2.22%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
3 7 (15.56%) Snowflake
4 6 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 6 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.89%) Serverless
6 3 (6.67%) GCP
7 2 (4.44%) AWS IoT
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.44%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Bluetooth
1 2 (4.44%) Ethernet
1 2 (4.44%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (4.44%) Modbus
1 2 (4.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (35.56%) Tableau
2 11 (24.44%) Power BI
3 6 (13.33%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Flink
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.67%) Git
General
1 25 (55.56%) Finance
2 24 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (24.44%) Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.11%) Law
5 5 (11.11%) Marketing
6 4 (8.89%) Electronics
6 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
6 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.89%) Telecoms
7 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (6.67%) Legal
8 2 (4.44%) Agriculture
8 2 (4.44%) Automotive
8 2 (4.44%) Front Office
8 2 (4.44%) Retail
8 2 (4.44%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (2.22%) Games
9 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Data Scientist
1 9 (20.00%) Senior
2 8 (17.78%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Data Manager
4 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 4 (8.89%) Implementation Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Data Scientist
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Software Integration Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Embedded Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Informatica Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) scikit-learn
2 6 (13.33%) Pandas
3 5 (11.11%) NumPy
3 5 (11.11%) PySpark
4 1 (2.22%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.22%) Kafka
4 1 (2.22%) LangChain
4 1 (2.22%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.22%) React
4 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.67%) IoT
2 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (4.44%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (4.44%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Analytics
2 21 (46.67%) Visualisation
3 17 (37.78%) Artificial Intelligence
3 17 (37.78%) Machine Learning
4 15 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (28.89%) Agile
6 12 (26.67%) Software Engineering
7 11 (24.44%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.00%) Business Strategy
8 9 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 9 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
8 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
9 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
9 8 (17.78%) Data Engineering
10 7 (15.56%) Generative AI
10 7 (15.56%) Risk Management
10 7 (15.56%) SDLC
10 7 (15.56%) Storytelling
11 6 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
11 6 (13.33%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (46.67%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (4.44%) Bash
3 2 (4.44%) C
3 2 (4.44%) C++
3 2 (4.44%) R
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.89%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.44%) GDPR
2 2 (4.44%) JTAG
2 2 (4.44%) NIST
3 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (4.44%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle
1 4 (8.89%) SAP
2 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) Informatica
3 2 (4.44%) NVIDIA