Data Science Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Science
Scotland > Edinburgh

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 92 109
Rank change year-on-year +47 +17 -18
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 64 47 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 4.19% 2.54% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 2.66% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 31 33
10th Percentile £46,306 £51,833 £34,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% +11.30% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,858 £78,232 £75,000
90th Percentile £89,777 £87,419 £89,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year +3.70% +20.00% +12.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,343 1,766 2,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 87.84% 95.36% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 939 1,041 1,465
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £72,750 £77,715 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £89,852 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 14 (21.88%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) GCP
2 19 (29.69%) Power Platform
3 18 (28.13%) AWS
4 15 (23.44%) SaaS
5 14 (21.88%) Amazon S3
5 14 (21.88%) Amazon SQS
5 14 (21.88%) Google Docs
5 14 (21.88%) Lucidchart
5 14 (21.88%) Miro
5 14 (21.88%) Slack
6 10 (15.63%) Azure
7 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.69%) Power BI
2 17 (26.56%) Big Data
3 14 (21.88%) Elasticsearch
3 14 (21.88%) Hadoop
3 14 (21.88%) Redis
3 14 (21.88%) Scylla
4 12 (18.75%) Tableau
5 11 (17.19%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (4.69%) Data Vault
6 3 (4.69%) Looker
General
1 30 (46.88%) Finance
2 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Banking
3 11 (17.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Software Engineer
2 17 (26.56%) Principal Engineer
3 16 (25.00%) Data Manager
3 16 (25.00%) Data Science Manager
4 14 (21.88%) Engineering Manager
4 14 (21.88%) Principal Software Engineer
5 12 (18.75%) Senior
6 9 (14.06%) Data Scientist
7 7 (10.94%) Lead
8 6 (9.38%) Data Engineer
8 6 (9.38%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (7.81%) Analyst
9 5 (7.81%) Audit Analyst
9 5 (7.81%) Audit Manager
9 5 (7.81%) Data Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) Data Science Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
11 3 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
11 3 (4.69%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) GraphQL
1 14 (21.88%) Kafka
2 8 (12.50%) Pandas
3 5 (7.81%) XGBoost
4 3 (4.69%) PySpark
5 2 (3.13%) Django
5 2 (3.13%) jQuery
5 2 (3.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (34.38%) Data Structures
2 14 (21.88%) Algorithms
3 5 (7.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.56%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Software Engineering
2 22 (34.38%) Machine Learning
3 21 (32.81%) Analytics
3 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (31.25%) Agile
5 17 (26.56%) User Experience
6 16 (25.00%) Data Analytics
7 15 (23.44%) Data Engineering
8 14 (21.88%) Computer Security
8 14 (21.88%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 14 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (21.88%) High Availability
8 14 (21.88%) Threat Intelligence
8 14 (21.88%) UX Research
9 13 (20.31%) Natural Language Processing
10 9 (14.06%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (14.06%) DevOps
10 9 (14.06%) Statistical Modelling
10 9 (14.06%) Use Case
10 9 (14.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 39 (60.94%) Python
2 24 (37.50%) SQL
3 14 (21.88%) Bash
3 14 (21.88%) Go
3 14 (21.88%) Java
3 14 (21.88%) Scala
4 2 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (48.44%) Google
2 14 (21.88%) Dell
3 3 (4.69%) Databricks