Data Engineer Jobs in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Engineer salary in Glasgow is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 119 84
Rank change year-on-year +50 -35 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 268 5 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 6.73% 0.33% 2.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 6.85% 0.39% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23 5 19
10th Percentile £46,250 £52,743 £34,750
25th Percentile £50,625 £64,356 £41,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,003 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% +26.42% +32.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,649 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 - £66,250
Scotland median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% +13.74% -6.22%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 3,910 1,288 1,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.12% 85.75% 97.52%
Number of salaries quoted 923 629 861
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,833 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +13.40% +7.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 237 (88.43%) Agile
2 236 (88.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 234 (87.31%) CI/CD
4 233 (86.94%) Law
5 229 (85.45%) Finance
5 229 (85.45%) Software Engineering
6 196 (73.13%) Python
7 194 (72.39%) AWS
8 192 (71.64%) Big Data
9 188 (70.15%) SDLC
9 188 (70.15%) Operational Stability
10 185 (69.03%) Apache Spark
11 173 (64.55%) Community of Practice
12 166 (61.94%) Legal
13 159 (59.33%) Risk Management
14 135 (50.37%) Artificial Intelligence
14 135 (50.37%) Machine Learning
15 124 (46.27%) Visualisation
15 124 (46.27%) Algorithms
16 119 (44.40%) Continuous Improvement
17 118 (44.03%) PySpark
18 115 (42.91%) SQL
19 111 (41.42%) Cloud Native
20 101 (37.69%) Java
21 79 (29.48%) Apache Airflow
22 71 (26.49%) Data Modelling
23 70 (26.12%) Marketing
24 64 (23.88%) Databricks
25 59 (22.01%) Data Lake
26 56 (20.90%) Hadoop

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 185 (69.03%) Apache Spark
2 79 (29.48%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.49%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 194 (72.39%) AWS
2 51 (19.03%) Azure
3 46 (17.16%) GCP
4 11 (4.10%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (2.99%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.49%) IaaS
6 4 (1.49%) PaaS
6 4 (1.49%) SaaS
7 2 (0.75%) Fivetran
8 1 (0.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.97%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (71.64%) Big Data
2 59 (22.01%) Data Lake
3 56 (20.90%) Hadoop
4 44 (16.42%) Apache Hive
5 39 (14.55%) NoSQL
5 39 (14.55%) Qlik Sense
6 30 (11.19%) HBase
7 18 (6.72%) Tableau
8 16 (5.97%) DB2
8 16 (5.97%) MongoDB
9 15 (5.60%) SQL Server
10 14 (5.22%) Impala
11 8 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (2.99%) Power BI
12 6 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
15 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
15 3 (1.12%) Looker
16 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (11.19%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (11.19%) Git
1 30 (11.19%) Jenkins
General
1 236 (88.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 233 (86.94%) Law
3 229 (85.45%) Finance
4 166 (61.94%) Legal
5 70 (26.12%) Marketing
6 19 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.97%) Banking
7 16 (5.97%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.97%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.61%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.49%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (44.03%) PySpark
2 56 (20.90%) Kafka
3 41 (15.30%) Spring
3 41 (15.30%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.75%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.75%) REST
4 2 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 124 (46.27%) Algorithms
2 111 (41.42%) Cloud Native
3 46 (17.16%) Onboarding
4 41 (15.30%) Legacy Code
5 30 (11.19%) Public Cloud
6 19 (7.09%) Management Information System
6 19 (7.09%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.99%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (88.43%) Agile
2 234 (87.31%) CI/CD
3 229 (85.45%) Software Engineering
4 188 (70.15%) Operational Stability
4 188 (70.15%) SDLC
5 173 (64.55%) Community of Practice
6 159 (59.33%) Risk Management
7 135 (50.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 135 (50.37%) Machine Learning
8 124 (46.27%) Visualisation
9 119 (44.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (26.49%) Data Modelling
11 46 (17.16%) Client Onboarding
11 46 (17.16%) KYC
11 46 (17.16%) Test Automation
12 43 (16.04%) Mentoring
13 42 (15.67%) Data Pipeline
14 41 (15.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 40 (14.93%) Coaching
15 40 (14.93%) OO
Programming Languages
1 196 (73.13%) Python
2 115 (42.91%) SQL
3 101 (37.69%) Java
4 47 (17.54%) PL/SQL
5 31 (11.57%) Scala
6 3 (1.12%) R
7 2 (0.75%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.37%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (1.49%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.57%) SLA
2 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (11.19%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 55 (20.52%) Kubernetes
2 30 (11.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (23.88%) Databricks
2 55 (20.52%) Alteryx
3 31 (11.57%) Informatica
4 19 (7.09%) Oracle
5 16 (5.97%) Cognos
5 16 (5.97%) Sybase
6 7 (2.61%) Google
7 5 (1.87%) Microsoft
8 1 (0.37%) Teradata