Algorithms Jobs in Scotland

Algorithms
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Algorithms over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 143 199
Rank change year-on-year +118 +56 -76
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 879 87 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.15% 1.87% 0.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 27.32% 4.68% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 46 13 13
10th Percentile £49,375 £42,700 -
25th Percentile £54,063 £43,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.57% +47.37%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,852 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Algorithms is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,217 1,860 2,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 48.12% 39.93% 49.01%
Number of salaries quoted 848 793 1,079
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £29,600
25th Percentile £39,971 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £89,472 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Algorithms in Scotland

Algorithms
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 May 2024. 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
Glasgow +49 804 £65,000 +30.00% 4
Edinburgh +70 62 £70,000 +37.30% 10
Aberdeen - 4 £51,250 - 1
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 2
Midlothian - 3 - - 1
Algorithms
UK

Algorithms
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
1 219 (24.91%) Apache Spark
2 56 (6.37%) Apache
3 21 (2.39%) FileNet
4 7 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.57%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 427 (48.58%) AWS
2 77 (8.76%) GCP
3 74 (8.42%) Amazon SQS
4 69 (7.85%) Azure
5 66 (7.51%) Amazon ECS
6 54 (6.14%) Serverless
7 51 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
7 51 (5.80%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (5.80%) Amazon EMR
7 51 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
8 48 (5.46%) Cloud Computing
9 44 (5.01%) Amazon S3
10 34 (3.87%) Datadog
11 25 (2.84%) Google Play
12 23 (2.62%) Google Docs
12 23 (2.62%) Lucidchart
12 23 (2.62%) Miro
12 23 (2.62%) SaaS
12 23 (2.62%) Slack
13 9 (1.02%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (29.35%) NoSQL
2 179 (20.36%) Big Data
3 176 (20.02%) Hadoop
4 99 (11.26%) Apache Hive
5 86 (9.78%) HBase
6 59 (6.71%) Relational Database
7 51 (5.80%) Elasticsearch
7 51 (5.80%) Electronic Patient Records
8 42 (4.78%) Data Lake
9 39 (4.44%) Qlik Sense
10 30 (3.41%) Redis
11 23 (2.62%) Scylla
12 21 (2.39%) Apache Cassandra
13 14 (1.59%) MySQL
13 14 (1.59%) RDBMS
14 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (0.91%) SQL Server
16 3 (0.34%) Delta Lake
17 1 (0.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 114 (12.97%) Jenkins
2 104 (11.83%) Git
3 86 (9.78%) Bitbucket Server
4 66 (7.51%) JUnit
5 25 (2.84%) Android Studio
6 21 (2.39%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.39%) Jasmine
6 21 (2.39%) Karma Test Runner
6 21 (2.39%) Protractor
6 21 (2.39%) Selenium
6 21 (2.39%) WebDriver
7 18 (2.05%) GitLab
8 9 (1.02%) Maven
9 7 (0.80%) Moq
10 2 (0.23%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.11%) Artifactory
General
1 838 (95.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 798 (90.78%) Law
3 793 (90.22%) Finance
4 481 (54.72%) Legal
5 172 (19.57%) Marketing
6 122 (13.88%) Banking
7 99 (11.26%) Investment Banking
8 74 (8.42%) Social Skills
9 23 (2.62%) Private Banking
10 18 (2.05%) Front Office
11 8 (0.91%) Multimedia
12 6 (0.68%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.34%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.23%) Aviation
15 1 (0.11%) Electronics
15 1 (0.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 812 (92.38%) Software Engineer
2 270 (30.72%) Java Engineer
2 270 (30.72%) Java Software Engineer
3 196 (22.30%) AWS Engineer
3 196 (22.30%) AWS Software Engineer
4 137 (15.59%) Data Engineer
4 137 (15.59%) Python Engineer
4 137 (15.59%) Python Software Engineer
5 133 (15.13%) Big Data Engineer
5 133 (15.13%) Big Data Software Engineer
6 132 (15.02%) Full Stack Engineer
6 132 (15.02%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 90 (10.24%) Developer
8 80 (9.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 56 (6.37%) Database Developer
9 56 (6.37%) Database Engineer
10 51 (5.80%) Scala Engineer
10 51 (5.80%) Scala Software Engineer
11 37 (4.21%) AWS Database Engineer
11 37 (4.21%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 214 (24.35%) Spring
2 188 (21.39%) React
3 152 (17.29%) AngularJS
4 107 (12.17%) HTML
5 105 (11.95%) J2EE
6 104 (11.83%) Node.js
7 100 (11.38%) JMS
8 99 (11.26%) Kafka
9 92 (10.47%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 84 (9.56%) CSS
11 81 (9.22%) Spring Boot
12 75 (8.53%) Hibernate
13 68 (7.74%) jQuery
14 66 (7.51%) JSON
15 58 (6.60%) Web Services
16 44 (5.01%) GraphQL
16 44 (5.01%) XML
17 40 (4.55%) HTML5
18 39 (4.44%) JavaBeans
18 39 (4.44%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 158 (17.97%) Onboarding
2 117 (13.31%) Cloud Native
3 105 (11.95%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.89%) Legacy Code
5 33 (3.75%) Public Cloud
6 15 (1.71%) Management Information System
7 14 (1.59%) Reference Data
8 12 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (0.91%) Augmented Reality
9 8 (0.91%) Virtual Reality
10 7 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 7 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.68%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.57%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.34%) Distributed Systems
14 2 (0.23%) Video\Live Streaming
15 1 (0.11%) ASIC
15 1 (0.11%) FPGA
15 1 (0.11%) Life Science
15 1 (0.11%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 106 (12.06%) Unix
2 48 (5.46%) Linux
3 25 (2.84%) Android
4 2 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 834 (94.88%) Software Engineering
2 781 (88.85%) Agile
3 774 (88.05%) CI/CD
4 752 (85.55%) Visualisation
5 745 (84.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 733 (83.39%) SDLC
7 676 (76.91%) Community of Practice
8 663 (75.43%) Operational Stability
9 634 (72.13%) Artificial Intelligence
10 615 (69.97%) Machine Learning
11 475 (54.04%) Risk Management
12 155 (17.63%) Client Onboarding
13 143 (16.27%) Full Stack Development
14 124 (14.11%) KYC
15 110 (12.51%) TDD
16 109 (12.40%) Microservices
17 103 (11.72%) Test Automation
18 95 (10.81%) Open Source
19 87 (9.90%) OO
20 86 (9.78%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 577 (65.64%) Java
2 420 (47.78%) Python
3 395 (44.94%) SQL
4 140 (15.93%) JavaScript
5 125 (14.22%) PL/SQL
6 90 (10.24%) TypeScript
7 74 (8.42%) Scala
8 46 (5.23%) Go
9 25 (2.84%) Kotlin
10 24 (2.73%) Bash
11 22 (2.50%) C#
12 17 (1.93%) C++
13 14 (1.59%) C
14 12 (1.37%) Rust
15 7 (0.80%) Haskell
15 7 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.57%) Shell Script
17 1 (0.11%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 47 (5.35%) Degree
2 21 (2.39%) PhD
3 19 (2.16%) Master's Degree
4 14 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.34%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (0.57%) Accessibility
2 4 (0.46%) QA
3 3 (0.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (9.78%) HDFS
2 40 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 123 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 119 (13.54%) Terraform
3 45 (5.12%) Grafana
4 34 (3.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 174 (19.80%) Databricks
2 107 (12.17%) Oracle
3 86 (9.78%) Informatica
4 71 (8.08%) Google
5 56 (6.37%) Cloudera
6 45 (5.12%) Dynatrace
6 45 (5.12%) Splunk
7 39 (4.44%) Alteryx
8 23 (2.62%) Dell
9 11 (1.25%) Microsoft
10 8 (0.91%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.23%) IBM
12 1 (0.11%) Intel
12 1 (0.11%) Keysight
12 1 (0.11%) Xilinx