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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 134 215
Rank change year-on-year +109 +81 -84
Permanent jobs citing Algorithms 814 81 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 11.79% 1.88% 0.72%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 25.91% 4.73% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 40 16 11
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £48,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.72% -31.07% +55.56%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £89,852 -
UK median annual salary £63,195 £74,000 £73,250
% change year-on-year -14.60% +1.02% +12.69%

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 3,142 1,711 3,140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 45.51% 39.63% 50.23%
Number of salaries quoted 871 732 1,138
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,977 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,529
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,875 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,419 £85,000
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 8 June 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 8 June 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 +48 755 £65,000 +41.30% 3
Edinburgh +56 45 £70,000 +42.86% 7
Aberdeen - 4 £51,250 - 1
Lanarkshire - 3 £80,000 - 1
Midlothian - 3 - - 1
Dundee - 1 £60,000 - 2
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
1 189 (23.22%) Apache Spark
2 51 (6.27%) Apache
3 21 (2.58%) FileNet
4 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.61%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.12%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 382 (46.93%) AWS
2 64 (7.86%) Azure
3 61 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
4 60 (7.37%) GCP
5 59 (7.25%) Amazon SQS
6 48 (5.90%) Serverless
7 47 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
7 47 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
8 46 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
8 46 (5.65%) Amazon EMR
9 43 (5.28%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (4.30%) Amazon S3
11 34 (4.18%) Datadog
12 25 (3.07%) Google Play
13 13 (1.60%) Google Docs
13 13 (1.60%) Lucidchart
13 13 (1.60%) Miro
13 13 (1.60%) SaaS
13 13 (1.60%) Slack
14 7 (0.86%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 240 (29.48%) NoSQL
2 151 (18.55%) Hadoop
3 144 (17.69%) Big Data
4 89 (10.93%) Apache Hive
5 81 (9.95%) HBase
6 53 (6.51%) Relational Database
7 46 (5.65%) Electronic Patient Records
8 42 (5.16%) Data Lake
9 40 (4.91%) Elasticsearch
10 39 (4.79%) Qlik Sense
11 21 (2.58%) Apache Cassandra
12 19 (2.33%) Redis
13 14 (1.72%) MySQL
14 13 (1.60%) Scylla
15 11 (1.35%) RDBMS
16 9 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.86%) SQL Server
18 3 (0.37%) Delta Lake
19 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
19 1 (0.12%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 109 (13.39%) Jenkins
2 96 (11.79%) Git
3 81 (9.95%) Bitbucket Server
4 66 (8.11%) JUnit
5 25 (3.07%) Android Studio
6 21 (2.58%) Cypress.io
6 21 (2.58%) Jasmine
6 21 (2.58%) Karma Test Runner
6 21 (2.58%) Protractor
6 21 (2.58%) Selenium
6 21 (2.58%) WebDriver
7 18 (2.21%) GitLab
8 9 (1.11%) Maven
9 6 (0.74%) Moq
10 2 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.12%) Artifactory
General
1 774 (95.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 749 (92.01%) Law
3 745 (91.52%) Finance
4 458 (56.27%) Legal
5 153 (18.80%) Marketing
6 116 (14.25%) Banking
7 99 (12.16%) Investment Banking
8 64 (7.86%) Social Skills
9 18 (2.21%) Front Office
10 17 (2.09%) Private Banking
11 7 (0.86%) Telecoms
12 6 (0.74%) Multimedia
13 3 (0.37%) Analytical Skills
14 2 (0.25%) Aviation
14 2 (0.25%) Electronics
15 1 (0.12%) Manufacturing
15 1 (0.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 751 (92.26%) Software Engineer
2 250 (30.71%) Java Engineer
2 250 (30.71%) Java Software Engineer
3 186 (22.85%) AWS Engineer
3 186 (22.85%) AWS Software Engineer
4 131 (16.09%) Python Engineer
4 131 (16.09%) Python Software Engineer
5 127 (15.60%) Data Engineer
6 120 (14.74%) Full Stack Engineer
6 120 (14.74%) Full Stack Software Engineer
7 118 (14.50%) Big Data Engineer
7 118 (14.50%) Big Data Software Engineer
8 78 (9.58%) Developer
9 70 (8.60%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 51 (6.27%) Database Developer
10 51 (6.27%) Database Engineer
11 46 (5.65%) Scala Engineer
11 46 (5.65%) Scala Software Engineer
12 37 (4.55%) AWS Database Engineer
12 37 (4.55%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (24.20%) Spring
2 181 (22.24%) React
3 141 (17.32%) AngularJS
4 106 (13.02%) HTML
5 102 (12.53%) Node.js
6 101 (12.41%) J2EE
7 96 (11.79%) JMS
8 92 (11.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 82 (10.07%) Kafka
10 81 (9.95%) CSS
11 73 (8.97%) Spring Boot
12 72 (8.85%) Hibernate
13 67 (8.23%) jQuery
14 66 (8.11%) JSON
15 51 (6.27%) Web Services
16 40 (4.91%) XML
17 39 (4.79%) HTML5
17 39 (4.79%) PySpark
18 35 (4.30%) JavaBeans
19 34 (4.18%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 146 (17.94%) Onboarding
2 106 (13.02%) Cloud Native
3 88 (10.81%) Data Structures
4 38 (4.67%) Legacy Code
5 28 (3.44%) Public Cloud
6 12 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
7 11 (1.35%) Reference Data
8 10 (1.23%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.86%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.74%) Augmented Reality
10 6 (0.74%) Product Ownership
10 6 (0.74%) Virtual Reality
11 5 (0.61%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
13 2 (0.25%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.25%) Video\Live Streaming
14 1 (0.12%) ASIC
14 1 (0.12%) FPGA
14 1 (0.12%) Verilog
14 1 (0.12%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 101 (12.41%) Unix
2 47 (5.77%) Linux
3 25 (3.07%) Android
4 2 (0.25%) Windows
5 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (94.96%) Software Engineering
2 732 (89.93%) Agile
3 729 (89.56%) CI/CD
4 701 (86.12%) Visualisation
5 696 (85.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 689 (84.64%) SDLC
7 641 (78.75%) Community of Practice
8 621 (76.29%) Operational Stability
9 595 (73.10%) Artificial Intelligence
10 577 (70.88%) Machine Learning
11 447 (54.91%) Risk Management
12 143 (17.57%) Client Onboarding
13 131 (16.09%) Full Stack Development
14 112 (13.76%) KYC
15 105 (12.90%) TDD
16 101 (12.41%) Microservices
17 93 (11.43%) Test Automation
18 88 (10.81%) Open Source
19 81 (9.95%) Batch Processing
20 80 (9.83%) OO
Programming Languages
1 524 (64.37%) Java
2 381 (46.81%) Python
3 363 (44.59%) SQL
4 133 (16.34%) JavaScript
5 118 (14.50%) PL/SQL
6 88 (10.81%) TypeScript
7 59 (7.25%) Scala
8 29 (3.56%) Go
9 25 (3.07%) Kotlin
10 18 (2.21%) C#
11 15 (1.84%) C++
12 14 (1.72%) Bash
12 14 (1.72%) C
13 11 (1.35%) Rust
14 6 (0.74%) Haskell
14 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.12%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (4.79%) Degree
2 20 (2.46%) PhD
3 18 (2.21%) Master's Degree
4 13 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.37%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (0.49%) QA
2 3 (0.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.12%) GDPR
3 1 (0.12%) JTAG
System Software
1 81 (9.95%) HDFS
2 37 (4.55%) Docker
3 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 109 (13.39%) Kubernetes
2 106 (13.02%) Terraform
3 42 (5.16%) Grafana
4 34 (4.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 164 (20.15%) Databricks
2 102 (12.53%) Oracle
3 81 (9.95%) Informatica
4 59 (7.25%) Google
5 51 (6.27%) Cloudera
6 42 (5.16%) Dynatrace
6 42 (5.16%) Splunk
7 39 (4.79%) Alteryx
8 13 (1.60%) Dell
9 10 (1.23%) Microsoft
10 4 (0.49%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.25%) IBM
12 1 (0.12%) Intel
12 1 (0.12%) Keysight
12 1 (0.12%) SAP
12 1 (0.12%) Xilinx