Data Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Data Engineer salary in Scotland is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 170 171
Rank change year-on-year +86 +1 -51
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 307 58 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.52% 1.30% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.66% 1.44% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 41 33 43
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £59,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.21% -7.83%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £73,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,588 4,015 5,795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.76% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 2,725 2,153 3,053
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Scotland

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 +56 275 £65,000 -2.99% 6
Edinburgh +24 19 £65,000 +8.33% 19
Lanarkshire -6 4 £80,000 -
Aberdeen - 3 - - 1
Perthshire +7 2 - -
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 Scotland region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 251 (81.76%) Agile
2 249 (81.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 247 (80.46%) CI/CD
4 243 (79.15%) Law
5 241 (78.50%) Software Engineering
6 236 (76.87%) Finance
7 211 (68.73%) Python
8 205 (66.78%) Big Data
9 202 (65.80%) AWS
10 195 (63.52%) SDLC
11 194 (63.19%) Operational Stability
12 189 (61.56%) Apache Spark
13 176 (57.33%) Legal
14 175 (57.00%) Community of Practice
15 163 (53.09%) Risk Management
16 140 (45.60%) Artificial Intelligence
16 140 (45.60%) Machine Learning
17 135 (43.97%) Algorithms
18 130 (42.35%) Visualisation
19 127 (41.37%) SQL
20 121 (39.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 121 (39.41%) PySpark
21 115 (37.46%) Cloud Native
22 108 (35.18%) Java
23 83 (27.04%) Data Modelling
24 79 (25.73%) Apache Airflow
25 74 (24.10%) Databricks
26 73 (23.78%) Marketing
27 65 (21.17%) Azure
28 64 (20.85%) Data Lake

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 (61.56%) Apache Spark
2 79 (25.73%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 202 (65.80%) AWS
2 65 (21.17%) Azure
3 54 (17.59%) GCP
4 13 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (2.61%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.63%) SaaS
8 4 (1.30%) IaaS
8 4 (1.30%) PaaS
9 2 (0.65%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.54%) DSL
2 4 (1.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (66.78%) Big Data
2 64 (20.85%) Data Lake
3 61 (19.87%) Hadoop
4 46 (14.98%) Apache Hive
5 40 (13.03%) NoSQL
6 39 (12.70%) Qlik Sense
7 30 (9.77%) HBase
8 19 (6.19%) Tableau
9 17 (5.54%) DB2
9 17 (5.54%) MongoDB
10 16 (5.21%) Impala
11 15 (4.89%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (3.26%) BigQuery
13 10 (3.26%) Looker
14 8 (2.61%) Power BI
15 6 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
16 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 4 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
18 3 (0.98%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (9.77%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (9.77%) Git
1 30 (9.77%) Jenkins
General
1 249 (81.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 243 (79.15%) Law
3 236 (76.87%) Finance
4 176 (57.33%) Legal
5 73 (23.78%) Marketing
6 26 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.54%) Banking
7 17 (5.54%) Financial Institution
7 17 (5.54%) Investment Banking
8 15 (4.89%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.30%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (39.41%) PySpark
2 57 (18.57%) Kafka
3 42 (13.68%) Spring
3 42 (13.68%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.65%) CSS
4 2 (0.65%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.65%) HTML
4 2 (0.65%) REST
4 2 (0.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 135 (43.97%) Algorithms
2 115 (37.46%) Cloud Native
3 47 (15.31%) Onboarding
4 42 (13.68%) Legacy Code
5 33 (10.75%) Public Cloud
6 24 (7.82%) Management Information System
7 23 (7.49%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.61%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.30%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.30%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.77%) Unix
2 2 (0.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (81.76%) Agile
2 247 (80.46%) CI/CD
3 241 (78.50%) Software Engineering
4 195 (63.52%) SDLC
5 194 (63.19%) Operational Stability
6 175 (57.00%) Community of Practice
7 163 (53.09%) Risk Management
8 140 (45.60%) Artificial Intelligence
8 140 (45.60%) Machine Learning
9 130 (42.35%) Visualisation
10 121 (39.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 83 (27.04%) Data Modelling
12 54 (17.59%) Data Pipeline
13 51 (16.61%) Mentoring
14 47 (15.31%) Client Onboarding
14 47 (15.31%) KYC
14 47 (15.31%) Test Automation
15 45 (14.66%) Decision-Making
16 44 (14.33%) Analytics
17 42 (13.68%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 211 (68.73%) Python
2 127 (41.37%) SQL
3 108 (35.18%) Java
4 48 (15.64%) PL/SQL
5 37 (12.05%) Scala
6 4 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.30%) R
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) C++
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (2.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (11.07%) SLA
2 9 (2.93%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.93%) GDPR
3 3 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 30 (9.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 56 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 30 (9.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (24.10%) Databricks
2 56 (18.24%) Alteryx
3 31 (10.10%) Informatica
4 20 (6.51%) Oracle
5 17 (5.54%) Cognos
5 17 (5.54%) Sybase
6 14 (4.56%) Google
7 8 (2.61%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.65%) Splunk
9 1 (0.33%) Teradata