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 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 83 165 166
Rank change year-on-year +82 +1 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 300 43 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.39% 0.99% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.52% 1.10% 1.60%
Number of salaries quoted 41 31 42
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £32,625
25th Percentile £59,750 £49,375 £42,335
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £52,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +13.74% -6.22%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £65,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £74,375
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 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
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 1 June 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 1 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 +50 268 £65,000 -2.99% 5
Edinburgh +25 19 £65,000 +8.33% 18
Lanarkshire - 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 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 Scotland region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 244 (81.33%) Agile
2 242 (80.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 240 (80.00%) CI/CD
4 236 (78.67%) Law
5 234 (78.00%) Software Engineering
6 229 (76.33%) Finance
7 205 (68.33%) Python
8 198 (66.00%) Big Data
9 196 (65.33%) AWS
10 189 (63.00%) SDLC
11 188 (62.67%) Operational Stability
12 185 (61.67%) Apache Spark
13 173 (57.67%) Community of Practice
14 172 (57.33%) Legal
15 159 (53.00%) Risk Management
16 135 (45.00%) Artificial Intelligence
16 135 (45.00%) Machine Learning
17 133 (44.33%) Algorithms
18 128 (42.67%) Visualisation
19 124 (41.33%) SQL
20 121 (40.33%) PySpark
21 119 (39.67%) Continuous Improvement
22 111 (37.00%) Cloud Native
23 104 (34.67%) Java
24 81 (27.00%) Data Modelling
25 79 (26.33%) Apache Airflow
26 70 (23.33%) Databricks
26 70 (23.33%) Marketing
27 65 (21.67%) Azure
28 63 (21.00%) 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
1 185 (61.67%) Apache Spark
2 79 (26.33%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 196 (65.33%) AWS
2 65 (21.67%) Azure
3 54 (18.00%) GCP
4 12 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (2.67%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.67%) SaaS
8 4 (1.33%) IaaS
8 4 (1.33%) PaaS
9 2 (0.67%) Fivetran
10 1 (0.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.33%) DSL
2 4 (1.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (66.00%) Big Data
2 63 (21.00%) Data Lake
3 58 (19.33%) Hadoop
4 44 (14.67%) Apache Hive
5 39 (13.00%) NoSQL
5 39 (13.00%) Qlik Sense
6 30 (10.00%) HBase
7 18 (6.00%) Tableau
8 16 (5.33%) DB2
8 16 (5.33%) MongoDB
9 15 (5.00%) SQL Server
10 14 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (4.67%) Impala
11 10 (3.33%) BigQuery
11 10 (3.33%) Looker
12 8 (2.67%) Power BI
13 6 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (1.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 30 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (10.00%) Git
1 30 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 242 (80.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 236 (78.67%) Law
3 229 (76.33%) Finance
4 172 (57.33%) Legal
5 70 (23.33%) Marketing
6 25 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (5.33%) Banking
7 16 (5.33%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.33%) Investment Banking
8 15 (5.00%) Social Skills
9 4 (1.33%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (40.33%) PySpark
2 56 (18.67%) Kafka
3 41 (13.67%) Spring
3 41 (13.67%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.67%) CSS
4 2 (0.67%) GraphQL
4 2 (0.67%) HTML
4 2 (0.67%) REST
4 2 (0.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 133 (44.33%) Algorithms
2 111 (37.00%) Cloud Native
3 46 (15.33%) Onboarding
4 41 (13.67%) Legacy Code
5 30 (10.00%) Public Cloud
6 23 (7.67%) Management Information System
7 22 (7.33%) Product Ownership
8 10 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.67%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.33%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.00%) Unix
2 2 (0.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (81.33%) Agile
2 240 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 234 (78.00%) Software Engineering
4 189 (63.00%) SDLC
5 188 (62.67%) Operational Stability
6 173 (57.67%) Community of Practice
7 159 (53.00%) Risk Management
8 135 (45.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 135 (45.00%) Machine Learning
9 128 (42.67%) Visualisation
10 119 (39.67%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (27.00%) Data Modelling
12 52 (17.33%) Data Pipeline
13 51 (17.00%) Mentoring
14 46 (15.33%) Client Onboarding
14 46 (15.33%) KYC
14 46 (15.33%) Test Automation
15 43 (14.33%) Analytics
16 41 (13.67%) ETL
16 41 (13.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (68.33%) Python
2 124 (41.33%) SQL
3 104 (34.67%) Java
4 47 (15.67%) PL/SQL
5 32 (10.67%) Scala
6 4 (1.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.33%) R
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) C++
7 1 (0.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (2.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (10.33%) SLA
2 9 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.00%) GDPR
3 3 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 30 (10.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 55 (18.33%) Kubernetes
2 30 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (23.33%) Databricks
2 55 (18.33%) Alteryx
3 31 (10.33%) Informatica
4 19 (6.33%) Oracle
5 16 (5.33%) Cognos
5 16 (5.33%) Sybase
6 14 (4.67%) Google
7 8 (2.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (0.67%) Splunk
9 1 (0.33%) Teradata