Data Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Data Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 108 136
Rank change year-on-year +27 +28 -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 25 24 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.58% 1.33% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.41% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 22 21 19
10th Percentile £62,500 £45,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £48,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -9.84% -2.40%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile - £77,715 £80,500
Scotland median annual salary £66,500 £60,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +10.83% +13.21% -7.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 1,527 1,708 2,580
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.22% 94.63% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,075 1,018 1,593
10th Percentile £32,600 £35,000 £33,488
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,715 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,419 £85,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Edinburgh region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 10 (40.00%) Analytics
3 9 (36.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Network Security
4 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 8 (32.00%) Azure
4 8 (32.00%) Data Visualisation
4 8 (32.00%) SQL
5 7 (28.00%) ETL
6 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (24.00%) Data Science
6 6 (24.00%) Big Data
6 6 (24.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
8 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
8 4 (16.00%) Databricks
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (12.00%) Strategic Thinking
9 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
9 3 (12.00%) DataOps
9 3 (12.00%) Looker
9 3 (12.00%) GDPR
9 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
9 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Big Data
2 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (12.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (12.00%) Looker
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 6 (24.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Legal
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) CSS
1 3 (12.00%) HTML
1 3 (12.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (12.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Analytics
2 9 (36.00%) Software Engineering
3 8 (32.00%) Data Visualisation
3 8 (32.00%) Visualisation
4 7 (28.00%) ETL
5 6 (24.00%) Data Science
5 6 (24.00%) DevOps
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Data Architecture
6 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (12.00%) Agile
7 3 (12.00%) Change Management
7 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (12.00%) Data Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (12.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (12.00%) Data Management
7 3 (12.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Databricks
2 3 (12.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk