Data Lake Jobs in Scotland

Data Lakes
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 155 226
Rank change year-on-year -53 +71 -62
Permanent jobs citing Data Lake 74 60 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.08% 1.40% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.25% 7.37% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 23
10th Percentile - £55,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £56,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £67,224 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.21% +26.84% -24.29%
75th Percentile £75,875 £79,536 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,625 £85,000 £69,250
UK median annual salary £90,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% +3.57%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,740 814 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.44% 19.01% 18.72%
Number of salaries quoted 454 468 591
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £44,785 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,063 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £84,339 £75,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Lake in Scotland

Data Lake
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 Lake within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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 63 £47,500 -16.67%
Edinburgh -8 6 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Lanarkshire -9 1 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Data Lake
UK

Data Lake
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 14 (18.92%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 66 (89.19%) AWS
2 57 (77.03%) Azure
3 48 (64.86%) GCP
4 5 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.51%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (52.70%) Qlik Sense
2 17 (22.97%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (18.92%) Big Data
4 10 (13.51%) DB2
4 10 (13.51%) MongoDB
4 10 (13.51%) Tableau
5 9 (12.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 5 (6.76%) Power BI
6 5 (6.76%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (4.05%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.35%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.35%) Looker
General
1 63 (85.14%) Finance
2 57 (77.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (72.97%) Law
4 39 (52.70%) Legal
5 14 (18.92%) Marketing
6 11 (14.86%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (13.51%) Banking
7 10 (13.51%) Financial Institution
7 10 (13.51%) Investment Banking
8 8 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.70%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.35%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.35%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (78.38%) Data Engineer
2 43 (58.11%) Software Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) Senior
4 10 (13.51%) Software Engineering Director
5 9 (12.16%) Consultant
5 9 (12.16%) Senior Consultant
6 8 (10.81%) Data Consultant
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Technology Consultant
6 8 (10.81%) Technology Consultant
7 7 (9.46%) Lead
8 4 (5.41%) Lead Software Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (4.05%) Architect
9 3 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Data Manager
10 2 (2.70%) Engineering Manager
10 2 (2.70%) Junior
10 2 (2.70%) Junior Architect
10 2 (2.70%) Junior Technical Architect
10 2 (2.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (52.70%) PySpark
2 10 (13.51%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 42 (56.76%) Algorithms
2 39 (52.70%) Onboarding
3 12 (16.22%) Cloud Native
4 10 (13.51%) Management Information System
4 10 (13.51%) Product Ownership
4 10 (13.51%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.35%) IoT
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (77.03%) Agile
1 57 (77.03%) Artificial Intelligence
2 54 (72.97%) SDLC
3 53 (71.62%) Operational Stability
3 53 (71.62%) Software Engineering
4 52 (70.27%) CI/CD
5 49 (66.22%) Community of Practice
5 49 (66.22%) Machine Learning
6 43 (58.11%) Visualisation
7 40 (54.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (52.70%) Client Onboarding
8 39 (52.70%) KYC
8 39 (52.70%) OO
8 39 (52.70%) Risk Management
9 20 (27.03%) Data Pipeline
10 19 (25.68%) Analytics
11 16 (21.62%) Data Modelling
12 15 (20.27%) Decision-Making
13 14 (18.92%) ETL
14 13 (17.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 54 (72.97%) Java
1 54 (72.97%) Python
2 21 (28.38%) SQL
3 11 (14.86%) Scala
4 10 (13.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) AWS Certification
1 8 (10.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) SLA
2 8 (10.81%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.41%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 49 (66.22%) Alteryx
2 18 (24.32%) Databricks
3 10 (13.51%) Cognos
3 10 (13.51%) Oracle
3 10 (13.51%) Sybase
4 5 (6.76%) Google
5 4 (5.41%) Microsoft