Big Data Jobs in Glasgow

Big Data
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 81 98
Rank change year-on-year +45 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 516 51 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.06% 3.25% 1.80%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 34.82% 18.55% 7.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 26 15
10th Percentile £46,250 £64,356 £39,195
25th Percentile £52,563 - £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% +36.84%
75th Percentile £95,313 - £81,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £92,500 £94,000
Scotland median annual salary £70,576 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.82% +21.74% +17.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,482 275 402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.50% 17.53% 25.02%
Number of salaries quoted 189 161 240
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,510 £33,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,654 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +15.31% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £64,063
90th Percentile £73,900 £75,000 £78,750
Scotland median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -11.67% +14.29% +10.53%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Glasgow

Big Data
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Big Data in Glasgow

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Glasgow over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Glasgow

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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
1 484 (93.80%) Apache Spark
2 114 (22.09%) Apache
3 80 (15.50%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.78%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.19%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 354 (68.60%) AWS
2 51 (9.88%) Amazon EC2
2 51 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
2 51 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
2 51 (9.88%) Amazon EMR
2 51 (9.88%) Amazon SQS
2 51 (9.88%) AWS Lambda
2 51 (9.88%) Serverless
3 16 (3.10%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (2.71%) Azure
5 8 (1.55%) GCP
6 6 (1.16%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.78%) IaaS
7 4 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.78%) PaaS
8 1 (0.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.19%) Datadog
8 1 (0.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.49%) DSL
2 4 (0.78%) Firewall
2 4 (0.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (59.88%) NoSQL
2 169 (32.75%) Hadoop
3 66 (12.79%) Apache Hive
4 51 (9.88%) Electronic Patient Records
5 37 (7.17%) HBase
6 22 (4.26%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.49%) DB2
7 18 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 18 (3.49%) Tableau
8 16 (3.10%) Impala
9 10 (1.94%) Flink
9 10 (1.94%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.58%) Power BI
11 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 43 (8.33%) Git
2 37 (7.17%) Bitbucket Server
2 37 (7.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.16%) Jasmine
3 6 (1.16%) Karma Test Runner
3 6 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 503 (97.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 500 (96.90%) Finance
2 500 (96.90%) Law
3 254 (49.22%) Marketing
4 227 (43.99%) Legal
5 161 (31.20%) Influencing Skills
6 72 (13.95%) Financial Institution
7 38 (7.36%) Banking
8 21 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
9 19 (3.68%) Investment Banking
9 19 (3.68%) Private Banking
10 4 (0.78%) Social Skills
11 3 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.19%) Games
Job Titles
1 419 (81.20%) Software Engineer
2 390 (75.58%) Big Data Engineer
2 390 (75.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
3 209 (40.50%) Scala Engineer
3 209 (40.50%) Scala Software Engineer
4 203 (39.34%) Data Engineer
5 176 (34.11%) Java Engineer
5 176 (34.11%) Java Software Engineer
6 149 (28.88%) Lead
6 149 (28.88%) Lead Software Engineer
7 148 (28.68%) Lead Big Data Engineer
8 144 (27.91%) AWS Engineer
8 144 (27.91%) AWS Software Engineer
9 119 (23.06%) Java Scala Software Engineer
10 96 (18.60%) Lead Java Engineer
11 95 (18.41%) Python Engineer
11 95 (18.41%) Python Software Engineer
12 56 (10.85%) Senior
13 53 (10.27%) Big Data Manager
13 53 (10.27%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (15.50%) PySpark
2 66 (12.79%) Spring
3 60 (11.63%) Kafka
4 53 (10.27%) Spring Boot
5 29 (5.62%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.94%) React
7 6 (1.16%) .NET
7 6 (1.16%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 6 (1.16%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (1.16%) CSS
7 6 (1.16%) HTML
7 6 (1.16%) jQuery
7 6 (1.16%) LESS
7 6 (1.16%) OAuth
7 6 (1.16%) OAuth2
7 6 (1.16%) RESTful
7 6 (1.16%) Sass
7 6 (1.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 196 (37.98%) Cloud Native
2 153 (29.65%) Algorithms
3 49 (9.50%) Public Cloud
4 43 (8.33%) Legacy Code
5 27 (5.23%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.07%) Product Ownership
7 13 (2.52%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (0.58%) IoT
11 3 (0.58%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.39%) Cyber Defence
13 1 (0.19%) Distributed Applications
13 1 (0.19%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 37 (7.17%) Unix
2 8 (1.55%) Linux
3 4 (0.78%) Mesosphere
3 4 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 500 (96.90%) Software Engineering
2 496 (96.12%) Agile
3 443 (85.85%) SDLC
4 431 (83.53%) CI/CD
5 397 (76.94%) Operational Stability
6 234 (45.35%) Risk Management
7 230 (44.57%) Performance Tuning
8 225 (43.60%) Community of Practice
9 193 (37.40%) Machine Learning
10 192 (37.21%) Artificial Intelligence
11 164 (31.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 158 (30.62%) Visualisation
13 122 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (18.80%) Decision-Making
15 96 (18.60%) Mentoring
16 94 (18.22%) Coaching
17 72 (13.95%) Data Modelling
18 71 (13.76%) Continuous Delivery
19 61 (11.82%) Technical Leadership
19 61 (11.82%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 374 (72.48%) SQL
2 359 (69.57%) Java
3 301 (58.33%) Scala
4 175 (33.91%) Python
5 55 (10.66%) PL/SQL
6 6 (1.16%) C#
6 6 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.16%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.16%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.19%) C++
7 1 (0.19%) Go
7 1 (0.19%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (2.52%) Degree
2 5 (0.97%) Azure Certification
2 5 (0.97%) CCNA
2 5 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
3 4 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (0.78%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (0.39%) CISSP
4 2 (0.39%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.59%) SLA
2 6 (1.16%) Accessibility
2 6 (1.16%) WAI
3 4 (0.78%) Data Quality
3 4 (0.78%) QA
System Software
1 37 (7.17%) HDFS
2 5 (0.97%) Docker
3 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 67 (12.98%) Kubernetes
2 41 (7.95%) Terraform
3 4 (0.78%) Ansible
3 4 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
3 4 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.78%) Progress Chef
3 4 (0.78%) Puppet
4 1 (0.19%) Grafana
4 1 (0.19%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 88 (17.05%) Databricks
2 37 (7.17%) Informatica
3 19 (3.68%) Oracle
4 18 (3.49%) Alteryx
4 18 (3.49%) Cognos
4 18 (3.49%) Sybase
5 8 (1.55%) Microsoft
6 7 (1.36%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.78%) Cisco
7 4 (0.78%) VMware
8 3 (0.58%) Google
9 1 (0.19%) Teradata