Big Data Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Big Data
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 62 61
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Big Data 11 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.61% 1.64% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.79% 8.96% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 18
10th Percentile - £336 -
25th Percentile £375 £365 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £390 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -2.50% -23.08%
75th Percentile £525 £400 £500
90th Percentile £529 £409 £513
Scotland median daily rate £500 £390 £400
% change year-on-year +28.21% -2.50% -30.43%

All Database & BI Skills
Glasgow

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 190 134 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.78% 18.28% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 89 131
10th Percentile £313 £334 £363
25th Percentile £378 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £467
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -8.99% -7.52%
75th Percentile £525 £490 £553
90th Percentile £575 £576 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £468 £498
% change year-on-year -0.69% -5.88% +2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +155.23% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £30.75 £23.05 £19.50
% change year-on-year +33.43% +18.18% -15.22%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Glasgow over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Glasgow

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) Apache
1 6 (54.55%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (54.55%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
1 6 (54.55%) Snowflake
2 2 (18.18%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (54.55%) Hadoop
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
2 2 (18.18%) Redis
2 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Artifactory
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Investment Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Data Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Python Data Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) Python Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Modeller
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) REST
1 6 (54.55%) RESTful
2 2 (18.18%) FastAPI
2 2 (18.18%) Flask
2 2 (18.18%) Hugging Face
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) LangChain
2 2 (18.18%) LangGraph
2 2 (18.18%) Loki
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth
2 2 (18.18%) OAuth2
2 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (18.18%) PyTorch
2 2 (18.18%) TensorFlow
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
1 2 (18.18%) CMDB
1 2 (18.18%) Private Cloud
1 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) Visualisation
3 8 (72.73%) Data Modelling
4 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (54.55%) Data Integration
4 6 (54.55%) ETL
4 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (45.45%) API Integration
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (36.36%) Clean Code
6 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
6 4 (36.36%) Data Visualisation
6 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (36.36%) Sprint Review
7 2 (18.18%) Information Security
7 2 (18.18%) ITSM
7 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 2 (18.18%) Kustomize
1 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Kibana
2 1 (9.09%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 6 (54.55%) Databricks