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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.39% 0.25% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.02% 1.12% 3.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £409 £481
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -15.01% -16.30%
75th Percentile £371 - £530
90th Percentile £389 - £594
Scotland median daily rate £389 £409 £600
% change year-on-year -5.01% -31.83% -14.29%

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 166 179 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.06% 22.13% 19.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 118 140
10th Percentile £313 £296 £310
25th Percentile £330 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £458
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -1.64% -8.50%
75th Percentile £525 £547 £534
90th Percentile £574 £589 £657
Scotland median daily rate £425 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -9.57% -1.05% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £36.50 £20.16 -
25th Percentile £38.75 £21.01 £51.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £23.05 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.42% -56.10% +50.00%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.71 £53.75
90th Percentile £48.50 £26.93 -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £26.50 £37.07
% change year-on-year +88.68% -28.51% +5.91%

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
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 7 (70.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (40.00%) Confluence
3 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (50.00%) Power BI
3 4 (40.00%) Metadata
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (10.00%) Flink
5 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum Master
3 3 (30.00%) Kafka Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (10.00%) Spring
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (40.00%) Reference Data
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Team
3 3 (30.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Data Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 5 (50.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 4 (40.00%) Agile Coaching
5 4 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (40.00%) Burndown Charts
5 4 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (40.00%) Data Science
5 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (40.00%) Epics
5 4 (40.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow