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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 66 61
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 +19
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 12 14
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.52% 1.64% 1.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.95% 8.57% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 13
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 £513
90th Percentile £529 £409 -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £390 £450
% change year-on-year +28.21% -13.33% -21.74%

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 168 140 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 25.45% 19.13% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 93 121
10th Percentile £313 £339 £363
25th Percentile £375 £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 £588
90th Percentile £575 £579 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £470 £500
% change year-on-year -1.06% -6.00% +2.56%
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% -7.14%

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 18 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 (60.00%) Apache
1 6 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Power Platform
1 6 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (60.00%) Hadoop
1 6 (60.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (70.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Modeller
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) REST
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (10.00%) Flask
3 1 (10.00%) Hugging Face
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) LangChain
3 1 (10.00%) LangGraph
3 1 (10.00%) Loki
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth
3 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 1 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) CMDB
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
1 9 (90.00%) Visualisation
2 8 (80.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Data Integration
3 6 (60.00%) ETL
3 6 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (50.00%) API Integration
4 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (40.00%) Clean Code
5 4 (40.00%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (40.00%) Sprint Review
6 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) ITSM
7 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
7 2 (20.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
1 1 (10.00%) logstash
1 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (60.00%) Databricks