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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 48 50
Rank change year-on-year -24 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 18 23
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.35% 2.58% 2.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.83% 13.95% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 23
10th Percentile £411 £317 -
25th Percentile £454 £341 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £387 £400
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% -3.25% -23.08%
75th Percentile £525 £399 £513
90th Percentile £531 £468 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £387 £450
% change year-on-year +29.20% -14.00% -13.46%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 207 129 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 27.97% 18.48% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 85 108
10th Percentile £313 £322 -
25th Percentile £386 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £408 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.11% -14.21% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £541
90th Percentile £643 £560 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile - £17.72 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 -
% change year-on-year +180.76% - -

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 4 (40.00%) Apache
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
1 4 (40.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Data Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Python Data Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Python Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) RESTful
2 4 (40.00%) FastAPI
2 4 (40.00%) Flask
2 4 (40.00%) Hugging Face
2 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 4 (40.00%) LangChain
2 4 (40.00%) LangGraph
2 4 (40.00%) Loki
2 4 (40.00%) OAuth
2 4 (40.00%) OAuth2
2 4 (40.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 4 (40.00%) PyTorch
2 4 (40.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) TensorFlow
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) AI Agents
1 4 (40.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
3 5 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (40.00%) AI
4 4 (40.00%) BDD
4 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) Data Governance
4 4 (40.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Information Security
4 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 4 (40.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Use Case
4 4 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Kustomize
1 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
2 1 (10.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
1 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Teradata