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 15 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 76 54
Rank change year-on-year -4 -22 +11
Contract jobs citing Big Data 12 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.14% 0.93% 2.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.80% 3.32% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £331 £397 £316
25th Percentile £377 £429 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £474 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.14% -0.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £446 £525 -
90th Percentile £449 - £523
Scotland median daily rate £416 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -10.05% -2.63% -11.63%

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 207 211 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.62% 28.10% 18.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 115 96
10th Percentile £311 £300 £322
25th Percentile £320 £403 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £496 £425
Median % change year-on-year -18.95% +16.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £498 £574 £497
90th Percentile £584 £612 £575
Scotland median daily rate £425 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -13.09% +8.67% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - £17.45
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.26
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year - +180.76% -70.57%
75th Percentile - £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -9.09% +180.76% -69.57%

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 15 August 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 2 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (8.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Power Platform
1 10 (83.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (83.33%) Power BI
2 4 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (8.33%) Flink
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Git
General
1 9 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Data Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Data Integration Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Kafka Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Snowflake Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Power BI Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Python Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) UX Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Java Scala Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (91.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) AI
2 10 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 10 (83.33%) Data Integration
2 10 (83.33%) ETL
2 10 (83.33%) User Experience
3 9 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (75.00%) Use Case
4 8 (66.67%) Visualisation
5 7 (58.33%) Analytics
5 7 (58.33%) Machine Learning
6 5 (41.67%) Data Analytics
7 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 3 (25.00%) Data Design
8 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
8 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
9 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 1 (8.33%) Deployment Automation
10 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
2 10 (83.33%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SnowPro
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Databricks