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 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 76 65
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +16
Contract jobs citing Big Data 15 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.99% 0.13% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.11% 0.58% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
10th Percentile £356 - £394
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £409 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% -13.89% -17.39%
75th Percentile £413 - £489
90th Percentile £447 - £566
Scotland median daily rate £389 £436 £550
% change year-on-year -10.84% -20.77% -21.43%

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 185 173 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 24.50% 22.27% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 108 134
10th Percentile £313 £287 £288
25th Percentile £320 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £453 £445
Median % change year-on-year -10.61% +1.69% -11.00%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £509
90th Percentile £570 £589 £612
Scotland median daily rate £425 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -10.24% -0.32% -3.06%
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 (46.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (26.67%) Confluence
3 2 (13.33%) Apache
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 10 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) Power BI
2 6 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (26.67%) Metadata
4 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (6.67%) Flink
5 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Banking
3 5 (33.33%) Finance
4 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Data Integration Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Integration Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Kafka Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum Master
4 3 (20.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Power BI Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) UX Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Agile Scrum Master
6 1 (6.67%) Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Structures
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
3 4 (26.67%) Reference Data
3 4 (26.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) ETL
2 12 (80.00%) Data Engineering
3 10 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (66.67%) Data Integration
4 9 (60.00%) Analytics
4 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (53.33%) AI
5 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (53.33%) User Experience
5 8 (53.33%) Visualisation
6 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (46.67%) Use Case
7 6 (40.00%) Agile
7 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (40.00%) Machine Learning
8 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
8 5 (33.33%) DevOps
8 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
9 4 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 4 (26.67%) Sprint Backlog
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
1 4 (26.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow