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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 71 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 9 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.15% 1.10% 0.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.88% 5.23% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 1
10th Percentile £355 £336 -
25th Percentile - £365 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £390 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -37.60% +20.19%
75th Percentile £400 £400 £638
90th Percentile £425 £409 -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £390 £625
% change year-on-year +2.56% -37.60% -

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 164 172 172
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 23.50% 21.00% 18.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 121 122
10th Percentile £313 £300 £313
25th Percentile £358 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £466
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -3.43% -6.80%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £531
90th Percentile £560 £582 £675
Scotland median daily rate £438 £460 £475
% change year-on-year -4.89% -3.16% -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 £21.64
% change year-on-year +88.68% +22.46% -38.17%

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 6 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (50.00%) Confluence
3 2 (25.00%) Apache
3 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Collibra
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (25.00%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Git
2 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Scrum Master
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Scrum Master
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Virtual Team
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (50.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (25.00%) CMDB
3 2 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (75.00%) Analytics
2 6 (75.00%) Data Architecture
2 6 (75.00%) Data Lineage
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
3 4 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 4 (50.00%) Coaching
3 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) ETL Development
3 4 (50.00%) Kanban
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) User Stories
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 2 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft