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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 71 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 -21 +1
Contract jobs citing Big Data 16 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.35% 1.37% 2.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.72% 4.74% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £289 £411 £315
25th Percentile £300 £454 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £500 £432
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +15.74% -4.00%
75th Percentile £445 £525 £475
90th Percentile £448 £531 £481
Scotland median daily rate £402 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -19.60% +5.26% -5.00%

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 238 211 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 20.15% 28.98% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 111 89
10th Percentile £313 £313 £321
25th Percentile £327 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £472 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% +11.06% -13.00%
75th Percentile £489 £541 £500
90th Percentile £576 £650 £575
Scotland median daily rate £430 £494 £455
% change year-on-year -12.87% +8.46% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £17.72
25th Percentile - £52.50 £18.92
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 £37.50 £55.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -31.82% +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 19 September 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Power Platform
1 10 (62.50%) Snowflake
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Power BI
2 4 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Flink
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (6.25%) Trino
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (56.25%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 5 (31.25%) Investment Banking
4 4 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (18.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Data Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Data Integration Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Kafka Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Snowflake Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Databricks Data Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Databricks Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Power BI Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) UX Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) DataOps Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Scala Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (68.75%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) AI
2 10 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 10 (62.50%) Data Integration
2 10 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (62.50%) ETL
2 10 (62.50%) User Experience
3 9 (56.25%) Use Case
4 8 (50.00%) Visualisation
5 7 (43.75%) Analytics
5 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
6 5 (31.25%) Data Analytics
7 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 3 (18.75%) Business Development
8 3 (18.75%) Contact Management
8 3 (18.75%) Data Design
8 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
8 3 (18.75%) Lead Generation
8 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
8 3 (18.75%) Telesales
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
1 3 (18.75%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Grafana
2 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Databricks