Data Development Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Development skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Development 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.79% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile £435 - -
Scotland median daily rate £325 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Data Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 677 804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.89% 89.67% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 441 538
10th Percentile £299 £306 £348
25th Percentile £381 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Development relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Data Development job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Development
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Development.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Data Development

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Development in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in Glasgow

Data Development
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (83.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (83.33%) RDBMS
2 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) NumPy
1 6 (100.00%) Pandas
1 6 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (83.33%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Data Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Data Management
5 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 1 (16.67%) Data Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Sequence Diagram
5 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) PL/SQL
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 3 (50.00%) Cloudera