Data Development Contracts in Glasgow

Data Development
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Development 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.41% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £325 - £484

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 669 623 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.27% 90.03% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 443 519
10th Percentile £300 £246 £338
25th Percentile £363 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £588 £650 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 29
10th Percentile £15.82 £15.38 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% +67.28% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.68 £57.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £32.47 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
% change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -4.01%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Data Development 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
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

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