Data Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Data Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 71 79
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 11 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.25% 1.25% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 1.36% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 2
10th Percentile £344 £433 £449
25th Percentile £377 £439 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £453 £476
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -4.73% +5.67%
75th Percentile £540 £457 £511
90th Percentile £584 £460 £524
Scotland median daily rate £475 £453 £490
% change year-on-year +4.86% -7.55% -4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £35.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Data Engineering 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 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Glasgow

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Glasgow

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Glasgow

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAI