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 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 56 72
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 +7
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Engineering 14 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.89% 0.72% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 0.80% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £313 £445 £475
25th Percentile £344 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -9.40% -
75th Percentile £513 £460 £513
90th Percentile £563 - £550
Scotland median daily rate £465 £453 £500
% change year-on-year +2.65% -9.40% +1.01%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 674 624 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.20% 90.17% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 440 530
10th Percentile £300 £250 £336
25th Percentile £362 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -10.00% +6.27%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £588 £638 £675
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.22% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 28
10th Percentile £15.73 £15.80 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.59 £12.88
Median hourly rate £18.64 £40.94 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.48% +182.34% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.95 - £50.49
90th Percentile £35.60 £62.00 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £19.06
% change year-on-year +2.09% +2.81% -1.65%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Glasgow over the 6 months to 21 August 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
1 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (35.71%) Redis
3 4 (28.57%) Big Data
4 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
5 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (14.29%) RDBMS
6 1 (7.14%) DB2
6 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (7.14%) Neo4j
6 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) FastAPI
2 6 (42.86%) Kafka
3 5 (35.71%) Flask
3 5 (35.71%) LangChain
3 5 (35.71%) LangGraph
3 5 (35.71%) Loki
3 5 (35.71%) OAuth
3 5 (35.71%) OAuth2
3 5 (35.71%) PyTorch
3 5 (35.71%) RESTful
3 5 (35.71%) TensorFlow
4 4 (28.57%) Hugging Face
4 4 (28.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (14.29%) NumPy
5 2 (14.29%) Pandas
5 2 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 4 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Generative AI
2 8 (57.14%) Computer Science
3 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 6 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Blue-Green Deployment
4 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) GitOps
4 5 (35.71%) Microservices
4 5 (35.71%) ModelOps
4 5 (35.71%) Multithreading
4 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 5 (35.71%) Secure Coding
4 5 (35.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Use Case
4 5 (35.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 9 (64.29%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Grafana
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (35.71%) Prometheus
2 4 (28.57%) Kustomize
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Greenplum
1 1 (7.14%) OpenAI