Data Lake Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Lakes
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Lake skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 58 59
Rank change year-on-year -17 +1 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 6 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.82% 1.03% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.84% 5.43% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £329 £370 -
25th Percentile £353 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £725 £588 £575
90th Percentile - £655 £628
Scotland median daily rate £358 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -20.44% -10.00% -16.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

Data Lake 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 211 129 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 28.98% 18.97% 17.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 89 118
10th Percentile £313 £321 £400
25th Percentile £400 £356 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £425 £489
Median % change year-on-year +11.06% -13.00% -0.81%
75th Percentile £541 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £575 £638
Scotland median daily rate £494 £455 £480
% change year-on-year +8.46% -5.21% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £17.72 £62.84
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.92 £63.83
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £66.56
Median % change year-on-year +180.76% -70.57% +280.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 - £68.20
90th Percentile - - £68.53
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £19.59 £64.38
% change year-on-year +180.76% -69.57% +179.89%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Glasgow

Data Lake
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Lake
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lake in Glasgow over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lake in Glasgow

Data Lake
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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
2 2 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Python Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 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%) PySpark
2 2 (33.33%) NumPy
2 2 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 2 (33.33%) Data Development
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Memory Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Cloudera
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft