Data Science Contracts in Glasgow

Data Science
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 75 80 73
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 0
Contract jobs citing Data Science 4 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.45% 0.76% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.81% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £386 £354 £390
25th Percentile £421 £359 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.08% -7.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £497 £675 £534
90th Percentile £514 £855 £618
Scotland median daily rate £488 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +5.98% -12.38% +27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £35.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 824 869 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.86% 94.35% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 630 712
10th Percentile £281 £325 £257
25th Percentile £400 £410 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +9.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £538
90th Percentile £675 £712 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £465
% change year-on-year - +2.15% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 12
10th Percentile £13.75 - £17.85
25th Percentile £16.00 £10.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.13 £13.50 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +56.50% -58.97% +31.61%
75th Percentile £44.14 £35.00 £44.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £59.47 £49.39
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £31.50
% change year-on-year +9.11% -43.75% -27.59%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Glasgow

Data Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Science in Glasgow

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Glasgow over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Science in Glasgow

Data Science
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Insight Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Insight Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Insight Data Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Planner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Line Management
2 1 (25.00%) People Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft