Data Strategy Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Data Strategy
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Strategy skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 62
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 3 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.45% - 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% - 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 15
10th Percentile £509 - £473
25th Percentile £514 - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.81%
75th Percentile £534 - £525
90th Percentile £538 - £648
Scotland median daily rate £525 £700 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +40.00% -37.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Data Strategy 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 573 668 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.30% 91.13% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 404 519
10th Percentile £302 £311 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +3.31%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £615
90th Percentile £638 £636 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +3.33% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 20
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.09 £18.77 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £58.71 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

Data Strategy
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Strategy relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Data Strategy job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Data Strategy
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Architect
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Data Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Microservices
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform