Reference Data Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Reference Data
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Reference Data in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Reference Data over the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 78
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
Contract jobs citing Reference Data 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.30% - 0.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.76% - 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.88%
75th Percentile - - £388
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £358 £608 £375
% change year-on-year -41.12% +62.13% -26.47%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

Reference Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 264 273 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.34% 36.84% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 143 166
10th Percentile £237 £351 £236
25th Percentile £402 £400 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £478
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -5.76% -4.12%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £629
90th Percentile £675 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £484
% change year-on-year - -7.02% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 9
10th Percentile £15.72 £19.44 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.32 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +34.25% +69.33%
75th Percentile £50.00 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.87 £55.48 £27.10
Scotland median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.68% +20.97% +55.01%

Reference Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Reference Data job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Reference Data
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Reference Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Epics
1 2 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft