Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Senior Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

As of 7 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Glasgow.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 - 73
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.14% - 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £586
25th Percentile - - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £590
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 £445 £590
% change year-on-year +3.93% -24.58% -21.33%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 696 660 810
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 93.75% 94.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 465 545
10th Percentile £265 £230 £325
25th Percentile £361 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -9.40% +6.27%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £575
90th Percentile £593 £652 £675
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.00% -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 25
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.48 £13.13
Median hourly rate £23.75 £21.87 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.60% +50.83% -61.26%
75th Percentile £32.12 £41.66 £47.73
90th Percentile £58.50 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.40 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.64% +3.10% -8.54%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Glasgow

Senior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 7 September 2025, Senior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Application Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event Correlation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks