Senior Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Senior Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Data Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.54% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Scotland median daily rate £463 - £575

All Contract 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 690 674 835
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 89.99% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 447 569
10th Percentile £245 £267 £325
25th Percentile £364 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £623
90th Percentile £625 £651 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £17.78 £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £22.39 £16.75 £14.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +28.38% +16.96% +11.67%
75th Percentile £37.70 £24.18 £19.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £37.70 £41.00
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £22.55 £19.75
% change year-on-year +6.85% +14.15% +11.46%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend 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 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Senior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Python

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) Application Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Event Correlation
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Ab Initio
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) IBM