Big Data Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Big Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

As of 12 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Big Data Engineer daily rate in Scotland.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 - 169
Rank change year-on-year - - -10
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.046% - 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% - 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £400
25th Percentile - - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £750
75th Percentile - - £800
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £800 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +10.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,047 2,638 3,272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 95.48% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,870 2,322
10th Percentile £200 £232 £214
25th Percentile £363 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 44 53
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.86 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.19 £14.44 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.90 £22.13 £26.85
Median % change year-on-year +26.08% -17.60% -30.71%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.41 £48.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £68.38 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in Scotland

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in Scotland

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow - 1 - - 1
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Big 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 Scotland region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) HBase
1 1 (100.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) HBase
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Design
1 1 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (100.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk