Big Data Contracts in Scotland

Big Data
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 161 112
Rank change year-on-year +48 -49 +6
Contract jobs citing Big Data 18 11 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.83% 0.40% 1.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.63% 1.86% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 35
10th Percentile £455 £506 £383
25th Percentile £475 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £700 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +40.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £575
90th Percentile £654 £778 £619
UK median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +77.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 389 590 572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.87% 21.37% 16.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 467 396
10th Percentile £324 £400 £360
25th Percentile £400 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £482
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +1.77% +13.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £655 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £13.33
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £37.07 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +34.62% -35.00%
75th Percentile £45.72 £67.66 £38.25
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £43.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Scotland

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Scotland

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Scotland

Big Data
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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 +16 9 £475 -17.39% 4
Edinburgh +34 8 £631 -15.83% 7
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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 4 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.11%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (11.11%) npm
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (22.22%) Parquet
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
3 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) DB2
4 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.56%) Flink
4 1 (5.56%) HBase
4 1 (5.56%) Impala
4 1 (5.56%) MySQL
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JMeter
1 3 (16.67%) LoadRunner
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.56%) Gradle
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
4 4 (22.22%) Financial Institution
5 3 (16.67%) Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Python Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Full Stack Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Database Developer
5 1 (5.56%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Power BI Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Apache Avro
1 4 (22.22%) PySpark
2 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 2 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (11.11%) React
2 2 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Clustering
4 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
2 5 (27.78%) Agile
2 5 (27.78%) Analytics
2 5 (27.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 5 (27.78%) Data Modelling
2 5 (27.78%) ETL
2 5 (27.78%) Machine Learning
2 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Metrics
4 3 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Scalability Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Security Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Test Management
4 3 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 3 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 3 (16.67%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) Java
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
4 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (5.56%) HDFS
2 1 (5.56%) KVM
2 1 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (5.56%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (5.56%) Nagios
3 1 (5.56%) Puppet
3 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Google
1 4 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) VMware