Big Data Jobs in Glasgow

Big Data
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 37 73
Rank change year-on-year -14 +36 +17
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 8 517 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.52% 12.80% 3.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.92% 34.63% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 26
10th Percentile - - £64,356
25th Percentile - £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile - £89,375 -
90th Percentile - £101,250 £92,500
Scotland median annual salary £25,625 £71,788 £70,000
% change year-on-year -64.30% +2.55% +21.74%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Glasgow

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 101 1,493 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.20% 36.96% 18.66%
Number of salaries quoted 36 182 164
10th Percentile £33,125 £32,500 £37,725
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £44,949
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -12.50% +21.83%
75th Percentile £62,813 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £74,425 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Glasgow

Big Data
Salary Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Glasgow.

Salary trend for Big Data in Glasgow

Big Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Dagster
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 1 (12.50%) Prefect
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Iceberg
1 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (25.00%) HBase
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Parquet
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (12.50%) Impala
3 1 (12.50%) Redshift Spectrum
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Gradle
1 2 (25.00%) JUnit
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (100.00%) Law
2 5 (62.50%) Marketing
3 3 (37.50%) Banking
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 1 (12.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Python Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 3 (37.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Kafka
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) JPA
3 2 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (12.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 8 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) SDLC
3 5 (62.50%) Community of Practice
4 4 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) TDD
5 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
5 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
5 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (37.50%) Information Architecture
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (25.00%) Open Source
6 2 (25.00%) Parallel Processing
6 2 (25.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) HDFS
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle