Data Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +10 -2 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 8 15 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 1.00% 1.69% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 1.78% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 11
10th Percentile £191 £413 £330
25th Percentile £305 £464 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £457 £584 £503
90th Percentile £486 £590 £542
Scotland median daily rate £453 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -9.40% - +11.11%

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 760 845 895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.76% 95.05% 96.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 517 598 684
10th Percentile £260 £336 £213
25th Percentile £363 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £538
90th Percentile £623 £676 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 21 18
10th Percentile £11.85 £12.13 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £13.16 £23.77
Median hourly rate £40.94 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +182.34% -61.26% +66.36%
75th Percentile £55.63 £47.73 £43.36
90th Percentile £70.00 £60.55 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
% change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Glasgow

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 2024, 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) MLOps
2 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
2 3 (37.50%) GitOps
2 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) Scala
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lineage
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Base SAS
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) DTS
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (12.50%) iPad
2 1 (12.50%) iPhone
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) DataOps
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) GitOps
2 3 (37.50%) MLOps
3 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lineage
4 1 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
4 1 (12.50%) SIEM
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) UEBA
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) Scala
2 1 (12.50%) SAS Macro
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) CISSP
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft