Data Engineering Contracts in Glasgow

Data Engineering
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 71 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 5 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.71% 0.96% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 1.04% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 1
10th Percentile £353 £478 -
25th Percentile £377 £488 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £399 £544 £533
90th Percentile £400 £580 -
Scotland median daily rate £394 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -21.25% - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 628 766 814
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.95% 91.63% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 515 628
10th Percentile £280 £346 £300
25th Percentile £356 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £684
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 15
10th Percentile £16.92 £11.40 £21.64
25th Percentile £19.05 £12.13 £30.49
Median hourly rate £19.59 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +35.10% -61.26% -1.57%
75th Percentile £29.34 £17.72 £45.84
90th Percentile £42.50 £36.36 £56.00
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £19.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year +17.31% +4.00% -6.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Glasgow

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Glasgow

Data Engineering
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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (40.00%) Big Data
3 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (60.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Security
3 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality