Big Data Contracts in Scotland

Big Data
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 150 133
Rank change year-on-year +55 -17 -20
Contract jobs citing Big Data 20 14 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.93% 0.52% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.26% 2.52% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 32
10th Percentile £318 £515 £439
25th Percentile £404 £613 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +25.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £600 £775 £538
90th Percentile £638 - £624
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £41.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -47.12% +28.93% +47.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 380 556 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 17.73% 20.81% 17.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 425 442
10th Percentile £322 £388 £363
25th Percentile £400 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £533 £550 £550
90th Percentile £611 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £24.60 £19.83 £16.75
25th Percentile £29.04 £27.94 £17.50
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 £48.00
90th Percentile £50.54 £69.25 £58.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +23 13 £475 -24.00% 5
Edinburgh +30 6 £588 -21.67% 4
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 5 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) npm
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Apache Hive
1 4 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (20.00%) Impala
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
1 4 (20.00%) Parquet
1 4 (20.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (15.00%) JMeter
2 3 (15.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (15.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) Gradle
General
1 11 (55.00%) Finance
2 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (35.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (30.00%) Banking
5 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (20.00%) Financial Institution
5 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Database Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
3 3 (15.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 4 (20.00%) Apache Avro
1 4 (20.00%) PySpark
1 4 (20.00%) React
1 4 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
1 4 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 4 (20.00%) ETL
4 4 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
4 4 (20.00%) Operational Stability
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (20.00%) SDLC
5 3 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Java
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) KVM
1 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Nagios
1 1 (5.00%) Puppet
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
1 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) VMware