Big Data Contracts in Cheshire

Big Data
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 58 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.99% 0.94% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.49% 5.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £497 £488 -
25th Percentile £505 £544 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.44% - -
75th Percentile £538 £713 -
90th Percentile £632 - -
North West median daily rate £510 £475 £582
% change year-on-year +7.37% -18.31% +4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
North West median hourly rate - £37.50 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 87 90 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 17.33% 16.98% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 63 34
10th Percentile £363 £330 £313
25th Percentile £419 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £415
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +8.56% -1.31%
75th Percentile £585 £586 £547
90th Percentile £610 £679 £640
North West median daily rate £492 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +0.46% -2.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £27.63 - £24.00
25th Percentile £41.25 - £28.75
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +29.03% +148.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £55.00
90th Percentile - - £63.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £47.29 £29.50
% change year-on-year -10.12% +60.29% +25.69%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Cheshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Cheshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Cheshire over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Cheshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Macclesfield -11 7 £510 +13.33%
Knutsford - 2 £628 - 1
Big Data
North West

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (60.00%) Apache
1 6 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (50.00%) Serverless
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata
2 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (20.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Git
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (50.00%) Manufacturing
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modeller
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Principal Security Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Security Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) JSON
1 5 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Data Management
4 5 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (50.00%) OO
4 5 (50.00%) OOP
4 5 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Java
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Informatica
1 5 (50.00%) Talend
2 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Teradata