Big Data Contracts in the City of London

Big Data
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 107 91
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 -19
Contract jobs citing Big Data 16 72 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.73% 1.98% 2.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.30% 9.28% 11.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 41 64
10th Percentile £553 £463 £484
25th Percentile £575 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £619
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -3.03% +5.77%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £753
90th Percentile £910 £836 £802
Central London median daily rate £675 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.15% -
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - -42.15% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

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 the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 485 776 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.03% 21.29% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 490 706
10th Percentile £405 £413 £422
25th Percentile £475 £506 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £729 £700
90th Percentile £796 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +7.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +656.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +255.88%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Serverless
4 1 (6.25%) Alation
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) Lucidchart
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) Presto
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.25%) DB2
4 1 (6.25%) Impala
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (6.25%) Parquet
4 1 (6.25%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Sqoop
4 1 (6.25%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) CircleCI
1 1 (6.25%) ERwin
1 1 (6.25%) RStudio
1 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analytics Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Governance Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
5 1 (6.25%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) JSON Schema
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Hedge funds
1 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Data Modelling
2 5 (31.25%) Agile
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
2 5 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (31.25%) ETL
3 4 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) Data Science
5 2 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Business Development
5 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (12.50%) Commercialisation
5 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Data Management
5 2 (12.50%) ERP
5 2 (12.50%) Mathematics
5 2 (12.50%) Ontologies
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.25%) Go
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
2 1 (6.25%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Consul
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Packer
2 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 1 (6.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Foundry
2 2 (12.50%) Palantir
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) Informatica
3 1 (6.25%) Okta
3 1 (6.25%) Sybase
3 1 (6.25%) Symantec
3 1 (6.25%) Talend
3 1 (6.25%) Varonis