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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 103 93
Rank change year-on-year -7 -10 -20
Contract jobs citing Big Data 18 66 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.83% 1.89% 2.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.71% 8.85% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 34 58
10th Percentile £454 £463 £475
25th Percentile £566 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £756 £816 £731
90th Percentile £789 £863 £775
Central London median daily rate £650 £600 £613
% change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% +4.70%
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 485 746 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.38% 21.41% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 467 674
10th Percentile £404 £414 £425
25th Percentile £475 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £710 £730 £712
90th Percentile £793 £800 £800
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 4
10th Percentile - £42.50 £38.15
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £44.00
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +54.29% +581.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £54.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +54.29% +220.59%

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 24 May 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 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 6 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) WhatsApp
4 1 (5.56%) Alation
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) dbt
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) Lucidchart
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (16.67%) Metadata
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI
3 2 (11.11%) Presto
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.56%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Impala
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.56%) Parquet
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Ant
1 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.56%) ERwin
1 1 (5.56%) RStudio
1 1 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Big Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Governance Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.56%) Principal Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.56%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (5.56%) Apache Avro
2 1 (5.56%) JSON
2 1 (5.56%) JSON Schema
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Life Science
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Data Modelling
2 7 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 5 (27.78%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (22.22%) Data Science
5 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Commercialisation
6 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) ERP
6 2 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Identification
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) SQL
2 8 (44.44%) Python
3 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (11.11%) VBA
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Databricks
2 2 (11.11%) Foundry
2 2 (11.11%) Palantir
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Informatica
3 1 (5.56%) Okta
3 1 (5.56%) Pardot
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SnapLogic
3 1 (5.56%) Symantec
3 1 (5.56%) Talend
3 1 (5.56%) Varonis