Big Data Engineer Contracts in England

Big Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in England is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 624 679
Rank change year-on-year +96 +55 -149
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 20 44 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.054% 0.087% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.092% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 58
10th Percentile £620 £500 £513
25th Percentile £650 £522 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £649
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% +0.19% +14.07%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £712
90th Percentile - £784 £838
UK median daily rate £800 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +23.08% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London +90 19 £800 +28.00% 2
North of England +32 1 £475 -
North West +15 1 £475 -
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Big Data
2 18 (90.00%) Python
3 16 (80.00%) Finance
4 15 (75.00%) Java
5 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (65.00%) Data Lake
6 12 (60.00%) Terraform
6 12 (60.00%) AWS
7 11 (55.00%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (55.00%) Snowflake
8 10 (50.00%) dbt
8 10 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
8 10 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 10 (50.00%) Dremio
8 10 (50.00%) Prometheus
8 10 (50.00%) gRPC
8 10 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
8 10 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
8 10 (50.00%) Go
8 10 (50.00%) DevOps
8 10 (50.00%) Hedge funds
8 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
8 10 (50.00%) Clustering
8 10 (50.00%) Asset Management
8 10 (50.00%) Investment Management
9 9 (45.00%) ETL
9 9 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (30.00%) Apache Spark
11 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
11 5 (25.00%) Azure

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (30.00%) Apache Spark
3 4 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
2 11 (55.00%) Snowflake
3 10 (50.00%) dbt
4 5 (25.00%) Azure
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (15.00%) GCP
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) Big Data
2 13 (65.00%) Data Lake
3 11 (55.00%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (50.00%) Apache Arrow
4 10 (50.00%) Dremio
5 9 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (15.00%) Bigtable
6 3 (15.00%) Cloud Spanner
6 3 (15.00%) Hadoop
7 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
8 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
8 1 (5.00%) Impala
8 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (5.00%) Neo4j
8 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
8 1 (5.00%) Sqoop
General
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (50.00%) gRPC
1 10 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Clustering
1 10 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps
1 10 (50.00%) Investment Management
1 10 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) ETL
3 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (10.00%) Data Security
7 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation
7 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.00%) Data Acquisition
7 1 (5.00%) Data Science
7 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) Python
2 15 (75.00%) Java
3 10 (50.00%) Go
3 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.00%) Scala
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Terraform
3 10 (50.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (15.00%) Ansible
5 1 (5.00%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Google
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Informatica
4 1 (5.00%) Teradata