Big Data Contracts in England

Big Data
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 206 155
Rank change year-on-year -39 -51 -46
Contract jobs citing Big Data 344 675 1,303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.93% 1.34% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.58% 7.42% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 469 800
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £763 £713 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £579 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 4
10th Percentile £18.20 £35.00 £59.48
25th Percentile £23.30 £43.63 £59.81
Median hourly rate £35.25 £73.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.71% +11.88% +46.63%
75th Percentile £44.69 £78.00 £75.23
90th Percentile £52.00 £85.50 £84.63
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £73.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -51.71% +11.88% +52.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,162 9,092 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.67% 17.99% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,417 6,531 10,384
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 168 170
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £34.35 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%
75th Percentile £56.74 £70.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.52%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -49 228 £650 +8.33% 118
Midlands +39 34 £650 +18.18% 27
North of England +38 32 £550 - 25
South East -1 25 £448 -25.33% 16
West Midlands +38 23 £650 +18.18% 21
North West +16 16 £510 +7.37% 16
Yorkshire +24 15 £563 +2.27% 9
East Midlands +26 11 £513 -10.87% 6
East of England +8 7 £300 -53.85% 18
South West -6 5 £450 -18.18% 19
North East - 1 £454 -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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 97 (28.20%) Apache Spark
2 43 (12.50%) Apache
3 42 (12.21%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.74%) Confluence
5 4 (1.16%) IIS
5 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.58%) SAS
7 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.29%) Luigi
7 1 (0.29%) Tornado
Applications
1 10 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 125 (36.34%) AWS
2 118 (34.30%) Azure
3 54 (15.70%) GCP
4 44 (12.79%) Serverless
5 42 (12.21%) Power Platform
6 31 (9.01%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (8.43%) Snowflake
8 26 (7.56%) Amazon S3
8 26 (7.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (6.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (5.81%) Amazon EMR
11 17 (4.94%) dbt
12 14 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.78%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.78%) GitHub
14 12 (3.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (3.49%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.91%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (2.91%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.36%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (4.36%) Network Security
2 5 (1.45%) FTP
3 4 (1.16%) SAN
4 2 (0.58%) Internet
5 1 (0.29%) Broadband
5 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (24.13%) Data Lake
1 83 (24.13%) Data Warehouse
2 64 (18.60%) Hadoop
3 36 (10.47%) Power BI
4 31 (9.01%) Amazon Redshift
4 31 (9.01%) Tableau
5 28 (8.14%) Apache Hive
6 27 (7.85%) NoSQL
7 26 (7.56%) Amazon Athena
8 21 (6.10%) BigQuery
8 21 (6.10%) SQL Server
9 17 (4.94%) Relational Database
10 14 (4.07%) Impala
11 13 (3.78%) Delta Lake
11 13 (3.78%) Metadata
12 12 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (3.20%) HBase
14 10 (2.91%) Apache Arrow
14 10 (2.91%) Dremio
14 10 (2.91%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (10.17%) Git
2 24 (6.98%) JIRA
3 8 (2.33%) Maven
4 6 (1.74%) Subversion
4 6 (1.74%) Visual Studio Team System
5 5 (1.45%) ERwin
5 5 (1.45%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.87%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.87%) Poetry
7 3 (0.87%) RStudio
8 2 (0.58%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.58%) kappa
8 2 (0.58%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
2 78 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 67 (19.48%) Finance
4 29 (8.43%) Banking
5 24 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.49%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (2.03%) Health Technology
9 7 (2.03%) Retail
10 6 (1.74%) Marketing
11 5 (1.45%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.45%) Publishing
11 5 (1.45%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.16%) Legal
13 3 (0.87%) Back Office
13 3 (0.87%) Police
14 2 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (24.71%) Architect
2 76 (22.09%) Data Engineer
3 42 (12.21%) Data Architect
4 33 (9.59%) Developer
4 33 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (8.72%) Senior
6 27 (7.85%) Analyst
7 20 (5.81%) Cloud Architect
8 19 (5.52%) Big Data Engineer
8 19 (5.52%) Lead
9 18 (5.23%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 18 (5.23%) Data Scientist
10 17 (4.94%) Azure Architect
11 16 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (4.07%) AWS Architect
12 14 (4.07%) Consultant
12 14 (4.07%) Data Analyst
13 12 (3.49%) Azure Data Architect
13 12 (3.49%) Principal Architect
13 12 (3.49%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.95%) PySpark
2 41 (11.92%) Kafka
3 22 (6.40%) Apache NiFi
4 17 (4.94%) Pandas
5 13 (3.78%) JSON
6 12 (3.49%) XML
7 11 (3.20%) .NET
8 10 (2.91%) gRPC
8 10 (2.91%) Protocol Buffers
9 9 (2.62%) Web Services
10 8 (2.33%) NumPy
10 8 (2.33%) SAML
10 8 (2.33%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.74%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.74%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (1.74%) REST
11 6 (1.74%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (1.16%) Apache Avro
13 4 (1.16%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.72%) Algorithms
2 23 (6.69%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.52%) Hedge funds
4 15 (4.36%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (4.36%) Distributed Applications
5 14 (4.07%) Clustering
5 14 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
6 13 (3.78%) Data Centre
6 13 (3.78%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.91%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.62%) Freedom of Information
8 9 (2.62%) Freedom of Information Act
9 8 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (2.33%) Product Ownership
10 7 (2.03%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.74%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.45%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.92%) Linux
2 23 (6.69%) Unix
3 17 (4.94%) Windows
4 13 (3.78%) Android
4 13 (3.78%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.33%) VMS
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (33.43%) Data Modelling
2 105 (30.52%) Data Pipeline
3 104 (30.23%) Analytics
4 96 (27.91%) ETL
5 94 (27.33%) Agile
6 72 (20.93%) Business Intelligence
7 65 (18.90%) Data Engineering
7 65 (18.90%) Data Science
8 61 (17.73%) Machine Learning
9 56 (16.28%) Data Analysis
10 55 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
11 53 (15.41%) CI/CD
12 49 (14.24%) Data Management
13 48 (13.95%) DevOps
14 43 (12.50%) Migration
15 41 (11.92%) Computer Science
16 40 (11.63%) Data Governance
17 37 (10.76%) Scrum
18 36 (10.47%) Data Architecture
18 36 (10.47%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 186 (54.07%) Python
2 154 (44.77%) SQL
3 66 (19.19%) Java
4 52 (15.12%) Scala
5 19 (5.52%) R
6 18 (5.23%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.94%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.65%) C#
9 13 (3.78%) Go
10 10 (2.91%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.16%) Bash
11 4 (1.16%) Perl
12 2 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.58%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 48 (13.95%) Degree
2 41 (11.92%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.01%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.98%) SC Cleared
5 18 (5.23%) AWS Certification
6 17 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.74%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.16%) CISSP
10 4 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.99%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.36%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (2.03%) QA
4 5 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.16%) NIST
6 3 (0.87%) GDPR
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.58%) MiFID
7 2 (0.58%) NCSC
7 2 (0.58%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.58%) PMO
7 2 (0.58%) SLA
8 1 (0.29%) EMIR
8 1 (0.29%) FATCA
System Software
1 15 (4.36%) Docker
2 14 (4.07%) HDFS
3 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 49 (14.24%) Terraform
2 35 (10.17%) Kubernetes
3 21 (6.10%) Ansible
4 15 (4.36%) Puppet
5 11 (3.20%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.33%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.16%) Argo
8 3 (0.87%) Consul
8 3 (0.87%) Oozie
8 3 (0.87%) Packer
8 3 (0.87%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.58%) Ambari
10 1 (0.29%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 62 (18.02%) Databricks
2 37 (10.76%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.10%) Informatica
4 19 (5.52%) Talend
5 18 (5.23%) Google
6 14 (4.07%) Oracle
7 10 (2.91%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.62%) Teradata
9 6 (1.74%) SAP
10 5 (1.45%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.16%) Brio
11 4 (1.16%) Foundry
11 4 (1.16%) IBM
11 4 (1.16%) Okta
11 4 (1.16%) Palantir
11 4 (1.16%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.16%) Symantec
11 4 (1.16%) Varonis
12 3 (0.87%) Phenom
12 3 (0.87%) Sage