Big Data Contracts in Hertfordshire

Big Data
East of England > Hertfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 67 66 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Big Data 4 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.49% 0.98% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.12% 8.42% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 9
10th Percentile - £500 £453
25th Percentile - £659 £786
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £775 £798
Median % change year-on-year -61.29% -2.82% +19.21%
75th Percentile - £788 £809
90th Percentile - - £815
East of England median daily rate £300 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -53.85% +18.18% -4.35%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 33 95 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.01% 11.63% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 58 90
10th Percentile £325 £388 £327
25th Percentile £350 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £544 £468
Median % change year-on-year -14.94% +16.31% -6.50%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £550
90th Percentile £673 £788 £775
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 7
10th Percentile - £42.88 £34.00
25th Percentile - £61.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - +42.39% +17.38%
75th Percentile - £65.94 £56.00
90th Percentile - £71.43 -
East of England median hourly rate £25.18 £63.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -60.03% +80.00% +65.68%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Hertfordshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Hertfordshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire 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
Watford +5 3 - - 1
Stevenage - 1 £300 - 1
Big Data
East of England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon EMR
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon SQS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (75.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) HBase
2 1 (25.00%) Presto
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) ETL Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Computational Linguistics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) QA Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (25.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) SAP
1 1 (25.00%) Talend