Big Data Engineer Contracts in London

Big Data Engineer
England > London

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in London is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 465 522
Rank change year-on-year +94 +57 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 20 33 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.12% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 30 46
10th Percentile £645 £500 £509
25th Percentile £681 £516 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -3.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £850 £750 £750
90th Percentile - £775 £844
England median daily rate £800 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +23.08% - +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,628 25,761 37,096
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,029 18,663 27,061
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £798 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +12.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 29 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
Central London +33 2 £688 -8.33%
Big Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Big Data
2 19 (95.00%) Python
3 16 (80.00%) Finance
3 16 (80.00%) Java
4 15 (75.00%) Kubernetes
4 15 (75.00%) Data Lake
5 12 (60.00%) gRPC
5 12 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (60.00%) DevOps
5 12 (60.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 12 (60.00%) Go
5 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (60.00%) Clustering
5 12 (60.00%) Asset Management
5 12 (60.00%) Investment Management
5 12 (60.00%) AWS
5 12 (60.00%) Hedge funds
5 12 (60.00%) Terraform
5 12 (60.00%) Prometheus
5 12 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
5 12 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 12 (60.00%) Dremio
5 12 (60.00%) dbt
5 12 (60.00%) Snowflake
5 12 (60.00%) Apache Arrow
6 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (35.00%) ETL
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Azure
7 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) AWS
1 12 (60.00%) dbt
1 12 (60.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (100.00%) Big Data
2 15 (75.00%) Data Lake
3 12 (60.00%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (60.00%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (60.00%) Dremio
4 7 (35.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (15.00%) BigQuery
5 3 (15.00%) Bigtable
5 3 (15.00%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
7 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.00%) Impala
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.00%) Sqoop
7 1 (5.00%) Star Schema
General
1 16 (80.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) gRPC
1 12 (60.00%) Protocol Buffers
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Clustering
1 12 (60.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Asset Management
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
1 12 (60.00%) Investment Management
1 12 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (35.00%) ETL
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
4 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.00%) Architectural Design
6 1 (5.00%) Business Transformation
6 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (5.00%) Data Acquisition
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (5.00%) Event-Driven
6 1 (5.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) Python
2 16 (80.00%) Java
3 12 (60.00%) Go
3 12 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) Gremlin
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 12 (60.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 1 (5.00%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Databricks
1 3 (15.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Informatica