Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 139 122
Rank change year-on-year -38 -17 -35
Contract jobs citing Big Data 242 501 911
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.37% 1.87% 2.34%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.32% 9.19% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 351 545
10th Percentile £400 £463 £461
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £763 £736 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £808
England median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £25.87 £41.90 £62.42
25th Percentile £36.56 £62.00 £67.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £80.00 £75.70
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +5.68% +36.40%
75th Percentile £48.75 £90.00 £83.61
90th Percentile £58.50 £92.50 £87.99
England median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -54.81% +19.54% +46.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,829 5,452 8,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.64% 20.39% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,831 3,982 6,213
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 53 36
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.50 £34.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £55.20
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.35% +58.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £64.78 £89.66 £81.88
England median hourly rate £40.13 £57.50 £43.38
% change year-on-year -30.22% +32.56% +74.76%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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 -12 19 £663 +10.42% 8
West London +21 5 £525 -19.23% 2
East London -9 1 £575 +6.98% 6
Big Data
England

Big Data
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 69 (28.51%) Apache Spark
2 32 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (10.33%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.41%) Tornado
Applications
1 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 101 (41.74%) Azure
2 89 (36.78%) AWS
3 46 (19.01%) GCP
4 34 (14.05%) Power Platform
5 30 (12.40%) Serverless
6 20 (8.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (8.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 19 (7.85%) Snowflake
8 18 (7.44%) dbt
9 16 (6.61%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (5.79%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.96%) Amazon S3
11 12 (4.96%) Entra ID
12 10 (4.13%) Amazon EMR
12 10 (4.13%) Amazon Kinesis
13 9 (3.72%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.72%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (3.72%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.72%) GitHub
14 8 (3.31%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (29.75%) Data Lake
2 60 (24.79%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (14.88%) Hadoop
4 28 (11.57%) Power BI
5 23 (9.50%) Apache Hive
6 22 (9.09%) Tableau
7 21 (8.68%) NoSQL
8 20 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
9 19 (7.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (7.02%) BigQuery
11 15 (6.20%) SQL Server
12 13 (5.37%) Impala
13 12 (4.96%) Apache Arrow
13 12 (4.96%) Delta Lake
13 12 (4.96%) Dremio
14 11 (4.55%) OLTP
15 10 (4.13%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (3.72%) HBase
17 8 (3.31%) Relational Database
17 8 (3.31%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (8.26%) Git
2 8 (3.31%) JIRA
3 6 (2.48%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (2.07%) ERwin
4 5 (2.07%) Maven
4 5 (2.07%) Subversion
4 5 (2.07%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.24%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.24%) Poetry
6 3 (1.24%) RStudio
7 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.83%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (21.49%) Social Skills
3 49 (20.25%) Finance
4 24 (9.92%) Banking
5 18 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.96%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.48%) Marketing
9 5 (2.07%) Retail
10 4 (1.65%) Publishing
11 3 (1.24%) Back Office
11 3 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.24%) Legal
11 3 (1.24%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) German Language
12 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.41%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 67 (27.69%) Architect
2 60 (24.79%) Data Engineer
3 31 (12.81%) Data Architect
4 29 (11.98%) Senior
5 28 (11.57%) Solutions Architect
6 24 (9.92%) Developer
7 20 (8.26%) Big Data Engineer
8 18 (7.44%) Analyst
8 18 (7.44%) AWS Engineer
9 17 (7.02%) Cloud Architect
9 17 (7.02%) Lead
10 16 (6.61%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 15 (6.20%) Data Scientist
12 12 (4.96%) Data Analyst
12 12 (4.96%) Principal Architect
12 12 (4.96%) Principal Solutions Architect
12 12 (4.96%) Site Engineer
12 12 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (4.55%) Consultant
13 11 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (19.42%) PySpark
2 30 (12.40%) Kafka
3 16 (6.61%) Pandas
4 12 (4.96%) gRPC
4 12 (4.96%) Protocol Buffers
5 11 (4.55%) .NET
6 8 (3.31%) JSON
6 8 (3.31%) SAML
6 8 (3.31%) scikit-learn
6 8 (3.31%) Web Services
7 7 (2.89%) NumPy
7 7 (2.89%) XML
8 6 (2.48%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.48%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (2.48%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.07%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.65%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.65%) Apache Avro
10 4 (1.65%) REST
11 3 (1.24%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.33%) Algorithms
2 22 (9.09%) Hedge funds
3 14 (5.79%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.96%) Clustering
5 10 (4.13%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.72%) Freedom of Information
6 9 (3.72%) Freedom of Information Act
7 8 (3.31%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.89%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.89%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.48%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.48%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.65%) Social Media
11 3 (1.24%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.85%) Linux
2 6 (2.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.47%) Data Modelling
2 73 (30.17%) Data Pipeline
3 70 (28.93%) Agile
4 69 (28.51%) ETL
5 67 (27.69%) Analytics
6 60 (24.79%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (19.01%) Machine Learning
8 44 (18.18%) Data Science
9 41 (16.94%) CI/CD
10 40 (16.53%) DevOps
11 37 (15.29%) Data Engineering
12 36 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
13 33 (13.64%) Computer Science
14 32 (13.22%) Data Governance
15 31 (12.81%) Data Analysis
16 29 (11.98%) Visualisation
17 26 (10.74%) Scrum
18 24 (9.92%) Microservices
19 23 (9.50%) Data Visualisation
19 23 (9.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 146 (60.33%) Python
2 114 (47.11%) SQL
3 49 (20.25%) Java
4 43 (17.77%) Scala
5 19 (7.85%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.44%) PowerShell
7 16 (6.61%) R
8 15 (6.20%) Go
9 11 (4.55%) C#
10 8 (3.31%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.65%) Bash
11 4 (1.65%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.83%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (13.64%) Degree
2 26 (10.74%) Security Cleared
3 23 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.44%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.79%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.89%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.65%) CISSP
11 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.48%) QA
3 3 (1.24%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) MiFID
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
4 2 (0.83%) NIST
4 2 (0.83%) PMO
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) EMIR
5 1 (0.41%) FATCA
System Software
1 12 (4.96%) Docker
2 9 (3.72%) HDFS
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 49 (20.25%) Terraform
2 31 (12.81%) Kubernetes
3 20 (8.26%) Ansible
4 15 (6.20%) Puppet
5 12 (4.96%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.48%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.65%) Argo
8 3 (1.24%) Consul
8 3 (1.24%) Oozie
8 3 (1.24%) Packer
8 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.83%) Ambari
10 1 (0.41%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 53 (21.90%) Databricks
2 31 (12.81%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.61%) Google
4 13 (5.37%) Talend
5 12 (4.96%) Informatica
6 9 (3.72%) Oracle
7 4 (1.65%) Foundry
7 4 (1.65%) IBM
7 4 (1.65%) Okta
7 4 (1.65%) Palantir
7 4 (1.65%) SAP
7 4 (1.65%) Symantec
7 4 (1.65%) Varonis
8 3 (1.24%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.24%) Phenom
9 2 (0.83%) ESRI
9 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.83%) Sybase
10 1 (0.41%) Teradata