Big Data Contracts in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 171 180 158
Rank change year-on-year +9 -22 -22
Contract jobs citing Big Data 27 39 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.49% 0.69% 1.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.45% 4.60% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 20 63
10th Percentile £243 £474 £413
25th Percentile £350 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £725 £631 £635
90th Percentile £788 £669 £713
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.20 - -
Median hourly rate £19.38 - -
75th Percentile £20.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +35.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 607 847 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.00% 14.94% 18.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 596 946
10th Percentile £314 £313 £341
25th Percentile £397 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +2.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £606
90th Percentile £688 £675 £681
England median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 29
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £22.08 £29.19 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.91 £55.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% +144.44% -44.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £74.38 £50.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.60 £62.15
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.30% +30.20% +80.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 10 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
Thames Valley +8 19 £387 -29.64% 4
Berkshire -4 10 £448 -42.19% 1
Buckinghamshire +31 9 £350 -31.71% 1
Hampshire -11 5 £738 +40.48% 3
West Sussex - 3 - -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.70%) Apache
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Snowflake
3 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
4 4 (14.81%) Azure
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon Neptune
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Stack
5 3 (11.11%) Serverless
6 2 (7.41%) dbt
6 2 (7.41%) IaaS
6 2 (7.41%) PaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 5 (18.52%) Data Mining
3 5 (18.52%) Power BI
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (11.11%) Hadoop
5 3 (11.11%) PowerPivot
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.41%) Cloudera CDH
6 2 (7.41%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.70%) Impala
7 1 (3.70%) Metadata
7 1 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.70%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (29.63%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) kappa
2 2 (7.41%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Subversion
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
3 3 (11.11%) Police
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (40.74%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Architect
3 5 (18.52%) Data Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Big Data Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Mainframe Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Data Modeller
6 2 (7.41%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Supplier Manager
6 2 (7.41%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark Developer
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Scala Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Credit Risk
1 4 (14.81%) Mainframe
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Analytics
2 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 6 (22.22%) Data Science
4 6 (22.22%) Migration
5 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (18.52%) Dashboard Development
5 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Data Strategy
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) ETL
6 4 (14.81%) Open Source
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (11.11%) Data Management
7 3 (11.11%) Kimball Methodology
7 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 9 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (3.70%) Ansible
1 1 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Databricks
3 3 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 2 (7.41%) Informatica
5 1 (3.70%) Cloudera