Big Data Developer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Big Data Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 399 455 514
Rank change year-on-year +56 +59 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Developer 4 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.008% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.009% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £376 - £440
25th Percentile £411 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +30.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £522 - £650
90th Percentile £531 - £695
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £648
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.20% +12.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,132 22,540 29,612
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.26% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,680 15,813 20,744
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,158 1,481
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%

Big Data Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Developer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Developer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Developer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Developer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Developer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Northern Ireland - 3 £506 -
East Midlands - 1 £360 -
Midlands - 1 £360 -
Big Data Developer
UK

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Big Data Developer 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 UK excluding London region featuring Big Data Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
1 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Banking
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Tableau
3 2 (50.00%) Impala
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) Anaconda
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) R
4 1 (25.00%) QlikView
4 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Java

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (50.00%) Impala
3 2 (50.00%) Tableau
4 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (25.00%) QlikView
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Anaconda
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) Scala
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared