Big Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 314 236
Rank change year-on-year +40 -78 -66
Contract jobs citing Big Data 122 134 334
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.57% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.77% 3.71% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 86 219
10th Percentile £350 £456 £413
25th Percentile £425 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £633
90th Percentile £765 £775 £715
UK median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile - £35.00 -
25th Percentile £18.20 £55.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.16% +30.00% +144.90%
75th Percentile £23.72 - -
90th Percentile £29.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +77.94%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,560 3,607 5,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.50% 15.38% 17.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,810 2,589 3,804
10th Percentile £316 £337 £327
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.61%
75th Percentile £588 £599 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 114 130
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +42.86%
75th Percentile £61.50 £67.27 £55.69
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.68 £68.78
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Midlands +51 35 £650 +23.81% 17
North of England +39 32 £550 - 17
South East +11 26 £437 -18.79% 13
West Midlands +30 23 £675 +22.73% 15
Scotland +48 18 £550 -21.43% 11
North West +16 17 £510 +7.37% 9
Yorkshire +28 15 £563 +2.27% 6
East Midlands +32 12 £513 +2.50% 2
South West -15 5 £450 -21.74% 17
East of England 0 4 £400 -33.33% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £463 - 7
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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 35 (28.69%) Apache Spark
2 18 (14.75%) Apache
3 11 (9.02%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.28%) Confluence
4 4 (3.28%) IIS
4 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.46%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.15%) AWS
2 27 (22.13%) Azure
3 14 (11.48%) Power Platform
4 12 (9.84%) Amazon S3
4 12 (9.84%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (9.84%) GCP
4 12 (9.84%) Serverless
4 12 (9.84%) Snowflake
5 8 (6.56%) Amazon EMR
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (5.74%) Amazon SQS
6 7 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon Neptune
9 3 (2.46%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.46%) IaaS
9 3 (2.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.30%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (12.30%) Network Security
2 5 (4.10%) FTP
3 4 (3.28%) SAN
4 1 (0.82%) Broadband
4 1 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.31%) Data Warehouse
1 26 (21.31%) Hadoop
2 17 (13.93%) Data Lake
3 14 (11.48%) Power BI
4 11 (9.02%) Relational Database
5 10 (8.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (7.38%) Apache Hive
7 6 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (4.92%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.92%) Tableau
8 5 (4.10%) Data Mining
8 5 (4.10%) Impala
9 4 (3.28%) Metadata
9 4 (3.28%) MySQL
9 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.28%) Parquet
9 4 (3.28%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.46%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.46%) Flink
Development Applications
1 14 (11.48%) Git
1 14 (11.48%) JIRA
2 3 (2.46%) JMeter
2 3 (2.46%) LoadRunner
2 3 (2.46%) Selenium
3 2 (1.64%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
3 2 (1.64%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.64%) kappa
3 2 (1.64%) Maven
3 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.82%) Gradle
4 1 (0.82%) Subversion
General
1 35 (28.69%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.87%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (25.41%) Finance
4 11 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.74%) Banking
5 7 (5.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.92%) Health Technology
7 5 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.28%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.46%) Police
10 2 (1.64%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.64%) Retail
10 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (17.21%) Architect
2 18 (14.75%) Developer
3 15 (12.30%) Analyst
3 15 (12.30%) Data Engineer
4 13 (10.66%) Data Architect
5 9 (7.38%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.56%) Azure Architect
6 8 (6.56%) Data Centre Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Data Migration Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Migration Engineer
6 8 (6.56%) Senior
7 7 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Consultant
9 5 (4.10%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Big Data Analyst
10 4 (3.28%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.28%) Mainframe Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.93%) Apache NiFi
2 9 (7.38%) Kafka
3 8 (6.56%) PySpark
4 5 (4.10%) JSON
4 5 (4.10%) XML
5 4 (3.28%) Apache Avro
6 3 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.46%) REST
6 3 (2.46%) Spring
7 2 (1.64%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.64%) React
8 1 (0.82%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.82%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.82%) Node.js
8 1 (0.82%) ODBC
8 1 (0.82%) RESTful
8 1 (0.82%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.30%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (12.30%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (10.66%) Management Information System
3 11 (9.02%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.92%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.10%) Clustering
5 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.28%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.28%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.28%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (3.28%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.46%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.46%) NHS
7 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.82%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.67%) Linux
2 19 (15.57%) Unix
3 17 (13.93%) Windows
4 13 (10.66%) Android
4 13 (10.66%) Apple iOS
5 8 (6.56%) VMS
6 4 (3.28%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (39.34%) Analytics
2 33 (27.05%) Data Modelling
3 32 (26.23%) Data Engineering
3 32 (26.23%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (24.59%) ETL
5 28 (22.95%) Data Management
6 26 (21.31%) Agile
7 23 (18.85%) Data Analysis
8 21 (17.21%) Migration
8 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
10 17 (13.93%) Data Analytics
10 17 (13.93%) Information Security
11 16 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
11 16 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (13.11%) Machine Learning
12 15 (12.30%) Actionable Insight
12 15 (12.30%) Data Science
12 15 (12.30%) Security Architecture
12 15 (12.30%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 48 (39.34%) Python
2 47 (38.52%) SQL
3 20 (16.39%) Java
4 11 (9.02%) Scala
5 5 (4.10%) C#
6 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.64%) R
8 1 (0.82%) Bash
8 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.82%) Groovy
8 1 (0.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.48%) Degree
3 13 (10.66%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.10%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.64%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.30%) Actionable Recommendations
2 13 (10.66%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.46%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.64%) NIST
4 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) HDFS
2 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.82%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.82%) KVM
3 1 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.28%) Terraform
3 2 (1.64%) Ansible
3 2 (1.64%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.82%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.82%) Kibana
4 1 (0.82%) Nagios
4 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.82%) Puppet
4 1 (0.82%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (13.93%) Databricks
2 10 (8.20%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.20%) Oracle
2 10 (8.20%) Red Hat
3 7 (5.74%) Google
3 7 (5.74%) Informatica
3 7 (5.74%) Teradata
4 5 (4.10%) Talend
5 4 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.46%) Brio
6 3 (2.46%) Splunk
7 2 (1.64%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.64%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.64%) Sage
8 1 (0.82%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.82%) Ariba
8 1 (0.82%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.82%) SAP
8 1 (0.82%) VMware