Big Data Developer Contracts

Big Data Developer
UK

The median Big Data Developer daily rate in the UK is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 701 799
Rank change year-on-year +124 +98 -175
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Developer 5 11 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.018% 0.063%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.019% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 34
10th Percentile £387 £515 £483
25th Percentile £440 £538 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £575 £648
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -11.20% +12.61%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £700
90th Percentile - £635 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -25.00% +30.00% -9.91%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,476 56,906 85,219
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,420 39,710 59,771
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,641 1,614 2,118
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.92 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Big Data Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Developer in the UK

Big Data Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Developer in the UK

Big Data Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Developer over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Developer in the UK

Big Data Developer
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 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
UK excluding London +59 4 £488 -25.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 £506 -
Work from Home +120 2 £506 -11.96%
England +115 2 £443 -23.04% 1
East Midlands - 1 £360 -
Midlands - 1 £360 -

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 featuring Big Data Developer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Scala
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Unix
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
3 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Banking
3 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Tableau
3 3 (60.00%) Impala
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Anaconda
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) R
4 1 (20.00%) QlikView
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Java

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (80.00%) Apache Hive
3 3 (60.00%) Impala
3 3 (60.00%) Tableau
4 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (20.00%) QlikView
General
1 3 (60.00%) Banking
1 3 (60.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Anaconda
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) Scala
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared