Big Data Contracts in the West Midlands

Big Data
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 124 151
Rank change year-on-year +38 +27 -37
Contract jobs citing Big Data 23 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.19% 0.63% 0.70%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.85% 3.62% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 16
10th Percentile £575 £400 £381
25th Percentile £584 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £484
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £850 £625 £561
90th Percentile - £680 £597
England median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 293 414 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.22% 17.39% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 284 537
10th Percentile £307 £350 £325
25th Percentile £358 £412 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% +8.82%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £540
90th Percentile £700 £696 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £24.13 -
25th Percentile - £24.31 £22.75
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% +7.45% +11.90%
75th Percentile - £30.48 £24.25
90th Percentile - £33.24 -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Herefordshire +3 14 £725 +9.43% 3
Warwickshire - 5 £650 - 3
Birmingham +2 3 £313 -21.88% 5
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) AWS
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (65.22%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (65.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
1 2 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
1 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
1 2 (8.70%) Tableau
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Presto
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Bitbucket
General
1 17 (73.91%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Senior
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (65.22%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (8.70%) PySpark
3 1 (4.35%) JDBC
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (65.22%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (65.22%) Distributed Applications
2 10 (43.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.04%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Android
1 13 (56.52%) Apple iOS
1 13 (56.52%) Linux
1 13 (56.52%) Unix
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Data Engineering
1 16 (69.57%) Data Management
2 15 (65.22%) Actionable Insight
2 15 (65.22%) Analytics
2 15 (65.22%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (65.22%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (65.22%) Information Security
2 15 (65.22%) Security Architecture
2 15 (65.22%) SIEM
3 13 (56.52%) Kalman Filter
3 13 (56.52%) Security Operations
4 11 (47.83%) Data Analysis
5 6 (26.09%) Data Analytics
6 4 (17.39%) ETL
7 3 (13.04%) Agile
7 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
7 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
7 3 (13.04%) DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.70%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) Python
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 14 (60.87%) Security Cleared
2 13 (56.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (65.22%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Red Hat
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Autodesk
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Sage
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Teradata