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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 117 143
Rank change year-on-year +24 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Big Data 23 15 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.20% 0.65% 0.77%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.72% 3.91% 3.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 16
10th Percentile £582 £400 £381
25th Percentile £595 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £494
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +11.34% -10.18%
75th Percentile £850 £625 £575
90th Percentile £853 £680 £619
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +6.19%

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 298 384 721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.59% 16.65% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 259 530
10th Percentile £300 £350 £324
25th Percentile £358 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £529 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 £25.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +60.40% - -
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 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 11 May 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 11 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
Herefordshire +2 14 £725 +9.43% 1
Warwickshire - 5 £650 - 1
Birmingham +8 3 - - 7
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 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) 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%) GCP
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 3 (13.04%) Data Lake
1 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.70%) Delta Lake
2 2 (8.70%) Tableau
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) OLAP
3 1 (4.35%) OLTP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI
3 1 (4.35%) Presto
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
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 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
1 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
2 2 (8.70%) Architect
2 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
3 1 (4.35%) Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence 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%) 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%) Node.js
3 1 (4.35%) ODBC
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
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%) Cloud Native
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 17 (73.91%) Data Engineering
2 16 (69.57%) Analytics
2 16 (69.57%) Data Management
3 15 (65.22%) Actionable Insight
3 15 (65.22%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (65.22%) Information Security
3 15 (65.22%) Security Architecture
3 15 (65.22%) SIEM
4 14 (60.87%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (56.52%) Kalman Filter
5 13 (56.52%) Security Operations
6 11 (47.83%) Data Analysis
7 6 (26.09%) Data Analytics
8 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 4 (17.39%) DevOps
9 3 (13.04%) Agile
9 3 (13.04%) Data Architecture
9 3 (13.04%) ETL
10 2 (8.70%) Test Automation
10 2 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
1 6 (26.09%) SQL
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 2 (8.70%) 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%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Sage
3 1 (4.35%) Splunk
3 1 (4.35%) Teradata