Big Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 204 218 131
Rank change year-on-year +14 -87 -12
Contract jobs citing Big Data 142 278 912
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.94% 1.11% 2.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.92% 5.81% 9.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 188 617
10th Percentile £441 £463 £448
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £588 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% - +4.44%
75th Percentile £750 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £594 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.04% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £25.25 £42.18 -
25th Percentile £25.62 £52.82 -
Median hourly rate £26.24 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% - -
75th Percentile £33.12 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £37.25 £95.00 -
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,887 4,781 9,514
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.15% 19.06% 21.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,125 3,489 6,911
10th Percentile £356 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 83 83
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.20 £19.20
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.75 £22.08
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £46.67
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +39.28% +50.55%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £68.20
UK median hourly rate £40.13 £60.00 £42.92
% change year-on-year -33.13% +39.80% +59.07%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Big Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Big Data hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 33 (23.24%) Apache Spark
2 18 (12.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.82%) Apache
3 4 (2.82%) IIS
3 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.70%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.70%) nginx
5 1 (0.70%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.99%) AWS
1 44 (30.99%) Azure
2 16 (11.27%) dbt
2 16 (11.27%) Snowflake
3 12 (8.45%) GCP
3 12 (8.45%) Power Platform
4 10 (7.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (7.04%) Serverless
5 8 (5.63%) Azure Logic Apps
5 8 (5.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.52%) Azure Functions
6 5 (3.52%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (2.82%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.82%) SAN
2 1 (0.70%) Firewall
2 1 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (25.35%) Data Warehouse
2 33 (23.24%) Data Lake
3 17 (11.97%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (11.27%) Hadoop
5 14 (9.86%) Apache Arrow
5 14 (9.86%) Dremio
6 10 (7.04%) Delta Lake
7 9 (6.34%) Power BI
7 9 (6.34%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.34%) Tableau
8 7 (4.93%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.93%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.23%) Apache Hive
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (3.52%) Parquet
10 5 (3.52%) Spark SQL
11 4 (2.82%) Presto
12 3 (2.11%) Cloud Spanner
12 3 (2.11%) Impala
Development Applications
1 6 (4.23%) Git
2 3 (2.11%) Cypress.io
2 3 (2.11%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (1.41%) RStudio
4 1 (0.70%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.70%) Gradle
4 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) JMeter
4 1 (0.70%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.70%) Selenium
General
1 45 (31.69%) Finance
2 32 (22.54%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.23%) Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.11%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.11%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.11%) Marketing
7 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.41%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.70%) Back Office
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Local Government
9 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (24.65%) Data Engineer
2 24 (16.90%) Architect
3 19 (13.38%) Developer
4 18 (12.68%) Data Architect
5 17 (11.97%) Big Data Engineer
6 16 (11.27%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) Analyst
7 14 (9.86%) Site Engineer
7 14 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 11 (7.75%) Lead
8 11 (7.75%) Senior
9 9 (6.34%) Data Migration Engineer
9 9 (6.34%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (5.63%) Data Centre Engineer
11 7 (4.93%) Consultant
11 7 (4.93%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.93%) Python Developer
12 6 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.23%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.61%) PySpark
2 14 (9.86%) gRPC
2 14 (9.86%) Protocol Buffers
3 10 (7.04%) Kafka
4 5 (3.52%) Apache Avro
4 5 (3.52%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.52%) XML
5 4 (2.82%) .NET
5 4 (2.82%) JSON
5 4 (2.82%) Web Services
6 3 (2.11%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.11%) EDI
6 3 (2.11%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.11%) Spark Streaming
7 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.41%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.41%) React
7 2 (1.41%) Spring
8 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.68%) Clustering
2 16 (11.27%) Hedge funds
3 11 (7.75%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.63%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.93%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.23%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.82%) NHS
7 4 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.41%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.41%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (1.41%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (1.41%) Grid Computing
9 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.04%) Linux
2 8 (5.63%) VMS
3 4 (2.82%) Windows
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (2.82%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (28.87%) Data Modelling
2 36 (25.35%) Analytics
3 33 (23.24%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (22.54%) Agile
4 32 (22.54%) ETL
5 31 (21.83%) DevOps
6 25 (17.61%) Data Engineering
7 24 (16.90%) Migration
8 23 (16.20%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (15.49%) Artificial Intelligence
9 22 (15.49%) CI/CD
9 22 (15.49%) Machine Learning
10 20 (14.08%) Data Analysis
11 19 (13.38%) Data Science
12 16 (11.27%) Asset Management
12 16 (11.27%) Investment Management
13 15 (10.56%) Software Engineering
14 14 (9.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (8.45%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 81 (57.04%) Python
2 51 (35.92%) SQL
3 37 (26.06%) Java
4 17 (11.97%) Go
5 16 (11.27%) JavaScript
6 13 (9.15%) Scala
7 7 (4.93%) R
8 4 (2.82%) C#
9 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.70%) Bash
11 1 (0.70%) C++
11 1 (0.70%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.70%) Rust
11 1 (0.70%) Tcl
11 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (7.04%) Degree
2 6 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.52%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.52%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (14.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.41%) MiFID
3 2 (1.41%) PMO
4 1 (0.70%) EMIR
4 1 (0.70%) FATCA
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NCSC
4 1 (0.70%) NIST
4 1 (0.70%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.63%) Docker
2 4 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.70%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (16.20%) Kubernetes
2 22 (15.49%) Terraform
3 14 (9.86%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.52%) Ansible
5 2 (1.41%) Consul
5 2 (1.41%) Packer
5 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.41%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.70%) Oozie
Vendors
1 19 (13.38%) Databricks
2 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.93%) Google
3 7 (4.93%) Oracle
4 3 (2.11%) Brio
4 3 (2.11%) Phenom
4 3 (2.11%) Splunk
4 3 (2.11%) Teradata
5 2 (1.41%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.70%) Foundry
6 1 (0.70%) Palantir
6 1 (0.70%) Sage
6 1 (0.70%) SAP
6 1 (0.70%) Sybase
6 1 (0.70%) Workday