Big Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 225 145
Rank change year-on-year +32 -80 -15
Contract jobs citing Big Data 156 254 829
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.06% 1.06% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.35% 5.68% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 176 569
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £594 £590
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +0.64% +7.27%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £679
90th Percentile £850 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £26.50 £48.80 -
25th Percentile £28.75 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.22% - -
75th Percentile £36.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £38.50 £87.00 -
UK median hourly rate £41.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -47.12% +28.93% +47.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,914 4,470 9,288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.75% 18.72% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,132 3,273 6,790
10th Percentile £356 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 85
10th Percentile £18.20 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.25 £41.44 £21.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% +37.89% +58.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 (21.15%) Apache Spark
2 19 (12.18%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (8.33%) Apache
4 4 (2.56%) IIS
4 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.28%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.28%) Confluence
5 2 (1.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.64%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.64%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 60 (38.46%) AWS
2 57 (36.54%) Azure
3 27 (17.31%) dbt
4 25 (16.03%) Snowflake
5 24 (15.38%) Power Platform
6 16 (10.26%) GCP
7 13 (8.33%) Serverless
8 11 (7.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.77%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.21%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.56%) npm
12 4 (2.56%) PaaS
12 4 (2.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) SAN
2 1 (0.64%) Firewall
2 1 (0.64%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (31.41%) Data Lake
2 37 (23.72%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (17.31%) Apache Arrow
4 26 (16.67%) Dremio
5 24 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (13.46%) Power BI
7 18 (11.54%) Tableau
8 17 (10.90%) Hadoop
9 10 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (6.41%) BigQuery
9 10 (6.41%) Delta Lake
9 10 (6.41%) SQL Server
10 8 (5.13%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (3.21%) Parquet
13 4 (2.56%) Presto
13 4 (2.56%) Spark SQL
14 3 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.92%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 10 (6.41%) Git
2 5 (3.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.56%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.92%) JIRA
4 3 (1.92%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (1.28%) Apache Continuum
6 1 (0.64%) Ant
6 1 (0.64%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.64%) Gradle
6 1 (0.64%) JMeter
6 1 (0.64%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.64%) RStudio
6 1 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 57 (36.54%) Finance
2 31 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.69%) Banking
5 10 (6.41%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.77%) Investment Banking
7 8 (5.13%) Front Office
8 5 (3.21%) Marketing
9 4 (2.56%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.92%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.28%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.64%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Legal
12 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (23.72%) Data Engineer
2 22 (14.10%) Architect
2 22 (14.10%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (13.46%) Big Data Engineer
4 20 (12.82%) Developer
5 18 (11.54%) Site Engineer
5 18 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 17 (10.90%) Analyst
7 15 (9.62%) Senior
8 14 (8.97%) Data Architect
9 9 (5.77%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.77%) Data Business Analyst
9 9 (5.77%) Data Migration Engineer
9 9 (5.77%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Consultant
10 8 (5.13%) Data Centre Engineer
10 8 (5.13%) Lead
10 8 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.49%) Data Analyst
12 5 (3.21%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (17.95%) PySpark
2 18 (11.54%) gRPC
2 18 (11.54%) Protocol Buffers
3 12 (7.69%) Kafka
4 5 (3.21%) Apache Avro
4 5 (3.21%) React
4 5 (3.21%) XML
5 4 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.56%) JSON
5 4 (2.56%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (2.56%) Spring
5 4 (2.56%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.56%) Web Services
6 3 (1.92%) .NET
6 3 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.92%) EDI
6 3 (1.92%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.28%) jQuery
7 2 (1.28%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (17.95%) Hedge funds
2 22 (14.10%) Clustering
3 12 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (6.41%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.13%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.13%) Derivative
5 8 (5.13%) Equities
5 8 (5.13%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.85%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.21%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.56%) NHS
8 4 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.28%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.13%) Linux
1 8 (5.13%) VMS
2 4 (2.56%) Windows
2 4 (2.56%) Windows Server
2 4 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.64%) Android
3 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (33.33%) Analytics
2 44 (28.21%) Agile
3 43 (27.56%) Data Modelling
3 43 (27.56%) DevOps
4 34 (21.79%) ETL
5 28 (17.95%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (17.31%) Data Engineering
7 26 (16.67%) Asset Management
7 26 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 26 (16.67%) Investment Management
8 25 (16.03%) Migration
9 22 (14.10%) CI/CD
10 21 (13.46%) Machine Learning
11 19 (12.18%) Data Analysis
11 19 (12.18%) Data Science
12 18 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 18 (11.54%) Computer Science
12 18 (11.54%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 17 (10.90%) Data Governance
13 17 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 85 (54.49%) Python
2 67 (42.95%) SQL
3 45 (28.85%) Java
4 20 (12.82%) Go
4 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.69%) Scala
6 5 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.92%) C#
7 3 (1.92%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.92%) R
7 3 (1.92%) Rust
8 2 (1.28%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.64%) Bash
9 1 (0.64%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.64%) C++
9 1 (0.64%) Haskell
9 1 (0.64%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.64%) Perl
9 1 (0.64%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.64%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 14 (8.97%) Degree
2 7 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 6 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.64%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.28%) MiFID
3 2 (1.28%) PMO
4 1 (0.64%) EMIR
4 1 (0.64%) FATCA
4 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.64%) NCSC
4 1 (0.64%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (5.77%) Docker
2 4 (2.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (17.31%) Terraform
2 26 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 18 (11.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (14.74%) Databricks
2 21 (13.46%) Microsoft
3 12 (7.69%) Google
4 7 (4.49%) Oracle
5 3 (1.92%) Brio
5 3 (1.92%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.92%) Foundry
5 3 (1.92%) Palantir
5 3 (1.92%) Phenom
5 3 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.92%) Splunk
5 3 (1.92%) Teradata
6 2 (1.28%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe
7 1 (0.64%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.64%) Pardot
7 1 (0.64%) Sage
7 1 (0.64%) SAP
7 1 (0.64%) Sybase
7 1 (0.64%) Workday