Big Data Contracts in Belfast

Big Data
County Antrim > Belfast

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 3.40% 4.03% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% 29.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile - £429 -
25th Percentile - £455 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £494 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% - -
75th Percentile £600 £514 -
90th Percentile £618 £528 -
County Antrim median daily rate £410 £494 -
% change year-on-year -16.96% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Belfast

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in Belfast.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 35 17 19
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 23.81% 13.71% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 13
10th Percentile £250 £331 £413
25th Percentile £363 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £519 £500 £535
90th Percentile £612 £506 £645
County Antrim median daily rate £425 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -12.82% +8.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate £22.48 £16.12 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.45% +19.41% -
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median hourly rate £22.48 £16.12 £13.50
% change year-on-year +39.45% +19.41% -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Belfast

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Belfast

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Belfast

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Belfast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Belfast

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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
2 3 (60.00%) Apache
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Apache Hive
2 3 (60.00%) HBase
2 3 (60.00%) Impala
3 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Financial Institution
2 2 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Big Data Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Big Data Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
2 2 (40.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (40.00%) SOA
1 2 (40.00%) Storyboarding
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudera