Big Data Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Big Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Big Data Engineer daily rate in Birmingham.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.19% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Birmingham with a recognized job title 468 715 870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 92.50% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 502 583
10th Percentile £160 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in Birmingham

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in Birmingham

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Composer

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google