Big Data Contracts in Birmingham

Big Data
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 47 65 65
Rank change year-on-year +18 0 +26
Contract jobs citing Big Data 3 2 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.26% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 1.61% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £514 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.79%
75th Percentile £698 - £488
90th Percentile £752 - £540
West Midlands median daily rate £512 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -24.09% +22.73% +13.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 84 124 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 16.09% 16.04% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 97 116
10th Percentile £107 £294 £311
25th Percentile £393 £350 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £609
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +13.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £24.13
25th Percentile - - £24.31
Median hourly rate - £40.50 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - +60.40% -
75th Percentile - - £30.48
90th Percentile - - £33.24
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £40.50 £25.25
% change year-on-year -55.56% +60.40% -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Birmingham

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Birmingham

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Birmingham

Big Data
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Composer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Observability
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Self-Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk