Big Data Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Big Data
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 40 57
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 +33
Contract jobs citing Big Data 9 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 2.71% 1.87% 1.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.07% 11.86% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 4
10th Percentile £408 £405 £645
25th Percentile £411 £413 £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £800
Median % change year-on-year - -46.88% +60.00%
75th Percentile £466 £438 £850
90th Percentile £516 £468 -
South East median daily rate £531 £425 £800
% change year-on-year +25.00% -46.88% +60.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 59 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 16.87% 15.73% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 84
10th Percentile £286 £202 £336
25th Percentile £325 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £438 £506
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -13.58% +3.32%
75th Percentile £466 £488 £600
90th Percentile £537 £575 £669
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £13.25 - -
Median hourly rate £13.50 - -
75th Percentile £19.13 - -
90th Percentile £22.35 - -
South East median hourly rate £13.50 £51.59 £49.50
% change year-on-year -73.83% +4.22% +132.39%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Buckinghamshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes +9 9 £425 - 2
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon Bedrock
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
2 4 (44.44%) Amazon SageMaker
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (44.44%) AWS Step Functions
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) ChatGPT
2 4 (44.44%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
2 1 (11.11%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (11.11%) OLAP
2 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 4 (44.44%) Financial Institution
2 4 (44.44%) General Ledger
2 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Architect
1 4 (44.44%) Data Scientist
1 4 (44.44%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce Solution Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
3 1 (11.11%) Finance Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Hugging Face
1 4 (44.44%) NumPy
1 4 (44.44%) Pandas
1 4 (44.44%) PyTorch
1 4 (44.44%) scikit-learn
2 3 (33.33%) Prophet
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) A/B Testing
1 4 (44.44%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
1 4 (44.44%) ArchiMate
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) Data Privacy
1 4 (44.44%) Data Science
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
1 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
1 4 (44.44%) Microservices
1 4 (44.44%) Migration
1 4 (44.44%) OCR
1 4 (44.44%) Performance Metrics
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
1 4 (44.44%) Scrum
1 4 (44.44%) Statistical Analysis
1 4 (44.44%) Strategic Roadmap
1 4 (44.44%) Time Series Forecasting
1 4 (44.44%) TOGAF
1 4 (44.44%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 4 (44.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Sage
2 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) IBM