Big Data Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Big Data
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cardiff 0.74% 0.61% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% 4.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £167 -
Median % change year-on-year +184.31% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £425 £167 -
% change year-on-year +154.38% - -

All Database & BI Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 30 24 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 11.03% 14.63% 26.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 52
10th Percentile £261 £196 £310
25th Percentile £338 £205 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £257 £520
Median % change year-on-year +59.58% -50.59% +15.56%
75th Percentile £628 £365 £588
90th Percentile £775 £400 £665
South Wales median daily rate £411 £261 £515
% change year-on-year +57.42% -49.27% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.75 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £22.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median hourly rate £80.00 £25.84 -
% change year-on-year +209.60% - -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Cardiff

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

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

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Functions
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Beam
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (50.00%) IT Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (50.00%) Google