Big Data Contracts in Central London

Big Data
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 116 117
Rank change year-on-year +28 +1 -15
Contract jobs citing Big Data 38 21 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.99% 0.88% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.05% 3.99% 8.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 32
10th Percentile £425 £450 £463
25th Percentile £469 £550 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £719 £750 £825
90th Percentile £775 £778 £863
London median daily rate £586 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -9.85% +8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
London median hourly rate £78.75 £42.50 £90.00
% change year-on-year +85.29% -52.78% +18.89%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 420 526 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.02% 21.99% 21.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 284 362 496
10th Percentile £404 £407 £413
25th Percentile £459 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £730
90th Percentile £771 £786 £800
London median daily rate £550 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £20.27 - £42.50
25th Percentile £25.93 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £31.86 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -34.31% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £51.01 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £80.40 - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £48.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -27.84% -7.62% -2.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
City of London +27 37 £670 +3.08% 10
Southwark - 1 - -
Big Data
London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 13 (34.21%) Apache Spark
2 9 (23.68%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.63%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 7 (18.42%) GCP
3 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) AWS
5 2 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.63%) Boomi
6 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) Hadoop
2 9 (23.68%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.89%) DB2
5 3 (7.89%) OLAP
5 3 (7.89%) OLTP
5 3 (7.89%) SAP BW
5 3 (7.89%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (7.89%) SAP HANA
6 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
6 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.26%) Power BI
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.63%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 19 (50.00%) Finance
2 9 (23.68%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Front Office
7 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (13.16%) Apache Spark Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior
7 3 (7.89%) Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Data Analyst
7 3 (7.89%) Data Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (7.89%) Quantitative Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
8 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
8 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Manager
8 2 (5.26%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) Web Services
2 5 (13.16%) Spark Streaming
2 5 (13.16%) Spring
3 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Kafka
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.63%) PySpark
5 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Market Risk
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (10.53%) Credit Risk
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
5 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Analytics
2 11 (28.95%) Risk Management
3 10 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
5 8 (21.05%) Agile
5 8 (21.05%) Data Science
5 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (18.42%) Data Modelling
7 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
7 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (15.79%) Data Engineering
7 6 (15.79%) Data Integration
7 6 (15.79%) DevOps
7 6 (15.79%) ETL
7 6 (15.79%) Mathematics
7 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
7 6 (15.79%) SDLC
8 5 (13.16%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) Java
3 12 (31.58%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.53%) Scala
6 3 (7.89%) Perl
6 3 (7.89%) R
6 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) PhD
2 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Databricks
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 4 (10.53%) Google
4 3 (7.89%) SAP
4 3 (7.89%) Sybase
5 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
5 2 (5.26%) Planview
5 2 (5.26%) Splunk
6 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft