Big Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Big Data Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

As of 26 September 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 Cheltenham.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 43 -
Rank change year-on-year +23 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.11% 0.40% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 -
Gloucestershire median daily rate - £650 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 80 244 206
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.89% 98.79% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 104 118
10th Percentile £383 £404 £312
25th Percentile £525 £509 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £675 £676 £675
90th Percentile £761 £738 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £518 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 29 8
10th Percentile - - £24.08
25th Percentile £13.50 £63.75 £28.69
Median hourly rate £14.00 £70.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.00% +45.83% +25.08%
75th Percentile £14.50 £72.50 £90.00
90th Percentile £25.25 £73.75 £91.35
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £35.17 £67.50 £73.00
% change year-on-year -47.90% -7.53% +77.92%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in Cheltenham

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 Cheltenham region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana