Big Data Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Big Data
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 10 29
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Big Data 1 25 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 0.98% 14.45% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 45.45% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 16 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £668 £600
Median % change year-on-year - +11.25% +9.09%
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £668 £713
% change year-on-year -32.58% -6.32% +18.75%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 23 55 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 22.55% 31.79% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 37 10
10th Percentile - £558 £411
25th Percentile £525 £575 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £668 £628
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +6.33% +9.17%
75th Percentile £750 £738 £728
90th Percentile £753 £1,075 £753
Gloucestershire median daily rate £581 £625 £563
% change year-on-year -7.00% +11.11% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - - £23.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £45.38
90th Percentile - - £55.65
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 £30.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -60.00% -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 (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%) 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
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
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%) AI
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