Big Data Contracts in Cheshire

Big Data
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 48 58
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 1 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.22% 1.98% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.33% 10.99% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £497 £488
25th Percentile £349 £505 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £510 £675
Median % change year-on-year -31.18% -24.44% -
75th Percentile £354 £538 £713
90th Percentile - £632 -
North West median daily rate £600 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% +7.37% -18.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
North West median hourly rate - - £37.50

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 75 91 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.70% 18.06% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 68 63
10th Percentile £334 £363 £330
25th Percentile £365 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 £489 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.88% +8.67% +8.56%
75th Percentile £575 £566 £586
90th Percentile £643 £610 £679
North West median daily rate £475 £489 £490
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.63 -
25th Percentile £39.85 £41.25 -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.41% +6.25% +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 -
90th Percentile £65.98 - -
North West median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
% change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Cheshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Cheshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Knutsford -5 1 £351 -44.06% 1
Big Data
North West

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python