Big Data Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Big Data
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 54 46
Rank change year-on-year -18 -8 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.32% 0.20% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.17% 1.28% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £349 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £351 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -22.22% -
75th Percentile £354 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £488 £488 £475
% change year-on-year - +2.63% -24.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
North West median hourly rate - - £40.00

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 92 78 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 14.60% 15.45% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 60 38
10th Percentile £305 £356 £325
25th Percentile £340 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.03% -2.63% -12.04%
75th Percentile £448 £585 £561
90th Percentile £541 £618 £590
North West median daily rate £439 £453 £475
% change year-on-year -3.04% -4.74% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
North West median hourly rate £30.64 £41.25 £46.75
% change year-on-year -25.73% -11.76% +9.40%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

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 29 August 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 -18 1 £351 +0.29%
Chester - 1 - - 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ETL Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera