Big Data Contracts in the City of London

Big Data
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 110 102
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 -12
Contract jobs citing Big Data 34 16 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.94% 0.73% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.70% 3.28% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 40
10th Percentile £425 £553 £463
25th Percentile £469 £575 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% -3.03%
75th Percentile £725 £763 £775
90th Percentile £775 £910 £839
Central London median daily rate £625 £663 £600
% change year-on-year -5.66% +10.42% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
Central London median hourly rate £100.00 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.15%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 391 488 770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.25% 22.21% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 328 487
10th Percentile £405 £403 £413
25th Percentile £463 £475 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £702 £730
90th Percentile £763 £791 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £41.16 - £43.13
25th Percentile £50.97 £46.75 £58.41
Median hourly rate £67.33 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +38.81% -42.32% +38.99%
75th Percentile £83.67 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.47 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +38.99%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Big Data
Central London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 15 (44.12%) Apache Spark
2 11 (32.35%) Apache
3 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.94%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) Azure
2 5 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.76%) AWS
4 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.88%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.94%) Boomi
6 1 (2.94%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (35.29%) Hadoop
2 6 (17.65%) NoSQL
3 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
3 5 (14.71%) Relational Database
3 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
4 3 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.82%) DB2
4 3 (8.82%) OLAP
4 3 (8.82%) OLTP
4 3 (8.82%) Power BI
4 3 (8.82%) SAP BW
4 3 (8.82%) SAP Data Services
4 3 (8.82%) SAP HANA
5 2 (5.88%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (5.88%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Sqoop
6 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.88%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 19 (55.88%) Finance
2 9 (26.47%) Banking
3 8 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 5 (14.71%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.88%) Front Office
7 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Developer
2 9 (26.47%) Java Developer
3 8 (23.53%) Data Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Architect
5 6 (17.65%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (14.71%) Apache Spark Developer
7 4 (11.76%) Senior
8 3 (8.82%) Analyst
8 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
8 3 (8.82%) Principal Data Engineer
8 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (5.88%) Lead
9 2 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Quantitative Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
9 2 (5.88%) Technical Leader
9 2 (5.88%) Technical Manager
9 2 (5.88%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Web Services
2 5 (14.71%) Spark Streaming
3 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.82%) Kafka
3 3 (8.82%) Middleware
3 3 (8.82%) React
3 3 (8.82%) RESTful
3 3 (8.82%) Spring
4 2 (5.88%) .NET
4 2 (5.88%) PySpark
5 1 (2.94%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.94%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.94%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Market Risk
2 5 (14.71%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (14.71%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
1 3 (8.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Analytics
2 11 (32.35%) Risk Management
3 9 (26.47%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (23.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (23.53%) Data Science
4 8 (23.53%) ETL
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
6 6 (17.65%) Code Quality
6 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 6 (17.65%) Mathematics
6 6 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (14.71%) Agile
7 5 (14.71%) Batch Processing
7 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Data Management
7 5 (14.71%) Greeks
7 5 (14.71%) Memory Management
7 5 (14.71%) Risk Analytics
7 5 (14.71%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) Java
3 9 (26.47%) SQL
4 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.76%) Scala
5 3 (8.82%) Perl
5 3 (8.82%) R
5 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
5 3 (8.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.94%) PhD
2 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.94%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Databricks
2 5 (14.71%) Oracle
3 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 3 (8.82%) Sybase
4 2 (5.88%) Google
4 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.88%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.88%) Planview
4 2 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.94%) MuleSoft