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 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 105 97
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 +2
Contract jobs citing Big Data 38 19 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.25% 0.88% 1.85%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.69% 3.93% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 32
10th Percentile £425 £458 £463
25th Percentile £469 £556 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £719 £756 £828
90th Percentile £775 £785 £941
Central London median daily rate £670 £650 £600
% change year-on-year +3.08% +8.33% -
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 392 484 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.21% 22.48% 21.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 331 455
10th Percentile £404 £400 £414
25th Percentile £463 £475 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% -2.08% +4.35%
75th Percentile £689 £713 £734
90th Percentile £775 £800 £808
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile £20.13 - £42.50
25th Percentile £25.56 £46.75 £49.38
Median hourly rate £34.65 £48.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year -28.56% -42.32% +52.89%
75th Percentile £67.34 £50.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £86.94 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £48.50 £84.09
% change year-on-year -34.31% -42.32% +52.89%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 14 (36.84%) Apache Spark
2 10 (26.32%) Apache
3 2 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.63%) Luigi
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 13 (34.21%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) GCP
3 4 (10.53%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
4 2 (5.26%) Cloud Functions
4 2 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (5.26%) Google Compute Engine
4 2 (5.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 2 (5.26%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.63%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.63%) Boomi
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub
5 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.63%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.63%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (31.58%) Hadoop
2 8 (21.05%) NoSQL
3 5 (13.16%) MongoDB
3 5 (13.16%) Relational Database
3 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.53%) Data Lake
5 3 (7.89%) BigQuery
5 3 (7.89%) DB2
5 3 (7.89%) OLAP
5 3 (7.89%) OLTP
5 3 (7.89%) SAP BW
5 3 (7.89%) SAP Data Services
5 3 (7.89%) SAP HANA
6 2 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (5.26%) Power BI
7 1 (2.63%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.63%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (2.63%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Git
2 6 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.26%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.63%) GitLab
4 1 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 20 (52.63%) Finance
2 10 (26.32%) Banking
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Social Skills
5 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.26%) Front Office
7 1 (2.63%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 9 (23.68%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.05%) Data Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Apache Spark Developer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Data Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Architect
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Architect
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Market Risk Developer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Services Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) Web Services
2 5 (13.16%) Spark Streaming
2 5 (13.16%) Spring
3 3 (7.89%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.89%) React
3 3 (7.89%) RESTful
4 2 (5.26%) Kafka
4 2 (5.26%) Middleware
4 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.63%) .NET
5 1 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (2.63%) Protocol Buffers
5 1 (2.63%) PySpark
5 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (23.68%) Market Risk
2 5 (13.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (13.16%) Credit Risk
2 5 (13.16%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.63%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (36.84%) Analytics
2 11 (28.95%) Risk Management
3 10 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 10 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (21.05%) Agile
4 8 (21.05%) Data Modelling
4 8 (21.05%) Data Science
4 8 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
5 7 (18.42%) Data Engineering
6 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
6 6 (15.79%) Containerisation
6 6 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (15.79%) Data Integration
6 6 (15.79%) DevOps
6 6 (15.79%) ETL
6 6 (15.79%) Mathematics
6 6 (15.79%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (15.79%) SDLC
6 6 (15.79%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (68.42%) Python
2 14 (36.84%) Java
3 11 (28.95%) SQL
4 6 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 5 (13.16%) Scala
6 3 (7.89%) Perl
6 3 (7.89%) R
6 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
6 3 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 1 (2.63%) C#
7 1 (2.63%) CodeQL
7 1 (2.63%) Kotlin
7 1 (2.63%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.63%) PhD
2 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (2.63%) ISO 20022
3 1 (2.63%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Databricks
2 5 (13.16%) Google
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 3 (7.89%) Sybase
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.26%) Planview
4 2 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (2.63%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.63%) MuleSoft