Big Data Contracts in the City of London

Big Data
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 102 93
Rank change year-on-year -7 -9 -17
Contract jobs citing Big Data 17 69 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.78% 1.91% 2.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.52% 9.04% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 38 60
10th Percentile £553 £463 £475
25th Percentile £575 £516 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -2.04% +4.70%
75th Percentile £763 £775 £738
90th Percentile £910 £863 £778
Central London median daily rate £663 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +10.42% -4.00% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.15% -
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year - -42.15% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of London

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 483 763 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 22.07% 21.13% 21.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 483 703
10th Percentile £407 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £506 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £710 £730 £700
90th Percentile £800 £788 £798
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 5
10th Percentile - £43.13 £40.65
25th Percentile £46.75 £58.41 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +656.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - £71.20
Central London median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £60.50
% change year-on-year -42.32% +38.99% +332.14%

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 6 May 2024.

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
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 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
2 6 (35.29%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) Alation
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Lucidchart
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
2 3 (17.65%) Metadata
3 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 2 (11.76%) Presto
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
4 1 (5.88%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.88%) DB2
4 1 (5.88%) Impala
4 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (5.88%) Parquet
4 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Sqoop
4 1 (5.88%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
1 1 (5.88%) ERwin
1 1 (5.88%) RStudio
1 1 (5.88%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Big Data Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) GCP Consultant
5 1 (5.88%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) PySpark
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) JSON Schema
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Data Modelling
2 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Analytics
3 5 (29.41%) Data Engineering
3 5 (29.41%) ETL
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Data Science
6 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Business Development
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Commercialisation
6 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Data Management
6 2 (11.76%) ERP
6 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Identification
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) Scala
3 2 (11.76%) VBA
4 1 (5.88%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (5.88%) Go
4 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.76%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.88%) NCSC
2 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
1 1 (5.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Consul
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Packer
2 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
2 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Foundry
2 2 (11.76%) Palantir
2 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) IBM
3 1 (5.88%) Informatica
3 1 (5.88%) Okta
3 1 (5.88%) Sybase
3 1 (5.88%) Symantec
3 1 (5.88%) Talend
3 1 (5.88%) Varonis