Big Data Contract Job Trends in East London

Big Data
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - -6
Contract jobs citing Big Data 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.87% - 0.46%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.00% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile - - £613
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £559 £586 £650
% change year-on-year -4.54% -9.85% +8.33%

All Database & BI Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 25 14 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 21.74% 14.14% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 37
10th Percentile £388 £400 £300
25th Percentile £449 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -10.08% -9.17%
75th Percentile £630 £578 £618
90th Percentile £675 £666 £756
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £10.06 -
25th Percentile £19.19 £13.15 £20.98
Median hourly rate £19.38 £18.30 £23.32
Median % change year-on-year +5.87% -21.53% +3.71%
75th Percentile £19.56 £23.45 £25.66
90th Percentile - £26.54 -
London median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -27.84% -9.77%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Big Data job vacancy trend in East London

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Big Data

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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
Tower Hamlets - 1 £449 -
Big Data
London

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Base SAS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SAS Macro
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform