Big Data Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Big Data
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 60 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 -8 +14
Contract jobs citing Big Data 7 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.52% 1.34% 1.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.35% 11.22% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 10
10th Percentile £302 £405 £351
25th Percentile £304 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -1.18% -15.84%
75th Percentile £541 £438 £497
90th Percentile £615 £470 £589
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.96 -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £69.48 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +46.27% -39.10%

All Database & BI Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 161 98 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.95% 11.97% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 72 94
10th Percentile £300 £313 £322
25th Percentile £373 £368 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £420 £412
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +2.00% -13.32%
75th Percentile £525 £492 £489
90th Percentile £605 £537 £568
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 2 1
10th Percentile - £20.55 -
25th Percentile £13.51 £23.62 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.29 £28.98 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.44% +28.80% +93.59%
75th Percentile £57.50 £34.10 £23.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £37.01 -
England median hourly rate £39.00 £43.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.34% +24.29% -36.07%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

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

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

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the East Midlands

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Big Data

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Northamptonshire +12 4 £400 -4.88% 2
Lincolnshire -15 3 £505 -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Pig
3 1 (14.29%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Apache Hive
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) HBase
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Sqoop
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) Flink
3 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Parquet
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Agriculture
3 1 (14.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Scala Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Rust Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Express.js
2 1 (14.29%) MERN Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Security
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Science
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) MapReduce
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) R
4 1 (14.29%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Flume
1 2 (28.57%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft