Big Data Contracts in the East Midlands

Big Data
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 54 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 +28 +13
Contract jobs citing Big Data 12 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.24% 1.55% 0.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.14% 10.91% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 2
10th Percentile £305 £395 £515
25th Percentile £351 £411 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% -10.87% +64.29%
75th Percentile £491 £688 £613
90th Percentile £500 £775 £635
England median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +63.12% -51.71% +11.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 70 110 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 13.06% 14.23% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 74 117
10th Percentile £312 £294 £223
25th Percentile £368 £356 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.49%
75th Percentile £510 £519 £500
90th Percentile £547 £714 £653
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 3
10th Percentile £18.26 £13.26 £20.54
25th Percentile £18.35 - £22.77
Median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -47.13% -24.34%
75th Percentile £21.25 £21.30 £43.24
90th Percentile £22.30 £35.12 £53.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the East Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the East Midlands

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the East Midlands

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 1 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
Northamptonshire +4 9 £372 -11.28% 3
Nottinghamshire +5 2 £500 -23.08% 6
Leicestershire +6 1 - - 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 9 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 5 (41.67%) Impala
3 4 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 4 (33.33%) HBase
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (16.67%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Delta Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Flink
4 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Parquet
5 1 (8.33%) Power BI
5 1 (8.33%) Power Query
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Scala Developer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Big Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Scala Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Hadoop Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 2 (16.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (8.33%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (8.33%) Life Science
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ETL
2 5 (41.67%) Open Source
3 3 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centric Approach
4 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Server Building
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Scala
2 5 (41.67%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (8.33%) R
5 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Hitachi
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce