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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 55 67
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +26
Contract jobs citing Big Data 13 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.53% 0.96% 0.49%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.00% 5.56% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile £405 £364 £503
25th Percentile £410 £400 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -19.81% -
75th Percentile £438 £575 £606
90th Percentile £458 £658 £708
England median daily rate £525 £550 £598
% change year-on-year -4.55% -7.95% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 - -
England median hourly rate £38.96 £47.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -17.98% -38.71% -

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 100 126 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 11.74% 17.31% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 84 85
10th Percentile £313 £307 £300
25th Percentile £368 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -11.84% -
75th Percentile £473 £500 £550
90th Percentile £524 £586 £688
England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - £21.25 £11.52
Median hourly rate £38.96 £22.50 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year +73.16% +90.19% -63.60%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £17.78
90th Percentile - - £21.35
England median hourly rate £43.50 £35.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year +24.29% -29.29% -7.91%

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
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 2 November 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 -8 8 £420 +13.51% 3
Leicestershire -6 3 - -
Lincolnshire - 2 £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 7 (53.85%) Apache Spark
2 3 (23.08%) Apache
2 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) Power Platform
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Hadoop
2 5 (38.46%) Apache Hive
2 5 (38.46%) Metadata
3 4 (30.77%) Power BI
4 3 (23.08%) Data Mining
4 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (23.08%) HBase
4 3 (23.08%) NoSQL
4 3 (23.08%) Tableau
5 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 2 (15.38%) QlikView
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
5 2 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (53.85%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Agriculture
5 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (7.69%) Police
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Developer
2 5 (38.46%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Scala Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) Express.js
3 1 (7.69%) MERN Stack
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Data Modelling
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (38.46%) Visualisation
4 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Data Governance
4 4 (30.77%) Data Science
4 4 (30.77%) ETL
4 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) Metadata Management
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (23.08%) Exploratory Data Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) MapReduce
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Scala
3 3 (23.08%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) R
4 2 (15.38%) Java
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (23.08%) Oozie
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Ab Initio
1 2 (15.38%) Databricks
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft