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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 52 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing Big Data 11 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.38% 1.63% 0.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.34% 9.70% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 4
10th Percentile £405 £353 -
25th Percentile £408 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -15.84% -
75th Percentile £438 £538 £545
90th Percentile £470 £575 £608
England median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 - -
England median hourly rate £69.48 £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +46.27% -39.10% +30.00%

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 97 134 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.16% 16.75% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 92 85
10th Percentile £313 £322 £300
25th Percentile £368 £360 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -13.16% -4.52%
75th Percentile £490 £489 £530
90th Percentile £537 £599 £677
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £20.55 - £11.27
25th Percentile £23.62 £21.25 £11.36
Median hourly rate £28.98 £22.50 £11.62
Median % change year-on-year +28.80% +93.59% -66.79%
75th Percentile £34.10 £23.75 £11.78
90th Percentile £37.01 - £11.81
England median hourly rate £44.25 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.07% -34.09% +22.22%

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
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 20 September 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 -11 6 £420 +3.38% 1
Leicestershire -1 3 - - 1
Lincolnshire - 2 £505 -
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 6 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 3 (27.27%) Apache
2 3 (27.27%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Hadoop
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata
2 4 (36.36%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Tableau
3 3 (27.27%) Apache Hive
3 3 (27.27%) HBase
3 3 (27.27%) NoSQL
3 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
4 2 (18.18%) QlikView
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (9.09%) Power Query
5 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Banking
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Agriculture
5 1 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (9.09%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (27.27%) Scala Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Business Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Digital Business Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 1 (9.09%) Express.js
3 1 (9.09%) MERN Stack
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
3 1 (9.09%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Cloud Native
1 3 (27.27%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 4 (36.36%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Science
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata Management
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Visualisation
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Data Integration
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
3 3 (27.27%) MapReduce
3 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
3 3 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (27.27%) Unit Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Scala
3 3 (27.27%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) R
4 2 (18.18%) Java
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (27.27%) Oozie
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Google