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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 38 52
Rank change year-on-year -37 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.77% 2.56% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.06% 17.57% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £370 £305 £406
25th Percentile £384 £351 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £393 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.28% -35.92% -5.77%
75th Percentile £506 £491 £753
90th Percentile £575 £500 £775
England median daily rate £525 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.75
Median hourly rate - - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +27.78% -42.31%

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 158 74 105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 15.30% 14.60% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 49 72
10th Percentile £336 £306 £290
25th Percentile £375 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% +4.47% -
75th Percentile £494 £500 £538
90th Percentile £588 £559 £730
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 11
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.68 -
25th Percentile £14.66 £19.40 -
Median hourly rate £42.71 £20.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.32% +47.14% -47.13%
75th Percentile £74.00 £21.80 £22.73
90th Percentile £81.23 £22.52 £33.25
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -27.27%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -20 8 £425 +14.40% 3
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 5 (62.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (37.50%) Parquet
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Metadata
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Data Scientist
2 3 (37.50%) Rust Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
2 3 (37.50%) Pandas
2 3 (37.50%) scikit-learn
2 3 (37.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (37.50%) Analytics
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (37.50%) Fintech
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Statistical Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 2 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) R
2 3 (37.50%) Rust
3 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft