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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 51 56
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +31
Contract jobs citing Big Data 14 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.57% 0.86% 0.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.73% 5.00% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile £390 £357 £595
25th Percentile £406 £383 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £750
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -43.33% -
75th Percentile £437 £569 £775
90th Percentile £451 £655 -
England median daily rate £500 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.88% -5.00%
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 - £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +13.69% +5.84%

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 110 100 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.37% 17.27% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 64 75
10th Percentile £325 £330 £325
25th Percentile £380 £359 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% -13.48% +11.11%
75th Percentile £468 £531 £563
90th Percentile £550 £596 £700
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £15.63 - £11.39
25th Percentile £18.76 £21.25 £11.67
Median hourly rate £23.71 £22.50 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +31.95% -71.58%
75th Percentile £36.72 £23.75 £26.11
90th Percentile £56.69 - £30.39
England median hourly rate £54.85 £39.50 £47.70
% change year-on-year +38.86% -17.19% -13.28%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -15 10 £420 +23.53%
Leicestershire -7 3 - -
Lincolnshire - 1 £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 10 (71.43%) Apache Spark
2 3 (21.43%) Apache
2 3 (21.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 4 (28.57%) GCP
4 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Hadoop
2 5 (35.71%) Apache Hive
3 4 (28.57%) Metadata
4 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 3 (21.43%) Data Mining
4 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (21.43%) HBase
4 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (21.43%) Power BI
5 2 (14.29%) QlikView
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (14.29%) Tableau
6 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (64.29%) Finance
3 6 (42.86%) Banking
4 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.14%) Agriculture
6 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Data Scientist
3 3 (21.43%) Scala Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (14.29%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
1 3 (21.43%) Pandas
1 3 (21.43%) scikit-learn
1 3 (21.43%) TensorFlow
2 2 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) Express.js
3 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) React
3 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Science
2 6 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Visualisation
3 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) Data Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
3 5 (35.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (35.71%) Exploratory Data Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (28.57%) Analytics
4 4 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (21.43%) Fintech
5 3 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 3 (21.43%) MapReduce
5 3 (21.43%) Metadata Management
5 3 (21.43%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) R
3 5 (35.71%) Scala
4 2 (14.29%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) PCI DSS
3 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (21.43%) Oozie
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Ab Initio
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft