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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 42 54
Rank change year-on-year -34 +12 +34
Contract jobs citing Big Data 7 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.69% 1.49% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.56% 9.20% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 6
10th Percentile £372 £334 £606
25th Percentile £385 £363 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £410 £713
Median % change year-on-year - -42.46% -
75th Percentile £436 £500 £775
90th Percentile £437 - -
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -8.33%
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 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% +3.14%

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 126 87 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 12.45% 16.17% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 58 69
10th Percentile £332 £314 £285
25th Percentile £381 £359 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £423 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +5.63% -4.76%
75th Percentile £475 £510 £530
90th Percentile £600 £577 £696
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £12.95 £18.68 £13.26
25th Percentile £13.10 £19.40 -
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.60 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +47.14% -67.62%
75th Percentile £58.91 £21.80 £21.30
90th Percentile £83.45 £22.52 £24.68
England median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +42.86% -13.58% -32.50%

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 9 March 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 -25 5 £410 +9.33%
Leicestershire - 2 - -
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 (71.43%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Hadoop
2 3 (42.86%) Data Lake
2 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Apache Hive
3 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
3 2 (28.57%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Metadata
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Pandas
1 3 (42.86%) scikit-learn
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) Fintech
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Statistical Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (71.43%) R
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
1 2 (28.57%) GDPR
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Ab Initio
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft