Big Data Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Big Data
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 77 99
Rank change year-on-year -23 +22 +25
Contract jobs citing Big Data 2 9 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.13% 0.80% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.18% 6.08% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £410 £531 -
25th Percentile £426 £597 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £650 £300
Median % change year-on-year -30.38% +116.67% -61.29%
75th Percentile £481 £675 £353
90th Percentile £497 - £447
England median daily rate £500 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -13.04% +1.77% -5.83%

All Database & BI Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 170 148 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.67% 13.13% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 70 104
10th Percentile £171 £213 £236
25th Percentile £378 £316 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £543 £560
90th Percentile £663 £664 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 13 10
10th Percentile £23.03 £18.40 £20.00
25th Percentile £28.75 £30.21 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.50 £63.00 £30.09
Median % change year-on-year -30.95% +109.37% -26.12%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £80.55 -
England median hourly rate £54.70 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +40.26% -17.89% -13.64%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Big Data job vacancy trend in the East of England

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Big Data

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Big Data

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cambridgeshire -7 1 £400 -20.00%
Essex - 1 £505 - 7
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Pentaho
General
1 1 (50.00%) Agriculture
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Express.js
1 1 (50.00%) MERN Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Scala
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Vertica