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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 92 104
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing Big Data 14 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.09% 0.26% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.75% 3.64% 4.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
10th Percentile £395 £480 £462
25th Percentile £450 £488 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £650
90th Percentile £675 £665 £705
England median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 160 110 209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.43% 7.28% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 62 150
10th Percentile £375 £213 £346
25th Percentile £450 £316 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -12.50% -4.67%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £575
90th Percentile £650 £643 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 7
10th Percentile £20.98 £13.69 £39.20
25th Percentile £23.81 £14.11 £58.13
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.49 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +104.26% -78.63% +78.00%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £43.75 £22.63 £78.30
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +22.22%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data 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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the East of England

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 15 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
Hertfordshire +12 10 £505 -27.86% 6
Cambridgeshire +3 1 £400 -20.00% 1
Bedfordshire -9 1 £550 +10.00%
Essex - 1 £505 -
Norfolk - 1 £500 -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (57.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) IBM Domino
2 1 (7.14%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Hadoop
2 7 (50.00%) Tableau
3 3 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
5 1 (7.14%) Metadata
5 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Pentaho
5 1 (7.14%) Power BI
5 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.14%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) ER Studio
1 1 (7.14%) ERwin
General
1 5 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Agriculture
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) Data Science Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Data Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Gen AI Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
5 1 (7.14%) Informatica Administrator
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Principal Data Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (50.00%) Matplotlib
1 7 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 7 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 7 (50.00%) Seaborn
1 7 (50.00%) TensorFlow
2 6 (42.86%) NumPy
2 6 (42.86%) Pandas
3 1 (7.14%) Express.js
3 1 (7.14%) MERN Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) PySpark
3 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Data Fabric
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) IoT
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Data Science
2 8 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 8 (57.14%) Machine Learning
3 7 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) Data Munging
3 7 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 7 (50.00%) LLM
3 7 (50.00%) Reinforcement Learning
3 7 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
5 5 (35.71%) Feature Engineering
5 5 (35.71%) Statistical Modelling
6 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 4 (28.57%) Predictive Analytics
6 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (28.57%) Time Series Forecasting
7 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
8 2 (14.29%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Python
2 8 (57.14%) R
3 2 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) HiveQL
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Degree
2 7 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (35.71%) PhD
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Databricks
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.14%) Informatica
3 1 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) Vertica