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 3 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank - 62 57
Rank change year-on-year - -5 +22
Contract jobs citing Big Data 0 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England - 1.08% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 8.25% 4.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -32.14% -
England median daily rate £548 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.29% -12.50% -7.69%

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 76 97 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.60% 13.13% 6.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 57 24
10th Percentile £346 £354 £186
25th Percentile £403 £450 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £360
Median % change year-on-year +0.60% +38.89% -28.00%
75th Percentile £597 £580 £491
90th Percentile £662 £630 £639
England median daily rate £513 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +2.50% -8.26% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 8
10th Percentile £20.44 - £13.69
25th Percentile £20.75 - £14.11
Median hourly rate £55.50 £20.75 £15.49
Median % change year-on-year +167.47% +33.96% -74.71%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £18.50
90th Percentile - - £22.63
England median hourly rate £30.50 £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -23.75% +33.33% -42.86%

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
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Agriculture
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Architect
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (33.33%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) MERN Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Science
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) API Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Micro Frontends
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Talend