Big Data Contracts in the East of England

Big Data
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 110 112
Rank change year-on-year +39 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Big Data 18 2 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.65% 0.10% 0.55%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 12.77% 1.77% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 10
10th Percentile £420 £520 £446
25th Percentile £500 £550 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +2.13% +20.51%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £641
90th Percentile - £680 £664
England median daily rate £550 £579 £600
% change year-on-year -5.01% -3.50% -

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 141 113 223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.95% 5.87% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 74 160
10th Percentile £375 £300 £298
25th Percentile £430 £346 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -18.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £578
90th Percentile £675 £650 £678
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 12
10th Percentile £18.96 £13.11 £17.58
25th Percentile £21.20 £14.11 £50.31
Median hourly rate £31.64 £15.49 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +104.26% -75.41% +80.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.88 £67.94
90th Percentile £64.80 £30.18 £73.75
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -15.15% -29.76% +41.84%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the East of England

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the East of England

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the East of England

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 July 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 +39 16 £650 -7.14% 19
Bedfordshire -3 1 £550 +10.00% 6
Norfolk - 1 £500 - 4
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 12 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (11.11%) MS Project Server
3 1 (5.56%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (77.78%) Azure
2 13 (72.22%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) GCP
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (72.22%) Hadoop
2 12 (66.67%) Tableau
3 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Delta Lake
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Power BI
4 1 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) ER Studio
1 1 (5.56%) ERwin
1 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) Developer
2 10 (55.56%) Data Science Developer
3 7 (38.89%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 5 (27.78%) Senior
4 5 (27.78%) Senior Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Data Architect
5 2 (11.11%) Gen AI Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
6 1 (5.56%) Informatica Administrator
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (66.67%) Matplotlib
1 12 (66.67%) PyTorch
1 12 (66.67%) scikit-learn
1 12 (66.67%) Seaborn
1 12 (66.67%) TensorFlow
2 11 (61.11%) NumPy
2 11 (61.11%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) IoT
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) PMI
3 1 (5.56%) Data Fabric
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Data Analysis
1 13 (72.22%) Data Science
2 12 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (66.67%) Data Munging
2 12 (66.67%) Generative AI
2 12 (66.67%) LLM
2 12 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 12 (66.67%) Reinforcement Learning
2 12 (66.67%) Visualisation
3 11 (61.11%) Analytics
4 10 (55.56%) Computer Science
4 10 (55.56%) Feature Engineering
4 10 (55.56%) Statistical Modelling
5 9 (50.00%) Data Analytics
5 9 (50.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (50.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 9 (50.00%) Time Series Forecasting
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
7 2 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) Python
1 13 (72.22%) R
2 1 (5.56%) HiveQL
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 10 (55.56%) Master's Degree
2 10 (55.56%) PhD
3 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Databricks
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.56%) Informatica
2 1 (5.56%) OpenAI