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 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 90 110
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing Big Data 9 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.66% 0.41% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.23% 4.88% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £390 £480 £452
25th Percentile £425 £488 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% +1.62%
75th Percentile £508 £613 £495
90th Percentile £525 £665 £504
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.43% -0.08% -

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 172 123 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.52% 8.51% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 62 141
10th Percentile £310 £213 £305
25th Percentile £447 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -25.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £519 £575
90th Percentile £650 £584 £675
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile £22.95 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £14.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.99 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +91.29% -74.83% +65.73%
75th Percentile £44.75 £26.56 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.41 £34.56 -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

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
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 October 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 October 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 +3 5 £450 -35.71% 15
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £400 -20.00% 2
Bedfordshire -7 1 £550 +10.00%
Essex - 1 £505 - 1
Norfolk - 1 £500 -
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 4 (44.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Hadoop
2 3 (33.33%) Tableau
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
4 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) Pentaho
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) Sqoop
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Agriculture
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Data Science Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Matplotlib
1 3 (33.33%) PyTorch
1 3 (33.33%) scikit-learn
1 3 (33.33%) Seaborn
1 3 (33.33%) TensorFlow
2 2 (22.22%) NumPy
2 2 (22.22%) Pandas
3 1 (11.11%) Express.js
3 1 (11.11%) MERN Stack
3 1 (11.11%) Node.js
3 1 (11.11%) PySpark
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
3 1 (11.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Analytics
1 5 (55.56%) Data Science
2 4 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 4 (44.44%) Data Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
3 3 (33.33%) AI
3 3 (33.33%) Data Munging
3 3 (33.33%) Feature Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 3 (33.33%) LLM
3 3 (33.33%) Reinforcement Learning
3 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) R
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) HiveQL
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) Master's Degree
3 3 (33.33%) PhD
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
3 1 (11.11%) Informatica
3 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 1 (11.11%) Vertica