Big Data Developer Contracts in England

Big Data Developer
UK > England

The median Big Data Developer daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 663 741
Rank change year-on-year +125 +78 -154
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Developer 3 10 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.008% 0.020% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.021% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 28
10th Percentile £385 £515 £547
25th Percentile £433 £538 £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £648
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -11.20% +12.61%
75th Percentile £619 £613 £700
90th Percentile £668 £635 £708
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £648
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.20% +12.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Big Data Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Big Data Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Developer in England

Big Data Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Developer in England

Big Data Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Developer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Developer in England

Big Data Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2024. 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
London +94 1 £650 +30.00%
East Midlands - 1 £360 -
Midlands - 1 £360 -
Big Data Developer
UK

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Big Data Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Big Data Developer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Scala
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) QlikView
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Impala
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) PySpark
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Anaconda
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (33.33%) R
3 1 (33.33%) Tableau
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Java

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Impala
2 1 (33.33%) QlikView
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Anaconda
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (33.33%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Open Source
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared