Big Data Engineer Contracts in England

Big Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in England is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 520 617
Rank change year-on-year +42 +97 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 14 31 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.083% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.089% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 29 10
10th Percentile £309 £625 £463
25th Percentile £350 £650 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £800 £525
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% +52.38% -25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £850 £669
90th Percentile £635 - £814
UK median daily rate £410 £800 £525
% change year-on-year -48.75% +52.38% -24.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
London +35 10 £438 -45.31% 11
Midlands - 3 £349 -
East Midlands - 2 £349 -
South East - 1 £700 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - -
Big Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Big Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Big Data
2 11 (78.57%) Apache Spark
3 8 (57.14%) Java
4 7 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (50.00%) Python
5 6 (42.86%) Hadoop
5 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
6 5 (35.71%) Deep Learning
6 5 (35.71%) Low Latency
6 5 (35.71%) AWS
6 5 (35.71%) C++
7 4 (28.57%) ETL
7 4 (28.57%) Apache
7 4 (28.57%) Finance
8 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
8 3 (21.43%) Degree
8 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
8 3 (21.43%) Scala
8 3 (21.43%) PhD
8 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
8 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (21.43%) Data Science
8 3 (21.43%) PySpark
8 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
8 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (14.29%) Databricks
9 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (14.29%) Technical Debt
9 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation

Big Data Engineer 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 11 (78.57%) Apache Spark
2 4 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) Big Data
2 6 (42.86%) Hadoop
3 2 (14.29%) Apache Hive
3 2 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 2 (14.29%) HBase
3 2 (14.29%) Impala
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) DataStage
4 1 (7.14%) DB2
4 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (7.14%) RDBMS
4 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Banking
2 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) PySpark
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) Ray
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (14.29%) Tandem
3 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
2 5 (35.71%) Deep Learning
2 5 (35.71%) Low Latency
3 4 (28.57%) ETL
4 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
4 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Parallel Computing
5 2 (14.29%) Pattern Recognition
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Debt
5 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (35.71%) C++
4 3 (21.43%) Scala
5 2 (14.29%) C
5 2 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 2 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) CodeQL
6 1 (7.14%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) Master's Degree
1 3 (21.43%) PhD
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Argo
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Ariba
2 1 (7.14%) SAP
2 1 (7.14%) Virgin Media