Big Data Contract Job Trends in England

Big Data
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 223 215
Rank change year-on-year -171 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Big Data 211 287 398
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 1.17% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.29% 6.20% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 200 309
10th Percentile £355 £408 £362
25th Percentile £450 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £641 £675 £751
90th Percentile £781 £753 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.70% -1.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 10
10th Percentile - £42.42 £18.20
25th Percentile £65.00 £47.61 £19.90
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +39.39% -47.12%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.38 £46.56
90th Percentile £90.00 £91.75 £51.13
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% +39.39% -47.12%

All Database & BI Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,419 4,626 6,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 18.91% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 3,202 4,603
10th Percentile £350 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £675
90th Percentile £700 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 92 144
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.41 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.91 £23.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.43 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.62% -18.93% -32.54%
75th Percentile £73.75 £64.78 £54.34
90th Percentile £82.25 £77.38 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £34.58 £40.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -13.56% -33.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Big Data job vacancy trend in England

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Big Data

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 10 June 2026. 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 -104 131 £559 -4.54% 55
North of England -67 28 £550 -8.33% 18
South East -86 21 £538 -1.83% 19
North East -13 11 £480 +3.78% 5
Yorkshire -51 11 £588 -2.08% 2
Midlands -78 10 £500 - 2
South West -20 8 £525 -18.45% 13
East Midlands -34 7 £495 +20.73% 2
North West -45 6 - - 11
East of England -37 3 £540 -16.92% 6
West Midlands -60 3 £640 +24.90%
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 118 (55.92%) Apache Spark
2 32 (15.17%) Apache
2 32 (15.17%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.37%) Confluence
3 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.37%) SAS
3 5 (2.37%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.42%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.47%) Camunda
5 1 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 111 (52.61%) AWS
2 88 (41.71%) Azure
3 70 (33.18%) GCP
4 30 (14.22%) Snowflake
5 24 (11.37%) Amazon S3
5 24 (11.37%) GitHub
6 20 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
7 19 (9.00%) Power Platform
8 18 (8.53%) Serverless
9 16 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (7.11%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (6.16%) OpenShift
13 12 (5.69%) dbt
14 9 (4.27%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (2.37%) Amazon Bedrock
15 5 (2.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.42%) IPv4
1 3 (1.42%) IPv6
2 2 (0.95%) DHCP
2 2 (0.95%) DNS
2 2 (0.95%) Firewall
2 2 (0.95%) SMTP
2 2 (0.95%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (21.80%) Data Warehouse
1 46 (21.80%) Hadoop
2 40 (18.96%) NoSQL
3 31 (14.69%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (13.74%) Data Lake
5 19 (9.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (9.00%) Relational Database
6 16 (7.58%) SQL Server
7 15 (7.11%) BigQuery
8 14 (6.64%) MongoDB
8 14 (6.64%) Power BI
9 10 (4.74%) Tableau
10 9 (4.27%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (3.79%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (3.79%) DynamoDB
11 8 (3.79%) Metadata
12 7 (3.32%) Data Vault
12 7 (3.32%) Delta Lake
12 7 (3.32%) RDBMS
13 6 (2.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 27 (12.80%) Git
2 26 (12.32%) Jenkins
3 19 (9.00%) GitLab
4 10 (4.74%) JIRA
4 10 (4.74%) Selenium
5 7 (3.32%) Robot Framework
6 4 (1.90%) Postman
6 4 (1.90%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (1.42%) JUnit
8 2 (0.95%) MLflow
9 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.47%) ERwin
General
1 69 (32.70%) Social Skills
2 66 (31.28%) Finance
3 44 (20.85%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (12.80%) Banking
5 9 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.84%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.37%) Marketing
7 5 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.90%) Legal
8 4 (1.90%) Retail
9 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Local Government
9 2 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (28.44%) Data Engineer
2 30 (14.22%) Architect
3 26 (12.32%) Developer
3 26 (12.32%) Senior
4 21 (9.95%) Analyst
4 21 (9.95%) Lead
5 14 (6.64%) Data Analyst
6 11 (5.21%) Data Architect
7 10 (4.74%) Data Scientist
8 9 (4.27%) Big Data Engineer
8 9 (4.27%) Java Developer
8 9 (4.27%) QA Engineer
8 9 (4.27%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.79%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (3.32%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.32%) Java Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (2.84%) DBA
11 6 (2.84%) Software Developer
11 6 (2.84%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.85%) Kafka
2 28 (13.27%) PySpark
3 20 (9.48%) Spring
4 18 (8.53%) Spring Boot
5 16 (7.58%) REST
6 12 (5.69%) Pandas
7 11 (5.21%) HTML
7 11 (5.21%) TensorFlow
8 10 (4.74%) PyTorch
9 9 (4.27%) CSS
10 8 (3.79%) NumPy
10 8 (3.79%) scikit-learn
11 7 (3.32%) React
12 6 (2.84%) Node.js
12 6 (2.84%) Play Framework
13 5 (2.37%) Keras
14 4 (1.90%) Matplotlib
14 4 (1.90%) Middleware
14 4 (1.90%) pytest
14 4 (1.90%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.27%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.79%) Algorithms
4 8 (3.79%) Clustering
4 8 (3.79%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.37%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.37%) Distributed Architecture
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.90%) FMCG
7 3 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.95%) Educational Technology
8 2 (0.95%) IoT
8 2 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.95%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.69%) Unix
2 10 (4.74%) Linux
3 4 (1.90%) Windows
3 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.55%) Analytics
2 93 (44.08%) Data Pipeline
3 92 (43.60%) CI/CD
4 86 (40.76%) Data Engineering
5 82 (38.86%) Agile
6 74 (35.07%) ETL
7 59 (27.96%) AI
8 54 (25.59%) DevOps
9 52 (24.64%) Machine Learning
10 49 (23.22%) Data Modelling
11 47 (22.27%) Data Science
12 43 (20.38%) Data Governance
12 43 (20.38%) Problem-Solving
13 38 (18.01%) Scrum
14 36 (17.06%) Containerisation
15 31 (14.69%) Validation
16 29 (13.74%) Data Analysis
17 27 (12.80%) Microservices
17 27 (12.80%) Software Engineering
18 26 (12.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 115 (54.50%) Python
2 111 (52.61%) SQL
3 52 (24.64%) Java
4 30 (14.22%) Scala
5 20 (9.48%) R
6 10 (4.74%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.84%) Bash
8 5 (2.37%) PowerShell
8 5 (2.37%) SAS Macro
9 3 (1.42%) C#
9 3 (1.42%) C++
9 3 (1.42%) Rust
9 3 (1.42%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.95%) Ada
10 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (18.96%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.74%) Degree
4 17 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.64%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.37%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.95%) CISSP
9 2 (0.95%) MCITP
9 2 (0.95%) MCTS
9 2 (0.95%) PhD
9 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (23.22%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.43%) QA
3 10 (4.74%) GDPR
4 5 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.37%) NIST
5 3 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 47 (22.27%) Docker
2 5 (2.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.37%) HDFS
3 2 (0.95%) BitLocker
3 2 (0.95%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.95%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 50 (23.70%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.74%) Terraform
3 12 (5.69%) Grafana
4 6 (2.84%) Ansible
4 6 (2.84%) Kibana
4 6 (2.84%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.95%) Nagios
5 2 (0.95%) Puppet
5 2 (0.95%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.95%) vMotion
6 1 (0.47%) Control-M
6 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 43 (20.38%) Databricks
2 24 (11.37%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.64%) Google
4 9 (4.27%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.32%) Oracle
6 6 (2.84%) Informatica
6 6 (2.84%) Splunk
7 5 (2.37%) Ab Initio
7 5 (2.37%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.37%) Teradata
8 4 (1.90%) IBM
9 3 (1.42%) Amplitude
9 3 (1.42%) Foundry
9 3 (1.42%) HP
9 3 (1.42%) Talend
10 2 (0.95%) Citrix
10 2 (0.95%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Symantec
10 2 (0.95%) VMware