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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 398 218 208
Rank change year-on-year -180 -10 +15
Contract jobs citing Big Data 209 297 428
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 1.19% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 6.37% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 206 322
10th Percentile £355 £408 £364
25th Percentile £450 £483 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £592
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% -3.93% -1.29%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £759
90th Percentile £813 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.70% -1.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 10
10th Percentile £61.40 £42.42 £18.20
25th Percentile £65.00 £47.61 £19.90
Median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% +43.75% -48.72%
75th Percentile £75.00 £79.38 £46.56
90th Percentile £88.50 £91.75 £51.13
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +43.75% -48.72%

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 6,614 4,664 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.26% 18.67% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,477 3,239 4,663
10th Percentile £350 £358 £350
25th Percentile £413 £418 £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 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 86 143
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.00 £20.77
Median hourly rate £38.25 £34.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% -14.53% -29.76%
75th Percentile £71.50 £64.31 £52.83
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.10 £72.30
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.43% -12.50% -29.76%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -110 129 £586 -0.02% 44
North of England -65 31 £525 -11.39% 9
South East -80 19 £550 - 13
North East -26 12 £450 -2.70% 2
Yorkshire -47 12 £569 -5.21% 1
Midlands -66 10 £540 +8.00% 1
South West -30 8 £525 -18.45% 15
East Midlands -24 7 £505 +23.17% 1
North West -46 7 - - 6
East of England -41 3 £540 -16.92% 2
West Midlands -65 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
1 114 (54.55%) Apache Spark
2 32 (15.31%) Apache
2 32 (15.31%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.87%) SAS
4 4 (1.91%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.96%) Confluence
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.48%) Camunda
6 1 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Endur
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 110 (52.63%) AWS
2 88 (42.11%) Azure
3 72 (34.45%) GCP
4 31 (14.83%) Snowflake
5 25 (11.96%) Amazon S3
6 22 (10.53%) GitHub
7 21 (10.05%) Power Platform
8 18 (8.61%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (7.66%) Serverless
10 15 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (6.70%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (6.70%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.70%) OpenShift
12 12 (5.74%) dbt
13 10 (4.78%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
14 6 (2.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 5 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 4 (1.91%) Amazon EKS
16 4 (1.91%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.44%) DHCP
1 3 (1.44%) DNS
1 3 (1.44%) Firewall
1 3 (1.44%) IPv4
1 3 (1.44%) IPv6
1 3 (1.44%) SMTP
1 3 (1.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (22.49%) Hadoop
2 42 (20.10%) Data Warehouse
2 42 (20.10%) NoSQL
3 33 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (14.35%) Data Lake
5 19 (9.09%) Relational Database
6 17 (8.13%) SQL Server
7 16 (7.66%) Power BI
8 15 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (7.18%) BigQuery
9 14 (6.70%) MongoDB
10 11 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (4.78%) Tableau
12 8 (3.83%) DynamoDB
12 8 (3.83%) Metadata
13 7 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (3.35%) Data Vault
13 7 (3.35%) Delta Lake
13 7 (3.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (13.40%) Git
2 26 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 20 (9.57%) GitLab
4 9 (4.31%) Selenium
5 7 (3.35%) JIRA
6 6 (2.87%) Robot Framework
7 5 (2.39%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (1.44%) JUnit
8 3 (1.44%) Postman
9 2 (0.96%) MLflow
10 1 (0.48%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.48%) ERwin
General
1 68 (32.54%) Finance
2 66 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 47 (22.49%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.88%) Banking
5 9 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.87%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.39%) Marketing
8 5 (2.39%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.91%) Legal
9 4 (1.91%) Retail
10 2 (0.96%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 32 (15.31%) Architect
3 26 (12.44%) Developer
3 26 (12.44%) Senior
4 21 (10.05%) Lead
5 18 (8.61%) Analyst
6 12 (5.74%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (4.78%) Big Data Engineer
8 10 (4.78%) Data Architect
9 9 (4.31%) Data Scientist
9 9 (4.31%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.83%) QA Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Java Engineer
11 7 (3.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) DBA
12 6 (2.87%) Scala Engineer
12 6 (2.87%) SQL DBA
12 6 (2.87%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (22.01%) Kafka
2 25 (11.96%) PySpark
3 20 (9.57%) Spring
4 18 (8.61%) Spring Boot
5 17 (8.13%) REST
6 9 (4.31%) Pandas
6 9 (4.31%) React
7 8 (3.83%) CSS
7 8 (3.83%) HTML
7 8 (3.83%) PyTorch
7 8 (3.83%) TensorFlow
8 6 (2.87%) NumPy
8 6 (2.87%) Play Framework
9 5 (2.39%) Middleware
9 5 (2.39%) Node.js
9 5 (2.39%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.91%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.91%) Microsoft Graph
11 3 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.44%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 28 (13.40%) Cloud Native
2 24 (11.48%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.70%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.31%) Algorithms
4 9 (4.31%) Clustering
5 8 (3.83%) Distributed Computing
6 7 (3.35%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.87%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.39%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (2.39%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.91%) FMCG
10 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (1.44%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.44%) PKI
11 2 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.96%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.96%) Educational Technology
11 2 (0.96%) IoT
11 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.22%) Linux
2 12 (5.74%) Unix
3 5 (2.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (44.98%) Analytics
1 94 (44.98%) Data Pipeline
2 93 (44.50%) CI/CD
3 87 (41.63%) Data Engineering
4 85 (40.67%) Agile
5 68 (32.54%) ETL
6 61 (29.19%) AI
7 57 (27.27%) DevOps
8 53 (25.36%) Machine Learning
9 50 (23.92%) Data Modelling
10 47 (22.49%) Data Science
11 44 (21.05%) Data Governance
11 44 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (19.14%) Containerisation
13 38 (18.18%) Scrum
14 32 (15.31%) Validation
15 29 (13.88%) Decision-Making
15 29 (13.88%) Microservices
16 27 (12.92%) Data Analysis
17 25 (11.96%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 114 (54.55%) Python
2 104 (49.76%) SQL
3 49 (23.44%) Java
4 29 (13.88%) Scala
5 17 (8.13%) R
6 10 (4.78%) JavaScript
7 9 (4.31%) Bash
8 7 (3.35%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.39%) SAS Macro
10 3 (1.44%) Rust
10 3 (1.44%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.96%) C#
11 2 (0.96%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.48%) C
12 1 (0.48%) C++
12 1 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.48%) Korn
12 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.88%) Degree
3 28 (13.40%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (5.74%) Master's Degree
6 5 (2.39%) Azure Certification
6 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.44%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.96%) CISSP
9 2 (0.96%) MCITP
9 2 (0.96%) MCTS
9 2 (0.96%) PhD
9 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (22.97%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.05%) QA
3 10 (4.78%) GDPR
4 5 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.39%) NIST
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.48%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 50 (23.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.91%) HDFS
4 3 (1.44%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.44%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 53 (25.36%) Kubernetes
2 30 (14.35%) Terraform
3 12 (5.74%) Grafana
4 9 (4.31%) Ansible
5 6 (2.87%) Kibana
5 6 (2.87%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.91%) Puppet
7 3 (1.44%) Nagios
7 3 (1.44%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.44%) vMotion
8 1 (0.48%) Control-M
8 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.48%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 39 (18.66%) Databricks
2 24 (11.48%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.70%) Google
4 11 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.83%) Oracle
6 6 (2.87%) Informatica
6 6 (2.87%) Splunk
7 5 (2.39%) Ab Initio
7 5 (2.39%) IBM
7 5 (2.39%) Teradata
8 4 (1.91%) Amplitude
8 4 (1.91%) HP
8 4 (1.91%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.44%) Citrix
9 3 (1.44%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.44%) Foundry
9 3 (1.44%) Symantec
9 3 (1.44%) Talend
9 3 (1.44%) VMware
10 2 (0.96%) OpenLink