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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 213 223
Rank change year-on-year -169 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Big Data 214 284 396
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 1.17% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.34% 6.14% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 197 308
10th Percentile £354 £408 £371
25th Percentile £450 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £646 £675 £754
90th Percentile £804 £750 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £568 £575
% change year-on-year -3.17% -1.22% -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 6,409 4,622 6,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.16% 19.00% 16.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,363 3,197 4,566
10th Percentile £350 £363 £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 £791
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £525
% change year-on-year -3.10% -1.71% -4.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 91 140
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.87 £22.99 £20.77
Median hourly rate £41.71 £32.05 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.14% -19.88% -33.33%
75th Percentile £73.94 £63.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £76.25 £72.75
UK median hourly rate £42.75 £34.19 £40.00
% change year-on-year +25.04% -14.53% -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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -97 132 £581 -0.85% 88
North of England -68 27 £550 -8.33% 31
South East -71 23 £513 -6.39% 12
Yorkshire -51 11 £588 -2.08% 4
Midlands -63 11 £495 -1.00% 3
North East -15 10 £510 +10.27% 11
South West -23 8 £525 -19.23% 20
East Midlands -33 7 £495 +20.73% 2
North West -51 6 - - 17
West Midlands -64 4 £545 +6.36% 1
East of England -36 3 £540 -16.92% 4
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
1 119 (55.61%) Apache Spark
2 32 (14.95%) Apache
3 31 (14.49%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.74%) Confluence
5 5 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (2.34%) SAS
5 5 (2.34%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.93%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.93%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.47%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 111 (51.87%) AWS
2 91 (42.52%) Azure
3 72 (33.64%) GCP
4 28 (13.08%) Snowflake
5 25 (11.68%) GitHub
6 23 (10.75%) Amazon S3
7 21 (9.81%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (9.35%) Serverless
9 19 (8.88%) Power Platform
10 17 (7.94%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (6.54%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (6.07%) OpenShift
13 12 (5.61%) dbt
14 9 (4.21%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (3.27%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (2.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (1.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 4 (1.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.40%) IPv4
1 3 (1.40%) IPv6
1 3 (1.40%) VPN
2 2 (0.93%) DHCP
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) SMTP
3 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (22.43%) Data Warehouse
1 48 (22.43%) Hadoop
2 41 (19.16%) NoSQL
3 30 (14.02%) Data Lake
3 30 (14.02%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (8.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 19 (8.88%) Relational Database
5 16 (7.48%) SQL Server
6 15 (7.01%) BigQuery
7 14 (6.54%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.54%) Power BI
8 10 (4.67%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (4.67%) Tableau
9 8 (3.74%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.74%) Metadata
9 8 (3.74%) Star Schema
10 7 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (3.27%) Data Vault
10 7 (3.27%) Delta Lake
10 7 (3.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 27 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 26 (12.15%) Git
3 19 (8.88%) GitLab
4 13 (6.07%) JIRA
5 10 (4.67%) Selenium
6 7 (3.27%) Robot Framework
7 4 (1.87%) Postman
7 4 (1.87%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (1.40%) JUnit
9 2 (0.93%) MLflow
10 1 (0.47%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.47%) ERwin
General
1 70 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 67 (31.31%) Finance
3 44 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (11.68%) Banking
5 10 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.34%) Marketing
7 5 (2.34%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.87%) Legal
8 4 (1.87%) Retail
9 2 (0.93%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Local Government
9 2 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (27.57%) Data Engineer
2 30 (14.02%) Architect
3 26 (12.15%) Developer
3 26 (12.15%) Senior
4 23 (10.75%) Analyst
5 21 (9.81%) Lead
6 16 (7.48%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.14%) Data Architect
8 10 (4.67%) Data Scientist
9 9 (4.21%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.21%) QA Engineer
9 9 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.74%) Java Engineer
10 8 (3.74%) Senior Data Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) Big Data Engineer
11 7 (3.27%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.80%) DBA
12 6 (2.80%) Scala Engineer
12 6 (2.80%) Software Developer
12 6 (2.80%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.03%) Kafka
2 28 (13.08%) PySpark
3 20 (9.35%) Spring
4 18 (8.41%) Spring Boot
5 14 (6.54%) REST
6 12 (5.61%) Pandas
6 12 (5.61%) TensorFlow
7 11 (5.14%) HTML
7 11 (5.14%) PyTorch
8 9 (4.21%) CSS
8 9 (4.21%) scikit-learn
9 8 (3.74%) NumPy
10 7 (3.27%) React
11 6 (2.80%) Node.js
11 6 (2.80%) Play Framework
12 5 (2.34%) Keras
13 4 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
13 4 (1.87%) Matplotlib
13 4 (1.87%) pytest
13 4 (1.87%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 26 (12.15%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 9 (4.21%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.74%) Clustering
5 8 (3.74%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.34%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.34%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.87%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.87%) FMCG
8 3 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.40%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.93%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.93%) IoT
9 2 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.61%) Unix
2 10 (4.67%) Linux
3 4 (1.87%) Windows
3 4 (1.87%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.93%) Analytics
2 92 (42.99%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.99%) Data Pipeline
3 86 (40.19%) Data Engineering
4 82 (38.32%) Agile
5 77 (35.98%) ETL
6 58 (27.10%) AI
7 55 (25.70%) DevOps
8 53 (24.77%) Machine Learning
9 49 (22.90%) Data Modelling
10 47 (21.96%) Data Science
11 46 (21.50%) Data Governance
12 42 (19.63%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (18.22%) Scrum
14 34 (15.89%) Containerisation
15 30 (14.02%) Data Analysis
15 30 (14.02%) Validation
16 29 (13.55%) Software Engineering
17 26 (12.15%) Computer Science
17 26 (12.15%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 114 (53.27%) Python
1 114 (53.27%) SQL
2 52 (24.30%) Java
3 30 (14.02%) Scala
4 20 (9.35%) R
5 10 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.34%) Bash
6 5 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 5 (2.34%) SAS Macro
7 3 (1.40%) C#
7 3 (1.40%) C++
7 3 (1.40%) Rust
7 3 (1.40%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.93%) Ada
8 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.47%) C
9 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.47%) Korn
9 1 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 31 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.55%) Degree
4 17 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.54%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.87%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.93%) CISSP
10 2 (0.93%) MCITP
10 2 (0.93%) MCTS
10 2 (0.93%) PhD
10 2 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (24.30%) Data Quality
2 22 (10.28%) QA
3 10 (4.67%) GDPR
4 5 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.34%) NIST
5 3 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 47 (21.96%) Docker
2 6 (2.80%) HDFS
3 5 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.93%) BitLocker
4 2 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (0.93%) Terminal Services
4 2 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.47%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 50 (23.36%) Kubernetes
2 29 (13.55%) Terraform
3 12 (5.61%) Grafana
4 6 (2.80%) Ansible
4 6 (2.80%) Kibana
4 6 (2.80%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.93%) Nagios
5 2 (0.93%) Puppet
5 2 (0.93%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.93%) vMotion
6 1 (0.47%) Control-M
6 1 (0.47%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 44 (20.56%) Databricks
2 23 (10.75%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.54%) Google
4 7 (3.27%) Oracle
4 7 (3.27%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.80%) Informatica
5 6 (2.80%) Splunk
6 5 (2.34%) Ab Initio
6 5 (2.34%) OpenAI
6 5 (2.34%) Teradata
7 4 (1.87%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.87%) Foundry
7 4 (1.87%) IBM
8 3 (1.40%) HP
8 3 (1.40%) Talend
9 2 (0.93%) Citrix
9 2 (0.93%) Palantir
9 2 (0.93%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Symantec
9 2 (0.93%) VMware