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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
25 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 266 195
Rank change year-on-year -168 -71 +42
Contract jobs citing Big Data 199 258 429
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.43% 0.93% 1.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 5.10% 7.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 190 287
10th Percentile £357 £381 £373
25th Percentile £441 £428 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -11.00% -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £725
90th Percentile £719 £752 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £588
% change year-on-year - -10.64% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £51.55 £45.06 £27.25
25th Percentile £61.00 £54.22 £36.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £69.48 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +46.27% -39.10%
75th Percentile £73.00 £84.74 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.20 £93.90 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £69.48 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +46.27% -39.10%

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 6,936 5,059 5,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.90% 18.16% 18.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,631 3,488 4,093
10th Percentile £352 £338 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £713 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.02% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 75 84
10th Percentile £15.95 £21.02 £17.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £29.04 £21.81
Median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%
75th Percentile £58.13 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £74.68 £80.00 £71.50
UK median hourly rate £40.18 £40.49 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% +15.69% -36.36%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -127 122 £582 +5.77% 369
North of England -44 34 £500 +1.27% 42
Yorkshire -17 23 £509 +1.75% 14
Midlands -52 13 £414 -2.59% 27
South East -85 13 £451 -21.52% 38
South West -35 10 £478 +6.11% 34
East Midlands -14 8 £500 +19.05% 8
North East -38 7 £425 - 3
West Midlands -43 5 £405 -9.40% 19
North West -62 4 £513 +7.89% 26
East of England -45 2 £540 +6.93% 26
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
1 115 (57.79%) Apache Spark
2 33 (16.58%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (16.08%) Apache
4 7 (3.52%) Confluence
5 6 (3.02%) JBoss
6 5 (2.51%) SharePoint
7 4 (2.01%) SAS
8 3 (1.51%) Apache Superset
8 3 (1.51%) CMS
8 3 (1.51%) Jupyter
8 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (1.51%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (1.01%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.50%) Luigi
10 1 (0.50%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.50%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Endur
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 97 (48.74%) AWS
2 87 (43.72%) Azure
3 60 (30.15%) GCP
4 34 (17.09%) Snowflake
5 24 (12.06%) Amazon S3
6 20 (10.05%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (9.55%) Power Platform
8 17 (8.54%) GitHub
9 16 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (7.54%) Amazon EMR
11 14 (7.04%) Serverless
12 12 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (6.03%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (6.03%) Azure Databricks
12 12 (6.03%) OpenShift
13 10 (5.03%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.52%) dbt
14 9 (4.52%) PaaS
15 7 (3.52%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (3.02%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) Kerberos
2 5 (2.51%) DNS
3 3 (1.51%) Broadband
3 3 (1.51%) DHCP
3 3 (1.51%) Firewall
3 3 (1.51%) SMTP
3 3 (1.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (19.10%) Data Warehouse
1 38 (19.10%) Hadoop
2 35 (17.59%) Data Lake
3 28 (14.07%) NoSQL
4 26 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (9.05%) Apache Hive
5 18 (9.05%) Power BI
6 17 (8.54%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (8.04%) BigQuery
8 13 (6.53%) MongoDB
9 12 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (6.03%) Tableau
10 10 (5.03%) Metadata
11 9 (4.52%) Relational Database
12 8 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (3.52%) HBase
13 7 (3.52%) SQL Server
14 6 (3.02%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (3.02%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 26 (13.07%) Git
2 25 (12.56%) Jenkins
3 22 (11.06%) GitLab
4 11 (5.53%) JIRA
5 5 (2.51%) Selenium
6 3 (1.51%) JMeter
6 3 (1.51%) JUnit
6 3 (1.51%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.01%) eggPlant
7 2 (1.01%) Gatling
7 2 (1.01%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.50%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.10%) Finance
3 39 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.55%) Banking
5 11 (5.53%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.01%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.01%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.01%) Retail
8 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.01%) Legal
8 2 (1.01%) Local Government
8 2 (1.01%) Marketing
8 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.50%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.50%) Police
9 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (30.15%) Data Engineer
2 35 (17.59%) Senior
3 30 (15.08%) Architect
4 17 (8.54%) Developer
5 16 (8.04%) Analyst
6 13 (6.53%) Data Architect
6 13 (6.53%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.53%) Big Data Engineer
7 11 (5.53%) Data Analyst
7 11 (5.53%) Senior Data Engineer
8 10 (5.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Lead
10 7 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.52%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Scala Engineer
11 6 (3.02%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (19.60%) Kafka
2 36 (18.09%) Terraform
3 25 (12.56%) PySpark
4 15 (7.54%) REST
5 14 (7.04%) Spring
6 13 (6.53%) Spring Boot
7 11 (5.53%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (4.02%) Pandas
9 6 (3.02%) .NET
9 6 (3.02%) CSS
9 6 (3.02%) HTML
9 6 (3.02%) NumPy
9 6 (3.02%) Play Framework
10 5 (2.51%) Langfuse
10 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Graph
10 5 (2.51%) Middleware
11 4 (2.01%) Node.js
11 4 (2.01%) React
12 3 (1.51%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.58%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.56%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.53%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.03%) Clustering
4 12 (6.03%) Virtual Team
5 7 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 6 (3.02%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.51%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.51%) FMCG
9 3 (1.51%) PKI
9 3 (1.51%) Social Media
10 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.06%) Linux
2 9 (4.52%) Unix
3 6 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.51%) Windows
4 3 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (47.24%) Data Pipeline
2 87 (43.72%) Analytics
3 77 (38.69%) ETL
4 75 (37.69%) Data Engineering
5 74 (37.19%) CI/CD
6 66 (33.17%) AI
7 65 (32.66%) Agile
8 53 (26.63%) DevOps
9 50 (25.13%) Machine Learning
10 44 (22.11%) Data Modelling
11 43 (21.61%) Containerisation
12 38 (19.10%) Data Science
13 35 (17.59%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (17.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 33 (16.58%) Data Analysis
15 33 (16.58%) Scrum
16 32 (16.08%) Data Governance
16 32 (16.08%) Validation
17 29 (14.57%) Test Automation
18 27 (13.57%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 112 (56.28%) Python
2 97 (48.74%) SQL
3 51 (25.63%) Java
4 25 (12.56%) Scala
5 21 (10.55%) PowerShell
6 13 (6.53%) JavaScript
7 11 (5.53%) Bash
8 10 (5.03%) R
9 9 (4.52%) C#
10 3 (1.51%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.01%) Go
11 2 (1.01%) Korn
11 2 (1.01%) Rust
11 2 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.50%) C
12 1 (0.50%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.50%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 44 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 30 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.06%) Degree
4 12 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.52%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.52%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.51%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.01%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.51%) PhD
10 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.50%) ISEB
11 1 (0.50%) MBA
11 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.50%) PMP
11 1 (0.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (21.11%) Data Quality
2 17 (8.54%) QA
3 6 (3.02%) GDPR
4 3 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.51%) SLA
5 1 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.50%) EMIR
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS
5 1 (0.50%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.50%) MiFID
5 1 (0.50%) NCSC
5 1 (0.50%) PSD2
5 1 (0.50%) SEPA
System Software
1 38 (19.10%) Docker
2 9 (4.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.51%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.51%) HDFS
4 3 (1.51%) BitLocker
4 3 (1.51%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.51%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (1.51%) Terminal Services
4 3 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 41 (20.60%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.03%) Puppet
3 11 (5.53%) Ansible
3 11 (5.53%) Grafana
4 6 (3.02%) Kibana
4 6 (3.02%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (2.51%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.51%) Nagios
6 3 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.51%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.51%) vMotion
7 1 (0.50%) Control-M
7 1 (0.50%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 54 (27.14%) Databricks
2 20 (10.05%) Microsoft
3 19 (9.55%) Google
4 14 (7.04%) Cloudera
5 12 (6.03%) Splunk
6 10 (5.03%) Oracle
7 9 (4.52%) VMware
8 8 (4.02%) Salesforce
9 6 (3.02%) Red Hat
10 5 (2.51%) Amplitude
10 5 (2.51%) Cisco
10 5 (2.51%) IBM
10 5 (2.51%) Informatica
11 4 (2.01%) Foundry
12 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
12 3 (1.51%) New Relic
12 3 (1.51%) Palantir
12 3 (1.51%) SAP
12 3 (1.51%) Talend
12 3 (1.51%) Teradata
529 Big Data jobs in England