Big Data Contracts in England

Big Data
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 196 155
Rank change year-on-year -52 -41 -46
Contract jobs citing Big Data 351 675 1,304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 1.33% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.65% 7.41% 9.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 469 802
10th Percentile £375 £463 £450
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £760 £714 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £799
UK median daily rate £583 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.83% - +7.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 4
10th Percentile £18.20 £35.00 £59.48
25th Percentile £25.31 £43.63 £59.81
Median hourly rate £41.25 £73.00 £65.25
Median % change year-on-year -43.49% +11.88% +46.63%
75th Percentile £46.18 £78.00 £75.23
90th Percentile £51.00 £85.50 £84.63
UK median hourly rate £41.25 £73.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -43.49% +11.88% +52.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,213 9,114 14,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.71% 17.99% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,454 6,537 10,394
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £656
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £542
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.41% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 167 169
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £35.00 £22.38
Median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.30% +37.86% +70.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £70.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.19 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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 -44 232 £650 +8.33% 120
Midlands +45 35 £650 +18.18% 27
North of England +35 34 £550 - 25
South East -2 25 £448 -25.33% 17
West Midlands +39 23 £650 +18.18% 21
North West +22 17 £510 +7.37% 16
Yorkshire +24 15 £563 +2.27% 9
East Midlands +31 12 £550 -4.35% 6
East of England +5 7 £300 -53.85% 19
South West -5 5 £450 -18.18% 18
North East - 3 £454 -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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
1 100 (28.49%) Apache Spark
2 45 (12.82%) Apache
3 42 (11.97%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.71%) Confluence
5 4 (1.14%) IIS
5 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.28%) Luigi
7 1 (0.28%) Tornado
Applications
1 10 (2.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 127 (36.18%) AWS
2 119 (33.90%) Azure
3 54 (15.38%) GCP
4 44 (12.54%) Serverless
5 42 (11.97%) Power Platform
6 31 (8.83%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (8.26%) Snowflake
8 26 (7.41%) Amazon S3
8 26 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 22 (6.27%) Amazon EMR
10 21 (5.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (4.84%) dbt
12 14 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.70%) GitHub
14 12 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (3.42%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (3.42%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.85%) Azure Key Vault
16 9 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.27%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (4.27%) Network Security
2 5 (1.42%) FTP
3 4 (1.14%) SAN
4 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Broadband
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (24.22%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (23.93%) Data Lake
3 67 (19.09%) Hadoop
4 36 (10.26%) Power BI
5 32 (9.12%) Tableau
6 31 (8.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 29 (8.26%) Apache Hive
8 28 (7.98%) Amazon Athena
9 27 (7.69%) NoSQL
10 21 (5.98%) BigQuery
10 21 (5.98%) SQL Server
11 17 (4.84%) Relational Database
12 15 (4.27%) Metadata
13 14 (3.99%) Impala
14 13 (3.70%) Delta Lake
15 12 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
16 11 (3.13%) HBase
17 10 (2.85%) Apache Arrow
17 10 (2.85%) Dremio
17 10 (2.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (9.97%) Git
2 24 (6.84%) JIRA
3 8 (2.28%) Maven
4 6 (1.71%) Subversion
4 6 (1.71%) Visual Studio Team System
5 5 (1.42%) ERwin
5 5 (1.42%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.14%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.85%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.85%) Poetry
7 3 (0.85%) RStudio
8 2 (0.57%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.57%) kappa
8 2 (0.57%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 87 (24.79%) Analytical Skills
2 80 (22.79%) Social Skills
3 69 (19.66%) Finance
4 29 (8.26%) Banking
5 24 (6.84%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 9 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.99%) Health Technology
9 7 (1.99%) Retail
10 6 (1.71%) Marketing
11 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.42%) Publishing
11 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.14%) Legal
13 3 (0.85%) Back Office
13 3 (0.85%) Police
14 2 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.28%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 86 (24.50%) Architect
2 78 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 42 (11.97%) Data Architect
4 34 (9.69%) Developer
4 34 (9.69%) Solutions Architect
5 30 (8.55%) Senior
6 27 (7.69%) Analyst
7 21 (5.98%) Cloud Architect
7 21 (5.98%) Lead
8 20 (5.70%) Big Data Engineer
9 19 (5.41%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 19 (5.41%) Data Scientist
10 18 (5.13%) AWS Engineer
10 18 (5.13%) Azure Architect
11 14 (3.99%) AWS Architect
11 14 (3.99%) Consultant
11 14 (3.99%) Data Analyst
12 12 (3.42%) Azure Data Architect
12 12 (3.42%) Principal Architect
12 12 (3.42%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (13.68%) PySpark
2 41 (11.68%) Kafka
3 22 (6.27%) Apache NiFi
4 17 (4.84%) Pandas
5 13 (3.70%) JSON
6 12 (3.42%) XML
7 11 (3.13%) .NET
8 10 (2.85%) gRPC
8 10 (2.85%) Protocol Buffers
9 9 (2.56%) Web Services
10 8 (2.28%) NumPy
10 8 (2.28%) SAML
10 8 (2.28%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.71%) ARM Templates
11 6 (1.71%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (1.71%) REST
11 6 (1.71%) TensorFlow
12 5 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (1.14%) .NET Core
13 4 (1.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.83%) Algorithms
2 25 (7.12%) Management Information System
3 19 (5.41%) Hedge funds
4 15 (4.27%) Cyber Defence
4 15 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (4.27%) Data Structures
4 15 (4.27%) Distributed Applications
5 14 (3.99%) Clustering
6 13 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.85%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.56%) Freedom of Information
8 9 (2.56%) Freedom of Information Act
9 8 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.99%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.71%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.42%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 41 (11.68%) Linux
2 23 (6.55%) Unix
3 17 (4.84%) Windows
4 13 (3.70%) Android
4 13 (3.70%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.28%) VMS
6 4 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (34.19%) Data Modelling
2 106 (30.20%) Data Pipeline
3 105 (29.91%) Analytics
4 98 (27.92%) ETL
5 94 (26.78%) Agile
6 73 (20.80%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (19.09%) Data Engineering
7 67 (19.09%) Data Science
8 62 (17.66%) Machine Learning
9 58 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
10 57 (16.24%) Data Analysis
11 53 (15.10%) CI/CD
12 51 (14.53%) Data Management
13 48 (13.68%) DevOps
14 44 (12.54%) Migration
15 43 (12.25%) Computer Science
16 40 (11.40%) Data Governance
17 39 (11.11%) Visualisation
18 38 (10.83%) Data Architecture
19 37 (10.54%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 187 (53.28%) Python
2 157 (44.73%) SQL
3 66 (18.80%) Java
4 52 (14.81%) Scala
5 21 (5.98%) R
6 18 (5.13%) PowerShell
7 17 (4.84%) JavaScript
8 16 (4.56%) C#
9 13 (3.70%) Go
10 10 (2.85%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.14%) Bash
11 4 (1.14%) Perl
12 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.57%) U-SQL
13 1 (0.28%) ANSI SQL
13 1 (0.28%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.28%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.28%) VBA
Qualifications
1 50 (14.25%) Degree
2 44 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 31 (8.83%) DV Cleared
4 27 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 20 (5.70%) AWS Certification
6 19 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.56%) Master's Degree
8 6 (1.71%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.14%) CISSP
10 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (16.24%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.27%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (1.99%) QA
4 5 (1.42%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.14%) NIST
6 3 (0.85%) GDPR
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.57%) MiFID
7 2 (0.57%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.57%) PMO
7 2 (0.57%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) EMIR
8 1 (0.28%) FATCA
System Software
1 15 (4.27%) Docker
2 14 (3.99%) HDFS
3 4 (1.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 51 (14.53%) Terraform
2 36 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.98%) Ansible
4 15 (4.27%) Puppet
5 11 (3.13%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.28%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.14%) Argo
8 3 (0.85%) Consul
8 3 (0.85%) Oozie
8 3 (0.85%) Packer
8 3 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.57%) Ambari
10 1 (0.28%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (17.95%) Databricks
2 38 (10.83%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.98%) Informatica
4 19 (5.41%) Talend
5 18 (5.13%) Google
6 14 (3.99%) Oracle
7 10 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 9 (2.56%) Teradata
9 6 (1.71%) SAP
10 5 (1.42%) Cloudera
11 4 (1.14%) Brio
11 4 (1.14%) Foundry
11 4 (1.14%) IBM
11 4 (1.14%) Okta
11 4 (1.14%) Palantir
11 4 (1.14%) Salesforce
11 4 (1.14%) Symantec
11 4 (1.14%) Varonis
12 3 (0.85%) Phenom
12 3 (0.85%) Sage