Big Data Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Big Data
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Big Data skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing Big Data 3 28 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.98% 6.24% 4.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.09% 36.84% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 9
10th Percentile - £613 £620
25th Percentile £425 £630 £626
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £668 £730
Median % change year-on-year -32.58% -8.56% +21.67%
75th Percentile £572 £700 £800
90th Percentile £630 £742 £875
South West median daily rate £450 £668 £659
% change year-on-year -32.58% +1.33% +9.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - £72.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £87.60
South West median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 33 76 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.82% 16.93% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 46 42
10th Percentile £380 £474 £414
25th Percentile £463 £525 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.08% -2.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £701
90th Percentile £679 £713 £749
South West median daily rate £475 £523 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 17
10th Percentile £46.20 - £42.90
25th Percentile £61.50 - £70.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -61.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £71.50 -
90th Percentile - - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +116.67% -60.00% +31.90%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Gloucestershire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Gloucestershire

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
1 1 (33.33%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) Data Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) HAProxy
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform