Big Data Contracts in Hertfordshire

Big Data
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 69 67
Rank change year-on-year +40 -2 -5
Contract jobs citing Big Data 16 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 4.98% 0.48% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.12% 12.50% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 7
10th Percentile £595 - £488
25th Percentile £625 - £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £300 £775
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -61.29% -2.82%
75th Percentile £675 - £788
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £650 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +62.50% -36.00% +13.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 59 32 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 18.38% 3.84% 11.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 21 57
10th Percentile £409 £325 £388
25th Percentile £425 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -16.28% +13.16%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile - £675 £788
East of England median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 13
10th Percentile £31.64 - £61.30
25th Percentile £39.11 - £61.50
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +61.73%
75th Percentile £66.00 - £66.00
90th Percentile £82.25 - £72.20
East of England median hourly rate £49.00 £25.18 £64.25
% change year-on-year +94.60% -60.81% +83.57%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Hertfordshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Hertfordshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Hertfordshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Stevenage +31 2 - - 10
Watford +7 1 £425 - 7
Big Data
East of England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 14 (87.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
1 14 (87.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Hadoop
1 14 (87.50%) Tableau
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Metadata
2 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) ER Studio
1 1 (6.25%) ERwin
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 12 (75.00%) Data Science Developer
3 10 (62.50%) Senior
3 10 (62.50%) Senior Developer
4 4 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Gen AI Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Data Modeller
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (87.50%) Matplotlib
1 14 (87.50%) NumPy
1 14 (87.50%) Pandas
1 14 (87.50%) PyTorch
1 14 (87.50%) scikit-learn
1 14 (87.50%) Seaborn
1 14 (87.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (87.50%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Data Fabric
2 1 (6.25%) IoT
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.25%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Data Analysis
1 14 (87.50%) Data Munging
1 14 (87.50%) Data Science
1 14 (87.50%) Generative AI
1 14 (87.50%) LLM
1 14 (87.50%) Machine Learning
1 14 (87.50%) Reinforcement Learning
1 14 (87.50%) Visualisation
2 12 (75.00%) Analytics
2 12 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (75.00%) Data Analytics
2 12 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 12 (75.00%) Feature Engineering
2 12 (75.00%) Predictive Analytics
2 12 (75.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 12 (75.00%) Time Series Forecasting
3 1 (6.25%) Contingency Planning
3 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) Python
1 14 (87.50%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Degree
2 12 (75.00%) Master's Degree
2 12 (75.00%) PhD
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (93.75%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.25%) OpenAI