Big Data Contracts in Leeds

Big Data
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 58 49 94
Rank change year-on-year -9 +45 -14
Contract jobs citing Big Data 2 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.43% 1.75% 0.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.98% 10.85% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 0
10th Percentile £443 £450 -
25th Percentile £469 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -
75th Percentile £569 £619 -
90th Percentile £588 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 101 129 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.72% 16.15% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 104 127
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £438 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £600
90th Percentile £738 £625 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 - -
75th Percentile £34.38 - -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 - -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Leeds

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Leeds

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Leeds

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat