Big Data Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Big Data
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 64 44
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 +37
Contract jobs citing Big Data 1 3 23
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.094% 0.50% 3.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.52% 2.42% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 12
10th Percentile - £485 £405
25th Percentile £463 £491 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +12.39%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £619
90th Percentile - £580 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% +12.39%

All Database & BI 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 192 124 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 17.99% 20.70% 19.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 76 97
10th Percentile £400 £368 £325
25th Percentile £415 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £648
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £26.38 - -
25th Percentile - £31.76 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% +74.26% -10.84%
75th Percentile - £34.46 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £35.00 £33.11 £25.75
% change year-on-year +5.71% +28.58% +20.84%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Leeds

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) New Relic
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk