Big Data Engineer Contracts in London

Big Data Engineer
England > London

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in London is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 371 460
Rank change year-on-year +29 +89 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 11 20 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.088% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 30
10th Percentile £361 £645 £500
25th Percentile £378 £681 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £800 £625
Median % change year-on-year -48.44% +28.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £478 £850 £750
90th Percentile £514 - £775
England median daily rate £411 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -48.59% +23.08% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Big Data
2 8 (72.73%) Apache Spark
2 8 (72.73%) Python
3 7 (63.64%) Java
3 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
4 6 (54.55%) C++
4 6 (54.55%) Deep Learning
4 6 (54.55%) Low Latency
4 6 (54.55%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (36.36%) Technical Debt
5 4 (36.36%) C
5 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
5 4 (36.36%) Finance
5 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
5 4 (36.36%) Pattern Recognition
5 4 (36.36%) Parallel Computing
5 4 (36.36%) Tandem
5 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (36.36%) Ray
5 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
6 3 (27.27%) AWS
7 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
7 2 (18.18%) ETL
7 2 (18.18%) PhD
7 2 (18.18%) Ansible
7 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (72.73%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (9.09%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
3 2 (18.18%) Hadoop
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
4 1 (9.09%) Bigtable
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Spanner
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) DataStage
4 1 (9.09%) DB2
4 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
4 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Ray
2 2 (18.18%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Distributed Computing
2 4 (36.36%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Machine Learning
2 6 (54.55%) Deep Learning
2 6 (54.55%) Low Latency
3 4 (36.36%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (36.36%) Parallel Computing
3 4 (36.36%) Pattern Recognition
3 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Debt
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) Data Science
4 2 (18.18%) DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
5 1 (9.09%) Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Data Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Data Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Logical Data Model
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) Java
3 6 (54.55%) C++
4 4 (36.36%) C
4 4 (36.36%) Shell Script
5 1 (9.09%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Rust
5 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Master's Degree
1 2 (18.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Ansible
1 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Argo
2 1 (9.09%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Ariba
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) SAP