Big Data Contract Job Trends in London

Big Data
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 198 163
Rank change year-on-year -107 -35 +1
Contract jobs citing Big Data 134 177 293
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.31% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.84% 6.11% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 120 226
10th Percentile £363 £408 £381
25th Percentile £459 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -6.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £794
90th Percentile £903 £788 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £583
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £60.63 £38.75
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.19 £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £78.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +80.00% -48.53%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £48.44
90th Percentile - £95.88 £60.63
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% +35.29% -45.51%

All Database & BI Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,488 2,899 4,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.70% 21.47% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,352 2,031 3,059
10th Percentile £363 £381 £370
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.28% -4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 34 32
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.40 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £26.56
Median hourly rate £41.00 £42.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -9.19% -27.17%
75th Percentile £60.12 £61.25 £52.56
90th Percentile £76.50 £79.25 £71.95
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.33% -36.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in London

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
Central London -28 17 £625 -4.58% 10
South London -6 3 £637 -
West London -19 2 £725 +38.10% 2
East London - 1 £449 - 1
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 66 (49.25%) Apache Spark
2 25 (18.66%) Apache
3 21 (15.67%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (3.73%) SAS
5 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.49%) CMS
6 2 (1.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.75%) Camunda
7 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.75%) Luigi
7 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 68 (50.75%) AWS
2 52 (38.81%) Azure
3 48 (35.82%) GCP
4 21 (15.67%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.69%) Amazon S3
6 16 (11.94%) GitHub
7 14 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.72%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.72%) Power Platform
10 7 (5.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (4.48%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.48%) dbt
11 6 (4.48%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.73%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) DHCP
1 3 (2.24%) DNS
1 3 (2.24%) Firewall
1 3 (2.24%) SMTP
1 3 (2.24%) VPN
2 2 (1.49%) IPv4
2 2 (1.49%) IPv6
3 1 (0.75%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.64%) Hadoop
2 27 (20.15%) NoSQL
3 24 (17.91%) Data Lake
3 24 (17.91%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (16.42%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (9.70%) MongoDB
6 12 (8.96%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (8.21%) BigQuery
7 11 (8.21%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.97%) Power BI
8 8 (5.97%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (4.48%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (3.73%) Base SAS
10 5 (3.73%) Metadata
10 5 (3.73%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (3.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.43%) Git
1 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.96%) GitLab
3 6 (4.48%) Robot Framework
3 6 (4.48%) Selenium
4 5 (3.73%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (2.24%) JIRA
5 3 (2.24%) Postman
6 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 52 (38.81%) Finance
2 44 (32.84%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.90%) Banking
4 26 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.99%) Marketing
7 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.24%) Legal
8 3 (2.24%) Retail
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Local Government
9 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Front Office
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (29.10%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.90%) Architect
3 21 (15.67%) Senior
4 14 (10.45%) Lead
5 12 (8.96%) Developer
6 11 (8.21%) Big Data Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.72%) Analyst
9 8 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 8 (5.97%) Data Architect
10 7 (5.22%) QA Engineer
10 7 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.48%) Data Analyst
11 6 (4.48%) DBA
11 6 (4.48%) SQL DBA
12 5 (3.73%) Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Data Scientist
12 5 (3.73%) Hadoop Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (3.73%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.16%) Kafka
2 20 (14.93%) PySpark
3 14 (10.45%) REST
4 8 (5.97%) Spring
5 7 (5.22%) CSS
5 7 (5.22%) HTML
5 7 (5.22%) Pandas
5 7 (5.22%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.48%) React
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.73%) Play Framework
8 4 (2.99%) LangChain
8 4 (2.99%) Middleware
8 4 (2.99%) PyTorch
8 4 (2.99%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.24%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.24%) pytest
9 3 (2.24%) RESTful
9 3 (2.24%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.66%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.70%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.97%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.22%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.73%) Clustering
5 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.99%) FMCG
7 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.24%) PKI
8 2 (1.49%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.75%) Derivative
9 1 (0.75%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.75%) Social Media
9 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.96%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Unix
3 5 (3.73%) Windows
3 5 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.28%) Data Pipeline
2 57 (42.54%) Analytics
3 54 (40.30%) Data Engineering
4 52 (38.81%) CI/CD
5 47 (35.07%) ETL
6 46 (34.33%) Agile
7 41 (30.60%) AI
8 40 (29.85%) DevOps
9 30 (22.39%) Machine Learning
10 29 (21.64%) Scrum
11 28 (20.90%) Data Modelling
12 27 (20.15%) Data Science
13 25 (18.66%) Containerisation
13 25 (18.66%) Validation
14 23 (17.16%) Data Governance
14 23 (17.16%) Decision-Making
15 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
16 19 (14.18%) Generative AI
16 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (13.43%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 73 (54.48%) Python
2 56 (41.79%) SQL
3 27 (20.15%) Java
4 24 (17.91%) Scala
5 11 (8.21%) R
6 9 (6.72%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.73%) SAS Macro
9 4 (2.99%) Bash
10 2 (1.49%) C#
10 2 (1.49%) Go
11 1 (0.75%) C
11 1 (0.75%) C++
11 1 (0.75%) Korn
11 1 (0.75%) Perl
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (15.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.69%) Degree
3 16 (11.94%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.22%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.24%) PhD
8 2 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.49%) CISSP
8 2 (1.49%) MCITP
8 2 (1.49%) MCTS
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.75%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (22.39%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.45%) QA
3 10 (7.46%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.75%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (22.39%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.24%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.24%) HDFS
3 3 (2.24%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.24%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (23.13%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.43%) Terraform
3 9 (6.72%) Grafana
4 6 (4.48%) Ansible
5 5 (3.73%) Kibana
6 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.99%) Puppet
7 3 (2.24%) Nagios
7 3 (2.24%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.24%) vMotion
8 1 (0.75%) Control-M
8 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 22 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.93%) Databricks
3 12 (8.96%) Salesforce
4 11 (8.21%) Google
5 5 (3.73%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.73%) IBM
5 5 (3.73%) Splunk
6 4 (2.99%) Foundry
6 4 (2.99%) HP
6 4 (2.99%) Informatica
6 4 (2.99%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.24%) Citrix
7 3 (2.24%) Oracle
7 3 (2.24%) Symantec
7 3 (2.24%) VMware
8 2 (1.49%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.49%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Palantir
9 1 (0.75%) Talend