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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 220 156
Rank change year-on-year -97 -64 +22
Contract jobs citing Big Data 132 159 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.65% 1.18% 1.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.58% 5.55% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 115 197
10th Percentile £384 £400 £370
25th Percentile £464 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% -4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £775
90th Percentile £738 £810 £850
England median daily rate £530 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -3.64% -8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £39.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £100.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +100.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.48 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +46.27% -39.10%

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 3,686 2,865 3,736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.12% 21.22% 22.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,504 1,985 2,700
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £39.00 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.13% +19.99% -36.36%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -37 12 £600 -8.40% 10
West London -18 5 £713 +35.71% 9
South London - 1 £650 - 2
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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 24 (18.18%) Apache
3 22 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.55%) JBoss
5 5 (3.79%) SharePoint
6 4 (3.03%) Confluence
7 3 (2.27%) CMS
7 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (2.27%) SAS
8 1 (0.76%) Luigi
8 1 (0.76%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Endur
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 58 (43.94%) AWS
2 48 (36.36%) Azure
3 45 (34.09%) GCP
4 27 (20.45%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.88%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 12 (9.09%) GitHub
8 11 (8.33%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.82%) PaaS
11 8 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (6.06%) dbt
12 7 (5.30%) Amazon EMR
12 7 (5.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 7 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.30%) OpenShift
12 7 (5.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
14 5 (3.79%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.27%) DHCP
2 3 (2.27%) DNS
2 3 (2.27%) Firewall
2 3 (2.27%) SMTP
2 3 (2.27%) VPN
3 2 (1.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (19.70%) Data Lake
3 25 (18.94%) Hadoop
4 21 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (12.88%) NoSQL
6 14 (10.61%) Apache Hive
6 14 (10.61%) BigQuery
7 12 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (8.33%) MongoDB
9 10 (7.58%) Power BI
10 9 (6.82%) Metadata
10 9 (6.82%) Tableau
11 7 (5.30%) SQL Server
12 5 (3.79%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (3.79%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (3.79%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.79%) Relational Database
13 4 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (3.03%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 16 (12.12%) GitLab
3 14 (10.61%) Git
4 5 (3.79%) JIRA
5 4 (3.03%) Selenium
6 3 (2.27%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (2.27%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.52%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.76%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.76%) Gatling
8 1 (0.76%) JMeter
8 1 (0.76%) LoadRunner
General
1 45 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 35 (26.52%) Finance
3 28 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (15.15%) Banking
5 6 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.55%) Marketing
6 5 (3.79%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.52%) Local Government
8 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (32.58%) Data Engineer
2 27 (20.45%) Architect
3 24 (18.18%) Senior
4 11 (8.33%) Analyst
4 11 (8.33%) Big Data Engineer
5 10 (7.58%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.06%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.06%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Developer
9 6 (4.55%) Lead
9 6 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.18%) Kafka
2 21 (15.91%) Terraform
3 17 (12.88%) PySpark
4 14 (10.61%) REST
5 9 (6.82%) Pandas
6 7 (5.30%) Spring
6 7 (5.30%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.79%) CSS
7 5 (3.79%) HTML
7 5 (3.79%) Langfuse
7 5 (3.79%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.79%) NumPy
7 5 (3.79%) Play Framework
8 4 (3.03%) .NET
8 4 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.27%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.27%) Middleware
9 3 (2.27%) Node.js
9 3 (2.27%) React
9 3 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.94%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.36%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.82%) Clustering
3 9 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 8 (6.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.03%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (3.03%) FMCG
8 3 (2.27%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (2.27%) PKI
9 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.52%) Social Media
9 2 (1.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (1.52%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.88%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.79%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Windows
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.70%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (38.64%) Analytics
3 50 (37.88%) Data Engineering
4 48 (36.36%) AI
5 47 (35.61%) ETL
6 42 (31.82%) CI/CD
7 37 (28.03%) Agile
8 33 (25.00%) Machine Learning
9 30 (22.73%) DevOps
10 27 (20.45%) Data Modelling
11 25 (18.94%) Containerisation
11 25 (18.94%) Data Governance
12 24 (18.18%) Validation
13 23 (17.42%) Data Analysis
13 23 (17.42%) Data Science
14 22 (16.67%) Scrum
15 21 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
16 19 (14.39%) Data Analytics
16 19 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (14.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 71 (53.79%) Python
2 57 (43.18%) SQL
3 29 (21.97%) Java
4 21 (15.91%) Scala
5 17 (12.88%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.58%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.82%) R
8 5 (3.79%) C#
9 4 (3.03%) Bash
10 2 (1.52%) Go
10 2 (1.52%) Korn
10 2 (1.52%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.76%) C
11 1 (0.76%) C++
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.12%) Degree
4 8 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.30%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.27%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.27%) PhD
8 2 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.52%) CISSP
9 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.76%) ISEB
9 1 (0.76%) MBA
9 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.76%) PMP
9 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.24%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.58%) QA
3 6 (4.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.52%) NIST
4 2 (1.52%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.52%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.76%) EMIR
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.76%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) PSD2
5 1 (0.76%) SEPA
System Software
1 21 (15.91%) Docker
2 9 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.79%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.27%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.27%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 25 (18.94%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.33%) Puppet
3 7 (5.30%) Ansible
3 7 (5.30%) Grafana
4 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (3.79%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (3.79%) Kibana
6 3 (2.27%) Nagios
6 3 (2.27%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.27%) vMotion
7 2 (1.52%) Control-M
8 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (23.48%) Databricks
2 18 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 14 (10.61%) Google
3 14 (10.61%) Salesforce
4 13 (9.85%) Cloudera
5 9 (6.82%) VMware
6 6 (4.55%) Cisco
6 6 (4.55%) Oracle
6 6 (4.55%) Red Hat
6 6 (4.55%) Splunk
7 5 (3.79%) Amplitude
8 4 (3.03%) Foundry
8 4 (3.03%) HP
8 4 (3.03%) IBM
9 3 (2.27%) Citrix
9 3 (2.27%) Informatica
9 3 (2.27%) Palantir
9 3 (2.27%) Symantec
10 2 (1.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (1.52%) Talend