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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 215 157
Rank change year-on-year -99 -58 +30
Contract jobs citing Big Data 133 160 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.20% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.66% 5.68% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 117 195
10th Percentile £367 £408 £370
25th Percentile £463 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £614
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -4.56% -5.54%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £819
90th Percentile £738 £809 £850
England median daily rate £548 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.45% -8.33% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £38.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £100.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +110.53% -47.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.48 £45.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% +54.40% -42.31%

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 3,636 2,819 3,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.11% 21.06% 23.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,971 2,761
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 37 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £25.80 £25.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £54.69 £64.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.50
England median hourly rate £38.38 £38.23 £33.93
% change year-on-year +0.38% +12.67% -38.31%

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 1 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 1 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 -33 14 £563 -14.77% 13
West London -16 5 £713 +35.71% 11
South London - 3 £650 - 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 63 (47.37%) Apache Spark
2 24 (18.05%) Apache
3 20 (15.04%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.51%) JBoss
5 5 (3.76%) SharePoint
6 4 (3.01%) Confluence
6 4 (3.01%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (2.26%) CMS
7 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.26%) SAS
8 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Endur
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.36%) AWS
2 47 (35.34%) Azure
3 46 (34.59%) GCP
4 23 (17.29%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.03%) Amazon S3
6 15 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.02%) GitHub
8 10 (7.52%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (7.52%) Power Platform
9 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.02%) dbt
9 8 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (5.26%) PaaS
10 7 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.51%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.26%) DHCP
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.26%) SMTP
2 3 (2.26%) VPN
3 2 (1.50%) Broadband
3 2 (1.50%) IPv4
3 2 (1.50%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) Data Lake
1 27 (20.30%) Hadoop
2 24 (18.05%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (11.28%) NoSQL
5 12 (9.02%) Apache Hive
5 12 (9.02%) BigQuery
6 11 (8.27%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (8.27%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (7.52%) Metadata
8 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
8 9 (6.77%) Power BI
9 7 (5.26%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.26%) Tableau
10 5 (3.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (3.76%) Apache Hudi
10 5 (3.76%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
11 4 (3.01%) Presto
12 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 17 (12.78%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.28%) GitLab
3 12 (9.02%) Git
4 5 (3.76%) JIRA
5 4 (3.01%) Selenium
6 3 (2.26%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (2.26%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.75%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.75%) Gatling
7 1 (0.75%) JMeter
7 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (35.34%) Social Skills
2 37 (27.82%) Finance
3 31 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.51%) Marketing
6 5 (3.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Legal
9 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Local Government
9 2 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 42 (31.58%) Data Engineer
2 28 (21.05%) Architect
3 26 (19.55%) Senior
4 11 (8.27%) Big Data Engineer
5 10 (7.52%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.77%) Analyst
6 9 (6.77%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.02%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Developer
8 7 (5.26%) Lead
9 6 (4.51%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.51%) DBA
9 6 (4.51%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Scala Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.80%) Kafka
2 19 (14.29%) Terraform
3 18 (13.53%) PySpark
4 14 (10.53%) REST
5 9 (6.77%) Pandas
6 6 (4.51%) Spring
6 6 (4.51%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.76%) CSS
7 5 (3.76%) HTML
7 5 (3.76%) Langfuse
7 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.76%) Middleware
7 5 (3.76%) NumPy
7 5 (3.76%) Play Framework
8 4 (3.01%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.26%) .NET
9 3 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.26%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.26%) React
9 3 (2.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (12.03%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (8.27%) Clustering
4 8 (6.02%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.51%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
8 4 (3.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (3.01%) FMCG
9 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.26%) PKI
10 2 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.50%) Social Media
11 1 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 1 (0.75%) PMI
11 1 (0.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.76%) Unix
3 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 5 (3.76%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.36%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (38.35%) Analytics
3 50 (37.59%) Data Engineering
4 45 (33.83%) ETL
5 43 (32.33%) CI/CD
6 42 (31.58%) AI
7 37 (27.82%) Agile
8 29 (21.80%) DevOps
8 29 (21.80%) Machine Learning
9 28 (21.05%) Data Governance
9 28 (21.05%) Data Modelling
10 25 (18.80%) Containerisation
11 22 (16.54%) Data Analysis
11 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.54%) Scrum
11 22 (16.54%) Validation
12 20 (15.04%) Data Science
13 19 (14.29%) Data Analytics
13 19 (14.29%) Decision-Making
13 19 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 69 (51.88%) Python
2 58 (43.61%) SQL
3 27 (20.30%) Java
4 21 (15.79%) Scala
5 15 (11.28%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.77%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.77%) R
7 4 (3.01%) Bash
7 4 (3.01%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) Go
8 2 (1.50%) Korn
8 2 (1.50%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.04%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.78%) Degree
4 9 (6.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.26%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.76%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.26%) PhD
9 2 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.50%) CISSP
9 2 (1.50%) MCITP
9 2 (1.50%) MCTS
9 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.75%) MBA
10 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.31%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.52%) QA
3 7 (5.26%) GDPR
4 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.01%) NIST
5 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.50%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) EMIR
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (18.05%) Docker
2 9 (6.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.26%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.26%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.27%) Puppet
3 9 (6.77%) Grafana
4 7 (5.26%) Ansible
5 6 (4.51%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.76%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (3.76%) Kibana
7 3 (2.26%) Nagios
7 3 (2.26%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.26%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.26%) vMotion
8 2 (1.50%) Control-M
9 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Databricks
2 19 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 15 (11.28%) Google
4 12 (9.02%) Salesforce
5 11 (8.27%) Cloudera
6 9 (6.77%) VMware
7 6 (4.51%) Cisco
7 6 (4.51%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.51%) Splunk
8 5 (3.76%) Amplitude
8 5 (3.76%) Foundry
8 5 (3.76%) Oracle
9 4 (3.01%) HP
9 4 (3.01%) IBM
9 4 (3.01%) Palantir
10 3 (2.26%) Citrix
10 3 (2.26%) Informatica
10 3 (2.26%) Symantec
11 2 (1.50%) OpenLink
11 2 (1.50%) Talend