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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 149 173
Rank change year-on-year -80 +24 -36
Contract jobs citing Big Data 146 268 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.09% 1.71% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.15% 7.79% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 179 197
10th Percentile £380 £361 £454
25th Percentile £450 £456 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £696 £706 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 10
10th Percentile - £39.25 £40.79
25th Percentile - £43.75 £42.63
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -
75th Percentile - £53.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.96 £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year -17.98% -39.10% -

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,833 3,440 3,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.11% 21.99% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 2,438 2,807
10th Percentile £375 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £850 £788
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 22 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £18.98
25th Percentile £30.42 £36.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £68.38 £62.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £78.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £33.22 £49.75
% change year-on-year +30.96% -33.24% -0.50%

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 27 October 2025.

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 27 October 2025. 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 -18 18 £630 +14.55% 47
West London -5 4 £525 -7.57% 1
South London - 2 £450 - 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 48 (32.88%) Apache Spark
2 27 (18.49%) Apache
3 14 (9.59%) Confluence
4 8 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.05%) Jupyter
5 3 (2.05%) Luigi
6 2 (1.37%) Apache Pig
6 2 (1.37%) SAS
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.37%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 48 (32.88%) AWS
2 40 (27.40%) Azure
3 32 (21.92%) GCP
4 22 (15.07%) Serverless
5 13 (8.90%) Snowflake
6 9 (6.16%) GitHub
7 6 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 6 (4.11%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (2.74%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.05%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.05%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.05%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.05%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (2.05%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) DNS
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.14%) Hadoop
2 26 (17.81%) Data Lake
3 23 (15.75%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (12.33%) NoSQL
5 17 (11.64%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (10.96%) SQL Server
7 15 (10.27%) BigQuery
7 15 (10.27%) Relational Database
8 14 (9.59%) Metadata
9 12 (8.22%) RDBMS
10 11 (7.53%) Tableau
11 10 (6.85%) Apache Hive
12 7 (4.79%) Data Vault
13 6 (4.11%) HBase
13 6 (4.11%) Impala
13 6 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (4.11%) Power BI
14 5 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (3.42%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 18 (12.33%) JIRA
2 16 (10.96%) Git
3 8 (5.48%) GitLab
4 5 (3.42%) ERwin
5 4 (2.74%) ER Studio
6 3 (2.05%) Gradle
6 3 (2.05%) Maven
7 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.68%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
General
1 38 (26.03%) Finance
2 34 (23.29%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.53%) Banking
5 8 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.74%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.05%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.37%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.37%) Publishing
8 2 (1.37%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (25.34%) Data Engineer
2 22 (15.07%) Senior
3 20 (13.70%) Architect
4 14 (9.59%) Lead
4 14 (9.59%) Software Engineer
5 13 (8.90%) Developer
6 11 (7.53%) Data Architect
7 10 (6.85%) Analyst
7 10 (6.85%) Data Scientist
8 8 (5.48%) Java Engineer
8 8 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (4.79%) Big Data Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Data Modeller
11 5 (3.42%) GCP Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (26.71%) Kafka
2 23 (15.75%) Apache NiFi
3 16 (10.96%) PySpark
4 11 (7.53%) .NET
5 10 (6.85%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (6.16%) React
6 9 (6.16%) scikit-learn
6 9 (6.16%) TensorFlow
7 7 (4.79%) Pandas
8 6 (4.11%) HTML
8 6 (4.11%) JSON
8 6 (4.11%) PyTorch
8 6 (4.11%) Spring
8 6 (4.11%) XML
9 5 (3.42%) Spark Streaming
10 3 (2.05%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.05%) Hugging Face
10 3 (2.05%) Keras
10 3 (2.05%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.85%) Distributed Computing
3 9 (6.16%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.74%) Credit Risk
7 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.05%) Derivative
7 3 (2.05%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.37%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.37%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.37%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.16%) Linux
2 7 (4.79%) Unix
3 5 (3.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.30%) ETL
2 52 (35.62%) Agile
3 49 (33.56%) Data Modelling
4 37 (25.34%) Data Pipeline
5 35 (23.97%) Data Governance
6 34 (23.29%) Software Engineering
7 33 (22.60%) Analytics
7 33 (22.60%) Data Engineering
7 33 (22.60%) Machine Learning
8 30 (20.55%) CI/CD
8 30 (20.55%) Microservices
9 25 (17.12%) AI
10 23 (15.75%) Containerisation
10 23 (15.75%) Data Science
11 22 (15.07%) Data Integration
11 22 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (13.70%) Scrum
13 18 (12.33%) Decision-Making
14 17 (11.64%) Data Architecture
14 17 (11.64%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 109 (74.66%) Python
2 77 (52.74%) SQL
3 37 (25.34%) Java
4 17 (11.64%) C++
5 14 (9.59%) C#
6 13 (8.90%) JavaScript
6 13 (8.90%) Scala
7 8 (5.48%) R
8 6 (4.11%) C
9 3 (2.05%) Bash
9 3 (2.05%) Perl
10 2 (1.37%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.68%) Go
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (19.18%) SC Cleared
1 28 (19.18%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.07%) DV Cleared
3 13 (8.90%) Degree
4 9 (6.16%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.05%) PhD
7 2 (1.37%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.60%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.16%) QA
3 8 (5.48%) GDPR
4 3 (2.05%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 15 (10.27%) Docker
2 5 (3.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.53%) Terraform
3 2 (1.37%) Grafana
3 2 (1.37%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) Ansible
4 1 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.68%) Kibana
4 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (15.07%) Google
2 21 (14.38%) Databricks
3 17 (11.64%) Microsoft
4 15 (10.27%) Cloudera
4 15 (10.27%) Foundry
4 15 (10.27%) Palantir
5 4 (2.74%) OpenAI
5 4 (2.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.37%) Informatica
6 2 (1.37%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.68%) PayPal
7 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.68%) Splunk
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase
7 1 (0.68%) Talend
7 1 (0.68%) Vertica
7 1 (0.68%) Zoomdata