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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 192 167
Rank change year-on-year -75 -25 -22
Contract jobs citing Big Data 137 160 249
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.76% 1.30% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.20% 5.81% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 102 197
10th Percentile £351 £408 £400
25th Percentile £402 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £577 £650
Median % change year-on-year -1.34% -11.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £715 £719 £775
90th Percentile £925 £799 £850
England median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £52.25 £25.87
25th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £36.56
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% +35.29% -50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £79.38 £47.81
90th Percentile - £91.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year +27.27% +56.03% -54.81%

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 3,264 2,756 3,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.08% 22.31% 22.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,226 1,941 2,866
10th Percentile £363 £381 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 35
10th Percentile £18.19 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.89 £25.62
Median hourly rate £44.50 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.14% -30.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £60.88 £57.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £79.13 £70.30
England median hourly rate £44.75 £32.96 £40.00
% change year-on-year +35.77% -17.60% -28.19%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -32 15 £538 -17.31% 10
South London -13 3 £637 - 2
West London -28 1 £300 -53.38% 1
East London - 1 £449 -
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 73 (53.28%) Apache Spark
2 23 (16.79%) Apache
3 21 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.65%) SAS
5 4 (2.92%) Confluence
6 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.46%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.73%) Camunda
8 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 59 (43.07%) AWS
2 51 (37.23%) Azure
3 40 (29.20%) GCP
4 18 (13.14%) GitHub
5 13 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (9.49%) Snowflake
6 11 (8.03%) Amazon EMR
6 11 (8.03%) Amazon S3
6 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (8.03%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.84%) Power Platform
7 8 (5.84%) Serverless
8 6 (4.38%) dbt
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (3.65%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.92%) WhatsApp
11 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.19%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.46%) IPv4
1 2 (1.46%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (24.82%) Hadoop
2 27 (19.71%) NoSQL
3 25 (18.25%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (13.14%) Data Lake
5 14 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (8.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (8.76%) MongoDB
7 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
8 9 (6.57%) Relational Database
9 8 (5.84%) BigQuery
10 7 (5.11%) Power BI
11 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (3.65%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (3.65%) Base SAS
12 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.65%) Metadata
12 5 (3.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
12 5 (3.65%) Tableau
13 4 (2.92%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (13.14%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.41%) Git
3 11 (8.03%) GitLab
4 8 (5.84%) Selenium
5 7 (5.11%) JIRA
5 7 (5.11%) Robot Framework
6 4 (2.92%) Postman
6 4 (2.92%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (1.46%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.73%) NUnit
8 1 (0.73%) Poetry
8 1 (0.73%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 54 (39.42%) Finance
2 48 (35.04%) Social Skills
3 25 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.33%) Banking
5 5 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.65%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.65%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.92%) Marketing
7 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.19%) Retail
8 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Legal
8 2 (1.46%) Local Government
8 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Front Office
9 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (28.47%) Data Engineer
2 20 (14.60%) Architect
2 20 (14.60%) Senior
3 18 (13.14%) Lead
4 14 (10.22%) Developer
5 13 (9.49%) Analyst
6 8 (5.84%) Data Analyst
7 7 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Big Data Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.38%) DBA
8 6 (4.38%) QA Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.38%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.65%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.65%) Hadoop Engineer
9 5 (3.65%) Scala Engineer
10 4 (2.92%) Senior DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (16.79%) PySpark
2 18 (13.14%) Kafka
3 10 (7.30%) HTML
4 9 (6.57%) Pandas
4 9 (6.57%) Spring
5 8 (5.84%) CSS
5 8 (5.84%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.38%) NumPy
6 6 (4.38%) REST
7 5 (3.65%) Play Framework
7 5 (3.65%) PyTorch
7 5 (3.65%) React
7 5 (3.65%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.65%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.92%) pytest
8 4 (2.92%) RESTful
9 3 (2.19%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.19%) Middleware
9 3 (2.19%) Node.js
9 3 (2.19%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.41%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.30%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
5 4 (2.92%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.92%) FMCG
6 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.46%) Clustering
7 2 (1.46%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.46%) Derivative
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.73%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.84%) Linux
2 7 (5.11%) Unix
3 2 (1.46%) Windows
3 2 (1.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (41.61%) Analytics
2 55 (40.15%) CI/CD
3 53 (38.69%) Agile
4 50 (36.50%) ETL
5 49 (35.77%) Data Engineering
6 46 (33.58%) Data Pipeline
7 40 (29.20%) DevOps
8 31 (22.63%) Data Modelling
8 31 (22.63%) Scrum
9 30 (21.90%) AI
10 25 (18.25%) Data Science
11 24 (17.52%) Problem-Solving
12 23 (16.79%) Data Governance
12 23 (16.79%) Machine Learning
12 23 (16.79%) Validation
13 19 (13.87%) Computer Science
13 19 (13.87%) Test Automation
14 17 (12.41%) Data Analytics
14 17 (12.41%) Decision-Making
14 17 (12.41%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 72 (52.55%) Python
2 66 (48.18%) SQL
3 30 (21.90%) Java
4 26 (18.98%) Scala
5 16 (11.68%) R
6 11 (8.03%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.65%) SAS Macro
8 4 (2.92%) Bash
9 3 (2.19%) C#
9 3 (2.19%) C++
10 2 (1.46%) Ada
10 2 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.73%) C
11 1 (0.73%) Perl
11 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.87%) Degree
2 19 (13.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.84%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.19%) PhD
8 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CISSP
8 2 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.46%) MCITP
8 2 (1.46%) MCTS
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.46%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.73%) HP APS
9 1 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.71%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.49%) QA
3 10 (7.30%) GDPR
4 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.92%) NIST
5 3 (2.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.73%) HIPAA
System Software
1 28 (20.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.92%) HDFS
3 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (21.90%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.14%) Terraform
3 10 (7.30%) Grafana
4 5 (3.65%) Kibana
4 5 (3.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.46%) Ansible
5 2 (1.46%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.73%) Argo
6 1 (0.73%) Control-M
6 1 (0.73%) Nagios
6 1 (0.73%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Databricks
2 15 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.38%) Google
3 6 (4.38%) IBM
3 6 (4.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.65%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.65%) Splunk
5 4 (2.92%) Foundry
5 4 (2.92%) Informatica
6 2 (1.46%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.46%) HP
6 2 (1.46%) Oracle
6 2 (1.46%) Palantir
6 2 (1.46%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.73%) Cisco
7 1 (0.73%) Confluent
7 1 (0.73%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.73%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.73%) Sybase
7 1 (0.73%) Talend