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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 196 179
Rank change year-on-year -75 -17 -35
Contract jobs citing Big Data 141 166 241
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.79% 1.33% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.34% 5.97% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 108 190
10th Percentile £355 £393 £399
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £718 £706 £763
90th Percentile £903 £802 £850
England median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +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% -46.88%
75th Percentile £73.00 £79.38 £48.75
90th Percentile - £91.75 £58.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% +63.12% -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 3,248 2,782 3,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.29% 22.29% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,209 1,964 2,837
10th Percentile £363 £380 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £556 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -1.16% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.76% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 36
10th Percentile £18.44 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.89 £25.93
Median hourly rate £45.50 £36.56 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.47% -26.89% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.56 £57.50 £55.94
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £46.65 £32.05 £40.25
% change year-on-year +45.55% -20.37% -31.30%

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 12 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 12 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 -38 14 £538 -17.31% 17
South London -10 3 £637 - 2
West London -27 1 £300 -53.38%
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 75 (53.19%) Apache Spark
2 25 (17.73%) Apache
3 21 (14.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.55%) Confluence
4 5 (3.55%) SAS
5 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.13%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) Camunda
6 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (41.84%) AWS
2 50 (35.46%) Azure
3 39 (27.66%) GCP
4 20 (14.18%) GitHub
5 13 (9.22%) Amazon S3
5 13 (9.22%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (8.51%) Serverless
6 12 (8.51%) Snowflake
7 11 (7.80%) Amazon EMR
8 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (4.26%) dbt
10 4 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.84%) WhatsApp
11 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) IPv4
1 2 (1.42%) IPv6
2 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (26.24%) Hadoop
2 27 (19.15%) NoSQL
3 24 (17.02%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (12.06%) Data Lake
5 14 (9.93%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (8.51%) MongoDB
7 9 (6.38%) Relational Database
7 9 (6.38%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.67%) BigQuery
9 7 (4.96%) Power BI
10 6 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.26%) Metadata
10 6 (4.26%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.55%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (3.55%) Base SAS
11 5 (3.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (3.55%) Spark SQL
12 4 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 21 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.06%) Git
3 13 (9.22%) GitLab
4 9 (6.38%) JIRA
5 8 (5.67%) Selenium
6 7 (4.96%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.84%) Postman
7 4 (2.84%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.71%) NUnit
9 1 (0.71%) Poetry
9 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 56 (39.72%) Finance
2 47 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.89%) Banking
5 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.55%) Investment Banking
5 5 (3.55%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.55%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.84%) Marketing
7 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.13%) Retail
8 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Local Government
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (29.08%) Data Engineer
2 21 (14.89%) Senior
3 19 (13.48%) Architect
3 19 (13.48%) Lead
4 13 (9.22%) Developer
5 11 (7.80%) Analyst
6 7 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Big Data Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.26%) DBA
7 6 (4.26%) QA Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) SQL DBA
8 5 (3.55%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.55%) Hadoop Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Scala Engineer
9 4 (2.84%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.02%) PySpark
2 20 (14.18%) Kafka
3 10 (7.09%) HTML
4 9 (6.38%) Spring
5 8 (5.67%) CSS
5 8 (5.67%) Pandas
5 8 (5.67%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.26%) REST
7 5 (3.55%) NumPy
7 5 (3.55%) Play Framework
7 5 (3.55%) pytest
7 5 (3.55%) PyTorch
7 5 (3.55%) React
7 5 (3.55%) scikit-learn
7 5 (3.55%) TensorFlow
8 4 (2.84%) RESTful
8 4 (2.84%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.13%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 8 (5.67%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.84%) FMCG
5 4 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.42%) Clustering
7 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.42%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Derivative
8 1 (0.71%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.71%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.38%) Linux
2 7 (4.96%) Unix
3 2 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.43%) Agile
1 57 (40.43%) Analytics
2 55 (39.01%) CI/CD
3 50 (35.46%) Data Engineering
4 48 (34.04%) ETL
5 46 (32.62%) Data Pipeline
6 42 (29.79%) DevOps
7 34 (24.11%) Scrum
8 32 (22.70%) Data Modelling
9 30 (21.28%) AI
10 25 (17.73%) Data Governance
10 25 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (17.02%) Data Science
11 24 (17.02%) Machine Learning
11 24 (17.02%) Validation
12 20 (14.18%) Computer Science
12 20 (14.18%) Test Automation
13 19 (13.48%) Software Engineering
14 17 (12.06%) Decision-Making
14 17 (12.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 74 (52.48%) Python
2 63 (44.68%) SQL
3 33 (23.40%) Java
4 27 (19.15%) Scala
5 16 (11.35%) R
6 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.55%) Bash
7 5 (3.55%) SAS Macro
8 4 (2.84%) C#
9 3 (2.13%) C++
10 2 (1.42%) Ada
10 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.60%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.18%) Degree
4 18 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.38%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.55%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.13%) PhD
9 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.42%) CISSP
9 2 (1.42%) MCITP
9 2 (1.42%) MCTS
9 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.71%) HP APS
10 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.22%) QA
3 10 (7.09%) GDPR
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.84%) NIST
5 3 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 29 (20.57%) Docker
2 6 (4.26%) HDFS
3 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (21.99%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.48%) Terraform
3 11 (7.80%) Grafana
4 6 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.55%) Kibana
6 2 (1.42%) Ansible
6 2 (1.42%) Argo
6 2 (1.42%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.42%) Nagios
6 2 (1.42%) Rancher
7 1 (0.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (17.73%) Databricks
2 16 (11.35%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.26%) Google
3 6 (4.26%) IBM
3 6 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.55%) Foundry
4 5 (3.55%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.55%) Splunk
5 4 (2.84%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.13%) Informatica
6 3 (2.13%) Palantir
7 2 (1.42%) HP
7 2 (1.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Confluent
8 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle
8 1 (0.71%) Sybase