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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 213 153
Rank change year-on-year -120 -60 +28
Contract jobs citing Big Data 125 156 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 1.16% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.51% 5.48% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 118 188
10th Percentile £389 £380 £368
25th Percentile £470 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £559 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -2.78% -8.00%
75th Percentile £691 £700 £763
90th Percentile £732 £779 £850
England median daily rate £523 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -0.48% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £39.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 - £50.00
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.70 £38.96 £47.50
% change year-on-year +63.50% -17.98% -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 3,566 2,848 3,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.65% 21.20% 22.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 1,968 2,602
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £431 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £707
90th Percentile £738 £813 £850
England median daily rate £510 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 38 22
10th Percentile £18.74 £22.63 £27.81
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £53.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +22.86% -12.94%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.00 £87.50 £78.38
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.68% +19.99% -33.33%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -26 11 £613 -12.50% 16
West London -12 8 £703 +33.90% 2
East London - 1 £463 - 4
South London - 1 £650 - 6
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 74 (59.20%) Apache Spark
2 26 (20.80%) Apache
3 22 (17.60%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.80%) JBoss
5 5 (4.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.40%) CMS
6 3 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.60%) Confluence
8 1 (0.80%) Luigi
8 1 (0.80%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.80%) nginx
8 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Endur
2 1 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 51 (40.80%) AWS
2 46 (36.80%) Azure
3 34 (27.20%) GCP
4 28 (22.40%) Snowflake
5 17 (13.60%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (12.80%) Amazon S3
7 11 (8.80%) PaaS
8 10 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
9 9 (7.20%) Azure Databricks
10 8 (6.40%) Azure AKS
10 8 (6.40%) dbt
10 8 (6.40%) GitHub
11 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.60%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (4.80%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.80%) Kerberos
2 4 (3.20%) DNS
2 4 (3.20%) Firewall
3 3 (2.40%) DHCP
3 3 (2.40%) SMTP
3 3 (2.40%) VPN
4 2 (1.60%) Broadband
5 1 (0.80%) Network Security
5 1 (0.80%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.40%) Data Lake
1 28 (22.40%) Hadoop
2 26 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (17.60%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (13.60%) Apache Hive
4 17 (13.60%) NoSQL
5 13 (10.40%) BigQuery
6 12 (9.60%) Tableau
7 11 (8.80%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (8.80%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (8.80%) MongoDB
8 10 (8.00%) Power BI
9 9 (7.20%) Metadata
10 8 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (5.60%) SQL Server
12 5 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
13 4 (3.20%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (3.20%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (3.20%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (14.40%) GitLab
1 18 (14.40%) Jenkins
2 14 (11.20%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) JIRA
4 2 (1.60%) PowerDesigner
4 2 (1.60%) Selenium
4 2 (1.60%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.80%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.80%) eggPlant
5 1 (0.80%) Gatling
5 1 (0.80%) JMeter
5 1 (0.80%) LoadRunner
General
1 39 (31.20%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.20%) Finance
3 25 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Banking
5 5 (4.00%) Marketing
5 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Local Government
7 2 (1.60%) Retail
7 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.80%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.80%) Automotive
8 1 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.80%) Front Office
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 42 (33.60%) Data Engineer
2 23 (18.40%) Senior
3 20 (16.00%) Architect
4 12 (9.60%) Analyst
5 11 (8.80%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (8.80%) Big Data Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.80%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (4.00%) Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Scala Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (18.40%) Kafka
2 21 (16.80%) Terraform
3 17 (13.60%) PySpark
4 12 (9.60%) REST
5 7 (5.60%) Pandas
5 7 (5.60%) Spring
5 7 (5.60%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.80%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (4.80%) NumPy
7 5 (4.00%) CSS
7 5 (4.00%) HTML
7 5 (4.00%) Langfuse
7 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (4.00%) Play Framework
7 5 (4.00%) PyTorch
7 5 (4.00%) TensorFlow
8 4 (3.20%) .NET
9 3 (2.40%) Middleware
9 3 (2.40%) Node.js
9 3 (2.40%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Cloud Native
2 14 (11.20%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.20%) Clustering
3 9 (7.20%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.20%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.80%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.20%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.20%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.40%) PKI
7 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.60%) Media Streaming
7 2 (1.60%) Social Media
7 2 (1.60%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.80%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.20%) Linux
2 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.00%) Unix
4 4 (3.20%) Windows
5 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.80%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (40.80%) AI
2 51 (40.80%) ETL
3 47 (37.60%) CI/CD
3 47 (37.60%) Data Engineering
4 43 (34.40%) Analytics
5 34 (27.20%) Machine Learning
6 31 (24.80%) Agile
7 29 (23.20%) DevOps
8 26 (20.80%) Containerisation
8 26 (20.80%) Data Governance
8 26 (20.80%) Data Modelling
9 22 (17.60%) Data Analysis
10 21 (16.80%) Data Science
11 20 (16.00%) Validation
12 18 (14.40%) Decision-Making
12 18 (14.40%) Generative AI
12 18 (14.40%) Scrum
13 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (13.60%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 72 (57.60%) Python
2 62 (49.60%) SQL
3 29 (23.20%) Java
4 19 (15.20%) PowerShell
5 18 (14.40%) Scala
6 10 (8.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.60%) R
8 6 (4.80%) Bash
8 6 (4.80%) C#
9 2 (1.60%) Go
9 2 (1.60%) Korn
10 1 (0.80%) C
10 1 (0.80%) C++
10 1 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.40%) Degree
3 17 (13.60%) SC Cleared
4 10 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (7.20%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.40%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.40%) PhD
8 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.80%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.80%) ISEB
8 1 (0.80%) MBA
8 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.80%) PMP
8 1 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.60%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.80%) QA
3 4 (3.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.60%) SLA
5 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.80%) EMIR
5 1 (0.80%) GLBA
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS
5 1 (0.80%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.80%) MiFID
5 1 (0.80%) NIST
5 1 (0.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.80%) PSD2
5 1 (0.80%) SEPA
System Software
1 22 (17.60%) Docker
2 9 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.20%) HDFS
5 3 (2.40%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.40%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.40%) Terminal Services
5 3 (2.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (22.40%) Kubernetes
2 13 (10.40%) Puppet
3 10 (8.00%) Ansible
4 7 (5.60%) Grafana
5 6 (4.80%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (4.00%) Kibana
7 3 (2.40%) Nagios
7 3 (2.40%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.40%) vMotion
8 1 (0.80%) Control-M
8 1 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (25.60%) Databricks
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.80%) Google
4 15 (12.00%) Cloudera
5 9 (7.20%) Salesforce
5 9 (7.20%) VMware
6 7 (5.60%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.80%) Oracle
8 5 (4.00%) Amplitude
8 5 (4.00%) Cisco
8 5 (4.00%) Splunk
9 4 (3.20%) Foundry
10 3 (2.40%) Citrix
10 3 (2.40%) HP
10 3 (2.40%) IBM
10 3 (2.40%) Informatica
10 3 (2.40%) Palantir
10 3 (2.40%) Symantec
11 2 (1.60%) OpenLink
11 2 (1.60%) Talend