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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 196 154
Rank change year-on-year -101 -42 +16
Contract jobs citing Big Data 134 175 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.68% 1.29% 1.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 6.02% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 120 223
10th Percentile £359 £408 £375
25th Percentile £453 £489 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £582 £614
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -5.21% +2.33%
75th Percentile £690 £700 £800
90th Percentile £846 £776 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £583
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £60.63 £37.75
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +85.29% -50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £45.00
90th Percentile - £95.88 £47.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% +53.33% -51.92%

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 3,482 2,908 4,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.62% 21.44% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,335 2,028 3,020
10th Percentile £363 £384 £363
25th Percentile £435 £449 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% -0.43%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 28
10th Percentile £18.94 £25.53 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £34.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £43.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% -9.38% -25.00%
75th Percentile £60.12 £62.88 £52.56
90th Percentile £76.50 £84.50 £69.40
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +14.49% -10.39% -33.04%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -41 17 £625 -5.30% 2
South London -10 3 £637 -
West London -14 3 £725 +38.10% 1
East London - 1 £449 - 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 65 (48.51%) Apache Spark
2 25 (18.66%) Apache
3 22 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.73%) SAS
4 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.49%) CMS
6 2 (1.49%) Confluence
7 1 (0.75%) Camunda
7 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.75%) Luigi
7 1 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 66 (49.25%) AWS
2 48 (35.82%) Azure
3 45 (33.58%) GCP
4 22 (16.42%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.69%) Amazon S3
6 15 (11.19%) GitHub
7 13 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.21%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.72%) Amazon EMR
10 9 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (4.48%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.48%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.48%) dbt
13 6 (4.48%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.73%) Amazon SQS
15 4 (2.99%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.24%) DHCP
1 3 (2.24%) DNS
1 3 (2.24%) Firewall
1 3 (2.24%) SMTP
1 3 (2.24%) VPN
2 2 (1.49%) Broadband
2 2 (1.49%) IPv4
2 2 (1.49%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.90%) Data Lake
2 27 (20.15%) Hadoop
3 25 (18.66%) NoSQL
4 23 (17.16%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (8.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (8.21%) BigQuery
6 11 (8.21%) MongoDB
7 10 (7.46%) Power BI
8 9 (6.72%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.22%) Metadata
10 6 (4.48%) Apache Hive
10 6 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (4.48%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.48%) Tableau
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.73%) Base SAS
11 5 (3.73%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.69%) Git
3 12 (8.96%) GitLab
4 5 (3.73%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (3.73%) Robot Framework
4 5 (3.73%) Selenium
5 3 (2.24%) JIRA
6 2 (1.49%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
General
1 50 (37.31%) Finance
2 43 (32.09%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.90%) Banking
4 26 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.73%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.99%) Marketing
7 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.24%) Legal
8 3 (2.24%) Retail
9 2 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Local Government
9 2 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Front Office
10 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (26.87%) Data Engineer
2 30 (22.39%) Architect
3 22 (16.42%) Senior
4 13 (9.70%) Lead
5 12 (8.96%) Developer
6 11 (8.21%) Big Data Engineer
7 10 (7.46%) Data Architect
7 10 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (6.72%) Analyst
9 8 (5.97%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.48%) DBA
10 6 (4.48%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) SQL DBA
11 5 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Data Scientist
11 5 (3.73%) Hadoop Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Scala Engineer
11 5 (3.73%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.99%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.42%) Kafka
2 20 (14.93%) PySpark
3 15 (11.19%) REST
4 7 (5.22%) Pandas
4 7 (5.22%) Spring
5 6 (4.48%) CSS
5 6 (4.48%) HTML
5 6 (4.48%) React
5 6 (4.48%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.73%) Langfuse
6 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (3.73%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (2.99%) LangChain
7 4 (2.99%) Middleware
7 4 (2.99%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.99%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (2.99%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.24%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 26 (19.40%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.45%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.97%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.22%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (5.22%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.73%) Clustering
5 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.99%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.99%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (2.99%) FMCG
7 3 (2.24%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.24%) PKI
8 2 (1.49%) Social Media
9 1 (0.75%) Derivative
9 1 (0.75%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.75%) IoT
9 1 (0.75%) Smart Meter
9 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.70%) Linux
2 7 (5.22%) Unix
3 5 (3.73%) Windows
3 5 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (44.78%) Data Pipeline
2 56 (41.79%) Analytics
3 49 (36.57%) CI/CD
3 49 (36.57%) Data Engineering
4 45 (33.58%) Agile
5 44 (32.84%) ETL
6 40 (29.85%) AI
7 37 (27.61%) DevOps
8 31 (23.13%) Machine Learning
9 28 (20.90%) Data Modelling
9 28 (20.90%) Data Science
9 28 (20.90%) Scrum
10 25 (18.66%) Data Governance
10 25 (18.66%) Validation
11 24 (17.91%) Containerisation
12 23 (17.16%) Decision-Making
13 20 (14.93%) Test Automation
14 19 (14.18%) Generative AI
14 19 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (13.43%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 76 (56.72%) Python
2 54 (40.30%) SQL
3 27 (20.15%) Java
4 23 (17.16%) Scala
5 11 (8.21%) R
6 8 (5.97%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.97%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.73%) Bash
7 5 (3.73%) SAS Macro
8 2 (1.49%) C#
8 2 (1.49%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) C++
9 1 (0.75%) Korn
9 1 (0.75%) Perl
9 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 16 (11.94%) Degree
3 15 (11.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.22%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.99%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.99%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.24%) PhD
8 2 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.49%) CISSP
8 2 (1.49%) MCITP
8 2 (1.49%) MCTS
8 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.75%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.64%) Data Quality
2 13 (9.70%) QA
3 9 (6.72%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (20.90%) Docker
2 6 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.99%) HDFS
4 3 (2.24%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.24%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (21.64%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.69%) Terraform
3 9 (6.72%) Grafana
4 7 (5.22%) Ansible
5 5 (3.73%) Kibana
5 5 (3.73%) Puppet
6 4 (2.99%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.24%) Nagios
7 3 (2.24%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.24%) vMotion
8 1 (0.75%) Control-M
8 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (15.67%) Databricks
1 21 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.96%) Salesforce
3 11 (8.21%) Google
4 5 (3.73%) Amplitude
4 5 (3.73%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.73%) IBM
4 5 (3.73%) Splunk
5 4 (2.99%) Foundry
5 4 (2.99%) HP
5 4 (2.99%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.24%) Citrix
6 3 (2.24%) Oracle
6 3 (2.24%) Symantec
6 3 (2.24%) VMware
7 2 (1.49%) Informatica
7 2 (1.49%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.49%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Cisco
8 1 (0.75%) Sybase