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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 177 170
Rank change year-on-year -75 -7 -44
Contract jobs citing Big Data 133 182 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.89% 1.33% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.49% 6.13% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 115 190
10th Percentile £304 £356 £413
25th Percentile £389 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £656 £700
90th Percentile £848 £775 £789
England median daily rate £505 £569 £550
% change year-on-year -11.25% +3.45% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - - £25.38
25th Percentile - £51.25 £33.12
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +3.14%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £48.29
90th Percentile - - £52.50
England median hourly rate £69.44 £52.50 £46.06
% change year-on-year +32.27% +13.99% +5.56%

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 2,961 2,971 3,537
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.86% 21.67% 19.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,039 2,022 2,620
10th Percentile £351 £363 £385
25th Percentile £415 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.72% +0.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £699 £680
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £540 £538
% change year-on-year -7.41% +0.47% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 42
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.72 £28.60 £25.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -5.14% -2.78%
75th Percentile £75.94 £58.25 £54.03
90th Percentile £89.75 £78.75 £64.43
England median hourly rate £46.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +16.25% -5.88% -25.26%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -18 11 £500 -14.89% 19
West London -21 2 £413 -27.38% 1
South London - 2 £450 - 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 68 (51.13%) Apache Spark
2 21 (15.79%) Apache
3 9 (6.77%) Confluence
4 8 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (6.02%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.50%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 51 (38.35%) AWS
2 36 (27.07%) Azure
3 22 (16.54%) GCP
4 20 (15.04%) Serverless
5 17 (12.78%) Snowflake
6 11 (8.27%) GitHub
7 9 (6.77%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.02%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (4.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (4.51%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.51%) Power Platform
10 5 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
11 4 (3.01%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.26%) Azure API Management
12 3 (2.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
13 2 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.50%) IaaS
13 2 (1.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.50%) VPN
2 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (35.34%) Hadoop
2 22 (16.54%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (16.54%) NoSQL
3 19 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
5 15 (11.28%) Elasticsearch
6 14 (10.53%) Data Lake
6 14 (10.53%) RDBMS
7 12 (9.02%) Metadata
8 11 (8.27%) Apache Hive
9 9 (6.77%) Impala
10 8 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (6.02%) HBase
10 8 (6.02%) Tableau
11 6 (4.51%) Power BI
12 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (3.76%) Data Vault
12 5 (3.76%) DataStage
12 5 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (9.02%) JIRA
2 11 (8.27%) Git
3 10 (7.52%) Jenkins
4 8 (6.02%) GitLab
5 5 (3.76%) ERwin
6 4 (3.01%) ER Studio
7 3 (2.26%) Postman
7 3 (2.26%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.26%) Selenium
8 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.75%) NUnit
9 1 (0.75%) Poetry
9 1 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.75%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 44 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 36 (27.07%) Finance
3 21 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.52%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.75%) Front Office
8 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Data Engineer
2 17 (12.78%) Lead
3 16 (12.03%) Senior
4 13 (9.77%) Developer
5 10 (7.52%) Analyst
6 9 (6.77%) Data Scientist
7 8 (6.02%) Architect
8 7 (5.26%) Data Analyst
8 7 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.51%) Data Modeller
9 6 (4.51%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Big Data Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Apache Spark Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Java Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Scala Developer
12 3 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (23.31%) Kafka
2 16 (12.03%) PySpark
3 13 (9.77%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (7.52%) scikit-learn
5 8 (6.02%) .NET
5 8 (6.02%) React
6 7 (5.26%) Pandas
6 7 (5.26%) TensorFlow
7 6 (4.51%) PyTorch
7 6 (4.51%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (4.51%) Spark Streaming
8 5 (3.76%) HTML
8 5 (3.76%) NumPy
8 5 (3.76%) Spring
8 5 (3.76%) XGBoost
9 4 (3.01%) JSON
9 4 (3.01%) pytest
9 4 (3.01%) Spring Boot
9 4 (3.01%) XML
9 4 (3.01%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Cloud Native
1 10 (7.52%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.01%) Derivative
3 4 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.01%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.50%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.75%) Equities
6 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.75%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.02%) Linux
2 3 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.35%) ETL
2 42 (31.58%) Agile
3 38 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 37 (27.82%) Data Engineering
5 35 (26.32%) Analytics
5 35 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 35 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (24.06%) Data Governance
7 29 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (20.30%) DevOps
8 27 (20.30%) Software Engineering
9 26 (19.55%) Machine Learning
10 23 (17.29%) AI
11 20 (15.04%) Decision-Making
11 20 (15.04%) Microservices
12 19 (14.29%) Containerisation
12 19 (14.29%) Data Science
13 18 (13.53%) Scrum
13 18 (13.53%) Visualisation
14 17 (12.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 88 (66.17%) Python
2 75 (56.39%) SQL
3 31 (23.31%) Java
4 19 (14.29%) Scala
5 14 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 13 (9.77%) C#
6 13 (9.77%) R
7 11 (8.27%) C++
8 6 (4.51%) Bash
9 4 (3.01%) Perl
10 2 (1.50%) Ada
10 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Korn
11 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 26 (19.55%) SC Cleared
3 17 (12.78%) Degree
4 16 (12.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (11.28%) DV Cleared
6 9 (6.77%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.26%) PhD
8 2 (1.50%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.75%) HP APS
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.30%) Data Quality
2 12 (9.02%) QA
3 6 (4.51%) GDPR
4 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.75%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.75%) IFRS
5 1 (0.75%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.75%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Docker
2 9 (6.77%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 27 (20.30%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.77%) Terraform
3 4 (3.01%) Grafana
3 4 (3.01%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.50%) Ansible
4 2 (1.50%) Argo
4 2 (1.50%) Nagios
4 2 (1.50%) Rancher
5 1 (0.75%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Databricks
2 10 (7.52%) Cloudera
3 9 (6.77%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.02%) Foundry
4 8 (6.02%) Palantir
5 4 (3.01%) Google
6 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.26%) Oracle
7 2 (1.50%) IBM
7 2 (1.50%) Informatica
7 2 (1.50%) Sybase
8 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.75%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.75%) HP
8 1 (0.75%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.75%) Splunk
8 1 (0.75%) Vertica