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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 296 203 158
Rank change year-on-year -93 -45 +17
Contract jobs citing Big Data 137 173 276
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.27% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.90% 5.93% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 118 207
10th Percentile £366 £408 £389
25th Percentile £463 £500 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £644
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -9.01% +7.33%
75th Percentile £718 £700 £813
90th Percentile £813 £779 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
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 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +75.00% -47.06%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £50.00
90th Percentile - £95.88 £52.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +27.78% -42.31%

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 3,517 2,917 3,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.71% 21.45% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,371 2,052 2,876
10th Percentile £363 £378 £364
25th Percentile £438 £437 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 23
10th Percentile £18.23 £24.80 £36.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.80 £41.88
Median hourly rate £39.50 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.31 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.75 £87.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.58 £38.50
% change year-on-year +14.24% -10.19% -30.00%

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 29 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 29 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 -32 17 £625 -8.09% 5
South London -15 4 £644 - 1
West London -17 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 66 (48.18%) Apache Spark
2 25 (18.25%) Apache
3 22 (16.06%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.65%) SAS
4 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (2.19%) CMS
6 3 (2.19%) JBoss
7 2 (1.46%) Confluence
8 1 (0.73%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.73%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 63 (45.99%) AWS
2 44 (32.12%) Azure
2 44 (32.12%) GCP
3 22 (16.06%) Snowflake
4 18 (13.14%) Amazon S3
5 15 (10.95%) GitHub
6 13 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (8.03%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.30%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (6.57%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (6.57%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (5.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (4.38%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.38%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (4.38%) dbt
12 6 (4.38%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.65%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.19%) DHCP
1 3 (2.19%) DNS
1 3 (2.19%) Firewall
1 3 (2.19%) Kerberos
1 3 (2.19%) SMTP
1 3 (2.19%) VPN
2 2 (1.46%) Broadband
2 2 (1.46%) IPv4
2 2 (1.46%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.44%) Data Lake
1 28 (20.44%) Hadoop
2 24 (17.52%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (16.79%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (8.76%) BigQuery
6 11 (8.03%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (8.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (8.03%) MongoDB
7 10 (7.30%) Power BI
8 9 (6.57%) SQL Server
9 8 (5.84%) Metadata
10 7 (5.11%) Apache Hive
11 6 (4.38%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.38%) Tableau
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (3.65%) Base SAS
12 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (3.65%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 17 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.95%) Git
3 10 (7.30%) GitLab
4 5 (3.65%) PowerDesigner
4 5 (3.65%) Selenium
5 4 (2.92%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.19%) JIRA
7 1 (0.73%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.73%) Postman
General
1 50 (36.50%) Finance
2 47 (34.31%) Social Skills
3 29 (21.17%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (19.71%) Banking
5 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.65%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.92%) Marketing
7 4 (2.92%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.92%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.19%) Legal
8 3 (2.19%) Retail
9 2 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.46%) Local Government
9 2 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.73%) Front Office
10 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (28.47%) Data Engineer
2 31 (22.63%) Architect
3 25 (18.25%) Senior
4 12 (8.76%) Developer
4 12 (8.76%) Lead
5 11 (8.03%) Big Data Engineer
6 10 (7.30%) Data Architect
6 10 (7.30%) Solutions Architect
7 9 (6.57%) Analyst
8 8 (5.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Data Analyst
10 6 (4.38%) DBA
10 6 (4.38%) SQL DBA
11 5 (3.65%) Applications Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Hadoop Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) QA Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Scala Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.52%) Kafka
2 23 (16.79%) PySpark
3 15 (10.95%) REST
4 9 (6.57%) Pandas
5 7 (5.11%) Spring
6 6 (4.38%) CSS
6 6 (4.38%) HTML
6 6 (4.38%) React
6 6 (4.38%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.65%) Langfuse
7 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.65%) NumPy
7 5 (3.65%) Play Framework
8 4 (2.92%) Apache NiFi
8 4 (2.92%) Middleware
8 4 (2.92%) Spark Streaming
9 3 (2.19%) .NET
9 3 (2.19%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.19%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 17 (12.41%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (5.84%) Clustering
3 8 (5.84%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.38%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.92%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.92%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.92%) FMCG
7 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.19%) Algorithms
8 3 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (2.19%) PKI
9 2 (1.46%) Social Media
10 1 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.73%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.73%) SCADA
10 1 (0.73%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 15 (10.95%) Linux
2 6 (4.38%) Unix
3 5 (3.65%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (43.07%) Data Pipeline
2 58 (42.34%) Analytics
3 51 (37.23%) Data Engineering
4 46 (33.58%) CI/CD
4 46 (33.58%) ETL
5 44 (32.12%) Agile
6 41 (29.93%) AI
7 34 (24.82%) DevOps
8 31 (22.63%) Data Modelling
9 29 (21.17%) Machine Learning
10 27 (19.71%) Scrum
11 26 (18.98%) Validation
12 25 (18.25%) Data Science
13 23 (16.79%) Containerisation
13 23 (16.79%) Data Governance
14 22 (16.06%) Decision-Making
15 19 (13.87%) Performance Tuning
15 19 (13.87%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (13.87%) Test Automation
16 18 (13.14%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 76 (55.47%) Python
2 55 (40.15%) SQL
3 26 (18.98%) Java
4 23 (16.79%) Scala
5 9 (6.57%) PowerShell
5 9 (6.57%) R
6 8 (5.84%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.65%) SAS Macro
8 4 (2.92%) Bash
9 2 (1.46%) C#
9 2 (1.46%) Go
10 1 (0.73%) C
10 1 (0.73%) C++
10 1 (0.73%) Korn
10 1 (0.73%) Perl
10 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.95%) Degree
4 8 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.11%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.92%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.92%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.19%) PhD
8 2 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.46%) CISSP
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%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.90%) Data Quality
2 11 (8.03%) QA
3 8 (5.84%) GDPR
4 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.92%) NIST
5 2 (1.46%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.46%) SLA
6 1 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (18.25%) Docker
2 7 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.92%) HDFS
5 3 (2.19%) BitLocker
5 3 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (2.19%) Terminal Services
5 3 (2.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.68%) Terraform
3 8 (5.84%) Grafana
3 8 (5.84%) Puppet
4 7 (5.11%) Ansible
5 5 (3.65%) Kibana
6 3 (2.19%) Nagios
6 3 (2.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Satellite
6 3 (2.19%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.19%) vMotion
7 2 (1.46%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.73%) Control-M
8 1 (0.73%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.60%) Databricks
3 12 (8.76%) Google
3 12 (8.76%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.11%) Foundry
5 6 (4.38%) VMware
6 5 (3.65%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.65%) Cloudera
6 5 (3.65%) IBM
6 5 (3.65%) Splunk
7 4 (2.92%) HP
7 4 (2.92%) Palantir
8 3 (2.19%) Cisco
8 3 (2.19%) Citrix
8 3 (2.19%) OpenAI
8 3 (2.19%) Oracle
8 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.19%) Symantec
9 2 (1.46%) Informatica
9 2 (1.46%) OpenLink