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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 188 169
Rank change year-on-year -104 -19 -21
Contract jobs citing Big Data 131 163 267
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.33% 1.51%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 6.00% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 108 213
10th Percentile £355 £408 £388
25th Percentile £449 £489 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £586 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.54% -9.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £705 £706 £775
90th Percentile £925 £791 £850
England median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £60.63 £34.00
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.19 £40.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +85.29% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £48.13
90th Percentile - £95.88 £58.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% +39.39% -47.12%

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 3,336 2,715 3,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.91% 22.18% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,270 1,886 2,946
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £434 £449 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £712
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 33
10th Percentile £17.69 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £25.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -27.84% -9.77%
75th Percentile £61.50 £55.00 £54.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £79.50 £71.40
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.62% -18.93% -32.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -35 16 £550 -17.91% 18
South London -9 3 £637 - 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 67 (51.15%) Apache Spark
2 22 (16.79%) Apache
3 20 (15.27%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (3.82%) SAS
5 3 (2.29%) Confluence
5 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.76%) Camunda
6 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) AWS
2 48 (36.64%) Azure
3 41 (31.30%) GCP
4 18 (13.74%) GitHub
4 18 (13.74%) Snowflake
5 14 (10.69%) Amazon S3
6 13 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.16%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.40%) Amazon EMR
8 11 (8.40%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.11%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
10 7 (5.34%) Serverless
11 6 (4.58%) dbt
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.82%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (3.05%) IaaS
13 4 (3.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) DHCP
1 2 (1.53%) DNS
1 2 (1.53%) Firewall
1 2 (1.53%) IPv4
1 2 (1.53%) IPv6
1 2 (1.53%) SMTP
1 2 (1.53%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.90%) Hadoop
2 24 (18.32%) NoSQL
3 22 (16.79%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (14.50%) Data Lake
5 18 (13.74%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (10.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (9.16%) MongoDB
8 10 (7.63%) BigQuery
8 10 (7.63%) SQL Server
9 8 (6.11%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (6.11%) Relational Database
10 7 (5.34%) Power BI
11 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (4.58%) RDBMS
11 6 (4.58%) Tableau
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (3.82%) Apache Hudi
12 5 (3.82%) Base SAS
12 5 (3.82%) SAS Data Integration Studio
13 4 (3.05%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Git
1 18 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.16%) GitLab
3 7 (5.34%) Robot Framework
3 7 (5.34%) Selenium
4 4 (3.05%) JIRA
4 4 (3.05%) Postman
4 4 (3.05%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 53 (40.46%) Finance
2 43 (32.82%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (18.32%) Banking
5 5 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.05%) Marketing
6 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Local Government
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (29.01%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Architect
3 17 (12.98%) Lead
3 17 (12.98%) Senior
4 14 (10.69%) Analyst
5 11 (8.40%) Developer
6 9 (6.87%) Big Data Engineer
6 9 (6.87%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.11%) QA Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (4.58%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.58%) DBA
8 6 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.58%) SQL DBA
9 5 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Data Scientist
9 5 (3.82%) Hadoop Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) QA Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Scala Engineer
9 5 (3.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.79%) PySpark
2 15 (11.45%) Kafka
3 11 (8.40%) REST
4 10 (7.63%) HTML
5 8 (6.11%) CSS
5 8 (6.11%) Pandas
5 8 (6.11%) Spring
6 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.82%) NumPy
7 5 (3.82%) Play Framework
7 5 (3.82%) React
8 4 (3.05%) pytest
8 4 (3.05%) PyTorch
8 4 (3.05%) scikit-learn
8 4 (3.05%) TensorFlow
9 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.29%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.29%) Keras
9 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Graph
9 3 (2.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.34%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.82%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.05%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.05%) Clustering
6 4 (3.05%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.05%) FMCG
7 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.53%) PKI
9 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.76%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.87%) Linux
2 7 (5.34%) Unix
3 4 (3.05%) Windows
3 4 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (42.75%) Analytics
2 52 (39.69%) CI/CD
3 51 (38.93%) Data Engineering
4 49 (37.40%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (36.64%) ETL
6 47 (35.88%) Agile
7 38 (29.01%) DevOps
8 36 (27.48%) AI
9 30 (22.90%) Scrum
10 27 (20.61%) Data Modelling
11 25 (19.08%) Machine Learning
11 25 (19.08%) Validation
12 24 (18.32%) Data Science
13 20 (15.27%) Test Automation
14 19 (14.50%) Containerisation
15 18 (13.74%) Data Analysis
15 18 (13.74%) Data Analytics
15 18 (13.74%) Data Governance
15 18 (13.74%) Decision-Making
15 18 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 71 (54.20%) Python
2 62 (47.33%) SQL
3 29 (22.14%) Java
4 24 (18.32%) Scala
5 16 (12.21%) R
6 9 (6.87%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) SAS Macro
8 3 (2.29%) C++
8 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.53%) Ada
9 2 (1.53%) Bash
9 2 (1.53%) C#
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) Korn
10 1 (0.76%) Perl
10 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.74%) Degree
3 16 (12.21%) SC Cleared
4 13 (9.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.34%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.53%) CISSP
8 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.53%) MCITP
8 2 (1.53%) MCTS
8 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.53%) PhD
8 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.45%) QA
3 9 (6.87%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.05%) NIST
5 3 (2.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (21.37%) Docker
2 5 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.05%) HDFS
4 2 (1.53%) BitLocker
4 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.53%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.53%) Terminal Services
4 2 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 29 (22.14%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.74%) Terraform
3 9 (6.87%) Grafana
4 5 (3.82%) Kibana
5 4 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.29%) Ansible
7 2 (1.53%) Nagios
7 2 (1.53%) Puppet
7 2 (1.53%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.53%) vMotion
8 1 (0.76%) Control-M
8 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (16.03%) Databricks
2 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
4 8 (6.11%) Google
5 5 (3.82%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.82%) Splunk
6 4 (3.05%) IBM
6 4 (3.05%) Informatica
7 3 (2.29%) Amplitude
7 3 (2.29%) Foundry
7 3 (2.29%) HP
8 2 (1.53%) Citrix
8 2 (1.53%) Oracle
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Symantec
8 2 (1.53%) VMware
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco
9 1 (0.76%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.76%) OpenLink
9 1 (0.76%) Sybase