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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 191 186
Rank change year-on-year -80 -5 -49
Contract jobs citing Big Data 141 163 228
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.80% 1.29% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.29% 5.77% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 107 181
10th Percentile £328 £390 £400
25th Percentile £393 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £726 £725 £763
90th Percentile £925 £803 £850
England median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £52.25 £25.87
25th Percentile £61.00 £53.75 £36.56
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% +35.29% -33.59%
75th Percentile £73.00 £79.38 £48.75
90th Percentile - £91.75 £58.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% +63.12% -51.71%

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 3,286 2,824 3,789
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.64% 22.30% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,253 1,995 2,790
10th Percentile £361 £375 £377
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% -1.51% -2.17%
75th Percentile £631 £713 £700
90th Percentile £749 £838 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 36
10th Percentile £19.23 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.09 £28.60 £25.59
Median hourly rate £48.25 £40.50 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.14% -17.77% -6.19%
75th Percentile £62.06 £58.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.50 £64.14
England median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -31.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -30 16 £538 -14.00% 21
South London -12 3 £637 - 1
West London -22 1 £300 -61.29%
East London - 1 £449 -
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 (52.48%) Apache Spark
2 21 (14.89%) Apache
3 19 (13.48%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.55%) Confluence
4 5 (3.55%) SAS
5 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (2.13%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) Camunda
6 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 59 (41.84%) AWS
2 51 (36.17%) Azure
3 39 (27.66%) GCP
4 19 (13.48%) GitHub
5 14 (9.93%) Amazon S3
5 14 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
6 13 (9.22%) Serverless
7 12 (8.51%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (8.51%) Snowflake
8 11 (7.80%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.55%) dbt
12 4 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.84%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.13%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) IPv4
1 2 (1.42%) IPv6
1 2 (1.42%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.66%) Hadoop
2 27 (19.15%) NoSQL
3 23 (16.31%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (11.35%) Data Lake
5 13 (9.22%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (7.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (7.80%) MongoDB
7 8 (5.67%) Relational Database
7 8 (5.67%) SQL Server
8 7 (4.96%) BigQuery
8 7 (4.96%) Metadata
8 7 (4.96%) Power BI
9 6 (4.26%) Apache Hive
9 6 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.55%) Base SAS
10 5 (3.55%) Impala
10 5 (3.55%) RDBMS
10 5 (3.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (3.55%) Spark SQL
10 5 (3.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (14.89%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.35%) Git
3 12 (8.51%) GitLab
4 9 (6.38%) JIRA
5 8 (5.67%) Selenium
6 7 (4.96%) Robot Framework
7 4 (2.84%) Postman
7 4 (2.84%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (1.42%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.71%) NUnit
9 1 (0.71%) Poetry
9 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 54 (38.30%) Finance
2 47 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.18%) Banking
5 5 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.55%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.84%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.84%) Marketing
6 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Legal
7 2 (1.42%) Local Government
7 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Front Office
8 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (27.66%) Data Engineer
2 20 (14.18%) Senior
3 18 (12.77%) Architect
3 18 (12.77%) Lead
4 15 (10.64%) Developer
5 12 (8.51%) Analyst
6 7 (4.96%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (4.96%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.26%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.26%) DBA
7 6 (4.26%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.26%) SQL DBA
8 5 (3.55%) Big Data Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) QA Engineer
8 5 (3.55%) Scala Engineer
9 4 (2.84%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (2.84%) Hadoop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.60%) PySpark
2 20 (14.18%) Kafka
3 10 (7.09%) HTML
4 8 (5.67%) CSS
4 8 (5.67%) Pandas
5 7 (4.96%) Spring
6 6 (4.26%) PyTorch
6 6 (4.26%) REST
6 6 (4.26%) scikit-learn
6 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.26%) TensorFlow
7 5 (3.55%) NumPy
7 5 (3.55%) Play Framework
7 5 (3.55%) pytest
7 5 (3.55%) React
7 5 (3.55%) Spark Streaming
8 4 (2.84%) JSON
8 4 (2.84%) RESTful
8 4 (2.84%) XGBoost
8 4 (2.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (7.09%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 7 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.84%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.13%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.13%) FMCG
5 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.42%) Clustering
6 2 (1.42%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.42%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.42%) Derivative
6 2 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.71%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.09%) Linux
2 7 (4.96%) Unix
3 2 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (1.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (40.43%) Analytics
2 56 (39.72%) CI/CD
3 55 (39.01%) Agile
4 50 (35.46%) Data Engineering
5 48 (34.04%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (34.04%) ETL
6 41 (29.08%) DevOps
7 33 (23.40%) Data Modelling
8 31 (21.99%) Scrum
9 29 (20.57%) AI
10 28 (19.86%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (17.73%) Data Governance
11 25 (17.73%) Machine Learning
12 23 (16.31%) Data Science
12 23 (16.31%) Validation
13 19 (13.48%) Computer Science
13 19 (13.48%) Decision-Making
13 19 (13.48%) Software Engineering
14 18 (12.77%) Data Analytics
14 18 (12.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (53.19%) Python
2 65 (46.10%) SQL
3 32 (22.70%) Java
4 27 (19.15%) Scala
5 15 (10.64%) R
6 13 (9.22%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.55%) Bash
7 5 (3.55%) SAS Macro
8 4 (2.84%) C#
8 4 (2.84%) C++
9 2 (1.42%) Ada
9 2 (1.42%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.71%) Perl
10 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 26 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 21 (14.89%) SC Cleared
3 19 (13.48%) Degree
4 18 (12.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (6.38%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.55%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.13%) PhD
9 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.42%) CISSP
9 2 (1.42%) MCITP
9 2 (1.42%) MCTS
9 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.71%) HP APS
10 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (19.86%) Data Quality
2 12 (8.51%) QA
3 10 (7.09%) GDPR
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.84%) NIST
5 3 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (21.28%) Docker
2 7 (4.96%) HDFS
3 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (20.57%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.48%) Terraform
3 11 (7.80%) Grafana
4 6 (4.26%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.55%) Kibana
6 2 (1.42%) Ansible
6 2 (1.42%) Argo
6 2 (1.42%) HP ALM
6 2 (1.42%) Nagios
6 2 (1.42%) Rancher
7 1 (0.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 28 (19.86%) Databricks
2 15 (10.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.26%) Google
3 6 (4.26%) IBM
3 6 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.55%) Cloudera
4 5 (3.55%) Foundry
4 5 (3.55%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.55%) Splunk
5 3 (2.13%) Informatica
5 3 (2.13%) Palantir
6 2 (1.42%) HP
6 2 (1.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco
7 1 (0.71%) Confluent
7 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle
7 1 (0.71%) Sybase