Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 160 163
Rank change year-on-year -26 +3 -23
Contract jobs citing Big Data 172 290 404
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.33% 1.66% 1.60%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.19% 7.19% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 226 264
10th Percentile £408 £381 £458
25th Percentile £489 £458 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.24% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £700 £794 £750
90th Percentile £781 £850 £838
England median daily rate £550 £579 £600
% change year-on-year -5.01% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
10th Percentile £60.63 £38.75 £56.60
25th Percentile £67.19 £41.25 £62.00
Median hourly rate £78.75 £43.75 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.00% -51.39% -0.99%
75th Percentile £89.69 £48.44 -
90th Percentile £95.88 £60.63 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £42.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +35.29% -45.51% +3.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,778 4,034 5,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.54% 23.09% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,945 3,007 3,682
10th Percentile £385 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -2.54%
75th Percentile £706 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 34 46
10th Percentile £25.14 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £29.07 £29.69 £35.06
Median hourly rate £39.31 £48.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.11% -20.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £59.56 £54.03 £82.88
90th Percentile £79.75 £70.85 £90.00
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £56.95
% change year-on-year -15.15% -29.76% +41.84%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in London

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 1 July 2025. 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 +19 40 £650 - 82
West London +8 2 £644 -19.56% 14
South London - 1 - - 4
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 69 (40.12%) Apache Spark
2 45 (26.16%) Apache
3 16 (9.30%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (5.23%) Confluence
5 3 (1.74%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.74%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.16%) Luigi
6 2 (1.16%) nginx
7 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.58%) SAS
7 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.58%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 50 (29.07%) AWS
2 49 (28.49%) Azure
3 32 (18.60%) GCP
4 18 (10.47%) Serverless
5 13 (7.56%) Amazon S3
6 10 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (5.81%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.23%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (5.23%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (5.23%) GitHub
8 7 (4.07%) Snowflake
9 6 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.91%) PaaS
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (1.74%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.74%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) DNS
2 1 (0.58%) DHCP
2 1 (0.58%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) HTTP
2 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.58%) NAS
2 1 (0.58%) SAN
2 1 (0.58%) SMTP
2 1 (0.58%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.58%) Hadoop
2 30 (17.44%) Data Lake
3 18 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (10.47%) NoSQL
4 16 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 13 (7.56%) SQL Server
5 13 (7.56%) Tableau
6 11 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (5.81%) Apache Hive
7 10 (5.81%) BigQuery
8 9 (5.23%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (5.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (4.65%) Metadata
9 8 (4.65%) MongoDB
9 8 (4.65%) Power BI
10 6 (3.49%) DB2
11 5 (2.91%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.91%) Geospatial Data
11 5 (2.91%) GIS
12 4 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 24 (13.95%) Git
2 16 (9.30%) JIRA
3 15 (8.72%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.23%) GitLab
5 6 (3.49%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.33%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.74%) ERwin
7 3 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.74%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.16%) Gradle
8 2 (1.16%) JUnit
8 2 (1.16%) Maven
9 1 (0.58%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.58%) JMeter
9 1 (0.58%) Mockito
9 1 (0.58%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.58%) Selenium
9 1 (0.58%) Subversion
9 1 (0.58%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (39.53%) Finance
2 31 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (15.12%) Social Skills
4 22 (12.79%) Banking
5 7 (4.07%) Investment Banking
5 7 (4.07%) Legal
5 7 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.91%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.33%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.74%) Law
9 3 (1.74%) Marketing
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Publishing
10 2 (1.16%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Advertising
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 45 (26.16%) Data Engineer
2 33 (19.19%) Architect
3 32 (18.60%) Developer
4 20 (11.63%) Senior
5 18 (10.47%) Solutions Architect
6 17 (9.88%) Java Developer
7 14 (8.14%) Lead
8 12 (6.98%) Analyst
9 11 (6.40%) Data Architect
10 10 (5.81%) Apache Spark Developer
10 10 (5.81%) Big Data Engineer
10 10 (5.81%) Java Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (5.23%) Data Analyst
11 9 (5.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) AWS Data Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
12 8 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
13 7 (4.07%) Data Scientist
13 7 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.28%) Kafka
2 14 (8.14%) PySpark
3 13 (7.56%) Apache NiFi
4 11 (6.40%) Spark Streaming
4 11 (6.40%) Spring
5 10 (5.81%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (4.65%) .NET
6 8 (4.65%) HTML
6 8 (4.65%) REST
6 8 (4.65%) Web Services
7 7 (4.07%) React
8 6 (3.49%) RESTful
9 5 (2.91%) Hugging Face
9 5 (2.91%) JSON
9 5 (2.91%) PyTorch
9 5 (2.91%) TensorFlow
10 4 (2.33%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.33%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (2.33%) Ray
10 4 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.05%) Distributed Computing
2 15 (8.72%) Market Risk
3 12 (6.98%) Cloud Native
4 11 (6.40%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (5.23%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (4.65%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.49%) Credit Risk
7 6 (3.49%) Data Structures
8 5 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.91%) Private Cloud
9 4 (2.33%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.16%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.16%) Data Fabric
10 2 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (1.16%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (9.30%) Linux
2 10 (5.81%) Unix
3 8 (4.65%) Windows
4 4 (2.33%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.74%) CentOS
5 3 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (30.81%) Analytics
2 50 (29.07%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (26.16%) Agile
4 43 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 42 (24.42%) Data Modelling
6 41 (23.84%) Data Engineering
6 41 (23.84%) Machine Learning
7 39 (22.67%) DevOps
7 39 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (21.51%) ETL
9 36 (20.93%) Artificial Intelligence
10 34 (19.77%) Data Governance
10 34 (19.77%) Data Science
11 21 (12.21%) Data Integration
12 20 (11.63%) Data Architecture
13 19 (11.05%) Visualisation
14 18 (10.47%) Software Engineering
15 17 (9.88%) SDLC
16 16 (9.30%) Regulatory Compliance
16 16 (9.30%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 102 (59.30%) Python
2 67 (38.95%) SQL
3 57 (33.14%) Java
4 22 (12.79%) Scala
5 16 (9.30%) JavaScript
6 14 (8.14%) C#
6 14 (8.14%) R
7 12 (6.98%) C++
8 8 (4.65%) C
8 8 (4.65%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.91%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.33%) Perl
11 3 (1.74%) Bash
12 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.58%) Go
13 1 (0.58%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.58%) Rust
13 1 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (14.53%) Security Cleared
2 24 (13.95%) SC Cleared
3 20 (11.63%) Degree
4 12 (6.98%) Master's Degree
5 9 (5.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (4.65%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.49%) PhD
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.37%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.98%) GDPR
3 3 (1.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.74%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.58%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.58%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (5.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.74%) vCloud
3 3 (1.74%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (1.74%) vSphere
4 1 (0.58%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.58%) HDFS
4 1 (0.58%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.58%) KVM
4 1 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.58%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.58%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (12.79%) Terraform
2 21 (12.21%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.91%) Kibana
4 3 (1.74%) Ansible
5 2 (1.16%) Grafana
5 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.58%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.58%) Argo
6 1 (0.58%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.58%) Nagios
6 1 (0.58%) Puppet
6 1 (0.58%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.58%) vMotion
Vendors
1 26 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.53%) Databricks
3 19 (11.05%) Google
4 16 (9.30%) Cloudera
5 15 (8.72%) Oracle
6 7 (4.07%) Foundry
6 7 (4.07%) Palantir
7 5 (2.91%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.91%) VMware
8 4 (2.33%) SAP
8 4 (2.33%) Sybase
9 3 (1.74%) Pega
10 2 (1.16%) Adobe
10 2 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.16%) Informatica
10 2 (1.16%) Planview
10 2 (1.16%) Splunk
10 2 (1.16%) Talend
11 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow