Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 138 121
Rank change year-on-year -49 -17 -32
Contract jobs citing Big Data 228 521 940
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.29% 1.92% 2.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.02% 9.36% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 371 563
10th Percentile £400 £463 £455
25th Percentile £469 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £609
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -1.48% +5.91%
75th Percentile £763 £733 £725
90th Percentile £850 £813 £808
England median daily rate £585 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile £25.87 £35.00 £62.42
25th Percentile £36.56 £41.47 £67.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £64.00 £75.70
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% -15.46% +36.40%
75th Percentile £48.75 £84.38 £83.61
90th Percentile £58.50 £93.75 £87.99
England median hourly rate £35.25 £73.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -51.71% +11.88% +46.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,788 5,567 8,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.39% 20.56% 21.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,790 4,060 6,259
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £457 £475 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 54 35
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.94 £32.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% - +44.07%
75th Percentile £54.34 £73.44 £71.88
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £82.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.05 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.09% +36.58% +70.00%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -17 18 £675 +12.50% 12
West London +15 5 £525 -26.32% 2
East London -7 1 £575 +6.98% 7
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 63 (27.63%) Apache Spark
2 30 (13.16%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (10.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.88%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.44%) Tornado
Applications
1 5 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 93 (40.79%) Azure
2 84 (36.84%) AWS
3 45 (19.74%) GCP
4 30 (13.16%) Power Platform
5 28 (12.28%) Serverless
6 18 (7.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (7.02%) dbt
7 16 (7.02%) Snowflake
8 15 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (5.26%) Entra ID
10 11 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.39%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (4.39%) Amazon Kinesis
12 9 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (3.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.95%) GitHub
13 8 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (28.51%) Data Lake
2 57 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (15.79%) Hadoop
4 24 (10.53%) Power BI
5 22 (9.65%) Apache Hive
6 21 (9.21%) NoSQL
6 21 (9.21%) Tableau
7 20 (8.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 18 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
9 17 (7.46%) BigQuery
10 15 (6.58%) SQL Server
11 12 (5.26%) Impala
12 10 (4.39%) Apache Arrow
12 10 (4.39%) Dremio
13 9 (3.95%) Delta Lake
13 9 (3.95%) HBase
13 9 (3.95%) OLTP
13 9 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
14 8 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (3.07%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (8.77%) Git
2 8 (3.51%) JIRA
3 6 (2.63%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (2.19%) ERwin
4 5 (2.19%) Maven
4 5 (2.19%) Subversion
4 5 (2.19%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.32%) Poetry
6 3 (1.32%) RStudio
7 2 (0.88%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.88%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 50 (21.93%) Analytical Skills
2 48 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 42 (18.42%) Finance
4 23 (10.09%) Banking
5 18 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.82%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.19%) Marketing
8 5 (2.19%) Retail
9 4 (1.75%) Publishing
10 3 (1.32%) Back Office
10 3 (1.32%) Legal
10 3 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.44%) German Language
12 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 66 (28.95%) Architect
2 54 (23.68%) Data Engineer
3 30 (13.16%) Data Architect
4 27 (11.84%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.53%) Senior
6 22 (9.65%) Developer
7 18 (7.89%) Big Data Engineer
8 17 (7.46%) Lead
9 16 (7.02%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (6.58%) Cloud Architect
10 15 (6.58%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 15 (6.58%) Data Scientist
11 14 (6.14%) Analyst
12 12 (5.26%) Principal Architect
12 12 (5.26%) Principal Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.39%) AWS Architect
13 10 (4.39%) Consultant
13 10 (4.39%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Site Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.98%) PySpark
2 30 (13.16%) Kafka
3 16 (7.02%) Pandas
4 11 (4.82%) .NET
5 10 (4.39%) gRPC
5 10 (4.39%) Protocol Buffers
6 8 (3.51%) JSON
6 8 (3.51%) SAML
6 8 (3.51%) scikit-learn
6 8 (3.51%) Web Services
7 7 (3.07%) NumPy
7 7 (3.07%) XML
8 6 (2.63%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (2.63%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.19%) Apache NiFi
10 4 (1.75%) .NET Core
10 4 (1.75%) Apache Avro
10 4 (1.75%) REST
11 3 (1.32%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.96%) Algorithms
2 19 (8.33%) Hedge funds
3 14 (6.14%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (4.39%) Clustering
4 10 (4.39%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.95%) Freedom of Information
5 9 (3.95%) Freedom of Information Act
6 8 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
7 7 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (3.07%) Product Ownership
8 6 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.75%) Social Media
10 3 (1.32%) Grid Computing
10 3 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (2.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (34.65%) Data Modelling
2 68 (29.82%) Data Pipeline
3 66 (28.95%) Agile
4 65 (28.51%) ETL
5 59 (25.88%) Analytics
6 54 (23.68%) Business Intelligence
7 46 (20.18%) Machine Learning
8 43 (18.86%) Data Science
9 38 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 35 (15.35%) DevOps
10 35 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (14.47%) Computer Science
12 31 (13.60%) Data Engineering
13 29 (12.72%) Data Analysis
13 29 (12.72%) Data Governance
14 26 (11.40%) Scrum
15 25 (10.96%) Visualisation
16 24 (10.53%) Microservices
17 22 (9.65%) Data Architecture
18 21 (9.21%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 135 (59.21%) Python
2 104 (45.61%) SQL
3 45 (19.74%) Java
4 40 (17.54%) Scala
5 18 (7.89%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.02%) R
8 13 (5.70%) Go
9 11 (4.82%) C#
10 8 (3.51%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) Perl
12 3 (1.32%) Bash
13 2 (0.88%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.88%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.44%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.44%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (14.47%) Degree
2 25 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.65%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.89%) DV Cleared
5 14 (6.14%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.63%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.75%) CISSP
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.88%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (1.32%) GDPR
4 2 (0.88%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.88%) MiFID
4 2 (0.88%) NCSC
4 2 (0.88%) NIST
4 2 (0.88%) PMO
4 2 (0.88%) SLA
5 1 (0.44%) EMIR
5 1 (0.44%) FATCA
System Software
1 12 (5.26%) Docker
2 9 (3.95%) HDFS
3 1 (0.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 46 (20.18%) Terraform
2 29 (12.72%) Kubernetes
3 20 (8.77%) Ansible
4 15 (6.58%) Puppet
5 10 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.63%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.75%) Argo
8 3 (1.32%) Consul
8 3 (1.32%) Oozie
8 3 (1.32%) Packer
8 3 (1.32%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.88%) Ambari
10 1 (0.44%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 45 (19.74%) Databricks
2 27 (11.84%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.02%) Google
4 13 (5.70%) Talend
5 12 (5.26%) Informatica
6 9 (3.95%) Oracle
7 4 (1.75%) Foundry
7 4 (1.75%) IBM
7 4 (1.75%) Okta
7 4 (1.75%) Palantir
7 4 (1.75%) SAP
7 4 (1.75%) Symantec
7 4 (1.75%) Varonis
8 3 (1.32%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.32%) Phenom
9 2 (0.88%) ESRI
9 2 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.88%) Sybase
10 1 (0.44%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.44%) Teradata