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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 288 191 173
Rank change year-on-year -97 -18 -33
Contract jobs citing Big Data 130 156 259
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 1.29% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 5.86% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 102 206
10th Percentile £355 £408 £389
25th Percentile £449 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £575 £647
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -11.13% +7.83%
75th Percentile £719 £700 £764
90th Percentile £925 £786 £850
England median daily rate £550 £570 £583
% change year-on-year -3.51% -2.23% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £60.63 £25.87
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.19 £36.56
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 £47.81
90th Percentile - £95.88 £55.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +43.75% -48.72%

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 3,329 2,663 3,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.10% 21.98% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,273 1,862 2,899
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -2.61%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 30 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.34 £25.31
Median hourly rate £47.25 £34.83 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.68% -29.29% -6.19%
75th Percentile £61.19 £53.75 £54.78
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.50 £70.85
England median hourly rate £41.71 £31.85 £40.00
% change year-on-year +30.98% -20.39% -31.73%

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 May 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 May 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 -38 15 £538 -19.78% 14
South London -10 3 £637 - 2
West London -28 1 £300 -53.38% 1
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 70 (53.85%) Apache Spark
2 23 (17.69%) Apache
3 20 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.85%) SAS
5 4 (3.08%) Confluence
6 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (1.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.77%) Camunda
8 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 60 (46.15%) AWS
2 51 (39.23%) Azure
3 41 (31.54%) GCP
4 18 (13.85%) GitHub
5 15 (11.54%) Snowflake
6 13 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (8.46%) Amazon EMR
8 11 (8.46%) Amazon S3
8 11 (8.46%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.15%) Serverless
10 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.62%) dbt
12 5 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.08%) WhatsApp
14 3 (2.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.31%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.31%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) IPv4
1 2 (1.54%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.62%) Hadoop
2 26 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 22 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (14.62%) Data Lake
5 15 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
6 14 (10.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (9.23%) MongoDB
8 10 (7.69%) BigQuery
8 10 (7.69%) SQL Server
9 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.62%) Power BI
10 6 (4.62%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.85%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (3.85%) Base SAS
11 5 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (3.85%) Tableau
12 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (3.08%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Git
1 18 (13.85%) Jenkins
2 13 (10.00%) GitLab
3 7 (5.38%) Robot Framework
3 7 (5.38%) Selenium
4 5 (3.85%) JIRA
5 4 (3.08%) Postman
5 4 (3.08%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.77%) Claude Code
General
1 51 (39.23%) Finance
2 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
3 25 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (16.15%) Banking
5 5 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Marketing
6 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.31%) Retail
8 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Legal
8 2 (1.54%) Local Government
8 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Front Office
9 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (27.69%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Architect
3 19 (14.62%) Senior
4 17 (13.08%) Lead
5 14 (10.77%) Analyst
6 11 (8.46%) Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.15%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Big Data Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.62%) DBA
9 6 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.62%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Scala Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (3.08%) Customer Analyst
11 4 (3.08%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.92%) PySpark
2 16 (12.31%) Kafka
3 10 (7.69%) HTML
4 9 (6.92%) Spring
5 8 (6.15%) CSS
5 8 (6.15%) Pandas
5 8 (6.15%) REST
5 8 (6.15%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.85%) NumPy
6 5 (3.85%) Play Framework
6 5 (3.85%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.85%) React
6 5 (3.85%) scikit-learn
6 5 (3.85%) TensorFlow
7 4 (3.08%) pytest
7 4 (3.08%) RESTful
8 3 (2.31%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.31%) Keras
8 3 (2.31%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (2.31%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.62%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (3.08%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (3.08%) FMCG
6 3 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Derivative
7 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.77%) Equity Derivative
8 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.77%) IoT
8 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.77%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.38%) Linux
1 7 (5.38%) Unix
2 2 (1.54%) Windows
2 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.31%) Analytics
2 53 (40.77%) CI/CD
3 49 (37.69%) Agile
3 49 (37.69%) Data Engineering
3 49 (37.69%) ETL
4 45 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
5 38 (29.23%) DevOps
6 32 (24.62%) Scrum
7 31 (23.85%) AI
8 28 (21.54%) Data Modelling
9 25 (19.23%) Validation
10 23 (17.69%) Data Science
10 23 (17.69%) Machine Learning
11 20 (15.38%) Test Automation
12 19 (14.62%) Data Governance
13 18 (13.85%) Data Analytics
13 18 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (13.08%) Data Analysis
14 17 (13.08%) Performance Tuning
14 17 (13.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 69 (53.08%) Python
2 63 (48.46%) SQL
3 32 (24.62%) Java
4 24 (18.46%) Scala
5 15 (11.54%) R
6 9 (6.92%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.85%) SAS Macro
8 3 (2.31%) Bash
8 3 (2.31%) C++
9 2 (1.54%) Ada
9 2 (1.54%) C#
10 1 (0.77%) C
10 1 (0.77%) Korn
10 1 (0.77%) Perl
10 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 15 (11.54%) Degree
4 13 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.38%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.31%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.54%) CISSP
8 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.54%) MCITP
8 2 (1.54%) MCTS
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.54%) PhD
8 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (20.77%) Data Quality
2 15 (11.54%) QA
3 9 (6.92%) GDPR
4 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.08%) NIST
5 3 (2.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (20.77%) Docker
2 4 (3.08%) HDFS
3 3 (2.31%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (22.31%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.85%) Terraform
3 10 (7.69%) Grafana
4 5 (3.85%) Kibana
4 5 (3.85%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.54%) Ansible
6 1 (0.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.77%) Control-M
6 1 (0.77%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.77%) Nagios
6 1 (0.77%) Rancher
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) Databricks
2 16 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.62%) Google
3 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.85%) OpenAI
4 5 (3.85%) Splunk
5 4 (3.08%) Foundry
5 4 (3.08%) IBM
5 4 (3.08%) Informatica
6 2 (1.54%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.54%) Oracle
6 2 (1.54%) Palantir
6 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.77%) Cisco
7 1 (0.77%) Confluent
7 1 (0.77%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.77%) HP
7 1 (0.77%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.77%) Sybase
7 1 (0.77%) Talend