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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 211 158
Rank change year-on-year -105 -53 +21
Contract jobs citing Big Data 134 160 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 1.20% 1.73%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 5.68% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 116 194
10th Percentile £393 £408 £370
25th Percentile £471 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £599 £586 £613
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -4.44% -5.65%
75th Percentile £695 £706 £794
90th Percentile £738 £819 £850
England median daily rate £543 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.36% -8.33% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £39.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £100.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +100.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.48 £47.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% +46.27% -39.10%

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 3,671 2,815 3,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.20% 21.15% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 1,954 2,696
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.98% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 39 23
10th Percentile £18.48 £28.26 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.25 £33.56 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £52.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.18% +3.96% -12.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £69.75 £60.02
90th Percentile £60.63 £87.50 £79.75
England median hourly rate £38.50 £40.25 £34.47
% change year-on-year -4.34% +16.77% -37.34%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -37 12 £563 -17.28% 9
West London -16 5 £713 +35.71% 11
South London - 3 £650 - 2
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 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 26 (19.40%) Apache
3 22 (16.42%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.48%) JBoss
5 5 (3.73%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.99%) Confluence
6 4 (2.99%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (2.24%) CMS
7 3 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (2.24%) SAS
8 1 (0.75%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.49%) Endur
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (45.52%) AWS
2 51 (38.06%) Azure
3 48 (35.82%) GCP
4 25 (18.66%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.69%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (11.94%) Amazon S3
7 12 (8.96%) GitHub
8 10 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (7.46%) Power Platform
9 9 (6.72%) PaaS
10 8 (5.97%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.97%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (5.97%) dbt
10 8 (5.97%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (5.22%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (5.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (4.48%) Amazon Bedrock
12 6 (4.48%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (4.48%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.48%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.24%) DHCP
2 3 (2.24%) DNS
2 3 (2.24%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) SMTP
2 3 (2.24%) VPN
3 2 (1.49%) Broadband
3 2 (1.49%) IPv4
3 2 (1.49%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.15%) Data Lake
1 27 (20.15%) Hadoop
2 26 (19.40%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (15.67%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (12.69%) NoSQL
5 14 (10.45%) Apache Hive
5 14 (10.45%) BigQuery
6 13 (9.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (8.21%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (8.21%) MongoDB
8 10 (7.46%) Metadata
9 9 (6.72%) Power BI
10 7 (5.22%) SQL Server
10 7 (5.22%) Tableau
11 5 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.73%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (3.73%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.73%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.99%) Apache Iceberg
12 4 (2.99%) Presto
Development Applications
1 18 (13.43%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.69%) GitLab
3 14 (10.45%) Git
4 5 (3.73%) JIRA
5 4 (2.99%) Selenium
6 3 (2.24%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (2.24%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.49%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.75%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.75%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.75%) Gatling
8 1 (0.75%) JMeter
8 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
General
1 46 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.37%) Finance
3 30 (22.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.18%) Banking
5 6 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.48%) Marketing
6 5 (3.73%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.99%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.24%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.24%) Legal
9 2 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Local Government
9 2 (1.49%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 44 (32.84%) Data Engineer
2 28 (20.90%) Architect
3 24 (17.91%) Senior
4 11 (8.21%) Big Data Engineer
5 10 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.72%) Analyst
6 9 (6.72%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (6.72%) Data Architect
7 7 (5.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Developer
7 7 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.22%) Lead
7 7 (5.22%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (4.48%) Data Analyst
8 6 (4.48%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Databricks Engineer
9 5 (3.73%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.66%) Kafka
2 21 (15.67%) Terraform
3 18 (13.43%) PySpark
4 14 (10.45%) REST
5 9 (6.72%) Pandas
6 6 (4.48%) Spring
6 6 (4.48%) Spring Boot
7 5 (3.73%) CSS
7 5 (3.73%) HTML
7 5 (3.73%) Langfuse
7 5 (3.73%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (3.73%) Middleware
7 5 (3.73%) NumPy
7 5 (3.73%) Play Framework
8 4 (2.99%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (2.24%) .NET
9 3 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.24%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.24%) React
9 3 (2.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.66%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.94%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.72%) Clustering
4 8 (5.97%) Virtual Team
5 7 (5.22%) Onboarding
6 6 (4.48%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.73%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.73%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.99%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.99%) FMCG
9 3 (2.24%) AI Agents
9 3 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (2.24%) PKI
10 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.49%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.49%) Social Media
11 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.75%) IoT
11 1 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.69%) Linux
2 6 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.73%) Unix
4 3 (2.24%) Windows
4 3 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.52%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (38.06%) Analytics
2 51 (38.06%) Data Engineering
3 48 (35.82%) ETL
4 45 (33.58%) AI
4 45 (33.58%) CI/CD
5 37 (27.61%) Agile
6 32 (23.88%) Machine Learning
7 31 (23.13%) DevOps
8 30 (22.39%) Data Modelling
9 29 (21.64%) Data Governance
10 26 (19.40%) Containerisation
11 23 (17.16%) Data Analysis
12 22 (16.42%) Data Science
12 22 (16.42%) Problem-Solving
12 22 (16.42%) Scrum
12 22 (16.42%) Validation
13 19 (14.18%) Data Architecture
13 19 (14.18%) Decision-Making
13 19 (14.18%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 72 (53.73%) Python
2 58 (43.28%) SQL
3 29 (21.64%) Java
4 22 (16.42%) Scala
5 17 (12.69%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.46%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.72%) R
8 5 (3.73%) C#
9 4 (2.99%) Bash
10 2 (1.49%) Go
10 2 (1.49%) Korn
10 2 (1.49%) SAS Macro
11 1 (0.75%) C
11 1 (0.75%) C++
11 1 (0.75%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.43%) Degree
4 10 (7.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.22%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.73%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.73%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.24%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.24%) PhD
9 2 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.49%) CISSP
10 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.75%) MBA
10 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (24.63%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.46%) QA
3 9 (6.72%) GDPR
4 4 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.99%) NIST
5 2 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.49%) SLA
6 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.75%) EMIR
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS
6 1 (0.75%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.75%) MiFID
System Software
1 24 (17.91%) Docker
2 9 (6.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.73%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.24%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.24%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.24%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.24%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.24%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (20.90%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.21%) Puppet
3 9 (6.72%) Grafana
4 7 (5.22%) Ansible
5 6 (4.48%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (3.73%) Failover Clustering
6 5 (3.73%) Kibana
7 3 (2.24%) Nagios
7 3 (2.24%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.24%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.24%) vMotion
8 2 (1.49%) Control-M
9 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 29 (21.64%) Databricks
2 19 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 17 (12.69%) Google
4 14 (10.45%) Salesforce
5 13 (9.70%) Cloudera
6 9 (6.72%) VMware
7 6 (4.48%) Cisco
7 6 (4.48%) Red Hat
7 6 (4.48%) Splunk
8 5 (3.73%) Amplitude
8 5 (3.73%) Foundry
8 5 (3.73%) Oracle
9 4 (2.99%) HP
9 4 (2.99%) IBM
9 4 (2.99%) Palantir
10 3 (2.24%) Citrix
10 3 (2.24%) Informatica
10 3 (2.24%) Symantec
11 2 (1.49%) OpenLink
11 2 (1.49%) Talend