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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 237 167 163
Rank change year-on-year -70 -4 -35
Contract jobs citing Big Data 145 234 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.01% 1.50% 1.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.98% 6.93% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 145 189
10th Percentile £311 £341 £450
25th Percentile £400 £445 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £568 £550
% change year-on-year -7.57% +3.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - £40.75 £25.98
25th Percentile - £47.50 £38.44
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year - +15.31% +4.35%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £55.63
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +13.69% +5.84%

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 2,914 3,376 3,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.38% 21.64% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,034 2,357 2,697
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 26 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.67 £19.75
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.50 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £59.50 £62.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.38 £70.99
England median hourly rate £45.00 £38.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +18.42% -17.71% -7.73%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 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 -13 12 £550 - 6
West London -13 4 £525 -7.57%
South London - 2 £450 - 1
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 59 (40.69%) Apache Spark
2 25 (17.24%) Apache
3 13 (8.97%) Confluence
4 7 (4.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.38%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.38%) Luigi
5 2 (1.38%) SAS
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.69%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 48 (33.10%) AWS
2 38 (26.21%) Azure
3 26 (17.93%) GCP
4 25 (17.24%) Serverless
5 16 (11.03%) Snowflake
6 10 (6.90%) GitHub
7 9 (6.21%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.21%) Power Platform
8 6 (4.14%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (4.14%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.76%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.07%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.38%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (1.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.38%) DNS
1 2 (1.38%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.38%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (33.79%) Hadoop
2 26 (17.93%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.79%) Data Lake
4 19 (13.10%) NoSQL
5 18 (12.41%) Relational Database
6 16 (11.03%) Elasticsearch
6 16 (11.03%) Metadata
6 16 (11.03%) SQL Server
7 14 (9.66%) Apache Hive
8 12 (8.28%) RDBMS
9 11 (7.59%) BigQuery
9 11 (7.59%) Tableau
10 10 (6.90%) Impala
11 9 (6.21%) HBase
11 9 (6.21%) Power BI
12 7 (4.83%) Data Vault
12 7 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (3.45%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 19 (13.10%) JIRA
2 11 (7.59%) Git
3 7 (4.83%) GitLab
3 7 (4.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.14%) ERwin
5 4 (2.76%) ER Studio
6 2 (1.38%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.38%) Gradle
6 2 (1.38%) Maven
6 2 (1.38%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.69%) NUnit
7 1 (0.69%) Poetry
7 1 (0.69%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.69%) Selenium
7 1 (0.69%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 40 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.83%) Finance
3 27 (18.62%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.52%) Banking
5 6 (4.14%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.07%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.38%) Retail
10 1 (0.69%) Advertising
10 1 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.69%) Front Office
10 1 (0.69%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.69%) Marketing
10 1 (0.69%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (24.14%) Data Engineer
2 24 (16.55%) Senior
3 15 (10.34%) Developer
4 14 (9.66%) Lead
5 13 (8.97%) Architect
5 13 (8.97%) Software Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Data Scientist
7 9 (6.21%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Analyst
8 7 (4.83%) Data Architect
9 6 (4.14%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.45%) Apache Spark Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Azure Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Big Data Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Java Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Scala Developer
10 5 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
11 4 (2.76%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.97%) Kafka
2 23 (15.86%) Apache NiFi
3 16 (11.03%) PySpark
4 12 (8.28%) .NET
5 10 (6.90%) React
5 10 (6.90%) scikit-learn
6 9 (6.21%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (5.52%) Pandas
7 8 (5.52%) TensorFlow
8 7 (4.83%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (4.14%) JSON
9 6 (4.14%) XML
10 5 (3.45%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.76%) Spring
11 4 (2.76%) YAML
12 3 (2.07%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.07%) HTML
12 3 (2.07%) NumPy
12 3 (2.07%) pytest
13 2 (1.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.59%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.76%) Derivative
5 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.07%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.07%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.07%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.38%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.38%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.38%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.38%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.69%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.28%) Linux
2 3 (2.07%) Unix
3 2 (1.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.55%) ETL
2 52 (35.86%) Agile
3 42 (28.97%) Data Modelling
3 42 (28.97%) Data Pipeline
4 36 (24.83%) Data Governance
5 35 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 34 (23.45%) Data Engineering
7 32 (22.07%) Analytics
8 31 (21.38%) CI/CD
9 29 (20.00%) Microservices
10 28 (19.31%) Machine Learning
10 28 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.55%) Decision-Making
12 23 (15.86%) Data Science
13 22 (15.17%) Containerisation
13 22 (15.17%) DevOps
14 21 (14.48%) Scrum
15 18 (12.41%) Data Architecture
15 18 (12.41%) Data Integration
16 17 (11.72%) AI
Programming Languages
1 103 (71.03%) Python
2 75 (51.72%) SQL
3 34 (23.45%) Java
4 15 (10.34%) C#
4 15 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.34%) Scala
5 14 (9.66%) C++
6 9 (6.21%) R
7 6 (4.14%) Bash
8 3 (2.07%) Perl
8 3 (2.07%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.38%) C
9 2 (1.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.69%) Korn
10 1 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.69%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (23.45%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.55%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.66%) Degree
5 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.52%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.76%) PhD
8 2 (1.38%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.38%) CISSP
9 1 (0.69%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (22.76%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.21%) QA
3 6 (4.14%) GDPR
4 2 (1.38%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.69%) IFRS
5 1 (0.69%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.69%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (13.79%) Docker
2 8 (5.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.90%) Terraform
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
3 3 (2.07%) Grafana
3 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.38%) Argo
4 2 (1.38%) Nagios
4 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.38%) Rancher
5 1 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.69%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (17.24%) Databricks
2 16 (11.03%) Cloudera
2 16 (11.03%) Google
3 13 (8.97%) Foundry
3 13 (8.97%) Palantir
4 10 (6.90%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.45%) Oracle
6 2 (1.38%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.38%) IBM
6 2 (1.38%) Informatica
6 2 (1.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.38%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.69%) HP
7 1 (0.69%) PayPal
7 1 (0.69%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.69%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.69%) Sybase
7 1 (0.69%) Talend
7 1 (0.69%) Vertica
7 1 (0.69%) Zoomdata