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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 239 166 175
Rank change year-on-year -73 +9 -45
Contract jobs citing Big Data 147 249 275
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.56% 1.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.97% 7.23% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 161 185
10th Percentile £313 £333 £453
25th Percentile £413 £450 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £790 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £575 £578
% change year-on-year -8.70% -0.43% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £39.25 £35.65
25th Percentile - £43.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year - +13.99% +17.14%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £73.00
England median hourly rate - £45.00 £51.06
% change year-on-year - -11.86% +29.86%

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 2,960 3,442 3,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.82% 21.63% 19.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,061 2,412 2,688
10th Percentile £363 £363 £381
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £686
90th Percentile £775 £838 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 25 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £28.74 £19.75
25th Percentile £30.96 £36.25 £35.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.75 £61.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.50 £70.99
England median hourly rate £46.50 £37.50 £47.70
% change year-on-year +24.00% -21.38% -4.61%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 -25 14 £600 +9.09% 7
West London -14 3 £525 -7.57%
South London - 2 £450 -
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 57 (38.78%) Apache Spark
2 26 (17.69%) Apache
3 13 (8.84%) Confluence
4 8 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.36%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.36%) Luigi
5 2 (1.36%) SAS
6 1 (0.68%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.68%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.01%) AWS
2 41 (27.89%) Azure
3 28 (19.05%) GCP
4 25 (17.01%) Serverless
5 15 (10.20%) Snowflake
6 14 (9.52%) GitHub
7 9 (6.12%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.44%) Power Platform
9 7 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.72%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (2.04%) OpenShift
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.36%) DNS
1 2 (1.36%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.36%) VPN
2 1 (0.68%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (34.01%) Hadoop
2 25 (17.01%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 17 (11.56%) NoSQL
4 17 (11.56%) Relational Database
5 16 (10.88%) Elasticsearch
5 16 (10.88%) SQL Server
6 15 (10.20%) Metadata
7 14 (9.52%) Apache Hive
8 12 (8.16%) BigQuery
8 12 (8.16%) RDBMS
9 10 (6.80%) Impala
9 10 (6.80%) Tableau
10 9 (6.12%) HBase
11 8 (5.44%) Power BI
12 7 (4.76%) Data Vault
12 7 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (3.40%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (3.40%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 19 (12.93%) JIRA
2 13 (8.84%) Git
3 9 (6.12%) GitLab
4 6 (4.08%) ERwin
4 6 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.72%) ER Studio
6 3 (2.04%) Gradle
6 3 (2.04%) Maven
7 2 (1.36%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.36%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) NUnit
8 1 (0.68%) Poetry
8 1 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.68%) Selenium
8 1 (0.68%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 39 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.49%) Finance
3 27 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.80%) Banking
5 6 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.72%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.36%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
9 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 23 (15.65%) Senior
3 16 (10.88%) Developer
4 15 (10.20%) Architect
4 15 (10.20%) Software Engineer
5 14 (9.52%) Lead
6 11 (7.48%) Data Scientist
7 9 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (5.44%) Data Architect
9 7 (4.76%) Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Big Data Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Data Modeller
11 5 (3.40%) Apache Spark Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Python Engineer
11 5 (3.40%) Scala Developer
11 5 (3.40%) Senior Data Engineer
12 4 (2.72%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.57%) Kafka
2 23 (15.65%) Apache NiFi
3 15 (10.20%) PySpark
4 12 (8.16%) .NET
5 10 (6.80%) React
5 10 (6.80%) scikit-learn
6 9 (6.12%) JSON
6 9 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (6.12%) XML
7 8 (5.44%) Pandas
7 8 (5.44%) TensorFlow
8 7 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (4.08%) HTML
10 5 (3.40%) PyTorch
11 4 (2.72%) Spring
12 3 (2.04%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.04%) NumPy
12 3 (2.04%) pytest
12 3 (2.04%) YAML
13 2 (1.36%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.48%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (6.80%) Algorithms
3 8 (5.44%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.72%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.72%) Derivative
6 4 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.04%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.36%) Fixed Income
8 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.36%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.36%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.36%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.16%) Linux
2 6 (4.08%) Unix
3 5 (3.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (36.05%) ETL
2 52 (35.37%) Agile
3 47 (31.97%) Data Modelling
4 41 (27.89%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (25.17%) Data Governance
5 37 (25.17%) Software Engineering
6 35 (23.81%) Data Engineering
7 34 (23.13%) Analytics
8 30 (20.41%) CI/CD
9 28 (19.05%) Machine Learning
9 28 (19.05%) Microservices
10 26 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.33%) Decision-Making
12 23 (15.65%) Containerisation
12 23 (15.65%) Data Science
13 20 (13.61%) Scrum
14 18 (12.24%) DevOps
15 17 (11.56%) AI
15 17 (11.56%) Data Architecture
15 17 (11.56%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 106 (72.11%) Python
2 76 (51.70%) SQL
3 36 (24.49%) Java
4 17 (11.56%) C++
5 15 (10.20%) C#
5 15 (10.20%) Scala
6 14 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.44%) R
8 5 (3.40%) Bash
8 5 (3.40%) C
9 3 (2.04%) Perl
9 3 (2.04%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.36%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.68%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.68%) Korn
11 1 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.68%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 29 (19.73%) SC Cleared
3 23 (15.65%) DV Cleared
4 14 (9.52%) Degree
5 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.44%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.04%) PhD
8 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.36%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) HP APS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.12%) QA
3 6 (4.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.68%) IFRS
5 1 (0.68%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 19 (12.93%) Docker
2 8 (5.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Terraform
3 2 (1.36%) Ansible
3 2 (1.36%) Grafana
3 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.36%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) Argo
4 1 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.68%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.68%) Nagios
4 1 (0.68%) Puppet
4 1 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 24 (16.33%) Databricks
2 17 (11.56%) Google
3 16 (10.88%) Cloudera
4 14 (9.52%) Foundry
4 14 (9.52%) Palantir
5 13 (8.84%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.40%) Oracle
7 2 (1.36%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.36%) IBM
7 2 (1.36%) Informatica
7 2 (1.36%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.36%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.68%) HP
8 1 (0.68%) PayPal
8 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.68%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk
8 1 (0.68%) Sybase
8 1 (0.68%) Talend
8 1 (0.68%) Zoomdata