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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 205 162
Rank change year-on-year -101 -43 +13
Contract jobs citing Big Data 138 168 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.25% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 5.88% 7.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 119 196
10th Percentile £371 £408 £388
25th Percentile £463 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -6.24% -
75th Percentile £719 £700 £825
90th Percentile £813 £791 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £612
% change year-on-year - -10.13% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £38.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £100.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +110.53% -47.22%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.48 £45.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% +54.40% -42.31%

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 3,614 2,856 3,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 18.00% 21.24% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,446 1,999 2,817
10th Percentile £364 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £513 £547
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.31% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 34 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.40 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £85.25 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.87% -0.53% -36.36%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -26 15 £600 -11.76% 5
West London -23 5 £713 +35.71% 2
South London -4 3 £650 - 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 67 (48.55%) Apache Spark
2 23 (16.67%) Apache
3 21 (15.22%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.35%) JBoss
5 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (2.90%) Palantir Foundry
6 4 (2.90%) SAS
7 3 (2.17%) CMS
8 2 (1.45%) Confluence
9 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Endur
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 59 (42.75%) AWS
2 49 (35.51%) Azure
3 43 (31.16%) GCP
4 22 (15.94%) Snowflake
5 17 (12.32%) Amazon S3
5 17 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (9.42%) GitHub
7 11 (7.97%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.25%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (5.80%) Amazon EMR
9 8 (5.80%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.07%) PaaS
10 7 (5.07%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (4.35%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.35%) dbt
11 6 (4.35%) OpenShift
12 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (3.62%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.17%) DHCP
2 3 (2.17%) DNS
2 3 (2.17%) Firewall
2 3 (2.17%) SMTP
2 3 (2.17%) VPN
3 2 (1.45%) Broadband
3 2 (1.45%) IPv4
3 2 (1.45%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.29%) Data Lake
2 27 (19.57%) Hadoop
3 22 (15.94%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (14.49%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (13.77%) NoSQL
6 11 (7.97%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (7.97%) Apache Hive
7 10 (7.25%) Amazon Redshift
7 10 (7.25%) BigQuery
7 10 (7.25%) MongoDB
7 10 (7.25%) Power BI
8 9 (6.52%) Metadata
9 8 (5.80%) SQL Server
10 7 (5.07%) Tableau
11 5 (3.62%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.62%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.90%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 17 (12.32%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.14%) GitLab
3 13 (9.42%) Git
4 6 (4.35%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.90%) Selenium
6 3 (2.17%) JIRA
6 3 (2.17%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.72%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.72%) Gatling
7 1 (0.72%) JMeter
7 1 (0.72%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 48 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 45 (32.61%) Finance
3 32 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (15.22%) Banking
5 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.35%) Marketing
6 4 (2.90%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.17%) Legal
8 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Local Government
8 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (29.71%) Data Engineer
2 31 (22.46%) Architect
3 25 (18.12%) Senior
4 12 (8.70%) Big Data Engineer
5 11 (7.97%) Lead
5 11 (7.97%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.52%) Data Architect
7 8 (5.80%) Analyst
7 8 (5.80%) Developer
8 7 (5.07%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.07%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.35%) DBA
9 6 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.62%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (3.62%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (18.12%) Kafka
2 20 (14.49%) PySpark
3 14 (10.14%) REST
4 9 (6.52%) Pandas
5 6 (4.35%) Spring
5 6 (4.35%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.62%) CSS
6 5 (3.62%) HTML
6 5 (3.62%) Langfuse
6 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (3.62%) Middleware
6 5 (3.62%) NumPy
6 5 (3.62%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.90%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (2.90%) React
8 3 (2.17%) .NET
8 3 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.17%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.17%) RESTful
8 3 (2.17%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.29%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.59%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.97%) Clustering
4 8 (5.80%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.62%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.90%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.90%) FMCG
8 3 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.17%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.17%) PKI
9 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.45%) Social Media
10 1 (0.72%) PMI
10 1 (0.72%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.32%) Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.62%) Windows
3 5 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.90%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (44.20%) Data Pipeline
2 55 (39.86%) Analytics
3 52 (37.68%) Data Engineering
4 46 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 44 (31.88%) ETL
6 41 (29.71%) AI
7 38 (27.54%) Agile
8 34 (24.64%) DevOps
9 29 (21.01%) Machine Learning
10 26 (18.84%) Containerisation
10 26 (18.84%) Data Modelling
10 26 (18.84%) Scrum
11 25 (18.12%) Data Governance
11 25 (18.12%) Validation
12 23 (16.67%) Data Science
13 22 (15.94%) Decision-Making
14 21 (15.22%) Performance Tuning
15 20 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
16 19 (13.77%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (52.17%) Python
2 53 (38.41%) SQL
3 27 (19.57%) Java
4 20 (14.49%) Scala
5 15 (10.87%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.52%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.52%) R
7 4 (2.90%) Bash
7 4 (2.90%) C#
7 4 (2.90%) SAS Macro
8 2 (1.45%) Go
8 2 (1.45%) Korn
9 1 (0.72%) C
9 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.59%) Degree
4 9 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.07%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.62%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.90%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.17%) PhD
9 2 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.45%) CISSP
9 2 (1.45%) MCITP
9 2 (1.45%) MCTS
9 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.72%) MBA
10 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.46%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.25%) QA
3 7 (5.07%) GDPR
4 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.90%) NIST
5 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.72%) IFRS
6 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (18.12%) Docker
2 9 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.07%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.17%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.17%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (20.29%) Kubernetes
2 20 (14.49%) Terraform
3 11 (7.97%) Puppet
4 9 (6.52%) Grafana
5 7 (5.07%) Ansible
6 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.62%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (3.62%) Kibana
8 3 (2.17%) Nagios
8 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.17%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.17%) vMotion
9 2 (1.45%) Control-M
10 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 25 (18.12%) Databricks
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.42%) Google
4 12 (8.70%) Salesforce
5 11 (7.97%) Cloudera
6 9 (6.52%) VMware
7 7 (5.07%) Foundry
7 7 (5.07%) IBM
8 6 (4.35%) Cisco
8 6 (4.35%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.35%) Splunk
9 5 (3.62%) Amplitude
10 4 (2.90%) HP
10 4 (2.90%) Palantir
11 3 (2.17%) Citrix
11 3 (2.17%) Informatica
11 3 (2.17%) Oracle
11 3 (2.17%) Symantec
12 2 (1.45%) OpenLink
12 2 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud