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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 189 166
Rank change year-on-year -79 -23 -28
Contract jobs citing Big Data 140 163 245
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 1.29% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.29% 5.79% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 108 193
10th Percentile £307 £375 £400
25th Percentile £393 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £763
90th Percentile £925 £802 £838
England median daily rate £525 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - £52.25 £25.38
25th Percentile - £53.75 £33.12
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +35.29% -33.59%
75th Percentile - £79.38 £48.29
90th Percentile - £91.75 £52.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +27.78% -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 3,261 2,814 3,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.07% 22.19% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,248 2,001 2,758
10th Percentile £363 £375 £376
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.71% +2.18% -4.26%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £694
90th Percentile £749 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 33 38
10th Percentile £18.53 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £30.74 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -6.65% +8.23%
75th Percentile £61.13 £60.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £85.50 £78.50 £63.98
England median hourly rate £49.36 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.07% -13.75% -28.19%

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 4 April 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 4 April 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 -25 19 £525 -19.23% 13
South London -11 5 £590 - 2
West London -21 1 £300 -55.91% 3
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 66 (47.14%) Apache Spark
2 20 (14.29%) Apache
3 10 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.71%) Confluence
5 6 (4.29%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (3.57%) SAS
7 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.71%) Camunda
8 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.57%) AWS
2 50 (35.71%) Azure
3 38 (27.14%) GCP
4 17 (12.14%) GitHub
5 15 (10.71%) Serverless
6 12 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.43%) Snowflake
9 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (5.71%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.29%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.14%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.14%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) IPv4
1 2 (1.43%) IPv6
1 2 (1.43%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (30.00%) Hadoop
2 25 (17.86%) NoSQL
3 19 (13.57%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (9.29%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.14%) Metadata
6 9 (6.43%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 7 (5.00%) Apache Hive
8 7 (5.00%) Power BI
8 7 (5.00%) SQL Server
9 6 (4.29%) Impala
9 6 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (3.57%) Base SAS
10 5 (3.57%) SAS Data Integration Studio
10 5 (3.57%) Spark SQL
10 5 (3.57%) Tableau
11 4 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.86%) BigQuery
11 4 (2.86%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (10.00%) Git
1 14 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.57%) GitLab
2 12 (8.57%) JIRA
3 7 (5.00%) Robot Framework
3 7 (5.00%) Selenium
4 5 (3.57%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.86%) Postman
6 2 (1.43%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.71%) ERwin
7 1 (0.71%) NUnit
7 1 (0.71%) Poetry
7 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 51 (36.43%) Finance
1 51 (36.43%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.00%) Banking
4 5 (3.57%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.86%) Marketing
5 4 (2.86%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.43%) Front Office
6 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.43%) Legal
6 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.71%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (23.57%) Data Engineer
2 21 (15.00%) Senior
3 19 (13.57%) Architect
4 18 (12.86%) Lead
5 15 (10.71%) Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Analyst
7 8 (5.71%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.29%) DBA
9 6 (4.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.57%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.86%) QA Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.14%) Kafka
2 21 (15.00%) PySpark
3 8 (5.71%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (5.71%) Pandas
3 8 (5.71%) scikit-learn
4 7 (5.00%) PyTorch
4 7 (5.00%) React
4 7 (5.00%) TensorFlow
5 5 (3.57%) HTML
5 5 (3.57%) NumPy
5 5 (3.57%) pytest
5 5 (3.57%) REST
5 5 (3.57%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (3.57%) XGBoost
6 4 (2.86%) JSON
6 4 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.86%) Spring
6 4 (2.86%) YAML
7 3 (2.14%) .NET
7 3 (2.14%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.71%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.29%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.86%) Derivative
6 3 (2.14%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.43%) Clustering
7 2 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.43%) FMCG
7 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.71%) IoT
8 1 (0.71%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.00%) Linux
2 3 (2.14%) Unix
3 2 (1.43%) Windows
3 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (41.43%) Analytics
2 51 (36.43%) CI/CD
3 49 (35.00%) Agile
4 47 (33.57%) Data Engineering
4 47 (33.57%) Data Pipeline
5 45 (32.14%) ETL
6 39 (27.86%) DevOps
7 34 (24.29%) Data Modelling
8 30 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (20.71%) AI
10 28 (20.00%) Data Governance
11 26 (18.57%) Machine Learning
12 23 (16.43%) Data Science
12 23 (16.43%) Scrum
13 20 (14.29%) Computer Science
14 19 (13.57%) Software Engineering
15 18 (12.86%) Validation
16 16 (11.43%) Decision-Making
16 16 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
16 16 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (54.29%) Python
2 63 (45.00%) SQL
3 27 (19.29%) Java
4 20 (14.29%) Scala
5 15 (10.71%) R
6 10 (7.14%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.00%) C++
8 6 (4.29%) C#
9 5 (3.57%) Bash
9 5 (3.57%) SAS Macro
10 2 (1.43%) Ada
10 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.43%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.71%) Perl
11 1 (0.71%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.29%) Degree
4 19 (13.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.14%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.57%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.14%) PhD
8 2 (1.43%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.43%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.43%) CISSP
8 2 (1.43%) MCITP
8 2 (1.43%) MCTS
8 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.71%) HP APS
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.86%) GDPR
3 9 (6.43%) QA
4 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.86%) NIST
5 3 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS
7 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 24 (17.14%) Docker
2 7 (5.00%) HDFS
3 3 (2.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (17.86%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.00%) Terraform
3 6 (4.29%) Grafana
3 6 (4.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.43%) Ansible
4 2 (1.43%) Argo
4 2 (1.43%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.43%) Nagios
4 2 (1.43%) Rancher
5 1 (0.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Databricks
2 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.71%) Cloudera
3 8 (5.71%) Foundry
4 6 (4.29%) Google
4 6 (4.29%) IBM
4 6 (4.29%) Palantir
4 6 (4.29%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.57%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.14%) Informatica
7 2 (1.43%) HP
7 2 (1.43%) Oracle
7 2 (1.43%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.43%) Sybase
8 1 (0.71%) Cisco
8 1 (0.71%) Confluent
8 1 (0.71%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.71%) Splunk