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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 195 175
Rank change year-on-year -69 -20 -50
Contract jobs citing Big Data 142 165 247
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.84% 1.31% 1.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.43% 5.87% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 109 195
10th Percentile £308 £363 £400
25th Percentile £393 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £719 £725 £763
90th Percentile £925 £801 £825
England median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £51.75 £25.38
25th Percentile - £52.50 £33.12
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% -33.59%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £48.29
90th Percentile - £58.25 £52.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -36.62%

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 3,202 2,813 3,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.00% 22.27% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,187 2,010 2,739
10th Percentile £363 £375 £379
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £559 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +1.59% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 31 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £29.88 £28.60 £25.48
Median hourly rate £44.50 £42.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% -6.65% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.75 £54.03
90th Percentile £89.00 £77.50 £65.27
England median hourly rate £49.36 £33.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.01% -15.49% -33.33%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -21 18 £525 -19.23% 13
South London -10 5 £590 - 2
West London -16 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 (46.48%) Apache Spark
2 20 (14.08%) Apache
3 9 (6.34%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (5.63%) Confluence
5 6 (4.23%) Palantir Foundry
6 5 (3.52%) SAS
7 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.70%) Camunda
8 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.14%) AWS
2 50 (35.21%) Azure
3 38 (26.76%) GCP
4 16 (11.27%) GitHub
5 15 (10.56%) Serverless
6 12 (8.45%) Snowflake
7 11 (7.75%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.34%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 8 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (4.93%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.23%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
14 3 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
14 3 (2.11%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.11%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) IPv4
1 2 (1.41%) IPv6
1 2 (1.41%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (29.58%) Hadoop
2 25 (17.61%) NoSQL
3 22 (15.49%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (9.15%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.75%) Relational Database
6 10 (7.04%) Metadata
6 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (4.93%) Apache Hive
9 7 (4.93%) Power BI
10 6 (4.23%) Impala
10 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.23%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.52%) Base SAS
11 5 (3.52%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (3.52%) Spark SQL
11 5 (3.52%) Tableau
12 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (9.86%) Git
1 14 (9.86%) Jenkins
2 12 (8.45%) GitLab
2 12 (8.45%) JIRA
3 7 (4.93%) Robot Framework
3 7 (4.93%) Selenium
4 5 (3.52%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.82%) Postman
6 2 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.70%) ERwin
7 1 (0.70%) NUnit
7 1 (0.70%) Poetry
7 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 52 (36.62%) Finance
1 52 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 22 (15.49%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (14.79%) Banking
4 5 (3.52%) Investment Banking
4 5 (3.52%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.82%) Marketing
5 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.41%) Front Office
7 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Legal
7 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.70%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (22.54%) Data Engineer
2 21 (14.79%) Lead
2 21 (14.79%) Senior
3 19 (13.38%) Architect
4 15 (10.56%) Developer
5 11 (7.75%) Analyst
6 8 (5.63%) Data Architect
7 6 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
7 6 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (4.23%) Data Analyst
7 6 (4.23%) DBA
7 6 (4.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 6 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (4.23%) SQL DBA
8 5 (3.52%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.82%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.82%) QA Engineer
9 4 (2.82%) Senior DBA
9 4 (2.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.61%) Kafka
2 21 (14.79%) PySpark
3 8 (5.63%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (5.63%) Pandas
3 8 (5.63%) scikit-learn
4 7 (4.93%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.93%) React
4 7 (4.93%) TensorFlow
5 5 (3.52%) HTML
5 5 (3.52%) NumPy
5 5 (3.52%) pytest
5 5 (3.52%) REST
5 5 (3.52%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (3.52%) Spring
5 5 (3.52%) XGBoost
6 4 (2.82%) JSON
6 4 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.82%) YAML
7 3 (2.11%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 14 (9.86%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.82%) Derivative
6 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.41%) Clustering
7 2 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.41%) FMCG
7 2 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.70%) IoT
8 1 (0.70%) Over-the-Top Content
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.93%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Unix
3 2 (1.41%) Windows
3 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (39.44%) Analytics
2 51 (35.92%) CI/CD
3 48 (33.80%) Agile
3 48 (33.80%) Data Engineering
4 47 (33.10%) ETL
5 45 (31.69%) Data Pipeline
6 39 (27.46%) DevOps
7 37 (26.06%) Data Modelling
8 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (21.13%) Data Governance
10 29 (20.42%) AI
11 26 (18.31%) Machine Learning
12 23 (16.20%) Scrum
13 22 (15.49%) Data Science
14 20 (14.08%) Computer Science
15 19 (13.38%) Software Engineering
16 18 (12.68%) Validation
17 16 (11.27%) Decision-Making
17 16 (11.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 16 (11.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 77 (54.23%) Python
2 66 (46.48%) SQL
3 28 (19.72%) Java
4 19 (13.38%) Scala
5 15 (10.56%) R
6 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 7 (4.93%) C++
8 6 (4.23%) C#
9 5 (3.52%) SAS Macro
10 4 (2.82%) Bash
11 2 (1.41%) Ada
11 2 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.70%) Perl
12 1 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 20 (14.08%) Degree
4 19 (13.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.04%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.11%) PhD
8 2 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.41%) CISSP
8 2 (1.41%) MCITP
8 2 (1.41%) MCTS
8 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.70%) HP APS
9 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (19.01%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.75%) GDPR
3 9 (6.34%) QA
4 4 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.82%) NIST
5 3 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 27 (19.01%) Docker
2 7 (4.93%) HDFS
3 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (19.72%) Kubernetes
2 13 (9.15%) Terraform
3 7 (4.93%) Grafana
3 7 (4.93%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.41%) Ansible
4 2 (1.41%) Argo
4 2 (1.41%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.41%) Nagios
4 2 (1.41%) Rancher
5 1 (0.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 25 (17.61%) Databricks
2 13 (9.15%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.63%) Cloudera
3 8 (5.63%) Foundry
4 6 (4.23%) Google
4 6 (4.23%) IBM
4 6 (4.23%) Palantir
4 6 (4.23%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.52%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.11%) Informatica
7 2 (1.41%) HP
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle
7 2 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Sybase
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco
8 1 (0.70%) Confluent
8 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.70%) Splunk