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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 234 162 178
Rank change year-on-year -72 +16 -49
Contract jobs citing Big Data 141 254 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.03% 1.64% 1.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.91% 7.57% 7.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 165 195
10th Percentile £318 £357 £453
25th Percentile £450 £450 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £783 £825 £825
England median daily rate £525 £558 £575
% change year-on-year -5.83% -3.04% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
10th Percentile - £39.25 £37.36
25th Percentile - £43.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year - -9.95% +58.65%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £38.96 £47.50 £74.75
% change year-on-year -17.98% -36.45% +113.57%

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 2,872 3,356 3,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.89% 21.63% 19.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,998 2,360 2,806
10th Percentile £363 £363 £382
25th Percentile £425 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £688
90th Percentile £788 £838 £788
England median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £27.81 £20.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £36.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £43.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -2.78% -18.18%
75th Percentile £66.56 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £76.95 £79.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £34.47 £46.84
% change year-on-year +26.22% -26.42% -6.32%

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 10 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 10 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 -16 14 £600 +9.09% 76
West London -13 3 £525 -7.57% 4
South London - 2 £450 - 2
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 49 (34.75%) Apache Spark
2 26 (18.44%) Apache
3 14 (9.93%) Confluence
4 7 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.42%) Luigi
5 2 (1.42%) SAS
6 1 (0.71%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (1.42%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.71%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 45 (31.91%) AWS
2 37 (26.24%) Azure
3 28 (19.86%) GCP
4 23 (16.31%) Serverless
5 14 (9.93%) Snowflake
6 10 (7.09%) GitHub
7 7 (4.96%) Amazon S3
8 6 (4.26%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.84%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (2.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.13%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (2.13%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.42%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) DNS
2 1 (0.71%) HTTP
2 1 (0.71%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (32.62%) Hadoop
2 23 (16.31%) Data Lake
3 22 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (12.06%) Elasticsearch
4 17 (12.06%) NoSQL
4 17 (12.06%) SQL Server
5 16 (11.35%) Relational Database
6 15 (10.64%) Metadata
7 14 (9.93%) BigQuery
8 12 (8.51%) Apache Hive
8 12 (8.51%) RDBMS
9 11 (7.80%) Tableau
10 8 (5.67%) HBase
10 8 (5.67%) Impala
11 7 (4.96%) Data Vault
12 6 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (4.26%) Power BI
13 5 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (3.55%) HPCC
Development Applications
1 17 (12.06%) JIRA
2 15 (10.64%) Git
3 7 (4.96%) GitLab
4 6 (4.26%) ERwin
5 4 (2.84%) ER Studio
6 3 (2.13%) Gradle
6 3 (2.13%) Maven
7 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.71%) MLflow
8 1 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
General
1 35 (24.82%) Finance
2 30 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 25 (17.73%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.09%) Banking
5 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.84%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.42%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Advertising
9 1 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.71%) Legal
9 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (25.53%) Data Engineer
2 21 (14.89%) Senior
3 17 (12.06%) Architect
4 14 (9.93%) Software Engineer
5 13 (9.22%) Developer
5 13 (9.22%) Lead
6 10 (7.09%) Analyst
6 10 (7.09%) Data Architect
6 10 (7.09%) Data Scientist
7 8 (5.67%) Java Engineer
7 8 (5.67%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Big Data Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.26%) Data Modeller
10 5 (3.55%) Apache Spark Developer
10 5 (3.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Python Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Scala Developer
10 5 (3.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (27.66%) Kafka
2 23 (16.31%) Apache NiFi
3 16 (11.35%) PySpark
4 11 (7.80%) .NET
5 10 (7.09%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (6.38%) React
6 9 (6.38%) scikit-learn
7 7 (4.96%) JSON
7 7 (4.96%) Pandas
7 7 (4.96%) TensorFlow
8 6 (4.26%) HTML
8 6 (4.26%) Spark Streaming
8 6 (4.26%) XML
9 5 (3.55%) Spring
10 4 (2.84%) PyTorch
11 3 (2.13%) .NET Core
12 2 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
12 2 (1.42%) NumPy
12 2 (1.42%) pytest
12 2 (1.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Distributed Computing
2 10 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.55%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.55%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.13%) Credit Risk
6 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.13%) Derivative
7 2 (1.42%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.42%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.42%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.42%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.42%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.09%) Linux
2 6 (4.26%) Unix
3 5 (3.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.59%) ETL
2 47 (33.33%) Agile
2 47 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 37 (26.24%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (24.11%) Software Engineering
5 33 (23.40%) Data Governance
6 31 (21.99%) Data Engineering
7 30 (21.28%) Analytics
8 29 (20.57%) CI/CD
8 29 (20.57%) Microservices
9 28 (19.86%) Machine Learning
10 22 (15.60%) Containerisation
11 21 (14.89%) Data Science
12 19 (13.48%) AI
12 19 (13.48%) Decision-Making
12 19 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (12.77%) Data Integration
13 18 (12.77%) Scrum
14 17 (12.06%) Data Architecture
15 14 (9.93%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 103 (73.05%) Python
2 75 (53.19%) SQL
3 37 (26.24%) Java
4 17 (12.06%) C++
5 14 (9.93%) C#
5 14 (9.93%) Scala
6 12 (8.51%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.26%) C
8 5 (3.55%) R
9 3 (2.13%) Bash
9 3 (2.13%) Perl
10 2 (1.42%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.42%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.71%) CodeQL
11 1 (0.71%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (19.86%) SC Cleared
1 28 (19.86%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.60%) DV Cleared
3 10 (7.09%) Degree
4 7 (4.96%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.13%) PhD
7 2 (1.42%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.99%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.38%) QA
3 7 (4.96%) GDPR
4 3 (2.13%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS
5 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 16 (11.35%) Docker
2 6 (4.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (12.06%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.42%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.71%) Grafana
4 1 (0.71%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.71%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (14.18%) Databricks
2 19 (13.48%) Google
3 16 (11.35%) Cloudera
4 15 (10.64%) Foundry
4 15 (10.64%) Palantir
5 13 (9.22%) Microsoft
6 5 (3.55%) Oracle
7 2 (1.42%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.42%) Informatica
7 2 (1.42%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.42%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.71%) PayPal
8 1 (0.71%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.71%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.71%) Splunk
8 1 (0.71%) Sybase
8 1 (0.71%) Talend
8 1 (0.71%) Vertica
8 1 (0.71%) Zoomdata