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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 188 155
Rank change year-on-year -118 -33 +7
Contract jobs citing Big Data 130 173 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 1.35% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 6.26% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 226
10th Percentile £356 £408 £381
25th Percentile £450 £489 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -6.24% +4.17%
75th Percentile £723 £700 £794
90th Percentile £925 £781 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £579
% change year-on-year - -5.01% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £60.63 £38.75
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.19 £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £78.75 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +80.00% -51.39%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £48.44
90th Percentile - £95.88 £60.63
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% +35.29% -45.51%

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 3,438 2,762 4,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.85% 21.53% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,322 1,933 3,006
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £435 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 32 34
10th Percentile £18.44 £25.14 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.07 £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.50 £39.31 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.67% -18.11% -20.00%
75th Percentile £60.56 £59.56 £54.03
90th Percentile £79.50 £79.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -15.00% -29.76%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -39 17 £625 -3.85% 8
South London -3 3 £637 -
West London -17 1 £725 +12.67%
East London - 1 £449 - 1
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 62 (47.69%) Apache Spark
2 22 (16.92%) Apache
3 20 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (3.85%) SAS
5 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.54%) Confluence
7 1 (0.77%) Camunda
7 1 (0.77%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.77%) Luigi
7 1 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 67 (51.54%) AWS
2 52 (40.00%) Azure
3 47 (36.15%) GCP
4 20 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 17 (13.08%) Amazon S3
6 16 (12.31%) GitHub
7 14 (10.77%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.92%) Amazon EMR
9 9 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.15%) Power Platform
11 7 (5.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (4.62%) dbt
12 6 (4.62%) OpenShift
13 5 (3.85%) Amazon Bedrock
13 5 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
13 5 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) DHCP
1 3 (2.31%) DNS
1 3 (2.31%) Firewall
1 3 (2.31%) SMTP
1 3 (2.31%) VPN
2 2 (1.54%) IPv4
2 2 (1.54%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (23.08%) Hadoop
2 27 (20.77%) NoSQL
3 23 (17.69%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (16.92%) Data Lake
4 22 (16.92%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 12 (9.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (8.46%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (8.46%) BigQuery
7 11 (8.46%) SQL Server
8 8 (6.15%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.38%) Power BI
10 6 (4.62%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.85%) Base SAS
11 5 (3.85%) Metadata
11 5 (3.85%) SAS Data Integration Studio
11 5 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Git
1 18 (13.85%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.23%) GitLab
3 6 (4.62%) Robot Framework
3 6 (4.62%) Selenium
4 5 (3.85%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (2.31%) JIRA
5 3 (2.31%) Postman
6 1 (0.77%) Claude Code
General
1 55 (42.31%) Finance
2 43 (33.08%) Social Skills
3 28 (21.54%) Banking
4 26 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.85%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.08%) Marketing
7 4 (3.08%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.31%) Legal
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.54%) Local Government
9 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Front Office
10 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (28.46%) Data Engineer
2 25 (19.23%) Architect
3 18 (13.85%) Senior
4 16 (12.31%) Lead
5 11 (8.46%) Big Data Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Developer
6 10 (7.69%) Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Data Architect
7 8 (6.15%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Data Analyst
8 7 (5.38%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) DBA
9 6 (4.62%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.85%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.85%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) QA Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.62%) Kafka
1 19 (14.62%) PySpark
2 14 (10.77%) REST
3 8 (6.15%) Spring
4 7 (5.38%) CSS
4 7 (5.38%) HTML
4 7 (5.38%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.62%) Pandas
5 6 (4.62%) React
6 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (3.85%) Play Framework
7 4 (3.08%) Middleware
8 3 (2.31%) .NET
8 3 (2.31%) AngularJS
8 3 (2.31%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.31%) NumPy
8 3 (2.31%) pytest
8 3 (2.31%) PyTorch
8 3 (2.31%) RESTful
8 3 (2.31%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.92%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.15%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.15%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.38%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (3.85%) Clustering
5 5 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.08%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.08%) FMCG
7 3 (2.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.31%) PKI
8 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.77%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.77%) IoT
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.23%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Unix
3 5 (3.85%) Windows
3 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.62%) Analytics
2 54 (41.54%) Data Engineering
3 53 (40.77%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 47 (36.15%) Agile
6 45 (34.62%) ETL
7 40 (30.77%) AI
7 40 (30.77%) DevOps
8 29 (22.31%) Data Modelling
8 29 (22.31%) Scrum
9 27 (20.77%) Machine Learning
10 24 (18.46%) Data Governance
10 24 (18.46%) Data Science
11 23 (17.69%) Containerisation
11 23 (17.69%) Decision-Making
11 23 (17.69%) Validation
12 19 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (14.62%) Test Automation
13 18 (13.85%) Data Analytics
13 18 (13.85%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 69 (53.08%) Python
2 55 (42.31%) SQL
3 25 (19.23%) Java
4 24 (18.46%) Scala
5 12 (9.23%) R
6 9 (6.92%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 5 (3.85%) SAS Macro
8 4 (3.08%) Bash
9 1 (0.77%) C
9 1 (0.77%) C#
9 1 (0.77%) C++
9 1 (0.77%) Go
9 1 (0.77%) Korn
9 1 (0.77%) Perl
9 1 (0.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.08%) Degree
3 16 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.08%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.31%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.54%) CISSP
8 2 (1.54%) MCITP
8 2 (1.54%) MCTS
8 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.54%) PhD
8 2 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (21.54%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.77%) QA
3 10 (7.69%) GDPR
4 4 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.08%) NIST
5 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (23.08%) Docker
2 6 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.31%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.31%) HDFS
3 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (2.31%) Terminal Services
3 3 (2.31%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (23.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.85%) Terraform
3 9 (6.92%) Grafana
4 6 (4.62%) Ansible
5 5 (3.85%) Kibana
6 4 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.08%) Puppet
7 3 (2.31%) Nagios
7 3 (2.31%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.31%) vMotion
8 1 (0.77%) Control-M
8 1 (0.77%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 21 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 18 (13.85%) Databricks
3 12 (9.23%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.92%) Google
5 5 (3.85%) Amplitude
5 5 (3.85%) IBM
5 5 (3.85%) Splunk
6 4 (3.08%) HP
6 4 (3.08%) Informatica
6 4 (3.08%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.31%) Citrix
7 3 (2.31%) Foundry
7 3 (2.31%) Oracle
7 3 (2.31%) Symantec
7 3 (2.31%) VMware
8 2 (1.54%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.54%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Palantir
9 1 (0.77%) Talend