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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 344 217 161
Rank change year-on-year -127 -56 +23
Contract jobs citing Big Data 122 157 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 1.17% 1.71%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.36% 5.48% 7.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 117 192
10th Percentile £366 £380 £400
25th Percentile £470 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -9.28% -6.37%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £781
90th Percentile £725 £775 £850
England median daily rate £525 £534 £600
% change year-on-year -1.69% -11.00% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £39.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £43.75
Median hourly rate £67.00 £100.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +100.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £69.48 £47.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +46.27% -39.10%

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 3,629 2,867 3,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.85% 21.28% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,497 2,002 2,640
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £435 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £640 £688 £725
90th Percentile £738 £825 £850
England median daily rate £505 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -1.46% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 38 25
10th Percentile £18.48 £24.86 £25.70
25th Percentile £25.25 £32.13 £36.25
Median hourly rate £34.03 £53.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.68% +19.44% -14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.19 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.68 £87.50 £77.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -9.20% +20.00% -34.09%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 -34 12 £600 -9.09% 19
West London -21 6 £591 +12.62% 10
South London - 1 £650 - 4
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 69 (56.56%) Apache Spark
2 23 (18.85%) Apache
3 22 (18.03%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.92%) JBoss
5 5 (4.10%) SharePoint
6 3 (2.46%) CMS
6 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.46%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.64%) Confluence
7 2 (1.64%) SAS
8 1 (0.82%) Luigi
8 1 (0.82%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Endur
2 1 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 54 (44.26%) AWS
2 45 (36.89%) Azure
3 35 (28.69%) GCP
4 27 (22.13%) Snowflake
5 16 (13.11%) Amazon S3
5 16 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.02%) Power Platform
7 10 (8.20%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (8.20%) GitHub
8 9 (7.38%) dbt
8 9 (7.38%) PaaS
9 8 (6.56%) Azure Databricks
10 7 (5.74%) Amazon EMR
10 7 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (5.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.74%) OpenShift
11 6 (4.92%) Amazon Bedrock
11 6 (4.92%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (4.10%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.92%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.46%) DHCP
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) Firewall
2 3 (2.46%) SMTP
2 3 (2.46%) VPN
3 2 (1.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.31%) Data Lake
2 25 (20.49%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (20.49%) Hadoop
3 22 (18.03%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (13.93%) NoSQL
5 14 (11.48%) Apache Hive
6 13 (10.66%) BigQuery
7 11 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (9.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (9.02%) MongoDB
8 10 (8.20%) Power BI
8 10 (8.20%) Tableau
9 9 (7.38%) Metadata
10 7 (5.74%) SQL Server
11 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (4.10%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (4.10%) Relational Database
13 4 (3.28%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
13 4 (3.28%) Presto
Development Applications
1 17 (13.93%) Jenkins
2 15 (12.30%) Git
2 15 (12.30%) GitLab
3 2 (1.64%) JIRA
3 2 (1.64%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (1.64%) Selenium
3 2 (1.64%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.82%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.82%) eggPlant
4 1 (0.82%) Gatling
4 1 (0.82%) JMeter
4 1 (0.82%) LoadRunner
General
1 39 (31.97%) Social Skills
2 30 (24.59%) Finance
3 25 (20.49%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (13.93%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Retail
8 2 (1.64%) Local Government
8 2 (1.64%) Marketing
8 2 (1.64%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.82%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.82%) Automotive
9 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (36.89%) Data Engineer
2 24 (19.67%) Senior
3 22 (18.03%) Architect
4 11 (9.02%) Big Data Engineer
5 10 (8.20%) Analyst
6 9 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.56%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.56%) Data Architect
8 7 (5.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (5.74%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Databricks Data Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Databricks Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Scala Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Lead
11 4 (3.28%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.03%) Kafka
2 20 (16.39%) Terraform
3 16 (13.11%) PySpark
4 12 (9.84%) REST
5 7 (5.74%) Pandas
5 7 (5.74%) Spring
5 7 (5.74%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.92%) NumPy
7 5 (4.10%) Apache NiFi
7 5 (4.10%) CSS
7 5 (4.10%) HTML
7 5 (4.10%) Langfuse
7 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Graph
7 5 (4.10%) Play Framework
8 4 (3.28%) .NET
9 3 (2.46%) LangChain
9 3 (2.46%) Middleware
9 3 (2.46%) Node.js
9 3 (2.46%) React
9 3 (2.46%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.03%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.30%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.38%) Clustering
3 9 (7.38%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.38%) Virtual Team
4 6 (4.92%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.92%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.28%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.46%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.46%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.46%) FMCG
6 3 (2.46%) PKI
7 2 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.64%) Social Media
7 2 (1.64%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.93%) Linux
2 6 (4.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.10%) Unix
4 3 (2.46%) Windows
4 3 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.36%) Data Pipeline
2 50 (40.98%) AI
2 50 (40.98%) ETL
3 49 (40.16%) Analytics
3 49 (40.16%) Data Engineering
4 42 (34.43%) CI/CD
5 34 (27.87%) Machine Learning
6 32 (26.23%) Agile
7 28 (22.95%) DevOps
8 27 (22.13%) Data Modelling
9 25 (20.49%) Containerisation
9 25 (20.49%) Data Governance
10 23 (18.85%) Data Analysis
10 23 (18.85%) Data Science
11 21 (17.21%) Validation
12 19 (15.57%) Decision-Making
12 19 (15.57%) Scrum
13 18 (14.75%) Data Architecture
14 17 (13.93%) Microservices
14 17 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 70 (57.38%) Python
2 59 (48.36%) SQL
3 28 (22.95%) Java
4 19 (15.57%) Scala
5 17 (13.93%) PowerShell
6 10 (8.20%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.38%) R
8 5 (4.10%) Bash
8 5 (4.10%) C#
9 2 (1.64%) Go
9 2 (1.64%) Korn
10 1 (0.82%) C
10 1 (0.82%) C++
10 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.82%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.93%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.11%) Degree
4 8 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.56%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.46%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.46%) PhD
7 1 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.82%) ISEB
7 1 (0.82%) MBA
7 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.82%) PMP
7 1 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (22.13%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.74%) QA
3 4 (3.28%) GDPR
4 2 (1.64%) SLA
5 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.82%) EMIR
5 1 (0.82%) IFRS
5 1 (0.82%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.82%) MiFID
5 1 (0.82%) PSD2
5 1 (0.82%) SEPA
System Software
1 20 (16.39%) Docker
2 9 (7.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.10%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.46%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.46%) HDFS
4 3 (2.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.46%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.46%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 24 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.84%) Puppet
3 8 (6.56%) Ansible
4 6 (4.92%) Grafana
4 6 (4.92%) Red Hat Satellite
5 5 (4.10%) Failover Clustering
5 5 (4.10%) Kibana
6 3 (2.46%) Nagios
6 3 (2.46%) vCenter Server
6 3 (2.46%) vMotion
7 1 (0.82%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (26.23%) Databricks
2 18 (14.75%) Microsoft
3 14 (11.48%) Google
4 13 (10.66%) Cloudera
5 9 (7.38%) VMware
6 8 (6.56%) Salesforce
7 6 (4.92%) Oracle
7 6 (4.92%) Red Hat
8 5 (4.10%) Amplitude
8 5 (4.10%) Cisco
8 5 (4.10%) Splunk
9 4 (3.28%) Foundry
10 3 (2.46%) Citrix
10 3 (2.46%) HP
10 3 (2.46%) IBM
10 3 (2.46%) Informatica
10 3 (2.46%) Palantir
10 3 (2.46%) Symantec
11 2 (1.64%) SAP
11 2 (1.64%) Talend