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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 289 188 165
Rank change year-on-year -101 -23 -8
Contract jobs citing Big Data 131 169 280
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.35% 1.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 6.18% 6.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 113 218
10th Percentile £355 £411 £375
25th Percentile £450 £500 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £600 £647
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -7.26% +7.83%
75th Percentile £733 £700 £800
90th Percentile £925 £785 £850
England median daily rate £550 £570 £579
% change year-on-year -3.51% -1.55% -3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £60.63 £32.88
25th Percentile £61.00 £67.19 £39.06
Median hourly rate £67.00 £78.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +85.29% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.00 £89.69 £47.81
90th Percentile - £95.88 £55.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.74% +43.75% -48.72%

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 3,383 2,733 4,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.83% 21.90% 22.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,288 1,918 2,991
10th Percentile £363 £385 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £719
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 26 30 34
10th Percentile £17.94 £24.80 £20.98
25th Percentile £25.57 £29.07 £25.63
Median hourly rate £47.25 £39.31 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +20.21% -15.02% -13.95%
75th Percentile £61.19 £61.19 £54.03
90th Percentile £82.50 £80.75 £70.85
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +14.49% -13.75% -31.73%

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 19 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 19 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 -42 18 £588 -12.31% 11
South London -5 3 £637 -
West London -25 1 £725 +12.67% 1
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 64 (48.85%) Apache Spark
2 21 (16.03%) Apache
3 19 (14.50%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (3.82%) SAS
6 4 (3.05%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.53%) Confluence
8 1 (0.76%) Camunda
8 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.76%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 63 (48.09%) AWS
2 49 (37.40%) Azure
3 44 (33.59%) GCP
4 20 (15.27%) Snowflake
5 16 (12.21%) GitHub
6 15 (11.45%) Amazon S3
7 14 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (7.63%) Amazon EMR
8 10 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
9 9 (6.87%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (6.87%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (6.11%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.58%) dbt
11 6 (4.58%) OpenShift
11 6 (4.58%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon Bedrock
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (3.82%) Serverless
13 4 (3.05%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) DHCP
1 3 (2.29%) DNS
1 3 (2.29%) Firewall
1 3 (2.29%) SMTP
1 3 (2.29%) VPN
2 2 (1.53%) IPv4
2 2 (1.53%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.66%) Hadoop
2 25 (19.08%) NoSQL
3 22 (16.79%) Data Lake
3 22 (16.79%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (15.27%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (9.16%) MongoDB
6 11 (8.40%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (8.40%) SQL Server
7 10 (7.63%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (7.63%) BigQuery
8 8 (6.11%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (6.11%) Relational Database
9 7 (5.34%) Power BI
9 7 (5.34%) Tableau
10 6 (4.58%) Metadata
10 6 (4.58%) RDBMS
11 5 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (3.82%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (3.82%) Base SAS
11 5 (3.82%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (13.74%) Git
1 18 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 12 (9.16%) GitLab
3 6 (4.58%) Robot Framework
3 6 (4.58%) Selenium
4 5 (3.82%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (2.29%) JIRA
5 3 (2.29%) Postman
6 1 (0.76%) Claude Code
General
1 55 (41.98%) Finance
2 42 (32.06%) Social Skills
3 26 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (19.85%) Banking
4 6 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.05%) Marketing
6 4 (3.05%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.29%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Local Government
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (26.72%) Data Engineer
2 23 (17.56%) Architect
3 17 (12.98%) Lead
4 16 (12.21%) Senior
5 14 (10.69%) Analyst
6 11 (8.40%) Developer
7 10 (7.63%) Big Data Engineer
7 10 (7.63%) Data Analyst
8 8 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.34%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Data Architect
10 6 (4.58%) DBA
10 6 (4.58%) SQL DBA
11 5 (3.82%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Data Scientist
11 5 (3.82%) Hadoop Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) SQL Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) SQL Data Analyst
11 5 (3.82%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) PySpark
2 16 (12.21%) Kafka
3 12 (9.16%) REST
4 8 (6.11%) HTML
4 8 (6.11%) Spring
5 7 (5.34%) CSS
5 7 (5.34%) Pandas
5 7 (5.34%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.58%) React
7 5 (3.82%) Play Framework
8 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (3.05%) Middleware
8 4 (3.05%) NumPy
9 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 3 (2.29%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.29%) Node.js
9 3 (2.29%) pytest
9 3 (2.29%) PyTorch
9 3 (2.29%) RESTful
9 3 (2.29%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (16.79%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.16%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.11%) Product Ownership
4 6 (4.58%) Distributed Computing
4 6 (4.58%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.82%) Clustering
5 5 (3.82%) Data Centre
6 4 (3.05%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.05%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (3.05%) FMCG
7 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.29%) PKI
8 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.76%) Derivative
9 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.76%) IoT
9 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.40%) Linux
2 7 (5.34%) Unix
3 5 (3.82%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (45.04%) Analytics
2 51 (38.93%) CI/CD
2 51 (38.93%) Data Engineering
3 50 (38.17%) Data Pipeline
4 47 (35.88%) Agile
5 44 (33.59%) ETL
6 40 (30.53%) DevOps
7 39 (29.77%) AI
8 29 (22.14%) Scrum
9 27 (20.61%) Machine Learning
10 26 (19.85%) Data Modelling
10 26 (19.85%) Data Science
11 25 (19.08%) Validation
12 22 (16.79%) Containerisation
13 21 (16.03%) Data Governance
13 21 (16.03%) Decision-Making
14 19 (14.50%) Data Analytics
14 19 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (14.50%) Test Automation
15 18 (13.74%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 71 (54.20%) Python
2 58 (44.27%) SQL
3 26 (19.85%) Java
4 23 (17.56%) Scala
5 16 (12.21%) R
6 8 (6.11%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) SAS Macro
8 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.29%) Bash
10 2 (1.53%) C++
11 1 (0.76%) Ada
11 1 (0.76%) C
11 1 (0.76%) C#
11 1 (0.76%) Korn
11 1 (0.76%) Perl
11 1 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.21%) Degree
3 13 (9.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.05%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.05%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.29%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.53%) CISSP
7 2 (1.53%) MCITP
7 2 (1.53%) MCTS
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.76%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.76%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (19.85%) Data Quality
2 14 (10.69%) QA
3 8 (6.11%) GDPR
4 4 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.05%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (22.90%) Docker
2 6 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.05%) HDFS
4 3 (2.29%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.29%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.29%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 31 (23.66%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.98%) Terraform
3 9 (6.87%) Grafana
4 6 (4.58%) Ansible
5 5 (3.82%) Kibana
6 4 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.05%) Puppet
7 3 (2.29%) Nagios
7 3 (2.29%) vCenter Server
7 3 (2.29%) vMotion
8 1 (0.76%) Control-M
8 1 (0.76%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 19 (14.50%) Databricks
3 11 (8.40%) Salesforce
4 9 (6.87%) Google
5 5 (3.82%) IBM
5 5 (3.82%) Splunk
6 4 (3.05%) Amplitude
6 4 (3.05%) HP
6 4 (3.05%) Informatica
6 4 (3.05%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.29%) Citrix
7 3 (2.29%) Foundry
7 3 (2.29%) Oracle
7 3 (2.29%) Symantec
7 3 (2.29%) VMware
8 2 (1.53%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.53%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Palantir
9 1 (0.76%) Talend