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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 194 160
Rank change year-on-year -66 -34 -31
Contract jobs citing Big Data 142 165 261
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 1.29% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.51% 5.87% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 106 205
10th Percentile £305 £363 £400
25th Percentile £398 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £544 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.15% -5.43% -4.17%
75th Percentile £726 £722 £750
90th Percentile £925 £803 £815
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 12
10th Percentile - £51.75 £25.47
25th Percentile - £52.50 £36.56
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year - +25.71% -31.64%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £47.90
90th Percentile - £58.25 £52.16
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -29.69%

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 3,146 2,811 3,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 19.07% 22.03% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 2,002 2,737
10th Percentile £361 £375 £379
25th Percentile £425 £450 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +1.35% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £749 £834 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £20.98
25th Percentile £23.22 £28.03 £26.02
Median hourly rate £46.50 £41.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.05% -7.78% -14.29%
75th Percentile £66.88 £59.25 £53.13
90th Percentile £89.50 £77.88 £65.03
England median hourly rate £50.50 £32.81 £40.25
% change year-on-year +53.92% -18.48% -30.00%

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 20 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 20 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 -29 17 £550 -10.20% 14
South London -11 5 £590 - 1
West London -18 1 £300 -55.91% 2
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 71 (50.00%) 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 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (2.11%) SAS
7 1 (0.70%) Camunda
7 1 (0.70%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 60 (42.25%) AWS
2 48 (33.80%) Azure
3 31 (21.83%) GCP
4 16 (11.27%) Serverless
4 16 (11.27%) Snowflake
5 15 (10.56%) GitHub
6 12 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 7 (4.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (3.52%) Power Platform
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
12 3 (2.11%) Azure API Management
12 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 44 (30.99%) Hadoop
2 26 (18.31%) NoSQL
3 25 (17.61%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (11.97%) Relational Database
5 16 (11.27%) SQL Server
6 14 (9.86%) Data Lake
7 12 (8.45%) RDBMS
8 11 (7.75%) Metadata
9 9 (6.34%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (5.63%) Apache Hive
10 8 (5.63%) Impala
11 6 (4.23%) HBase
11 6 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (3.52%) Power BI
12 5 (3.52%) Spark SQL
12 5 (3.52%) Tableau
13 4 (2.82%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.82%) MongoDB
14 3 (2.11%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Git
1 13 (9.15%) Jenkins
2 11 (7.75%) JIRA
3 10 (7.04%) GitLab
4 5 (3.52%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.82%) Postman
5 4 (2.82%) Robot Framework
5 4 (2.82%) Selenium
6 2 (1.41%) ERwin
6 2 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.70%) ER Studio
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
2 50 (35.21%) Social Skills
3 24 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (13.38%) Banking
5 5 (3.52%) Investment Banking
6 4 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.82%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.41%) Front Office
8 2 (1.41%) Legal
8 2 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.70%) Retail
9 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (23.94%) Data Engineer
2 23 (16.20%) Lead
3 20 (14.08%) Senior
4 17 (11.97%) Architect
5 15 (10.56%) Developer
6 10 (7.04%) Analyst
7 8 (5.63%) Data Architect
8 7 (4.93%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Azure Data Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Data Scientist
10 5 (3.52%) DBA
10 5 (3.52%) QA Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.52%) SQL DBA
11 4 (2.82%) Java Engineer
11 4 (2.82%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.01%) Kafka
2 21 (14.79%) PySpark
3 8 (5.63%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (5.63%) scikit-learn
4 7 (4.93%) PyTorch
4 7 (4.93%) React
4 7 (4.93%) Spark Streaming
4 7 (4.93%) TensorFlow
5 5 (3.52%) HTML
5 5 (3.52%) NumPy
5 5 (3.52%) Pandas
5 5 (3.52%) pytest
5 5 (3.52%) Spring
5 5 (3.52%) XGBoost
6 4 (2.82%) JSON
6 4 (2.82%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.82%) REST
6 4 (2.82%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.82%) YAML
7 3 (2.11%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.56%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.15%) Distributed Computing
3 6 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.23%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (2.82%) Derivative
5 4 (2.82%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.11%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
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%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.41%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.70%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.70%) SCADA
8 1 (0.70%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.63%) Linux
2 3 (2.11%) Unix
3 2 (1.41%) Windows
3 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.32%) ETL
2 52 (36.62%) Data Engineering
3 50 (35.21%) Analytics
3 50 (35.21%) CI/CD
4 44 (30.99%) Agile
5 43 (30.28%) Data Pipeline
6 40 (28.17%) Data Modelling
7 36 (25.35%) DevOps
8 34 (23.94%) Data Governance
9 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (19.72%) AI
11 24 (16.90%) Machine Learning
12 22 (15.49%) Software Engineering
13 20 (14.08%) Computer Science
13 20 (14.08%) Containerisation
14 19 (13.38%) Data Science
14 19 (13.38%) Scrum
15 18 (12.68%) Decision-Making
16 15 (10.56%) Migration
16 15 (10.56%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 82 (57.75%) Python
2 74 (52.11%) SQL
3 28 (19.72%) Java
4 23 (16.20%) Scala
5 13 (9.15%) R
6 10 (7.04%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.63%) C++
8 6 (4.23%) C#
9 4 (2.82%) Bash
10 3 (2.11%) SAS Macro
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 11 (7.75%) Master's Degree
6 10 (7.04%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.11%) PhD
9 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.41%) MCITP
9 2 (1.41%) MCTS
9 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.70%) CISSP
10 1 (0.70%) HP APS
10 1 (0.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (20.42%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.04%) GDPR
3 8 (5.63%) QA
4 3 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.11%) NIST
4 3 (2.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.70%) IFRS
6 1 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 31 (21.83%) Docker
2 9 (6.34%) HDFS
3 2 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (22.54%) 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%) Nagios
4 2 (1.41%) Rancher
5 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
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
5 5 (3.52%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.11%) Informatica
7 2 (1.41%) Oracle
7 2 (1.41%) Sybase
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco
8 1 (0.70%) Confluent
8 1 (0.70%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.70%) HP
8 1 (0.70%) Splunk