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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 205 157
Rank change year-on-year -96 -48 +15
Contract jobs citing Big Data 141 170 270
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.70% 1.25% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 5.90% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 120 199
10th Percentile £357 £408 £388
25th Percentile £453 £500 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £586 £618
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -5.10% -1.20%
75th Percentile £718 £700 £813
90th Percentile £813 £789 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £38.25
25th Percentile £61.00 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.00 £100.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.00% +110.53% -44.12%
75th Percentile £73.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £69.48 £45.00
% change year-on-year +0.75% +54.40% -42.31%

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 3,585 2,883 3,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.79% 21.21% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 2,026 2,824
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £437 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £725
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 34 25
10th Percentile £17.46 £24.65 £32.85
25th Percentile £25.25 £29.54 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -13.86% -15.83%
75th Percentile £54.69 £63.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.13 £85.25 £77.25
England median hourly rate £38.25 £34.58 £37.50
% change year-on-year +10.63% -7.80% -31.82%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -36 16 £600 -11.76% 9
West London -15 5 £713 +35.71% 3
South London -7 4 £644 - 2
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 67 (47.52%) Apache Spark
2 23 (16.31%) Apache
3 21 (14.89%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.55%) JBoss
4 5 (3.55%) SAS
4 5 (3.55%) SharePoint
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (2.84%) Palantir Foundry
6 3 (2.13%) CMS
7 2 (1.42%) Confluence
8 1 (0.71%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.71%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Endur
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.26%) AWS
2 49 (34.75%) Azure
3 44 (31.21%) GCP
4 22 (15.60%) Snowflake
5 18 (12.77%) Amazon S3
6 16 (11.35%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (9.93%) GitHub
8 11 (7.80%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.09%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.96%) PaaS
12 7 (4.96%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (4.26%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.26%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.26%) dbt
13 6 (4.26%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.55%) Amazon EKS
14 5 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.55%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.13%) DHCP
2 3 (2.13%) DNS
2 3 (2.13%) Firewall
2 3 (2.13%) SMTP
2 3 (2.13%) VPN
3 2 (1.42%) Broadband
3 2 (1.42%) IPv4
3 2 (1.42%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.86%) Data Lake
2 27 (19.15%) Hadoop
3 23 (16.31%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (14.18%) NoSQL
4 20 (14.18%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (7.80%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (7.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (7.09%) Apache Hive
6 10 (7.09%) BigQuery
6 10 (7.09%) MongoDB
6 10 (7.09%) Power BI
7 9 (6.38%) Metadata
8 8 (5.67%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.96%) Tableau
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.55%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (3.55%) Base SAS
10 5 (3.55%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.55%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 18 (12.77%) Jenkins
2 15 (10.64%) Git
3 14 (9.93%) GitLab
4 6 (4.26%) PowerDesigner
5 5 (3.55%) Selenium
6 4 (2.84%) Robot Framework
7 3 (2.13%) JIRA
8 1 (0.71%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.71%) eggPlant
8 1 (0.71%) Gatling
8 1 (0.71%) JMeter
8 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.71%) Postman
8 1 (0.71%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (35.46%) Finance
2 49 (34.75%) Social Skills
3 31 (21.99%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (17.02%) Banking
5 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.26%) Marketing
6 4 (2.84%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.84%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Local Government
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.42%) Retail
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (29.08%) Data Engineer
2 31 (21.99%) Architect
3 25 (17.73%) Senior
4 12 (8.51%) Big Data Engineer
4 12 (8.51%) Lead
5 11 (7.80%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.38%) Analyst
6 9 (6.38%) Data Architect
6 9 (6.38%) Developer
7 8 (5.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (4.96%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.26%) DBA
9 6 (4.26%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.55%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) QA Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Scala Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.73%) Kafka
2 21 (14.89%) PySpark
3 14 (9.93%) REST
4 9 (6.38%) Pandas
5 6 (4.26%) CSS
5 6 (4.26%) HTML
5 6 (4.26%) Spring
5 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.55%) Langfuse
6 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (3.55%) Middleware
6 5 (3.55%) NumPy
6 5 (3.55%) Play Framework
6 5 (3.55%) React
7 4 (2.84%) Apache NiFi
8 3 (2.13%) .NET
8 3 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.13%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.13%) RESTful
8 3 (2.13%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 28 (19.86%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.35%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.09%) Clustering
4 8 (5.67%) Virtual Team
5 7 (4.96%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.26%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.55%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.84%) AI Agents
8 4 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.84%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (2.84%) FMCG
9 3 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (2.13%) PKI
10 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.42%) Social Media
11 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.71%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.35%) Linux
2 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (3.55%) Windows
2 5 (3.55%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.84%) Unix
4 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (43.97%) Data Pipeline
2 57 (40.43%) Analytics
3 55 (39.01%) Data Engineering
4 49 (34.75%) CI/CD
5 45 (31.91%) ETL
6 44 (31.21%) AI
7 40 (28.37%) Agile
8 36 (25.53%) DevOps
9 31 (21.99%) Machine Learning
10 28 (19.86%) Data Modelling
10 28 (19.86%) Scrum
11 27 (19.15%) Validation
12 26 (18.44%) Containerisation
13 25 (17.73%) Data Governance
14 24 (17.02%) Data Science
15 22 (15.60%) Decision-Making
15 22 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
16 21 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
17 20 (14.18%) Data Analysis
17 20 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 77 (54.61%) Python
2 55 (39.01%) SQL
3 28 (19.86%) Java
4 20 (14.18%) Scala
5 14 (9.93%) PowerShell
6 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.38%) R
8 5 (3.55%) SAS Macro
9 4 (2.84%) Bash
9 4 (2.84%) C#
10 2 (1.42%) Go
10 2 (1.42%) Korn
11 1 (0.71%) C
11 1 (0.71%) C++
Qualifications
1 23 (16.31%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.06%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.35%) Degree
4 9 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.96%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.55%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.13%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.13%) PhD
9 2 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.42%) CISSP
9 2 (1.42%) MCITP
9 2 (1.42%) MCTS
9 2 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.71%) MBA
10 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.80%) QA
3 8 (5.67%) GDPR
4 4 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.84%) NIST
5 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.42%) SLA
6 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.71%) IFRS
6 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 25 (17.73%) Docker
2 8 (5.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (4.96%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.13%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.13%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.13%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.13%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.42%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (19.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.48%) Terraform
3 10 (7.09%) Puppet
4 9 (6.38%) Grafana
5 7 (4.96%) Ansible
6 5 (3.55%) Kibana
6 5 (3.55%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (2.84%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (2.13%) Nagios
8 3 (2.13%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.13%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.13%) vMotion
9 2 (1.42%) Control-M
10 1 (0.71%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 25 (17.73%) Databricks
2 21 (14.89%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.22%) Google
4 12 (8.51%) Salesforce
5 10 (7.09%) Cloudera
6 8 (5.67%) VMware
7 7 (4.96%) Foundry
7 7 (4.96%) IBM
8 6 (4.26%) Splunk
9 5 (3.55%) Amplitude
9 5 (3.55%) Cisco
9 5 (3.55%) Red Hat
10 4 (2.84%) HP
10 4 (2.84%) Palantir
11 3 (2.13%) Citrix
11 3 (2.13%) Informatica
11 3 (2.13%) OpenAI
11 3 (2.13%) Oracle
11 3 (2.13%) Symantec
12 2 (1.42%) OpenLink