Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 194 179 139
Rank change year-on-year -15 -40 -19
Contract jobs citing Big Data 163 236 515
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.30% 1.32% 1.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.82% 6.14% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 188 366
10th Percentile £390 £397 £463
25th Percentile £450 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £725 £763 £734
90th Percentile £803 £850 £813
England median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 8
10th Percentile £52.25 £25.87 £35.00
25th Percentile £53.75 £36.56 £41.47
Median hourly rate £57.50 £42.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -33.59% -15.46%
75th Percentile £79.38 £48.75 £84.38
90th Percentile £91.75 £58.50 £93.75
England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +63.12% -51.71% +11.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence 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 2,800 3,842 5,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.31% 21.55% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,981 2,833 4,047
10th Percentile £375 £378 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.17% -1.71%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £825 £800
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 37 53
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.98 £21.24
25th Percentile £28.03 £25.79 £24.50
Median hourly rate £39.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.39% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £76.50 £64.73 £88.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in London

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 1 May 2025. 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 +20 35 £625 -5.66% 13
West London +8 1 £775 +47.62% 8
South London - 1 - - 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 79 (48.47%) Apache Spark
2 45 (27.61%) Apache
3 16 (9.82%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.07%) Confluence
5 3 (1.84%) Oracle Coherence
5 3 (1.84%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.23%) nginx
7 1 (0.61%) Luigi
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.61%) SAS
7 1 (0.61%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.23%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.06%) AWS
2 45 (27.61%) Azure
3 20 (12.27%) GCP
4 19 (11.66%) Serverless
5 17 (10.43%) Amazon S3
6 15 (9.20%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (9.20%) Power Platform
7 13 (7.98%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (6.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (4.29%) PaaS
11 6 (3.68%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (3.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (3.07%) Azure AKS
12 5 (3.07%) Snowflake
13 4 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (2.45%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.45%) DNS
2 1 (0.61%) DHCP
2 1 (0.61%) Firewall
2 1 (0.61%) HTTP
2 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.61%) NAS
2 1 (0.61%) SAN
2 1 (0.61%) SMTP
2 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.61%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (28.22%) Hadoop
2 26 (15.95%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (12.88%) Data Lake
4 18 (11.04%) Relational Database
5 17 (10.43%) Apache Hive
6 15 (9.20%) Tableau
7 14 (8.59%) NoSQL
8 13 (7.98%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (7.98%) Power BI
9 12 (7.36%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (6.75%) SQL Server
11 10 (6.13%) Impala
12 8 (4.91%) Data Mining
13 7 (4.29%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (4.29%) MongoDB
14 6 (3.68%) DB2
15 4 (2.45%) BigQuery
15 4 (2.45%) GIS
15 4 (2.45%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (2.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (11.04%) Git
2 17 (10.43%) Jenkins
3 8 (4.91%) JIRA
4 6 (3.68%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.68%) GitLab
4 6 (3.68%) TeamCity
5 4 (2.45%) ERwin
6 3 (1.84%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.84%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.23%) JUnit
7 2 (1.23%) MLflow
8 1 (0.61%) JMeter
8 1 (0.61%) Locust
8 1 (0.61%) Postman
8 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.61%) ScalaTest
8 1 (0.61%) Selenium
8 1 (0.61%) Subversion
8 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 62 (38.04%) Finance
2 36 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (20.25%) Social Skills
4 22 (13.50%) Banking
5 10 (6.13%) Investment Banking
5 10 (6.13%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.68%) Legal
6 6 (3.68%) Marketing
7 3 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.84%) Law
8 2 (1.23%) Back Office
8 2 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.23%) French Language
8 2 (1.23%) Front Office
8 2 (1.23%) German Language
8 2 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.23%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.61%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (25.15%) Data Engineer
2 32 (19.63%) Developer
3 26 (15.95%) Architect
4 19 (11.66%) Senior
5 18 (11.04%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.82%) Lead
7 14 (8.59%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (6.75%) Big Data Engineer
9 10 (6.13%) Apache Spark Developer
9 10 (6.13%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) Analyst
10 9 (5.52%) AWS Data Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (5.52%) Data Analyst
10 9 (5.52%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.91%) Data Scientist
11 8 (4.91%) Python Engineer
12 7 (4.29%) Data Architect
12 7 (4.29%) Java Engineer
12 7 (4.29%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.72%) Kafka
2 14 (8.59%) PySpark
3 11 (6.75%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (4.91%) .NET
4 8 (4.91%) REST
4 8 (4.91%) Web Services
5 7 (4.29%) Ray
5 7 (4.29%) Spring
6 6 (3.68%) Apache NiFi
6 6 (3.68%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (3.68%) React
7 5 (3.07%) RESTful
8 4 (2.45%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.45%) ASP.NET
8 4 (2.45%) ASP.NET Core
8 4 (2.45%) CSS
8 4 (2.45%) HTML
8 4 (2.45%) PyTorch
8 4 (2.45%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.45%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.50%) Distributed Computing
2 12 (7.36%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.36%) Market Risk
3 8 (4.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.29%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.68%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.07%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.07%) Private Cloud
7 4 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.45%) Tandem
8 3 (1.84%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.84%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.23%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.23%) Digital Media
9 2 (1.23%) IoT
9 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.43%) Linux
2 6 (3.68%) Unix
3 4 (2.45%) Windows
3 4 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.84%) CentOS
4 3 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (33.13%) Analytics
2 48 (29.45%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (26.99%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (25.77%) DevOps
5 41 (25.15%) ETL
6 39 (23.93%) CI/CD
6 39 (23.93%) Machine Learning
7 38 (23.31%) Data Engineering
7 38 (23.31%) Data Modelling
8 34 (20.86%) Data Science
9 32 (19.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 29 (17.79%) Agile
11 23 (14.11%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (14.11%) Data Governance
12 21 (12.88%) Visualisation
13 20 (12.27%) Data Architecture
13 20 (12.27%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (11.04%) Data Visualisation
15 17 (10.43%) Data Analysis
16 16 (9.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (58.28%) Python
2 65 (39.88%) SQL
3 51 (31.29%) Java
4 23 (14.11%) Scala
5 14 (8.59%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.98%) C#
6 13 (7.98%) R
7 11 (6.75%) Shell Script
8 9 (5.52%) C++
9 7 (4.29%) C
9 7 (4.29%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.07%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.45%) Perl
12 3 (1.84%) Bash
13 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.61%) Rust
14 1 (0.61%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (12.88%) Degree
2 19 (11.66%) Security Cleared
3 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.75%) Master's Degree
5 8 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.29%) PhD
7 5 (3.07%) AWS Certification
7 5 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) ACCA
9 1 (0.61%) CIMA
9 1 (0.61%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.68%) GDPR
3 3 (1.84%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.61%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (7.98%) Docker
2 4 (2.45%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.84%) HDFS
3 3 (1.84%) vCloud
3 3 (1.84%) VMware Workstation
3 3 (1.84%) vSphere
4 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.61%) KVM
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.61%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.61%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (12.27%) Kubernetes
2 19 (11.66%) Terraform
3 4 (2.45%) Ansible
3 4 (2.45%) Kibana
4 2 (1.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Ranger
5 1 (0.61%) Argo
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.61%) Nagios
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Puppet
5 1 (0.61%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.61%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.61%) vMotion
Vendors
1 22 (13.50%) Databricks
2 17 (10.43%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.20%) Cloudera
4 14 (8.59%) Oracle
5 11 (6.75%) Google
6 5 (3.07%) SAP
6 5 (3.07%) VMware
7 4 (2.45%) Informatica
7 4 (2.45%) Sybase
8 3 (1.84%) Pega
8 3 (1.84%) Talend
9 2 (1.23%) Adobe
9 2 (1.23%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (1.23%) Foundry
9 2 (1.23%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.23%) Palantir
9 2 (1.23%) Planview
9 2 (1.23%) Sage
9 2 (1.23%) Splunk
9 2 (1.23%) StreamSets