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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 206 153
Rank change year-on-year -97 -53 +24
Contract jobs citing Big Data 139 167 268
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.69% 1.24% 1.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 5.84% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 118 196
10th Percentile £357 £408 £388
25th Percentile £453 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £591 £625
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -5.52% -
75th Percentile £719 £700 £825
90th Percentile £813 £793 £850
England median daily rate £550 £550 £612
% change year-on-year - -10.13% +0.53%
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% -47.22%
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 3,609 2,859 3,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 17.96% 21.24% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,443 1,998 2,817
10th Percentile £363 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £429 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £695 £725
90th Percentile £749 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £515 £547
% change year-on-year -2.91% -5.85% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 34 24
10th Percentile £17.72 £25.40 £32.29
25th Percentile £25.25 £31.22 £41.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £48.00 £50.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -4.48% -16.25%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £85.25 £77.63
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.82 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.58% -0.53% -36.36%

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 18 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 18 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 -22 15 £600 -11.76% 7
West London -18 5 £713 +35.71% 2
South London -6 4 £644 - 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 67 (48.20%) Apache Spark
2 23 (16.55%) Apache
3 21 (15.11%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (4.32%) JBoss
5 5 (3.60%) SAS
5 5 (3.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (2.88%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (2.16%) CMS
8 2 (1.44%) Confluence
9 1 (0.72%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.72%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) Endur
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 61 (43.88%) AWS
2 49 (35.25%) Azure
3 44 (31.65%) GCP
4 22 (15.83%) Snowflake
5 18 (12.95%) Amazon S3
6 16 (11.51%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (9.35%) GitHub
8 11 (7.91%) Power Platform
9 10 (7.19%) Amazon ECS
10 9 (6.47%) Amazon EMR
11 8 (5.76%) GitHub Actions
12 7 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (5.04%) PaaS
12 7 (5.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon Bedrock
13 6 (4.32%) Amazon EventBridge
13 6 (4.32%) dbt
13 6 (4.32%) OpenShift
14 5 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (3.60%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.32%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.16%) DHCP
2 3 (2.16%) DNS
2 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) SMTP
2 3 (2.16%) VPN
3 2 (1.44%) Broadband
3 2 (1.44%) IPv4
3 2 (1.44%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.14%) Data Lake
1 28 (20.14%) Hadoop
2 23 (16.55%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (13.67%) NoSQL
5 11 (7.91%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (7.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (7.19%) Apache Hive
6 10 (7.19%) BigQuery
6 10 (7.19%) MongoDB
6 10 (7.19%) Power BI
7 9 (6.47%) Metadata
8 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
9 7 (5.04%) Tableau
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (3.60%) Base SAS
10 5 (3.60%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.60%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.60%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 17 (12.23%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.07%) Git
3 13 (9.35%) GitLab
4 6 (4.32%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (2.88%) Selenium
6 3 (2.16%) JIRA
6 3 (2.16%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.72%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.72%) eggPlant
7 1 (0.72%) Gatling
7 1 (0.72%) JMeter
7 1 (0.72%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (33.81%) Finance
1 47 (33.81%) Social Skills
2 32 (23.02%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (16.55%) Banking
4 6 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (4.32%) Marketing
5 4 (2.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.88%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.16%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.16%) Legal
7 2 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.44%) Local Government
7 2 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.44%) Retail
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (29.50%) Data Engineer
2 31 (22.30%) Architect
3 25 (17.99%) Senior
4 12 (8.63%) Big Data Engineer
4 12 (8.63%) Lead
5 11 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.47%) Data Architect
7 8 (5.76%) Analyst
7 8 (5.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 8 (5.76%) Developer
8 7 (5.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) Data Analyst
9 6 (4.32%) DBA
9 6 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.32%) SQL DBA
10 5 (3.60%) Applications Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Hadoop Engineer
10 5 (3.60%) Scala Engineer
11 4 (2.88%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.99%) Kafka
2 21 (15.11%) PySpark
3 14 (10.07%) REST
4 9 (6.47%) Pandas
5 6 (4.32%) Spring
5 6 (4.32%) Spring Boot
6 5 (3.60%) CSS
6 5 (3.60%) HTML
6 5 (3.60%) Langfuse
6 5 (3.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 5 (3.60%) Middleware
6 5 (3.60%) NumPy
6 5 (3.60%) Play Framework
7 4 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
7 4 (2.88%) React
8 3 (2.16%) .NET
8 3 (2.16%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.16%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.16%) RESTful
8 3 (2.16%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 28 (20.14%) Cloud Native
2 16 (11.51%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (7.91%) Clustering
4 8 (5.76%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.32%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.60%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.88%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.88%) FMCG
8 3 (2.16%) PKI
9 2 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.44%) Social Media
10 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.23%) Linux
2 6 (4.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.60%) Windows
3 5 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.88%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (44.60%) Data Pipeline
2 56 (40.29%) Analytics
3 53 (38.13%) Data Engineering
4 47 (33.81%) CI/CD
5 44 (31.65%) ETL
6 42 (30.22%) AI
7 39 (28.06%) Agile
8 35 (25.18%) DevOps
9 30 (21.58%) Machine Learning
10 27 (19.42%) Data Modelling
10 27 (19.42%) Scrum
11 26 (18.71%) Containerisation
12 25 (17.99%) Data Governance
12 25 (17.99%) Validation
13 24 (17.27%) Data Science
14 22 (15.83%) Decision-Making
14 22 (15.83%) Performance Tuning
15 21 (15.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (14.39%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (13.67%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 74 (53.24%) Python
2 53 (38.13%) SQL
3 27 (19.42%) Java
4 20 (14.39%) Scala
5 14 (10.07%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.47%) R
7 5 (3.60%) SAS Macro
8 4 (2.88%) Bash
8 4 (2.88%) C#
9 2 (1.44%) Go
9 2 (1.44%) Korn
10 1 (0.72%) C
10 1 (0.72%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (12.95%) SC Cleared
3 16 (11.51%) Degree
4 9 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.04%) Master's Degree
6 5 (3.60%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.88%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.16%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.16%) PhD
9 2 (1.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.44%) CISSP
9 2 (1.44%) MCITP
9 2 (1.44%) MCTS
9 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.72%) MBA
10 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.30%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.19%) QA
3 7 (5.04%) GDPR
4 4 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.88%) NIST
5 2 (1.44%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.44%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.72%) IFRS
6 1 (0.72%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 25 (17.99%) Docker
2 9 (6.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.04%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.16%) BitLocker
4 3 (2.16%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.16%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.16%) Terminal Services
4 3 (2.16%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.44%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (20.14%) Kubernetes
2 19 (13.67%) Terraform
3 11 (7.91%) Puppet
4 9 (6.47%) Grafana
5 7 (5.04%) Ansible
6 6 (4.32%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (3.60%) Failover Clustering
7 5 (3.60%) Kibana
8 3 (2.16%) Nagios
8 3 (2.16%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.16%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.16%) vMotion
9 2 (1.44%) Control-M
10 1 (0.72%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 25 (17.99%) Databricks
2 21 (15.11%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.35%) Google
4 12 (8.63%) Salesforce
5 10 (7.19%) Cloudera
6 9 (6.47%) VMware
7 7 (5.04%) Foundry
7 7 (5.04%) IBM
8 6 (4.32%) Cisco
8 6 (4.32%) Red Hat
8 6 (4.32%) Splunk
9 5 (3.60%) Amplitude
10 4 (2.88%) HP
10 4 (2.88%) Palantir
11 3 (2.16%) Citrix
11 3 (2.16%) Informatica
11 3 (2.16%) Oracle
11 3 (2.16%) Symantec
12 2 (1.44%) OpenLink
12 2 (1.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud