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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 188 168
Rank change year-on-year -52 -20 -43
Contract jobs citing Big Data 143 203 274
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.99% 1.35% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.85% 6.28% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 125 193
10th Percentile £309 £356 £450
25th Percentile £400 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £810 £790 £788
England median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - - £25.98
25th Percentile - £51.25 £38.44
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year - +15.31% +4.35%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £55.63
90th Percentile - - £71.00
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +13.69% +5.84%

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 2,950 3,235 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 20.51% 21.47% 19.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,055 2,232 2,643
10th Percentile £363 £360 £383
25th Percentile £419 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £569 £570
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -0.18% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £697 £688
90th Percentile £752 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 28 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.27 £19.88
25th Percentile £30.69 £29.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £42.75 £45.53
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.10% -17.22%
75th Percentile £66.06 £57.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £87.50 £79.13 £70.33
England median hourly rate £46.50 £36.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year +28.28% -21.50% -10.76%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 -15 12 £550 -6.38% 5
West London -17 4 £525 -7.57% 2
South London - 2 £450 -
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 (44.76%) Apache Spark
2 24 (16.78%) Apache
3 14 (9.79%) Confluence
4 9 (6.29%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.40%) Apache Pig
5 2 (1.40%) Luigi
5 2 (1.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.70%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 2 (1.40%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.70%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 49 (34.27%) AWS
2 37 (25.87%) Azure
3 26 (18.18%) Serverless
4 20 (13.99%) GCP
5 15 (10.49%) Snowflake
6 11 (7.69%) GitHub
7 9 (6.29%) Amazon S3
8 8 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (5.59%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (2.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.10%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (2.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (2.10%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.40%) DNS
1 2 (1.40%) Kerberos
1 2 (1.40%) VPN
2 1 (0.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (33.57%) Hadoop
2 24 (16.78%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (13.99%) NoSQL
4 17 (11.89%) Data Lake
4 17 (11.89%) Relational Database
5 16 (11.19%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (10.49%) SQL Server
7 14 (9.79%) Metadata
8 13 (9.09%) Apache Hive
9 12 (8.39%) RDBMS
10 10 (6.99%) Impala
10 10 (6.99%) Tableau
11 9 (6.29%) HBase
12 8 (5.59%) Power BI
13 7 (4.90%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (4.90%) BigQuery
14 6 (4.20%) Data Vault
14 6 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (3.50%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (3.50%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 17 (11.89%) JIRA
2 11 (7.69%) Git
3 8 (5.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (4.90%) GitLab
5 6 (4.20%) ERwin
6 4 (2.80%) ER Studio
7 2 (1.40%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.40%) Selenium
7 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.70%) Gradle
8 1 (0.70%) Maven
8 1 (0.70%) NUnit
8 1 (0.70%) Poetry
8 1 (0.70%) Postman
8 1 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.70%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.70%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.70%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 43 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.08%) Finance
3 27 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.90%) Banking
5 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.50%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.10%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.10%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.40%) Retail
8 1 (0.70%) Advertising
8 1 (0.70%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.70%) Front Office
8 1 (0.70%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.70%) Legal
8 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (26.57%) Data Engineer
2 21 (14.69%) Senior
3 14 (9.79%) Developer
3 14 (9.79%) Lead
4 11 (7.69%) Data Scientist
4 11 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 10 (6.99%) Architect
6 8 (5.59%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (4.90%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (4.20%) Analyst
8 6 (4.20%) Data Architect
8 6 (4.20%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.50%) Apache Spark Developer
9 5 (3.50%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Big Data Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Java Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Python Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) QA Engineer
9 5 (3.50%) Scala Developer
9 5 (3.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (27.97%) Kafka
2 21 (14.69%) Apache NiFi
3 19 (13.29%) PySpark
4 12 (8.39%) scikit-learn
5 11 (7.69%) .NET
6 9 (6.29%) Pandas
6 9 (6.29%) RabbitMQ
6 9 (6.29%) React
6 9 (6.29%) TensorFlow
7 7 (4.90%) Spark Streaming
8 6 (4.20%) PyTorch
9 5 (3.50%) JSON
9 5 (3.50%) XML
10 4 (2.80%) HTML
10 4 (2.80%) NumPy
10 4 (2.80%) pytest
10 4 (2.80%) XGBoost
10 4 (2.80%) YAML
11 3 (2.10%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.10%) Dask
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.39%) Distributed Computing
2 11 (7.69%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.29%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.80%) Derivative
5 4 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.80%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.40%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.70%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.70%) Equities
8 1 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.39%) Linux
2 2 (1.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (37.06%) ETL
2 45 (31.47%) Agile
3 43 (30.07%) Data Modelling
4 40 (27.97%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (25.17%) Software Engineering
6 34 (23.78%) Data Engineering
7 32 (22.38%) Analytics
8 30 (20.98%) CI/CD
8 30 (20.98%) Data Governance
9 29 (20.28%) Machine Learning
10 28 (19.58%) Microservices
10 28 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (16.78%) Decision-Making
12 22 (15.38%) Data Science
13 21 (14.69%) DevOps
13 21 (14.69%) Scrum
14 18 (12.59%) AI
14 18 (12.59%) Containerisation
15 17 (11.89%) Data Architecture
16 16 (11.19%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 98 (68.53%) Python
2 76 (53.15%) SQL
3 32 (22.38%) Java
4 15 (10.49%) C#
4 15 (10.49%) JavaScript
4 15 (10.49%) Scala
5 14 (9.79%) C++
6 9 (6.29%) R
7 6 (4.20%) Bash
8 3 (2.10%) Perl
8 3 (2.10%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.40%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.70%) Ada
10 1 (0.70%) C
10 1 (0.70%) Korn
10 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.70%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 36 (25.17%) Security Cleared
2 33 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 23 (16.08%) DV Cleared
4 17 (11.89%) Degree
5 12 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (7.69%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.50%) PhD
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.40%) CISSP
9 1 (0.70%) HP APS
9 1 (0.70%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.98%) Data Quality
2 9 (6.29%) QA
3 6 (4.20%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS
5 1 (0.70%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (13.99%) Docker
2 9 (6.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.29%) Terraform
3 3 (2.10%) Ansible
3 3 (2.10%) Grafana
3 3 (2.10%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.40%) Argo
4 2 (1.40%) Nagios
4 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.40%) Rancher
5 1 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (19.58%) Databricks
2 16 (11.19%) Cloudera
3 13 (9.09%) Foundry
3 13 (9.09%) Palantir
4 11 (7.69%) Google
5 10 (6.99%) Microsoft
6 4 (2.80%) Oracle
7 2 (1.40%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.40%) IBM
7 2 (1.40%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.40%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.70%) HP
8 1 (0.70%) Informatica
8 1 (0.70%) PayPal
8 1 (0.70%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.70%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.70%) Splunk
8 1 (0.70%) Sybase
8 1 (0.70%) Vertica
8 1 (0.70%) Zoomdata