Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 143 124
Rank change year-on-year -37 -19 -36
Contract jobs citing Big Data 240 491 897
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.37% 1.87% 2.32%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.28% 9.13% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 343 539
10th Percentile £399 £463 £459
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £808
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £25.87 £41.90 £62.42
25th Percentile £36.56 £62.00 £67.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £80.00 £75.70
Median % change year-on-year -46.88% +5.68% +36.40%
75th Percentile £48.75 £90.00 £83.61
90th Percentile £58.50 £92.50 £87.99
England median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +35.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,821 5,378 8,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.74% 20.46% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,826 3,937 6,142
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +11.43%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £825 £800 £787
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 53 36
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £24.50 £34.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £55.20
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.35% +58.24%
75th Percentile £55.00 £76.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £66.02 £89.66 £81.88
England median hourly rate £40.00 £57.50 £42.92
% change year-on-year -30.43% +33.98% +71.67%

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 -13 20 £650 +8.33% 9
West London +16 5 £525 -19.23% 2
East London -5 1 £575 +6.98% 6
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 66 (27.50%) Apache Spark
2 32 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (9.17%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.83%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.42%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Tornado
Applications
1 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 101 (42.08%) Azure
2 88 (36.67%) AWS
3 46 (19.17%) GCP
4 35 (14.58%) Power Platform
5 28 (11.67%) Serverless
6 21 (8.75%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (7.50%) dbt
9 14 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (5.00%) Entra ID
11 11 (4.58%) Amazon S3
12 10 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.75%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.75%) Azure Key Vault
13 9 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
14 8 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (3.33%) Power Automate
14 8 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (30.42%) Data Lake
2 59 (24.58%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (15.00%) Hadoop
4 29 (12.08%) Power BI
5 23 (9.58%) Apache Hive
6 22 (9.17%) Tableau
7 21 (8.75%) Amazon Athena
8 20 (8.33%) NoSQL
9 18 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (7.50%) BigQuery
10 16 (6.67%) SQL Server
11 14 (5.83%) Apache Arrow
11 14 (5.83%) Dremio
12 13 (5.42%) Impala
13 12 (5.00%) Delta Lake
14 11 (4.58%) OLTP
15 10 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (3.75%) HBase
17 8 (3.33%) Relational Database
17 8 (3.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (8.33%) Git
2 8 (3.33%) JIRA
3 6 (2.50%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (2.08%) ERwin
4 5 (2.08%) Maven
4 5 (2.08%) Subversion
4 5 (2.08%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.67%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.25%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.25%) RStudio
7 2 (0.83%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.83%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.83%) Poetry
8 1 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (21.67%) Finance
3 51 (21.25%) Social Skills
4 22 (9.17%) Banking
5 17 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.50%) Marketing
9 4 (1.67%) Publishing
9 4 (1.67%) Retail
10 3 (1.25%) Back Office
10 3 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.25%) Legal
10 3 (1.25%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.42%) German Language
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 64 (26.67%) Architect
2 58 (24.17%) Data Engineer
3 29 (12.08%) Data Architect
4 28 (11.67%) Solutions Architect
5 26 (10.83%) Senior
6 25 (10.42%) Developer
7 22 (9.17%) Big Data Engineer
8 20 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
9 18 (7.50%) Analyst
10 17 (7.08%) Cloud Architect
10 17 (7.08%) Lead
11 16 (6.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 15 (6.25%) Data Scientist
13 14 (5.83%) Site Engineer
13 14 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 12 (5.00%) Data Analyst
14 12 (5.00%) Principal Architect
14 12 (5.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
15 11 (4.58%) Consultant
15 11 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (19.17%) PySpark
2 27 (11.25%) Kafka
3 14 (5.83%) gRPC
3 14 (5.83%) Pandas
3 14 (5.83%) Protocol Buffers
4 11 (4.58%) .NET
5 8 (3.33%) JSON
5 8 (3.33%) SAML
5 8 (3.33%) Web Services
6 7 (2.92%) scikit-learn
6 7 (2.92%) XML
7 6 (2.50%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.50%) NumPy
7 6 (2.50%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
9 4 (1.67%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.67%) Apache Avro
9 4 (1.67%) Lambda Expressions
9 4 (1.67%) REST
10 3 (1.25%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) Algorithms
2 23 (9.58%) Hedge funds
3 14 (5.83%) Clustering
4 13 (5.42%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.75%) Freedom of Information
6 9 (3.75%) Freedom of Information Act
7 8 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (2.92%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.92%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.50%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.67%) Social Media
11 3 (1.25%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.92%) Linux
2 6 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (32.92%) Data Modelling
2 72 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 70 (29.17%) Agile
4 68 (28.33%) Analytics
4 68 (28.33%) ETL
5 61 (25.42%) Business Intelligence
6 45 (18.75%) Machine Learning
7 42 (17.50%) Data Science
8 41 (17.08%) DevOps
9 38 (15.83%) CI/CD
10 36 (15.00%) Data Engineering
10 36 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (13.75%) Computer Science
12 32 (13.33%) Data Analysis
12 32 (13.33%) Data Governance
13 29 (12.08%) Visualisation
14 26 (10.83%) Scrum
15 23 (9.58%) Data Visualisation
15 23 (9.58%) Microservices
15 23 (9.58%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 145 (60.42%) Python
2 112 (46.67%) SQL
3 49 (20.42%) Java
4 40 (16.67%) Scala
5 22 (9.17%) JavaScript
6 18 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.08%) Go
8 16 (6.67%) R
9 11 (4.58%) C#
10 7 (2.92%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.67%) Bash
11 4 (1.67%) Perl
12 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.83%) U-SQL
12 2 (0.83%) VBA
13 1 (0.42%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.42%) Rust
13 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (13.33%) Degree
2 25 (10.42%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.83%) AWS Certification
6 10 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.92%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.67%) CISSP
10 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.92%) QA
3 3 (1.25%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) MiFID
4 2 (0.83%) NCSC
4 2 (0.83%) NIST
4 2 (0.83%) PMO
4 2 (0.83%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) EMIR
5 1 (0.42%) FATCA
System Software
1 12 (5.00%) Docker
2 9 (3.75%) HDFS
3 1 (0.42%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 48 (20.00%) Terraform
2 32 (13.33%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.92%) Ansible
4 14 (5.83%) Prometheus
4 14 (5.83%) Puppet
5 6 (2.50%) Hadoop YARN
6 4 (1.67%) Argo
7 3 (1.25%) Oozie
8 2 (0.83%) Ambari
8 2 (0.83%) Consul
8 2 (0.83%) Packer
8 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.42%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 53 (22.08%) Databricks
2 31 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.67%) Google
4 13 (5.42%) Talend
5 12 (5.00%) Informatica
6 9 (3.75%) Oracle
7 4 (1.67%) Foundry
7 4 (1.67%) IBM
7 4 (1.67%) Okta
7 4 (1.67%) Palantir
7 4 (1.67%) SAP
7 4 (1.67%) Symantec
7 4 (1.67%) Varonis
8 3 (1.25%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.25%) Phenom
9 2 (0.83%) ESRI
9 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.42%) Sun
10 1 (0.42%) Teradata