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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 141 121
Rank change year-on-year -41 -20 -31
Contract jobs citing Big Data 234 526 938
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.31% 1.94% 2.42%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.14% 9.38% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 376 565
10th Percentile £395 £463 £461
25th Percentile £468 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £819 £808
England median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.67% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £25.99 £35.00 £62.42
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.47 £67.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £64.00 £75.70
Median % change year-on-year -33.59% -15.46% +36.40%
75th Percentile £47.50 £84.38 £83.61
90th Percentile £56.50 £93.75 £87.99
England median hourly rate £42.50 £73.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -41.78% +11.88% +38.10%

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 3,812 5,610 8,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.33% 20.64% 21.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,809 4,082 6,278
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £475 £498
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 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 52 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.59 £25.81 £34.00
Median hourly rate £49.25 £53.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.37% +2.38% +50.52%
75th Percentile £54.34 £74.31 £68.75
90th Percentile £64.14 £88.30 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.25 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.92% +41.18% +70.00%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -12 17 £675 +12.50% 9
West London +16 5 £525 -26.32% 2
East London -10 1 £575 +6.98% 7
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 68 (29.06%) Apache Spark
2 31 (13.25%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (11.97%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.85%) Confluence
4 2 (0.85%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.43%) Camunda
5 1 (0.43%) Tornado
Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 94 (40.17%) Azure
2 87 (37.18%) AWS
3 45 (19.23%) GCP
4 29 (12.39%) Power Platform
5 28 (11.97%) Serverless
6 18 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (6.84%) dbt
7 16 (6.84%) Snowflake
8 15 (6.41%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon EMR
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
9 12 (5.13%) Amazon S3
9 12 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (5.13%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
10 9 (3.85%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (3.85%) GitHub
11 8 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (3.42%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (27.35%) Data Lake
2 60 (25.64%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (18.38%) Hadoop
4 24 (10.26%) Tableau
5 23 (9.83%) Apache Hive
5 23 (9.83%) Power BI
6 22 (9.40%) NoSQL
7 20 (8.55%) Amazon Athena
7 20 (8.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 17 (7.26%) BigQuery
9 14 (5.98%) SQL Server
10 12 (5.13%) Impala
11 10 (4.27%) Apache Arrow
11 10 (4.27%) Dremio
11 10 (4.27%) OLTP
12 9 (3.85%) Delta Lake
12 9 (3.85%) HBase
12 9 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (3.42%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (2.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (8.97%) Git
2 9 (3.85%) JIRA
3 6 (2.56%) Maven
3 6 (2.56%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (2.14%) ERwin
4 5 (2.14%) Subversion
4 5 (2.14%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.28%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.28%) Poetry
6 3 (1.28%) RStudio
7 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.85%) Liquibase
7 2 (0.85%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) git-flow
8 1 (0.43%) Mockito
8 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 54 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (21.37%) Social Skills
3 43 (18.38%) Finance
4 24 (10.26%) Banking
5 18 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.13%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.14%) Marketing
8 5 (2.14%) Retail
9 4 (1.71%) Publishing
10 3 (1.28%) Back Office
10 3 (1.28%) Legal
10 3 (1.28%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.43%) German Language
12 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.43%) Local Government
12 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.43%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 65 (27.78%) Architect
2 56 (23.93%) Data Engineer
3 30 (12.82%) Data Architect
4 26 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 24 (10.26%) Senior
6 23 (9.83%) Developer
7 19 (8.12%) Big Data Engineer
8 18 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (7.69%) Data Scientist
8 18 (7.69%) Lead
9 14 (5.98%) Analyst
9 14 (5.98%) Cloud Architect
9 14 (5.98%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.70%) Principal Architect
10 11 (4.70%) Principal Solutions Architect
11 10 (4.27%) AWS Architect
11 10 (4.27%) Consultant
11 10 (4.27%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.27%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (17.52%) PySpark
2 31 (13.25%) Kafka
3 16 (6.84%) Pandas
4 11 (4.70%) .NET
5 10 (4.27%) gRPC
5 10 (4.27%) Protocol Buffers
6 9 (3.85%) Web Services
7 8 (3.42%) JSON
7 8 (3.42%) SAML
7 8 (3.42%) scikit-learn
8 7 (2.99%) NumPy
8 7 (2.99%) XML
9 6 (2.56%) ARM Templates
9 6 (2.56%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (2.56%) TensorFlow
10 5 (2.14%) Apache NiFi
10 5 (2.14%) REST
11 4 (1.71%) .NET Core
11 4 (1.71%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (1.71%) React
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.97%) Algorithms
2 19 (8.12%) Hedge funds
3 15 (6.41%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (4.27%) Clustering
4 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
5 9 (3.85%) Freedom of Information
5 9 (3.85%) Freedom of Information Act
6 8 (3.42%) Distributed Computing
6 8 (3.42%) Product Ownership
7 7 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.56%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 4 (1.71%) Social Media
11 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (1.28%) Grid Computing
11 3 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 7 (2.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (36.75%) Data Modelling
2 69 (29.49%) Data Pipeline
3 68 (29.06%) ETL
4 67 (28.63%) Agile
5 58 (24.79%) Analytics
6 56 (23.93%) Business Intelligence
7 49 (20.94%) Machine Learning
8 48 (20.51%) Data Science
9 39 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 37 (15.81%) Computer Science
10 37 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (14.96%) DevOps
12 33 (14.10%) Data Engineering
13 31 (13.25%) Data Analysis
14 28 (11.97%) Data Governance
14 28 (11.97%) Visualisation
15 25 (10.68%) Microservices
15 25 (10.68%) Scrum
16 24 (10.26%) Statistics
17 23 (9.83%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 137 (58.55%) Python
2 108 (46.15%) SQL
3 46 (19.66%) Java
4 40 (17.09%) Scala
5 20 (8.55%) R
6 18 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 17 (7.26%) PowerShell
8 13 (5.56%) Go
9 11 (4.70%) C#
10 9 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.71%) Perl
12 3 (1.28%) Bash
13 2 (0.85%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.85%) U-SQL
14 1 (0.43%) ANSI SQL
14 1 (0.43%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) Gremlin
14 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (15.81%) Degree
2 25 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 22 (9.40%) SC Cleared
4 17 (7.26%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.41%) AWS Certification
5 15 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.56%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.56%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.71%) CISSP
7 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.71%) QA
3 3 (1.28%) GDPR
3 3 (1.28%) SLA
4 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.85%) MiFID
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
4 2 (0.85%) NIST
4 2 (0.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) EMIR
5 1 (0.43%) FATCA
System Software
1 13 (5.56%) Docker
2 10 (4.27%) HDFS
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 47 (20.09%) Terraform
2 30 (12.82%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.12%) Ansible
4 14 (5.98%) Puppet
5 10 (4.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.56%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.71%) Argo
8 3 (1.28%) Consul
8 3 (1.28%) Oozie
8 3 (1.28%) Packer
8 3 (1.28%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.85%) Ambari
10 1 (0.43%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.43%) Podman
10 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (19.23%) Databricks
2 27 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.84%) Google
4 13 (5.56%) Talend
5 12 (5.13%) Informatica
6 9 (3.85%) Oracle
7 4 (1.71%) Foundry
7 4 (1.71%) IBM
7 4 (1.71%) Okta
7 4 (1.71%) Palantir
7 4 (1.71%) SAP
7 4 (1.71%) Symantec
7 4 (1.71%) Varonis
8 3 (1.28%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.28%) Phenom
9 2 (0.85%) ESRI
9 2 (0.85%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.85%) Splunk
9 2 (0.85%) Sybase
10 1 (0.43%) Sun