Big Data Contracts in the Midlands

Big Data
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 102 144 169
Rank change year-on-year +42 +25 -33
Contract jobs citing Big Data 35 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.28% 0.55% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.66% 3.21% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 17
10th Percentile £401 £400 £400
25th Percentile £478 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £493
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +11.56% -12.74%
75th Percentile £775 £669 £575
90th Percentile £850 £696 £621
England median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.67% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27.75 - -
Median hourly rate £30.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 404 591 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.73% 17.09% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 409 703
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £356 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £540
90th Percentile £700 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 17
10th Percentile - £21.53 £17.90
25th Percentile - £24.16 £22.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £25.87 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.87% -26.10% +45.83%
75th Percentile £27.49 £32.93 -
90th Percentile £40.50 £47.54 £45.67
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +35 23 £650 +18.18% 22
East Midlands +27 12 £550 -4.35% 5
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (25.71%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
3 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (42.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Hadoop
2 6 (17.14%) Data Lake
3 5 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (11.43%) Power BI
5 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.57%) Tableau
6 2 (5.71%) Delta Lake
6 2 (5.71%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.86%) MySQL
7 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.86%) Presto
7 1 (2.86%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
General
1 21 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (17.14%) Architect
1 6 (17.14%) Developer
2 5 (14.29%) Azure Architect
2 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Hadoop Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analytics Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Data Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Data Migration Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Migration Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Security Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Analytics Developer
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Solution Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Data Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (5.71%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) Anaconda
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.86%) JDBC
3 1 (2.86%) Kafka
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 15 (42.86%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (42.86%) Distributed Applications
2 10 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Android
1 13 (37.14%) Apple iOS
1 13 (37.14%) Linux
1 13 (37.14%) Unix
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Analytics
2 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (45.71%) Data Engineering
3 16 (45.71%) Data Management
4 15 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
4 15 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 15 (42.86%) Information Security
4 15 (42.86%) Security Architecture
4 15 (42.86%) SIEM
5 13 (37.14%) Kalman Filter
5 13 (37.14%) Security Operations
6 12 (34.29%) Data Analysis
7 11 (31.43%) Data Analytics
8 9 (25.71%) ETL
9 6 (17.14%) Data Modelling
10 5 (14.29%) Agile
10 5 (14.29%) Data Architecture
10 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (11.43%) Data Science
11 4 (11.43%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) Python
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 13 (37.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Developer
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (42.86%) Actionable Recommendations
2 4 (11.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Red Hat
2 7 (20.00%) Databricks
3 4 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.57%) Teradata
5 2 (5.71%) Ab Initio
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle
6 1 (2.86%) Ariba
6 1 (2.86%) Autodesk
6 1 (2.86%) Sage
6 1 (2.86%) SAP
6 1 (2.86%) Splunk