Big Data Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Big Data
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 29
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.75% 1.35% 0.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 16.33% 7.89% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £468 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £454
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +1.87% -
75th Percentile £575 £469 -
90th Percentile £583 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £463 £454
% change year-on-year +13.51% +1.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 49 38 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 10.72% 17.12% 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 23 10
10th Percentile £396 £359 £420
25th Percentile £413 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.63% -20.83%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £497
90th Percentile £625 £670 £560
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £69.44 - -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Newcastle upon Tyne

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 6 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (62.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (50.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
1 7 (87.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) AI
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Data Science
4 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (12.50%) Observability
7 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
7 1 (12.50%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Talend