Big Data Contract Job Trends in the North East

Big Data
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East 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 50 37 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.47% 0.94% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.55% 7.14% 6.82%
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 - -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Median hourly rate £69.44 - £46.18
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year +21.74% +35.29% -41.78%

All Database & BI Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 55 42 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 10.11% 13.17% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 26 20
10th Percentile £381 £358 £404
25th Percentile £413 £403 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £461 £476
Median % change year-on-year +2.98% -3.10% -18.98%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £656
90th Percentile £619 £663 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.61%
75th Percentile - - £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.54 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +43.58% -17.23% -32.54%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the North East

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the North East over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the North East

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -15 8 £525 +13.51% 8
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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