Big Data Contracts in the North of England

Big Data
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 142 191
Rank change year-on-year -3 +49 +19
Contract jobs citing Big Data 21 42 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.63% 0.89% 0.31%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.56% 6.03% 2.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 12
10th Percentile £460 £463 -
25th Percentile £481 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £584 £613
90th Percentile £713 £619 £710
England median daily rate £570 £585 £594
% change year-on-year -2.56% -1.47% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £35.50
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £38.75
90th Percentile - - £39.50
England median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +43.75% -48.72% +28.93%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 590 697 795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 17.64% 14.81% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 518 568
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £551 £585 £625
90th Percentile £625 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 16
10th Percentile £21.61 £11.00 £32.50
25th Percentile £22.72 £15.69 £37.10
Median hourly rate £25.43 £40.25 £40.80
Median % change year-on-year -36.82% -1.34% +31.60%
75th Percentile £32.08 £44.74 £63.50
90th Percentile £55.78 £48.44 £65.50
England median hourly rate £31.85 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.39% -33.33% +34.91%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
North West +6 13 £600 +17.65% 13
Yorkshire -4 7 £600 +9.09% 9
North East - 1 £463 -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 6 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (9.52%) dbt
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (4.76%) Google Ads
5 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (61.90%) Hadoop
2 4 (19.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (14.29%) Metadata
4 2 (9.52%) Apache Hive
4 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
4 2 (9.52%) Data Vault
4 2 (9.52%) Delta Lake
4 2 (9.52%) MySQL
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.52%) Tableau
5 1 (4.76%) Apache Accumulo
5 1 (4.76%) HBase
5 1 (4.76%) Pentaho
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) ERwin
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Health Technology
5 1 (4.76%) Advertising
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) International Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Data Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Programme Director
4 2 (9.52%) Programme Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
5 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) ETL Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Scientist
5 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (38.10%) Kafka
2 4 (19.05%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (19.05%) PySpark
3 2 (9.52%) Node.js
3 2 (9.52%) React
4 1 (4.76%) Matplotlib
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle GoldenGate
4 1 (4.76%) Pandas
4 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
4 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) NHS
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Credit Risk
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
2 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (23.81%) Analytics
2 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
2 5 (23.81%) Mentoring
2 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Software Engineering
3 4 (19.05%) Agile
3 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
4 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 3 (14.29%) Code Quality
4 3 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 3 (14.29%) Data Management
4 3 (14.29%) Data Science
4 3 (14.29%) Data Security
4 3 (14.29%) Data Transformation
4 3 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 3 (14.29%) DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Open Source
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) SQL
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
3 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.76%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
1 1 (4.76%) HDFS
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Kibana
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Cloudera
2 4 (19.05%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Splunk
4 2 (9.52%) Brio
4 2 (9.52%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) Informatica
4 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.76%) Apple
5 1 (4.76%) Criteo
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Talend