Big Data Contracts in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 121 141
Rank change year-on-year +14 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Big Data 13 16 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.66% 0.58% 0.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.85% 3.83% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 9
10th Percentile £463 - £444
25th Percentile £488 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +7.37% -18.31%
75th Percentile £706 £596 £588
90th Percentile £713 £638 £713
England median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% -
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 £35.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +63.12% -51.71% +11.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 338 418 511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 17.17% 15.17% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 318 374
10th Percentile £354 £346 £338
25th Percentile £402 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £635 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 18
10th Percentile £22.72 £26.85 £35.00
25th Percentile £22.92 £39.44 £39.70
Median hourly rate £25.43 £42.50 £47.29
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -10.12% +60.29%
75th Percentile £29.85 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.00 £69.50 £65.30
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +22 11 £600 +2.13% 31
Cheshire -9 1 £351 -31.18% 6
Merseyside - 1 £650 - 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (38.46%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (15.38%) dbt
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (7.69%) Google Ads
5 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Hadoop
2 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (15.38%) Data Mining
3 2 (15.38%) Data Vault
3 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
3 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Tableau
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Accumulo
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.69%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (7.69%) HBase
4 1 (7.69%) Pentaho
4 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) ERwin
2 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Advertising
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
1 5 (38.46%) Data Architect
2 3 (23.08%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) ETL Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Scientist
3 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (53.85%) Kafka
2 4 (30.77%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (15.38%) PySpark
4 1 (7.69%) Matplotlib
4 1 (7.69%) Pandas
4 1 (7.69%) scikit-learn
4 1 (7.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (30.77%) Analytics
2 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
2 4 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (30.77%) Software Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Agile
3 3 (23.08%) Data Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Data Management
3 3 (23.08%) Data Science
3 3 (23.08%) Data Security
3 3 (23.08%) ETL
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Runbook
4 2 (15.38%) Secure Coding
4 2 (15.38%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) DV Cleared
2 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (30.77%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cloudera
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) Apple
3 1 (7.69%) Criteo
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Talend