Big Data Contracts in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 145 156
Rank change year-on-year +24 +11 -54
Contract jobs citing Big Data 17 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.63% 0.51% 0.57%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.03% 3.19% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 20
10th Percentile £467 £444 £396
25th Percentile £505 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £594
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -20.03% +6.07%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £641
90th Percentile £637 £713 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
England median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +35.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 422 501 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.75% 16.11% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 367 555
10th Percentile £350 £338 £313
25th Percentile £406 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £634 £675 £675
England median daily rate £528 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 48
10th Percentile £26.85 £35.00 £13.21
25th Percentile £39.44 £38.70 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £49.57 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.26% +56.13% +35.28%
75th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.30% +30.20% +80.00%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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
Cheshire +16 11 £510 -24.44% 1
Manchester +20 6 £588 +23.68% 4
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 11 (64.71%) Apache Spark
2 6 (35.29%) Apache
3 5 (29.41%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 6 (35.29%) Snowflake
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
3 5 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (29.41%) Serverless
4 4 (23.53%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) GCP
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) Hadoop
2 4 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.76%) Metadata
4 2 (11.76%) MySQL
4 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 2 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
5 1 (5.88%) HBase
5 1 (5.88%) Impala
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) Presto
5 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Git
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Pharmaceutical
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.88%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Data Modeller
4 2 (11.76%) Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Principal Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Principal Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Security Consultant
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior UI Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior UI/UX Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior UX Designer
4 2 (11.76%) UI Designer
4 2 (11.76%) UI/UX Designer
4 2 (11.76%) UX Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) JSON
1 5 (29.41%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ETL
2 8 (47.06%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (41.18%) Data Engineering
3 7 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (35.29%) Data Management
4 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) Analytics
5 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
5 5 (29.41%) Data Modelling
5 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (29.41%) OO
5 5 (29.41%) OOP
5 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
5 5 (29.41%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
6 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) Java
4 5 (29.41%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) Scala
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
2 2 (11.76%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Informatica
1 5 (29.41%) Talend
2 4 (23.53%) Databricks
2 4 (23.53%) Teradata
3 2 (11.76%) Google
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Splunk