Big Data Engineer Contracts in Northampton

Big Data Engineer
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in Northampton is £349, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 1.63% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £294 - -
25th Percentile £312 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 - -
75th Percentile £385 - -
90th Percentile £403 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £349 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Northampton with a recognized job title 112 123 125
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 96.85% 92.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 94 96
10th Percentile £266 £333 £200
25th Percentile £358 £356 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £448 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +11.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £573 £500
90th Percentile £560 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £433 £400
% change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.16% +24.13%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
% change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in Northampton

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in Northampton

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northampton region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) HBase
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Impala
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Apache

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) HBase
1 2 (100.00%) Impala
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Scala