Big Data Contract Job Trends in Northampton

Big Data
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northampton requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northampton 4.46% 1.75% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 27.03% 6.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £387 - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £435 - -
90th Percentile £439 - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £340 -
% change year-on-year +23.53% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 37 33 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 16.52% 28.95% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 26 3
10th Percentile £328 £300 £375
25th Percentile £384 £356 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £383 £393
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% -2.42% -21.50%
75th Percentile £447 £419 £399
90th Percentile £459 £520 £401
Northamptonshire median daily rate £413 £383 £393
% change year-on-year +7.70% -2.42% -21.50%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Northampton

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northampton citing Big Data

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northampton 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 10 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (30.00%) Apache
2 3 (30.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (50.00%) Apache Hive
3 4 (40.00%) Metadata
4 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
4 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (30.00%) HBase
4 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (20.00%) QlikView
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Banking
4 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (30.00%) Data Scientist
3 3 (30.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) Pandas
1 3 (30.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Data Science
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Fintech
4 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (30.00%) MapReduce
4 3 (30.00%) Metadata Management
4 3 (30.00%) Statistical Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Scala
3 3 (30.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) R
4 2 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (20.00%) GDPR
2 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (30.00%) Oozie
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 2 (20.00%) Ab Initio
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft