Big Data Contracts in Northamptonshire

Big Data
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 17 21 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 9 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 6.16% 2.04% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 28.13% 8.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £298 £367 -
25th Percentile £327 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% - -
75th Percentile £408 £444 -
90th Percentile £451 £478 -
East Midlands median daily rate £393 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -23.41% -10.87% +64.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 32 45 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 21.92% 22.96% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 35 25
10th Percentile £277 £233 £205
25th Percentile £341 £356 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% - -
75th Percentile £488 £488 £408
90th Percentile £537 £516 £495
East Midlands median daily rate £459 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +8.00% - -4.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £14.00 £26.48
% change year-on-year +35.71% -47.13% -24.34%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Northamptonshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Northamptonshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Northamptonshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton +1 9 £372 -11.28% 7
Big Data
East Midlands

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 8 (88.89%) Apache Spark
2 3 (33.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Hadoop
2 5 (55.56%) Impala
3 4 (44.44%) Apache Hive
3 4 (44.44%) HBase
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Hudi
4 2 (22.22%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
4 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
4 2 (22.22%) Flink
4 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
4 2 (22.22%) Parquet
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Scala Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Big Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Scala Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Hadoop Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) Apache Avro
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 3 (33.33%) Open Source
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Data Governance
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven
3 2 (22.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) KYC
4 1 (11.11%) Multithreading
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) SDLC
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Scala
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Hitachi
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce