Big Data Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Big Data
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 2.62% 1.72% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 19.51% 7.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £405 £346 -
25th Percentile £409 £355 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £370 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% - -
75th Percentile £436 £385 -
90th Percentile £440 £394 -
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £530
% change year-on-year -1.18% -19.81% -

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 41 54 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 13.44% 23.18% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 43 8
10th Percentile £304 £340 £263
25th Percentile £340 £356 £287
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £355
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +12.68% -29.00%
75th Percentile £447 £445 £398
90th Percentile £476 £498 £399
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -1.18% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £11.33
25th Percentile - - £11.52
Median hourly rate - - £11.83
75th Percentile - - £17.78
90th Percentile - - £21.35
East Midlands median hourly rate £38.96 £22.50 £11.83
% change year-on-year +73.16% +90.19% -63.60%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

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 3 November 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 -8 8 £420 +5.00% 1
Big Data
East Midlands

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 7 (87.50%) Apache Spark
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Hadoop
2 5 (62.50%) Apache Hive
2 5 (62.50%) Metadata
3 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (37.50%) HBase
3 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
3 3 (37.50%) Tableau
4 2 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (25.00%) QlikView
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) Hadoop Developer
3 3 (37.50%) Scala Developer
4 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Banking Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Banking Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Digital Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Kafka
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Metadata Management
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (37.50%) Data Science
3 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) MapReduce
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) AI
4 2 (25.00%) Complex ETL
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Scala
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (37.50%) Oozie
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft