Big Data Contract Job Trends in Preston

Big Data
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Preston requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 0.61% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Lancashire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £72.66 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £72.66 - -

All Database & BI Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 4.27% 3.85% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £285 £371 £425
25th Percentile £375 £384 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -21.90% +2.19%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £588
90th Percentile - £627 £625
Lancashire median daily rate £625 £475 £484
% change year-on-year +31.58% -1.86% -21.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - -
Median hourly rate £39.50 - £28.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -43.51%
75th Percentile £57.21 - -
90th Percentile £66.48 - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £46.80 - £28.00
% change year-on-year - - -43.51%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Preston

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

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

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Informatica
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle