Big Data Contracts in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 162 177
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Big Data 39 36 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.21% 0.63% 0.66%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.97% 5.55% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 26 18
10th Percentile £466 £259 £450
25th Percentile £500 £350 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -20.93% +2.38%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £797
90th Percentile £600 £744 £850
England median daily rate £550 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -5.66% -2.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £19.38 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £42.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +35.29% -45.51% +3.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 435 649 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.49% 11.36% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 402 549
10th Percentile £287 £313 £338
25th Percentile £375 £400 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £482 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.73% -8.19% +5.00%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £682
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 35 41
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £22.18 £21.58 £32.30
Median hourly rate £24.00 £38.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.66% -33.04% +155.56%
75th Percentile £32.05 £61.60 £73.71
90th Percentile £36.25 £78.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.94 £40.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.15% -30.43% +52.12%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South East over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Thames Valley +31 28 £506 +22.88% 21
Berkshire +40 22 £500 +14.68% 10
Hampshire +35 8 £575 -22.03% 7
Buckinghamshire -3 5 £550 +46.67% 6
West Sussex +6 2 £469 - 1
Surrey +25 1 £365 -2.67% 1
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 5
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (23.08%) Apache Spark
2 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.69%) Apache
4 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.56%) CATIA
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 27 (69.23%) AWS
2 22 (56.41%) Azure
3 16 (41.03%) GCP
4 9 (23.08%) OpenShift
5 8 (20.51%) IaaS
5 8 (20.51%) PaaS
6 5 (12.82%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (10.26%) GitHub
7 4 (10.26%) Snowflake
8 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) DHCP
1 8 (20.51%) DNS
1 8 (20.51%) Firewall
1 8 (20.51%) SMTP
1 8 (20.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Relational Database
2 8 (20.51%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (20.51%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (20.51%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (17.95%) Hadoop
4 6 (15.38%) Metadata
5 2 (5.13%) Apache Hive
5 2 (5.13%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.13%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.13%) MySQL
5 2 (5.13%) NewSQL
5 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
5 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.13%) Tableau
6 1 (2.56%) GIS
6 1 (2.56%) OLAP
6 1 (2.56%) Power BI
6 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) ERwin
2 5 (12.82%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.26%) PowerDesigner
General
1 12 (30.77%) Finance
2 10 (25.64%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.26%) Financial Institution
4 4 (10.26%) General Ledger
4 4 (10.26%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.69%) Retail
6 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Billing
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Automotive
7 1 (2.56%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Architect
2 9 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (20.51%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (20.51%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (20.51%) Support Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Data Modeller
5 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Senior
7 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (5.13%) NumPy
2 2 (5.13%) Pandas
2 2 (5.13%) PySpark
2 2 (5.13%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.56%) Prophet
3 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.56%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.51%) Clustering
1 8 (20.51%) Data Centre
1 8 (20.51%) PKI
2 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.26%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.13%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.13%) Replication
4 2 (5.13%) SCADA
5 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
1 13 (33.33%) Windows
1 13 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (12.82%) Ubuntu
3 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Machine Learning
2 13 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 13 (33.33%) DevOps
3 10 (25.64%) Migration
4 8 (20.51%) Data Science
4 8 (20.51%) Software Deployment
5 7 (17.95%) Analytics
5 7 (17.95%) Data Cleansing
5 7 (17.95%) Data Modelling
5 7 (17.95%) ETL
5 7 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.38%) Data Security
6 6 (15.38%) High Availability
6 6 (15.38%) Roadmaps
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (12.82%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (12.82%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.90%) Python
1 14 (35.90%) SQL
2 13 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (2.56%) C++
4 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Degree
2 8 (20.51%) DV Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) GDPR
1 2 (5.13%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (20.51%) Active Directory
1 8 (20.51%) BitLocker
1 8 (20.51%) Docker
1 8 (20.51%) Hyper-V
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (20.51%) Terminal Services
1 8 (20.51%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (20.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Ansible
2 10 (25.64%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.51%) Nagios
3 8 (20.51%) Puppet
3 8 (20.51%) vCenter Server
3 8 (20.51%) vMotion
4 5 (12.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (46.15%) Microsoft
2 11 (28.21%) Google
3 9 (23.08%) Databricks
4 8 (20.51%) Citrix
4 8 (20.51%) HP
4 8 (20.51%) Symantec
4 8 (20.51%) VMware
5 4 (10.26%) Salesforce
5 4 (10.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.56%) IBM
6 1 (2.56%) Virgin Media