Big Data Contract Job Trends in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 133 150
Rank change year-on-year -85 +17 +14
Contract jobs citing Big Data 16 29 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.24% 0.84% 0.67%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.14% 6.44% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 21 22
10th Percentile £283 £413 £249
25th Percentile £425 £525 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £437
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +31.73% -44.57%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £741
90th Percentile £624 £600 £798
England median daily rate £544 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -1.14% -8.33% -5.51%

All Database & BI 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 748 450 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.33% 12.98% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 322 397
10th Percentile £320 £205 £306
25th Percentile £413 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.68%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £625
90th Percentile £650 £638 £663
England median daily rate £505 £508 £550
% change year-on-year -0.49% -7.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 7 20
10th Percentile £13.55 £13.25 £22.24
25th Percentile £27.75 £18.38 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £32.05 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% -37.88% +3.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £34.15 £61.60
90th Percentile £81.78 £43.25 £61.91
England median hourly rate £39.00 £42.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year -7.13% +21.85% -37.34%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the South East

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Big Data

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 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Big Data

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 8 September 2026. 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 -56 11 £450 -18.18% 15
Berkshire -26 10 £445 -20.89% 5
Hampshire -39 3 £525 -8.70% 6
Middlesex - 1 - - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £550 - 4
Surrey - 1 £275 - 8
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (81.25%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 12 (75.00%) Azure
3 10 (62.50%) GCP
4 5 (31.25%) Snowflake
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (25.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 3 (18.75%) Serverless
7 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (43.75%) NoSQL
3 4 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (25.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (18.75%) Spark SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (12.50%) Power BI
6 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
6 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 1 (6.25%) Parquet
6 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Senior
2 5 (31.25%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Applications Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Tester
6 1 (6.25%) Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Java Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Java Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Java Software Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Java Applications Developer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior QA Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Architect
6 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) Kafka
1 5 (31.25%) PySpark
2 4 (25.00%) Spring
3 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 3 (18.75%) Terraform
4 2 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (6.25%) Matplotlib
5 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
5 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
5 1 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (6.25%) Seaborn
5 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (75.00%) ETL
2 8 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (43.75%) Migration
4 6 (37.50%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
4 6 (37.50%) Validation
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Containerisation
5 5 (31.25%) Data Validation
6 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 3 (18.75%) Analytics
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) Data Science
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (18.75%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (18.75%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) Python
3 9 (56.25%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) Scala
6 1 (6.25%) Bicep
6 1 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 4 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Databricks
2 2 (12.50%) Ab Initio
2 2 (12.50%) Teradata