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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 223 147 152
Rank change year-on-year -76 +5 +17
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 24 27
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.67% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.42% 4.87% 4.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 17
10th Percentile £333 £390 £283
25th Percentile £409 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% +29.41% -46.88%
75th Percentile £528 £588 £763
90th Percentile £630 £595 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 706 493 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.85% 13.82% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 361 390
10th Percentile £313 £205 £300
25th Percentile £413 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £592 £550 £629
90th Percentile £650 £638 £660
England median daily rate £511 £511 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 3 22
10th Percentile £14.09 - £23.16
25th Percentile £27.88 £13.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £13.50 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +183.33% -73.83% +5.29%
75th Percentile £61.24 £19.13 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.62 £22.35 £64.41
England median hourly rate £41.71 £43.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -4.11% +20.00% -30.95%

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 October 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 October 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
Berkshire -18 7 £440 -20.00% 8
Thames Valley -47 7 £440 -20.00% 14
Surrey -17 1 £275 -45.00% 11
Hampshire -34 1 - - 3
Middlesex - 1 - -
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 8 (80.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (30.00%) Spark SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Parquet
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Aerospace
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Advertising
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Report Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) PySpark
2 3 (30.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (80.00%) ETL
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Validation
5 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Data Validation
5 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Analytics
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (30.00%) Data Science
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
6 3 (30.00%) Migration
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (30.00%) Sprint Review
7 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (10.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) Bicep
5 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks