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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 135 176
Rank change year-on-year -39 +41 -29
Contract jobs citing Big Data 20 31 27
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.45% 0.84% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.77% 5.72% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 13
10th Percentile £318 £423 £464
25th Percentile £341 £510 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £694 £725
Median % change year-on-year -40.54% -4.31% +38.10%
75th Percentile £488 £759 £825
90th Percentile £545 £786 £933
England median daily rate £500 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -13.04% +0.88% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £52.67
25th Percentile - - £55.90
Median hourly rate - - £61.53
75th Percentile - - £66.90
90th Percentile - - £69.96
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +13.69% +5.84%

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 531 542 671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.00% 14.70% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 354 482
10th Percentile £205 £300 £281
25th Percentile £355 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £625
90th Percentile £660 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 36
10th Percentile £30.10 £34.67 £21.00
25th Percentile - £41.25 £31.92
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.15 £55.91
Median % change year-on-year -36.66% +12.95% +137.56%
75th Percentile £52.58 £64.95 £73.13
90th Percentile £75.09 £65.62 £79.78
England median hourly rate £54.35 £39.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.36% -17.89% -13.64%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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 -14 16 £413 -25.00% 20
Buckinghamshire +14 11 £406 -25.12% 1
Berkshire -23 5 £550 -20.00% 17
Hampshire -15 2 £480 -37.93% 1
Surrey -8 1 £500 +42.86% 4
East Sussex - 1 £360 -
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 6 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (25.00%) Confluence
3 4 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (15.00%) Apache
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) Azure
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 5 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Amazon Bedrock
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 4 (20.00%) ChatGPT
4 4 (20.00%) GitHub
4 4 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (5.00%) Datadog
6 1 (5.00%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) DNS
1 1 (5.00%) SSH
1 1 (5.00%) SSL
1 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Hadoop
2 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 4 (20.00%) Star Schema
4 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
4 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
5 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (10.00%) Power BI
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (5.00%) Couchbase
6 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (5.00%) HBase
6 1 (5.00%) Parquet
6 1 (5.00%) Redis
6 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (45.00%) JIRA
2 6 (30.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.00%) Gatling
4 1 (5.00%) GitLab
4 1 (5.00%) Gradle
4 1 (5.00%) JMeter
4 1 (5.00%) JUnit
4 1 (5.00%) MLflow
4 1 (5.00%) Poetry
4 1 (5.00%) PyCharm
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Data Scientist
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (40.00%) NumPy
1 8 (40.00%) Pandas
2 7 (35.00%) scikit-learn
3 4 (20.00%) Hugging Face
3 4 (20.00%) PyTorch
4 3 (15.00%) Kafka
4 3 (15.00%) Prophet
5 2 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.00%) Apache Avro
6 1 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (5.00%) Flask
6 1 (5.00%) PySpark
6 1 (5.00%) REST
6 1 (5.00%) Spring
6 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Agile
1 10 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (45.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (45.00%) Data Science
3 8 (40.00%) LLM
3 8 (40.00%) Use Case
4 7 (35.00%) Visualisation
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) ETL
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Statistics
7 4 (20.00%) Data Lineage
7 4 (20.00%) OCR
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 14 (70.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) Bash
4 1 (5.00%) Go
4 1 (5.00%) Groovy
4 1 (5.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) OCP
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) GDPR
2 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Argo
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Sage
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Red Hat