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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 110 166
Rank change year-on-year -86 +56 +16
Contract jobs citing Big Data 21 38 34
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.35% 1.27% 0.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.94% 9.00% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 26
10th Percentile £319 £466 £259
25th Percentile £428 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £548 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% +28.82% -22.73%
75th Percentile £601 £588 £575
90th Percentile £630 £603 £744
England median daily rate £550 £570 £600
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.20
Median hourly rate - - £19.38
75th Percentile - - £20.55
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £57.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +21.74% +39.39% -47.12%

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 714 422 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.85% 14.12% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 292 384
10th Percentile £306 £307 £313
25th Percentile £395 £402 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £588 £570 £607
90th Percentile £650 £643 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 40
10th Percentile £13.48 £14.01 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.99 £22.84 £22.61
Median hourly rate £36.71 £29.91 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +22.76% -42.03% -11.95%
75th Percentile £51.89 £40.63 £62.96
90th Percentile £82.25 £64.43 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £32.43 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.62% -18.93% -32.54%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -64 11 £550 +10.00% 6
Hampshire -27 7 £585 +1.74% 1
Berkshire -43 7 £550 +10.00% 3
Surrey -20 2 £500 +36.99% 1
Oxfordshire -25 2 £550 - 2
Buckinghamshire -41 2 £319 -42.09% 1
Middlesex - 1 £475 -
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 (61.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.76%) Apache
3 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) AWS
2 13 (61.90%) Azure
2 13 (61.90%) GCP
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 8 (38.10%) OpenShift
4 8 (38.10%) Snowflake
5 6 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (28.57%) Serverless
6 3 (14.29%) GitHub
7 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
8 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.76%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 10 (47.62%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (42.86%) Relational Database
4 8 (38.10%) DynamoDB
5 5 (23.81%) Hadoop
6 3 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
7 2 (9.52%) BigQuery
7 2 (9.52%) Power BI
7 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
7 2 (9.52%) Star Schema
7 2 (9.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.76%) Marketing
5 1 (4.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Developer
2 6 (28.57%) Java Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Senior
4 4 (19.05%) Applications Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Big Data Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Data Scientist
5 3 (14.29%) Java Applications Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Architect
6 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
6 2 (9.52%) Java Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Applications Developer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Architect
7 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) GCP Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) Kafka
2 8 (38.10%) Spring
3 7 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 3 (14.29%) PyTorch
4 3 (14.29%) TensorFlow
5 2 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (9.52%) Matplotlib
5 2 (9.52%) PySpark
5 2 (9.52%) Seaborn
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Beam
6 1 (4.76%) Keras
6 1 (4.76%) NumPy
6 1 (4.76%) Pandas
6 1 (4.76%) React
6 1 (4.76%) REST
6 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
6 1 (4.76%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) ETL
2 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 11 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (38.10%) Containerisation
5 7 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 6 (28.57%) Analytics
6 6 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) High Availability
6 6 (28.57%) Machine Learning
6 6 (28.57%) Software Engineering
7 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
7 5 (23.81%) Data Governance
7 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
7 5 (23.81%) Data Science
7 5 (23.81%) Migration
7 5 (23.81%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (19.05%) Agile
8 4 (19.05%) Data Modelling
8 4 (19.05%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) SQL
2 13 (61.90%) Java
2 13 (61.90%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) R
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Master's Degree
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Ab Initio
1 5 (23.81%) Teradata
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Google