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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 116 184
Rank change year-on-year -59 +68 -26
Contract jobs citing Big Data 23 37 23
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.44% 1.24% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.67% 8.37% 3.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 16
10th Percentile £320 £461 £315
25th Percentile £370 £485 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £472
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.04% -14.27%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £730
90th Percentile £606 £738 £766
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.20
Median hourly rate - - £19.38
75th Percentile - - £28.31
90th Percentile - - £42.27
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% +3.14%

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 627 442 676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 12.06% 14.81% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 301 430
10th Percentile £302 £321 £290
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.20%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £534 £525
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.71% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 42
10th Percentile £12.29 £22.97 £18.20
25th Percentile £24.99 £23.50 £21.02
Median hourly rate £37.00 £42.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.94% -29.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £46.29 £64.73 £76.53
90th Percentile £82.55 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £49.36 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year +41.03% -13.58% -32.50%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -51 13 £450 -10.00% 3
Buckinghamshire -10 7 £322 -40.65% 2
Hampshire - 5 £585 - 2
Berkshire -46 4 £500 - 1
Surrey -10 3 £500 +36.99%
Oxfordshire -14 2 £550 -
Middlesex - 1 £475 -
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 8 (34.78%) Apache Spark
2 5 (21.74%) Confluence
3 4 (17.39%) SharePoint
4 3 (13.04%) Apache
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) AWS
2 11 (47.83%) Azure
3 10 (43.48%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
5 4 (17.39%) OpenShift
5 4 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 4 (17.39%) Snowflake
6 3 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
6 3 (13.04%) Serverless
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.35%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (4.35%) Datadog
7 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (34.78%) Relational Database
3 7 (30.43%) Hadoop
3 7 (30.43%) NoSQL
3 7 (30.43%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (21.74%) DynamoDB
5 4 (17.39%) Power BI
5 4 (17.39%) Star Schema
6 2 (8.70%) Data Mining
6 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
6 2 (8.70%) Tableau
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
7 1 (4.35%) Couchbase
7 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
7 1 (4.35%) HBase
7 1 (4.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JIRA
2 4 (17.39%) Git
3 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.70%) GitLab
5 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
5 1 (4.35%) Gatling
5 1 (4.35%) Gradle
5 1 (4.35%) JMeter
5 1 (4.35%) JUnit
5 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (65.22%) Social Skills
2 10 (43.48%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Military
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Data Scientist
1 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Data Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Java Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Java Applications Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Kafka
2 5 (21.74%) Spring
2 5 (21.74%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) NumPy
3 3 (13.04%) Pandas
3 3 (13.04%) PyTorch
3 3 (13.04%) scikit-learn
3 3 (13.04%) TensorFlow
4 2 (8.70%) Matplotlib
4 2 (8.70%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (8.70%) Seaborn
5 1 (4.35%) Apache Beam
5 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.35%) Keras
5 1 (4.35%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) React
5 1 (4.35%) REST
5 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Analytics
2 9 (39.13%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (39.13%) ETL
3 8 (34.78%) Data Analysis
3 8 (34.78%) Machine Learning
4 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 7 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 7 (30.43%) Visualisation
5 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
5 6 (26.09%) Data Governance
5 6 (26.09%) Data Modelling
5 6 (26.09%) Data Science
5 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
5 6 (26.09%) Statistics
6 5 (21.74%) AI
6 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Predictive Modelling
6 5 (21.74%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) SQL
2 14 (60.87%) Python
3 8 (34.78%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) R
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Go
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Scala
5 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) Master's Degree
3 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) OCP
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Ab Initio
1 3 (13.04%) Google
1 3 (13.04%) Teradata
2 1 (4.35%) Atlassian
2 1 (4.35%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft