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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 156 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Big Data 27 29 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.79% 0.63% 0.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.03% 4.79% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 20 20
10th Percentile £412 £243 £450
25th Percentile £520 £350 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £788
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -46.03% +57.50%
75th Percentile £591 £697 £850
90th Percentile £610 £782 £871
England median daily rate £550 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £72.00
England median hourly rate £69.48 £47.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +46.27% -39.10% +3.38%

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 448 605 753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.03% 13.18% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 403 530
10th Percentile £205 £302 £318
25th Percentile £325 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -7.32% +7.90%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £623
90th Percentile £638 £660 £688
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 20 46
10th Percentile £13.25 £22.24 £21.05
25th Percentile £18.38 £30.00 £31.12
Median hourly rate £32.05 £51.59 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.88% -1.26% +132.22%
75th Percentile £34.15 £61.60 £69.69
90th Percentile £43.25 £61.91 £75.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £36.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% -34.09% +22.22%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +11 18 £550 +29.41% 18
Hampshire +22 9 £575 -24.84%
Berkshire +9 9 £550 -18.52% 14
Buckinghamshire +8 9 £425 -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (29.63%) Apache Spark
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) AWS
2 17 (62.96%) Azure
3 15 (55.56%) GCP
4 9 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 8 (29.63%) IaaS
5 8 (29.63%) PaaS
6 5 (18.52%) Amazon S3
6 5 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon Bedrock
7 4 (14.81%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (14.81%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (14.81%) ChatGPT
7 4 (14.81%) Serverless
8 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
9 2 (7.41%) GitHub
10 1 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (3.70%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) DNS
2 8 (29.63%) DHCP
2 8 (29.63%) Firewall
2 8 (29.63%) SMTP
2 8 (29.63%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) SSH
3 1 (3.70%) SSL
3 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (29.63%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
3 2 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.41%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.70%) GIS
4 1 (3.70%) IBM InfoSphere
4 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.70%) OLAP
4 1 (3.70%) Parquet
4 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) JIRA
2 3 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) MLflow
3 1 (3.70%) Poetry
3 1 (3.70%) PyCharm
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 7 (25.93%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Financial Institution
3 4 (14.81%) General Ledger
4 3 (11.11%) Retail
4 3 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (29.63%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Solutions Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Support Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (22.22%) Data Scientist
4 4 (14.81%) Data Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Data Modeller
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) NumPy
1 6 (22.22%) Pandas
2 5 (18.52%) scikit-learn
3 4 (14.81%) Hugging Face
3 4 (14.81%) Kafka
3 4 (14.81%) PyTorch
4 3 (11.11%) Prophet
5 1 (3.70%) Apache Avro
5 1 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.70%) Flask
5 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Clustering
1 8 (29.63%) Data Centre
1 8 (29.63%) PKI
2 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 9 (33.33%) Linux
2 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Machine Learning
2 14 (51.85%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) Artificial Intelligence
4 8 (29.63%) Data Engineering
4 8 (29.63%) LLM
4 8 (29.63%) Software Deployment
5 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (25.93%) Use Case
6 6 (22.22%) Agile
6 6 (22.22%) Data Science
7 4 (14.81%) A/B Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (14.81%) ArchiMate
7 4 (14.81%) Migration
7 4 (14.81%) OCR
7 4 (14.81%) Roadmaps
7 4 (14.81%) Scrum
7 4 (14.81%) Statistical Analysis
7 4 (14.81%) Strategic Roadmap
7 4 (14.81%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) SQL
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.41%) Scala
5 1 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (3.70%) Groovy
5 1 (3.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Degree
2 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (29.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 9 (33.33%) Docker
2 8 (29.63%) Active Directory
2 8 (29.63%) BitLocker
2 8 (29.63%) Hyper-V
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (29.63%) Terminal Services
2 8 (29.63%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 8 (29.63%) Ansible
2 8 (29.63%) Nagios
2 8 (29.63%) Puppet
2 8 (29.63%) vCenter Server
2 8 (29.63%) vMotion
3 1 (3.70%) Argo
3 1 (3.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Google
2 8 (29.63%) Citrix
2 8 (29.63%) HP
2 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Symantec
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 5 (18.52%) Databricks
4 3 (11.11%) Sage
5 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.70%) Virgin Media