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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 211 128 159
Rank change year-on-year -83 +31 +16
Contract jobs citing Big Data 20 36 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.30% 1.02% 0.63%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.52% 7.55% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 24
10th Percentile £394 £406 £263
25th Percentile £430 £469 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £437
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +26.00% -43.68%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £697
90th Percentile £630 £612 £794
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 793 477 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.82% 13.54% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 330 403
10th Percentile £313 £222 £290
25th Percentile £413 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -7.75% -5.66%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £624
90th Percentile £650 £638 £662
England median daily rate £500 £515 £540
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 11 22
10th Percentile £13.94 £13.25 £20.92
25th Percentile £27.75 £22.18 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £24.00 £51.59
Median % change year-on-year +59.38% -53.48% -6.20%
75th Percentile £55.00 £32.05 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.25 £62.83
England median hourly rate £38.50 £34.65 £36.25
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.41% -34.09%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -65 13 £463 -15.91% 4
Berkshire -35 11 £450 -18.18% 3
Hampshire -41 5 £606 +5.43% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £550 - 1
Surrey -23 1 £500 +36.99% 2
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 14 (70.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.00%) Apache
2 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 17 (85.00%) AWS
2 14 (70.00%) Azure
2 14 (70.00%) GCP
3 6 (30.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (30.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (20.00%) Serverless
6 3 (15.00%) GitHub
6 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.00%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (45.00%) NoSQL
3 7 (35.00%) Relational Database
4 6 (30.00%) DynamoDB
4 6 (30.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (25.00%) Hadoop
6 4 (20.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (15.00%) Power BI
7 3 (15.00%) Spark SQL
8 2 (10.00%) BigQuery
8 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Data Engineer
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
1 6 (30.00%) Senior
2 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Big Data Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Applications Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Core Java Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Software Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Kafka
2 5 (25.00%) PySpark
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
3 4 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 2 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (10.00%) Matplotlib
4 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
4 2 (10.00%) Seaborn
4 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Beam
5 1 (5.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Clustering
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (70.00%) ETL
3 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (35.00%) Containerisation
4 7 (35.00%) Data Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 7 (35.00%) Validation
5 6 (30.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Data Integration
5 6 (30.00%) Data Validation
5 6 (30.00%) Machine Learning
6 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 5 (25.00%) DevOps
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (20.00%) AI
7 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) SQL
2 13 (65.00%) Python
3 12 (60.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Scala
5 2 (10.00%) Bash
5 2 (10.00%) R
6 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (20.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Ansible
2 2 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Databricks
2 3 (15.00%) Ab Initio
2 3 (15.00%) Teradata
3 1 (5.00%) Google