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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 126 173
Rank change year-on-year -49 +47 -20
Contract jobs citing Big Data 15 31 30
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.34% 0.96% 0.56%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.81% 6.51% 4.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 14
10th Percentile £316 £463 £300
25th Percentile £322 £500 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £543 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -16.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £491 £738 £744
90th Percentile £592 £755 £840
England median daily rate £503 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -12.23% +4.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.20
Median hourly rate - - £35.22
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £65.87
England median hourly rate - £52.50 £46.12
% change year-on-year - +13.84% +5.70%

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 534 476 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.95% 14.77% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 309 467
10th Percentile £208 £324 £305
25th Percentile £375 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 49
10th Percentile - £34.67 £19.40
25th Percentile £12.29 £41.25 £23.24
Median hourly rate £37.00 £63.15 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.41% +15.87% +25.29%
75th Percentile £40.00 £64.95 £75.00
90th Percentile £60.08 £65.62 £80.00
England median hourly rate £44.25 £38.11 £42.50
% change year-on-year +16.11% -10.33% -25.26%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -30 9 £322 -35.60% 20
Buckinghamshire 0 7 £322 -40.65% 3
Hampshire -19 3 £580 -24.92% 4
Berkshire -27 2 - - 15
Surrey -8 1 £500 +42.86% 3
Middlesex - 1 £475 -
East Sussex - 1 £360 - 3
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 5 (33.33%) Confluence
2 4 (26.67%) Apache Spark
2 4 (26.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (13.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (26.67%) Relational Database
3 4 (26.67%) Star Schema
4 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
4 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 2 (13.33%) Power BI
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (6.67%) Couchbase
5 1 (6.67%) HBase
5 1 (6.67%) Redis
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) Gatling
4 1 (6.67%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Gradle
4 1 (6.67%) JMeter
4 1 (6.67%) JUnit
4 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (53.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
1 4 (26.67%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Java Applications Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
1 3 (20.00%) NumPy
1 3 (20.00%) Pandas
1 3 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
1 3 (20.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.67%) Keras
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Data Analysis
2 6 (40.00%) Analytics
2 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (33.33%) ETL
3 5 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (26.67%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) Data Lineage
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) Data Science
4 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (26.67%) Impact Assessments
4 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Statistics
4 4 (26.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) R
5 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) OCP
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Postgraduate
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Ab Initio
2 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Teradata