Big Data Contracts in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 180 172
Rank change year-on-year +69 -8 -13
Contract jobs citing Big Data 48 25 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.59% 0.45% 0.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.68% 4.11% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 19 28
10th Percentile £466 £269 £479
25th Percentile £500 £350 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £448 £575
Median % change year-on-year +21.65% -22.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £734 £672
90th Percentile £738 £788 £784
England median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £19.38 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £35.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +63.12% -51.71% +11.88%

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 411 608 867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.65% 10.94% 14.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 374 606
10th Percentile £333 £319 £317
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £513
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 39
10th Percentile £23.24 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £24.40 £21.55 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%
75th Percentile £49.38 £67.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £76.44
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the South East

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the South East

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 1 May 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 +60 34 £500 +29.20% 19
Berkshire +51 29 £500 +6.04% 12
Hampshire +29 8 £575 -22.03% 18
West Sussex +14 5 £725 - 3
Buckinghamshire +12 4 £543 +55.00% 4
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 7
Surrey - 1 £365 - 7
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 12 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (10.42%) Apache
4 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.08%) CATIA
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) Azure
2 22 (45.83%) AWS
3 13 (27.08%) GCP
4 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (18.75%) OpenShift
6 8 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (16.67%) IaaS
6 8 (16.67%) PaaS
7 4 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (8.33%) GitHub
8 2 (4.17%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.17%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.08%) Azure AI
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.08%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (2.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.67%) DHCP
1 8 (16.67%) DNS
1 8 (16.67%) Firewall
1 8 (16.67%) SMTP
1 8 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
1 9 (18.75%) Hadoop
1 9 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 8 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 8 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (14.58%) Metadata
4 6 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 5 (10.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.25%) Apache Hive
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.17%) MySQL
7 2 (4.17%) NewSQL
7 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.17%) Power BI
7 2 (4.17%) Spark SQL
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
1 6 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 5 (10.42%) ERwin
3 4 (8.33%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.08%) GitLab
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Billing
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) General Ledger
5 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Automotive
6 1 (2.08%) Retail
6 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (16.67%) Architect
1 8 (16.67%) Data Engineer
1 8 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Data Modeller
5 4 (8.33%) Developer
5 4 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) PySpark
2 4 (8.33%) Kafka
2 4 (8.33%) scikit-learn
3 3 (6.25%) TensorFlow
4 2 (4.17%) NumPy
4 2 (4.17%) Pandas
4 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.08%) Prophet
5 1 (2.08%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Clustering
1 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (16.67%) PKI
2 5 (10.42%) IoT
3 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 2 (4.17%) SCADA
6 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Linux
2 17 (35.42%) Windows
3 13 (27.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (10.42%) Ubuntu
5 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) DevOps
2 19 (39.58%) Machine Learning
3 18 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 11 (22.92%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (22.92%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.83%) ETL
6 9 (18.75%) Analytics
6 9 (18.75%) Data Engineering
6 9 (18.75%) Migration
7 8 (16.67%) Agile
7 8 (16.67%) Data Science
7 8 (16.67%) Software Deployment
8 7 (14.58%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (14.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (12.50%) Computer Science
9 6 (12.50%) Data Modelling
9 6 (12.50%) Data Security
9 6 (12.50%) High Availability
9 6 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (50.00%) Python
1 24 (50.00%) SQL
2 13 (27.08%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.25%) Java
3 3 (6.25%) R
3 3 (6.25%) Scala
3 3 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.08%) C#
4 1 (2.08%) C++
4 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Degree
2 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
3 8 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 6 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.17%) GDPR
1 2 (4.17%) HIPAA
1 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (20.83%) Docker
2 8 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) BitLocker
2 8 (16.67%) Hyper-V
2 8 (16.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (16.67%) Terminal Services
2 8 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Flume
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Ansible
2 12 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.67%) Nagios
3 8 (16.67%) Puppet
3 8 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 8 (16.67%) vMotion
4 5 (10.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (54.17%) Microsoft
2 16 (33.33%) Databricks
3 12 (25.00%) Google
4 8 (16.67%) Citrix
4 8 (16.67%) HP
4 8 (16.67%) Symantec
4 8 (16.67%) VMware
5 4 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (8.33%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.08%) Virgin Media