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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 165 178
Rank change year-on-year +55 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Big Data 40 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.34% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.69% 4.45% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 16
10th Percentile £465 £243 £469
25th Percentile £500 £350 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +28.82% -20.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £725 £612
90th Percentile £637 £788 £719
England median daily rate £570 £600 £588
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £19.38 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.25 £78.00
% change year-on-year +56.03% -54.81% +28.93%

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 413 607 827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.88% 11.11% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 374 582
10th Percentile £321 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -7.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 34 42
10th Percentile £20.85 £18.20 £22.16
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.12
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year -45.59% +4.72% +150.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £66.37 £74.69
90th Percentile £65.62 £80.00 £75.68
England median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -17.60% -28.19% +23.78%

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 21 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 21 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 +44 29 £500 +29.20% 26
Berkshire +45 25 £500 +11.61% 21
Hampshire +27 8 £575 -22.03% 7
Buckinghamshire +10 3 £550 +57.14% 2
West Sussex +16 2 £469 - 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 9
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 11 (27.50%) Apache Spark
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.50%) CATIA
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 22 (55.00%) Azure
3 13 (32.50%) GCP
4 9 (22.50%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (22.50%) OpenShift
5 8 (20.00%) IaaS
5 8 (20.00%) PaaS
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (10.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.50%) Serverless
8 1 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) DHCP
1 8 (20.00%) DNS
1 8 (20.00%) Firewall
1 8 (20.00%) SMTP
1 8 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 10 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 9 (22.50%) Relational Database
3 8 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (17.50%) Metadata
5 3 (7.50%) Apache Hive
6 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.00%) MySQL
6 2 (5.00%) NewSQL
6 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.00%) Power BI
6 2 (5.00%) Spark SQL
6 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.00%) Tableau
7 1 (2.50%) HDInsight
7 1 (2.50%) Impala
7 1 (2.50%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Git
2 5 (12.50%) ERwin
2 5 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 4 (10.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 11 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Billing
6 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.00%) General Ledger
6 2 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Automotive
7 1 (2.50%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 8 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 8 (20.00%) Architect
1 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 7 (17.50%) Data Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
2 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Data Modeller
3 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) PySpark
2 4 (10.00%) Kafka
3 2 (5.00%) NumPy
3 2 (5.00%) Pandas
3 2 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.50%) Prophet
4 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.50%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Clustering
1 8 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (20.00%) PKI
2 4 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.00%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.00%) Replication
4 2 (5.00%) SCADA
5 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.50%) IoT
5 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Linux
2 14 (35.00%) Windows
3 13 (32.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (12.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) DevOps
2 14 (35.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 14 (35.00%) Machine Learning
3 9 (22.50%) Analytics
3 9 (22.50%) ETL
3 9 (22.50%) Migration
4 8 (20.00%) Data Science
4 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (20.00%) Software Deployment
5 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (17.50%) Data Cleansing
5 7 (17.50%) Data Modelling
5 7 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
6 6 (15.00%) Data Security
6 6 (15.00%) High Availability
6 6 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (12.50%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 19 (47.50%) SQL
2 18 (45.00%) Python
3 13 (32.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.50%) Java
4 3 (7.50%) Scala
4 3 (7.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.50%) C#
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Perl
5 1 (2.50%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (35.00%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 8 (20.00%) BitLocker
1 8 (20.00%) Docker
1 8 (20.00%) Hyper-V
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 8 (20.00%) Terminal Services
1 8 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Ansible
2 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) Nagios
3 8 (20.00%) Puppet
3 8 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 8 (20.00%) vMotion
4 5 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (30.00%) Databricks
2 12 (30.00%) Google
3 8 (20.00%) Citrix
3 8 (20.00%) HP
3 8 (20.00%) Symantec
3 8 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (10.00%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) IBM
5 1 (2.50%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.50%) Virgin Media