Big Data Contract Job Trends in South London

Big Data
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 1.71% 0.50% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.04% 2.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £433 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 - -
75th Percentile £756 - -
90th Percentile £812 - -
London median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%

All Database & BI Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 71 43 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 24.32% 21.50% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 28 49
10th Percentile £443 £440 £231
25th Percentile £476 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% +2.89% -9.52%
75th Percentile £543 £538 £525
90th Percentile £584 £641 £638
London median daily rate £525 £559 £550
% change year-on-year -6.04% +1.59% -4.35%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Big Data job vacancy trend in South London

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in South London over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in South London

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Bromley - 3 £475 - 1
Croydon - 2 £744 -
Big Data
London

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) IPv4
1 2 (40.00%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Gen AI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (40.00%) Data Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) GitOps
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Patterns
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) GDPR
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Google