Big Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the South West

Big Data Engineer
England > South West

As of 26 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Big Data Engineer daily rate in the South West.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 142 -
Rank change year-on-year +26 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% 0.077% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.083% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 -
England median daily rate £380 £800 £650
% change year-on-year -52.50% +23.08% -6.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,763 2,399 3,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.40% 92.70% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,428 2,115
10th Percentile £225 £228 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £714 £700 £713
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 250 283
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.41 £18.30
25th Percentile £18.22 £40.63 £44.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +5.52%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.66
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.44 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% - +73.08%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the South West

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Big Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Big Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Gloucestershire +12 1 - -
Big Data Engineer
England

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 September 2025, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South West region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) Impala
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana