Big Data Contracts in the South West

Big Data
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 103 152 135
Rank change year-on-year +49 -17 -14
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 5 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.16% 0.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 1.61% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 22
10th Percentile £539 £370 £397
25th Percentile £594 £400 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 £450 £534
Median % change year-on-year +43.06% -15.69% -11.04%
75th Percentile £676 £549 £644
90th Percentile - £589 £705
England median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £70.50
25th Percentile - - £74.25
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 220 311 473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.11% 9.72% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 213 344
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year +2.75% -3.38% +3.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £720
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 24
10th Percentile £25.31 £16.53 £18.63
25th Percentile £52.56 - £34.35
Median hourly rate £68.75 £40.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.88% -38.46% -5.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.75 £75.50
90th Percentile - £85.00 £78.00
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 West

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
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 within the South West 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
Gloucestershire - 6 £653 - 14
Somerset - 2 £538 - 4
Big Data
England

Big Data
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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (37.50%) Apache
2 3 (37.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Google Ads
3 1 (12.50%) Prefect
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Hadoop
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Advertising
1 1 (12.50%) Marketing
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (37.50%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) Django
2 1 (12.50%) Metaflow
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 5 (62.50%) Data Science
3 4 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Observability
4 3 (37.50%) Predictive Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Requirements Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 3 (37.50%) Thought Leadership
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (12.50%) Inventory Management
5 1 (12.50%) Monetization
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Grafana
1 3 (37.50%) HAProxy
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Apple
1 1 (12.50%) Criteo
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks
1 1 (12.50%) Google