Big Data Contracts in South Yorkshire

Big Data
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 44 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 1.07% - 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.06% - 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £605 - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £645 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 79 62 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 21.18% 13.57% 9.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 31
10th Percentile £143 £375 £190
25th Percentile £375 £416 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £544 £634 £700
90th Percentile £611 £650 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in South Yorkshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in South Yorkshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 4 £625 - 3
Big Data
Yorkshire

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Director
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat