Big Data Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Big Data
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -49 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Big Data 10 4 8
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.85% 0.98% 1.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.45% 4.76% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £500 £605 £480
25th Percentile £550 £613 £502
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £507
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +23.27% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £524
90th Percentile - £645 £554
Yorkshire median daily rate £588 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -

All Database & BI 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 155 84 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 13.14% 20.54% 15.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 61 55
10th Percentile £362 £322 £375
25th Percentile £425 £380 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £535
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -12.90% -2.73%
75th Percentile £594 £568 £611
90th Percentile £675 £613 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £495 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.21% -5.00% -9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

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 30 May 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
Sheffield -52 10 £588 -6.00% 1
Big Data
Yorkshire

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 8 (80.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (20.00%) Power BI
1 2 (20.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Security Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Analytics
1 10 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (80.00%) AI
2 8 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (70.00%) Use Case
4 6 (60.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (60.00%) Prototyping
5 5 (50.00%) Data Science
5 5 (50.00%) Machine Learning
5 5 (50.00%) Threat Detection
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) Rapid Prototyping
7 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Management
8 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
8 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
8 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
8 2 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
8 2 (20.00%) Security Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Databricks