Big Data Contracts in the South West

Big Data
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 140 119
Rank change year-on-year -5 -21 -57
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 33 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.16% 0.90% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.58% 6.89% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 23 42
10th Percentile £370 £405 £468
25th Percentile £400 £484 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £549 £638 £653
90th Percentile £589 £702 £770
England median daily rate £586 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.29% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
England median hourly rate £41.25 £73.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -43.49% +11.88% +46.63%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 316 479 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.91% 13.11% 16.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 347 445
10th Percentile £329 £363 £342
25th Percentile £420 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% +3.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £625 £594
90th Percentile £725 £715 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 21
10th Percentile £16.53 £18.63 £49.28
25th Percentile - £34.35 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £69.05
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% -5.87% +62.47%
75th Percentile £55.75 £75.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 -
England median hourly rate £40.25 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.30% +37.86% +70.00%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 2024. 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
Bristol +11 2 £425 -18.27% 6
Dorset +4 1 £350 -30.86% 2
Wiltshire -4 1 £533 +2.90% 1
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 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Flink
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Power Query
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Health Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) SAS Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) UI Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (20.00%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Analytics
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Science
2 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (20.00%) UX Research
2 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle