Big Data Contracts in the Thames Valley

Big Data
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 124 131
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 -37
Contract jobs citing Big Data 18 22 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.67% 0.75% 1.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.17% 4.92% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 27
10th Percentile £256 £503 £408
25th Percentile £350 £544 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £738 £475
Median % change year-on-year -42.51% +55.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £524 £784 £600
90th Percentile £743 - £677
South East median daily rate £472 £603 £550
% change year-on-year -21.74% +9.55% +5.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 348 447 556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.88% 15.26% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 303 420
10th Percentile £316 £340 £313
25th Percentile £400 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £679 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 3
10th Percentile £19.74 £22.90 -
25th Percentile £22.61 £26.08 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +266.67% -65.52%
75th Percentile £61.83 £75.75 £19.38
90th Percentile £67.50 £79.19 £22.00
South East median hourly rate £58.95 £57.50 £39.21
% change year-on-year +2.53% +46.66% +21.57%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 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
Berkshire -15 10 £495 -36.05% 2
Buckinghamshire +30 8 £350 -36.36% 5
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) Confluence
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) AWS
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Stack
4 2 (11.11%) IaaS
4 2 (11.11%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.56%) dbt
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
1 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (22.22%) Hadoop
1 4 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Hive
2 2 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 2 (11.11%) PowerPivot
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.56%) Apache Zeppelin
3 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.56%) Impala
3 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.56%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (5.56%) Maven
3 1 (5.56%) Subversion
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
2 4 (22.22%) Big Data Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Data Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Mainframe Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Supplier Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Data Modeller
5 1 (5.56%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) ETL Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Scala Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Credit Risk
1 4 (22.22%) Mainframe
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Analytics
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) Open Source
4 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) Big Data Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
6 2 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.11%) Client Onboarding
6 2 (11.11%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 2 (11.11%) Statistics
6 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) Scala
4 1 (5.56%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.56%) Prometheus
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Informatica
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.56%) Cloudera