Big Data Contracts in the Thames Valley

Big Data
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 68 128 130
Rank change year-on-year +60 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Big Data 34 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.25% 0.63% 0.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.66% 4.99% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 11
10th Percentile £466 £252 £500
25th Percentile - £350 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £387 £725
Median % change year-on-year +29.20% -46.62% +52.63%
75th Percentile £550 £483 £784
90th Percentile £686 £754 -
South East median daily rate £545 £448 £575
% change year-on-year +21.65% -22.09% +4.55%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 232 341 446
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.35% 12.70% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 195 300
10th Percentile £325 £316 £331
25th Percentile £412 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% -1.40% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £480 £513
% change year-on-year +4.17% -6.34% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £22.97 £19.59 £22.90
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.61 £26.08
Median hourly rate £32.05 £59.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.68% +7.27% +266.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.60 £75.75
90th Percentile £65.62 £65.50 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.05 £58.91 £57.50
% change year-on-year -45.59% +2.44% +46.66%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Berkshire +51 29 £500 +6.04% 22
Buckinghamshire +12 4 £543 +55.00% 14
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 12
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 12 (35.29%) Apache Spark
2 5 (14.71%) Apache
3 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.94%) CATIA
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) AWS
3 10 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (14.71%) GCP
6 4 (11.76%) GitHub
7 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Relational Database
2 8 (23.53%) Hadoop
3 7 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
5 5 (14.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (14.71%) Metadata
6 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
7 3 (8.82%) Apache Hive
8 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
8 2 (5.88%) MySQL
8 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.88%) Power BI
8 2 (5.88%) Spark SQL
8 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (2.94%) GIS
9 1 (2.94%) HDInsight
9 1 (2.94%) Impala
9 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Git
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) ERwin
3 4 (11.76%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.59%) Finance
3 4 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 2 (5.88%) General Ledger
4 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Automotive
5 1 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Data Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
3 5 (14.71%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Modeller
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Big Data Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.88%) Hadoop Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) PySpark
2 4 (11.76%) Kafka
2 4 (11.76%) scikit-learn
3 3 (8.82%) TensorFlow
4 2 (5.88%) NumPy
4 2 (5.88%) Pandas
4 2 (5.88%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.94%) Prophet
5 1 (2.94%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 4 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (8.82%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.88%) IoT
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.88%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.88%) SCADA
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
2 6 (17.65%) Windows
3 5 (14.71%) Ubuntu
3 5 (14.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (29.41%) DevOps
3 8 (23.53%) Analytics
3 8 (23.53%) ETL
3 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence
4 7 (20.59%) Data Cleansing
4 7 (20.59%) Data Engineering
4 7 (20.59%) Data Science
4 7 (20.59%) Machine Learning
4 7 (20.59%) Migration
5 6 (17.65%) High Availability
5 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (14.71%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 5 (14.71%) Customer-Centricity
6 5 (14.71%) Data Migration
6 5 (14.71%) Open Source
6 5 (14.71%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 21 (61.76%) Python
1 21 (61.76%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.88%) R
5 1 (2.94%) C#
5 1 (2.94%) C++
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) Perl
5 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Flume
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Ansible
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
2 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Databricks
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media