Big Data Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Big Data
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 34 29
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 8 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 1.61% 1.23% 0.41%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 14.81% 7.50% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £400 - -
25th Percentile £468 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £454
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +1.87% -
75th Percentile £575 £469 -
90th Percentile £583 - -
North East median daily rate £525 £463 £454
% change year-on-year +13.51% +1.87% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - £46.18

All Database & BI Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 54 40 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 10.89% 16.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 25 14
10th Percentile £378 £358 £381
25th Percentile £413 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% -3.16% -20.83%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £488
90th Percentile £620 £665 £535
North East median daily rate £475 £461 £476
% change year-on-year +2.98% -3.10% -18.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £69.44 - -
North East median hourly rate £69.44 - £20.77
% change year-on-year - - -57.61%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Tyne and Wear

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -17 8 £525 +13.51% 8
Big Data
North East

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 6 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (62.50%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (50.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (50.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (25.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) MySQL
4 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
1 7 (87.50%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (75.00%) AI
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (62.50%) Analytics
3 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
3 5 (62.50%) Data Science
4 4 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
5 3 (37.50%) Agile
6 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (12.50%) Observability
7 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
7 1 (12.50%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Talend