Big Data Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Big Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 366 410
Rank change year-on-year +7 +44 +83
Contract jobs citing Big Data Analytics 3 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.020% 0.006% 0.051%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.007% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £558 - £500
25th Percentile £570 £310 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £320 £555
Median % change year-on-year +84.38% -42.34% -7.50%
75th Percentile £610 £330 £741
90th Percentile £622 - £794
UK median daily rate £630 £333 £688
% change year-on-year +89.47% -51.64% +14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Big Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,705 14,932 19,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.12% 82.82% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,203 8,845 12,723
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,346 1,209
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +8.72% +75.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £76.02
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £41.90
% change year-on-year -40.16% +0.31% +52.36%

Big Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Big Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Big Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Big Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Big Data Analytics

Big Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Big Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Big Data Analytics

Big Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
South East +9 2 £590 +84.38%
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
Big Data Analytics
UK

Big Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) GIS
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Extraction
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Situational Awareness
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera