Big Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 441 493
Rank change year-on-year +53 +52 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 2 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.009% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.009% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile £463 £463 £619
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £710
Median % change year-on-year - -33.10% +39.90%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £800
90th Percentile - - £804
UK median daily rate £800 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

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

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England +33 1 £475 -
North West +16 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Batch Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Stability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Service-Level Objective
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
1 1 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (50.00%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata