Big Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 320 232
Rank change year-on-year +42 -88 -71
Contract jobs citing Big Data 125 138 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.58% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.82% 3.74% 6.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 89 223
10th Percentile £350 £460 £413
25th Percentile £450 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £629
90th Percentile £763 £778 £723
UK median daily rate £584 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.67% - +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 2
10th Percentile - £35.00 £61.00
25th Percentile £18.20 £55.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £19.38 £78.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.16% +20.00% +165.31%
75th Percentile £23.72 - £67.50
90th Percentile £29.44 - £69.00
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -54.81% +19.54% +91.91%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,594 3,689 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.55% 15.43% 17.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,829 2,654 3,885
10th Percentile £324 £343 £326
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.74% +9.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 115 135
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.53 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £32.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £59.00 £66.28 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.00 £75.50 £67.55
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Midlands +45 34 £650 +18.18% 18
North of England +38 33 £550 - 16
South East +1 25 £448 -14.67% 17
West Midlands +32 22 £675 +22.73% 15
Scotland +43 17 £575 -17.86% 14
North West +18 17 £510 +7.37% 10
Yorkshire +28 15 £563 +2.27% 4
East Midlands +30 12 £513 -10.87% 3
East of England +8 6 £400 -33.33% 11
South West -12 5 £450 -21.74% 13
Northern Ireland - 5 £494 - 5
North East - 1 £454 - 2
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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 39 (31.20%) Apache Spark
2 20 (16.00%) Apache
3 13 (10.40%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.20%) Confluence
4 4 (3.20%) IIS
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.80%) Luigi
5 1 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.40%) AWS
2 26 (20.80%) Azure
3 13 (10.40%) Amazon S3
3 13 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
3 13 (10.40%) Power Platform
3 13 (10.40%) Serverless
4 12 (9.60%) GCP
4 12 (9.60%) Snowflake
5 9 (7.20%) Amazon EMR
6 8 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (6.40%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (5.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon Neptune
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (2.40%) Azure Stack
10 3 (2.40%) IaaS
10 3 (2.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (12.00%) Network Security
2 5 (4.00%) FTP
3 4 (3.20%) SAN
4 1 (0.80%) Broadband
4 1 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.60%) Hadoop
2 26 (20.80%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (13.60%) Data Lake
4 13 (10.40%) Power BI
5 12 (9.60%) Apache Hive
6 11 (8.80%) Relational Database
7 10 (8.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (6.40%) Tableau
9 7 (5.60%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (4.80%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.80%) Impala
11 5 (4.00%) NoSQL
11 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
12 4 (3.20%) Data Mining
12 4 (3.20%) Metadata
12 4 (3.20%) Parquet
13 3 (2.40%) Flink
13 3 (2.40%) HBase
13 3 (2.40%) Presto
13 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 16 (12.80%) JIRA
2 15 (12.00%) Git
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.40%) JMeter
3 3 (2.40%) LoadRunner
3 3 (2.40%) Maven
3 3 (2.40%) Selenium
4 2 (1.60%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.60%) kappa
5 1 (0.80%) Gradle
5 1 (0.80%) Subversion
5 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (24.00%) Finance
4 10 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.40%) Banking
6 7 (5.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 6 (4.80%) Health Technology
8 5 (4.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.20%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 3 (2.40%) Police
11 2 (1.60%) Retail
11 2 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (16.80%) Developer
2 20 (16.00%) Architect
3 16 (12.80%) Data Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) Analyst
5 12 (9.60%) Data Architect
6 9 (7.20%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.40%) Azure Architect
7 8 (6.40%) Data Analyst
7 8 (6.40%) Data Centre Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Data Migration Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Migration Engineer
7 8 (6.40%) Senior
8 7 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (4.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.00%) Consultant
10 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (3.20%) Mainframe Analyst
11 4 (3.20%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.60%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (8.00%) Kafka
3 8 (6.40%) PySpark
4 5 (4.00%) JSON
4 5 (4.00%) XML
5 4 (3.20%) Apache Avro
6 3 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (2.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.40%) Spring
7 2 (1.60%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.60%) React
7 2 (1.60%) REST
8 1 (0.80%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.80%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.80%) Node.js
8 1 (0.80%) NumPy
8 1 (0.80%) Pandas
8 1 (0.80%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.80%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.00%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (12.00%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (10.40%) Management Information System
3 11 (8.80%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.00%) Clustering
4 5 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 4 (3.20%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (3.20%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.40%) NHS
6 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.80%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.80%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 26 (20.80%) Linux
2 21 (16.80%) Unix
3 17 (13.60%) Windows
4 13 (10.40%) Android
4 13 (10.40%) Apple iOS
5 8 (6.40%) VMS
6 4 (3.20%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.40%) Analytics
2 36 (28.80%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (28.00%) Data Modelling
4 33 (26.40%) ETL
5 31 (24.80%) Data Engineering
6 29 (23.20%) Data Management
7 28 (22.40%) Agile
8 25 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 22 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (16.80%) Migration
11 19 (15.20%) CI/CD
12 17 (13.60%) Data Analytics
12 17 (13.60%) Information Security
13 16 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
13 16 (12.80%) Data Science
13 16 (12.80%) Machine Learning
14 15 (12.00%) Actionable Insight
14 15 (12.00%) Data Architecture
14 15 (12.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 52 (41.60%) Python
2 51 (40.80%) SQL
3 21 (16.80%) Java
4 14 (11.20%) Scala
5 5 (4.00%) C#
6 4 (3.20%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.60%) R
8 1 (0.80%) Bash
8 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.80%) Groovy
8 1 (0.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.00%) Degree
3 13 (10.40%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.60%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 15 (12.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.60%) NIST
3 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.60%) QA
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) HDFS
2 5 (4.00%) Docker
3 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.60%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.80%) KVM
5 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.00%) Terraform
3 3 (2.40%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (1.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.80%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.80%) Nagios
5 1 (0.80%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.80%) Puppet
5 1 (0.80%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.80%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (12.80%) Databricks
2 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 8 (6.40%) Informatica
3 8 (6.40%) Oracle
4 7 (5.60%) Teradata
5 6 (4.80%) Google
5 6 (4.80%) Talend
6 3 (2.40%) Brio
6 3 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.40%) Splunk
7 2 (1.60%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.60%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.60%) Sage
7 2 (1.60%) SAP
8 1 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.80%) Ariba
8 1 (0.80%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.80%) VMware