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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 314 230
Rank change year-on-year +56 -84 -57
Contract jobs citing Big Data 130 124 331
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.64% 0.54% 1.09%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.06% 3.51% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 81 221
10th Percentile £350 £463 £413
25th Percentile £448 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% - +3.53%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £625
90th Percentile £749 £775 £713
UK median daily rate £600 £580 £600
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 1
10th Percentile - £35.00 -
25th Percentile £18.20 £55.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.16% +30.00% +144.90%
75th Percentile £23.72 - -
90th Percentile £29.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +61.33%

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 2,571 3,531 5,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.69% 15.31% 17.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,824 2,528 3,829
10th Percentile £313 £335 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.92%
75th Percentile £586 £594 £577
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £545
% change year-on-year -2.78% -0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 110 139
10th Percentile £13.50 £21.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.85 £28.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.76% +62.71% +43.44%
75th Percentile £61.55 £68.44 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.98 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +44 41 £525 -4.55% 20
Midlands +48 35 £650 +23.81% 17
South East +10 27 £425 -20.93% 11
Yorkshire +38 24 £550 - 8
West Midlands +27 23 £675 +22.73% 14
Scotland +55 19 £550 -21.43% 12
North West +24 17 £510 +7.37% 9
East Midlands +23 12 £513 +2.50% 3
South West -10 5 £450 -20.00% 17
East of England +3 2 £400 -31.91% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 8
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 41 (31.54%) Apache Spark
2 17 (13.08%) Apache
3 11 (8.46%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.08%) Confluence
4 4 (3.08%) IIS
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.31%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 46 (35.38%) AWS
2 35 (26.92%) Azure
3 20 (15.38%) GCP
4 17 (13.08%) Amazon S3
4 17 (13.08%) Serverless
5 14 (10.77%) Power Platform
6 12 (9.23%) Snowflake
7 11 (8.46%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (5.38%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
10 6 (4.62%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.31%) Amazon Neptune
13 3 (2.31%) Azure Stack
13 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.31%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.54%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (11.54%) Network Security
2 5 (3.85%) FTP
3 4 (3.08%) SAN
4 1 (0.77%) Broadband
4 1 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (24.62%) Hadoop
2 28 (21.54%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (19.23%) Data Lake
4 17 (13.08%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (10.77%) Power BI
6 13 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (10.00%) BigQuery
7 9 (6.92%) Relational Database
8 8 (6.15%) Apache Hive
9 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (4.62%) SQL Server
10 6 (4.62%) Tableau
11 5 (3.85%) Data Mining
12 4 (3.08%) Flink
12 4 (3.08%) Impala
12 4 (3.08%) MySQL
12 4 (3.08%) NoSQL
12 4 (3.08%) Parquet
12 4 (3.08%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (3.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (16.15%) Git
2 13 (10.00%) JIRA
3 10 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.31%) JMeter
4 3 (2.31%) LoadRunner
4 3 (2.31%) Selenium
5 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.54%) kappa
5 2 (1.54%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.77%) Gradle
6 1 (0.77%) Maven
6 1 (0.77%) Subversion
General
1 34 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
1 34 (26.15%) Social Skills
2 31 (23.85%) Finance
3 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.92%) Banking
5 7 (5.38%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.62%) Health Technology
7 5 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.31%) Police
10 2 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.54%) Retail
10 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) Architect
2 18 (13.85%) Developer
3 15 (11.54%) Analyst
3 15 (11.54%) Data Engineer
3 15 (11.54%) Solutions Architect
4 14 (10.77%) Data Architect
5 9 (6.92%) Data Analyst
6 8 (6.15%) Azure Architect
6 8 (6.15%) Data Centre Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Data Migration Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Migration Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Senior
7 6 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
7 6 (4.62%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (3.85%) Consultant
8 5 (3.85%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) AWS Architect
9 4 (3.08%) Big Data Analyst
9 4 (3.08%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (3.08%) Mainframe Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.85%) Kafka
2 17 (13.08%) Apache NiFi
3 8 (6.15%) PySpark
4 5 (3.85%) JSON
4 5 (3.85%) XML
5 4 (3.08%) Apache Avro
5 4 (3.08%) Spring
6 3 (2.31%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.31%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.31%) React
7 2 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.77%) Anaconda
8 1 (0.77%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.77%) Node.js
8 1 (0.77%) ODBC
8 1 (0.77%) REST
8 1 (0.77%) RESTful
8 1 (0.77%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.77%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.77%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.54%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (11.54%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.23%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.62%) Virtual Team
5 5 (3.85%) Clustering
6 4 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.08%) Credit Risk
6 4 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.08%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (3.08%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.31%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.31%) NHS
7 3 (2.31%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Linux
2 17 (13.08%) Windows
3 16 (12.31%) Unix
4 13 (10.00%) Android
4 13 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 8 (6.15%) VMS
6 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (3.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (42.31%) Analytics
2 42 (32.31%) Data Modelling
3 37 (28.46%) ETL
4 32 (24.62%) Data Engineering
5 31 (23.85%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (21.54%) Data Management
7 26 (20.00%) Agile
8 23 (17.69%) Data Analysis
8 23 (17.69%) DevOps
9 22 (16.92%) Migration
9 22 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.62%) CI/CD
11 17 (13.08%) Containerisation
11 17 (13.08%) Data Analytics
11 17 (13.08%) Data Governance
11 17 (13.08%) Data Integration
11 17 (13.08%) Information Security
11 17 (13.08%) Machine Learning
12 16 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (12.31%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 54 (41.54%) Python
2 53 (40.77%) SQL
3 27 (20.77%) Java
4 9 (6.92%) Scala
5 5 (3.85%) C#
6 3 (2.31%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.54%) R
8 1 (0.77%) Bash
8 1 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.77%) Groovy
8 1 (0.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.54%) Degree
3 13 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) Actionable Recommendations
2 13 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.54%) NIST
4 2 (1.54%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.85%) HDFS
2 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.08%) Docker
3 1 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.77%) KVM
3 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (9.23%) Terraform
2 8 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.54%) Ansible
3 2 (1.54%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.77%) ITRS Geneos
4 1 (0.77%) Kibana
4 1 (0.77%) Nagios
4 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.77%) Puppet
4 1 (0.77%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.77%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (13.08%) Databricks
1 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Google
3 10 (7.69%) Oracle
3 10 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.38%) Informatica
4 7 (5.38%) Teradata
5 5 (3.85%) Talend
6 4 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.31%) Brio
7 3 (2.31%) Splunk
8 2 (1.54%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.54%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.54%) Sage
9 1 (0.77%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.77%) Ariba
9 1 (0.77%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.77%) SAP
9 1 (0.77%) VMware