Big Data Analytics Contracts

Big Data Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 573 705
Rank change year-on-year +58 +132 +84
Contract jobs citing Big Data Analytics 5 9 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.021% 0.022%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.024% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 8
10th Percentile £565 £661 £457
25th Percentile £588 £672 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £556
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +25.84% -7.29%
75th Percentile £630 £766 £688
90th Percentile £657 £788 £886
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £775 £600
% change year-on-year -22.58% +29.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £78.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Big Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Big Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +53 5 £600 -14.29% 41
UK excluding London +61 3 £600 -22.58% 7
South East +45 2 £590 -23.87% 2
London +36 2 £625 -9.09% 33
North of England - 1 £600 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £600 -

Big Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
1 4 (80.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Security Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Data Science
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat