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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 680 798
Rank change year-on-year +108 +118 -81
Contract jobs citing Big Data Analytics 12 17 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.031% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.034% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 10 38
10th Percentile £279 £490 £475
25th Percentile £321 £503 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £341 £688 £600
Median % change year-on-year -50.36% +14.58% +54.84%
75th Percentile £691 £856 £625
90th Percentile £700 £913 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £548 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -1.35% -7.50% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
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 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Analytics over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 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 21 June 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
England +81 12 £341 -50.36% 8
London +83 9 £350 -59.42% 5
Work from Home +115 3 £333 -34.16% 7
UK excluding London +22 2 £548 -1.35% 3
South East +16 2 £548 -29.35%

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 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) PaaS
2 7 (58.33%) Power Platform
2 7 (58.33%) Snowflake
3 6 (50.00%) SaaS
4 4 (33.33%) GCP
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
2 7 (58.33%) Power BI
2 7 (58.33%) Tableau
3 6 (50.00%) Tableau Server
4 4 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Analytics
1 12 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 11 (91.67%) OO
2 11 (91.67%) OOP
3 9 (75.00%) Computer Science
4 7 (58.33%) Agile
4 7 (58.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (58.33%) Data Governance
5 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (50.00%) ITSM
5 6 (50.00%) Mathematics
5 6 (50.00%) Scrum
5 6 (50.00%) Service Management
5 6 (50.00%) Statistics
6 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (33.33%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) SQL
2 7 (58.33%) PL/SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cloudera
1 7 (58.33%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft