Big Data Developer Contracts

Big Data Developer
UK

The median Big Data Developer daily rate in the UK is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 576 708
Rank change year-on-year +63 +132 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Developer 7 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.014% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.015% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £403 £399 £515
25th Percentile £445 £469 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% -8.70% -11.20%
75th Percentile £623 £538 £613
90th Percentile £633 £635 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £488 £650
% change year-on-year +23.08% -25.00% +30.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Big Data Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Big Data Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Developer in the UK

Big Data Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Developer in the UK

Big Data Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Developer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Developer in the UK

Big Data Developer
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 Developer 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 +59 5 £494 -5.95% 1
UK excluding London +63 4 £600 +23.08% 1
London +40 3 £575 -11.54%
Work from Home +41 2 £600 +18.52%
Northern Ireland -9 2 £610 +20.49%
South East - 2 £413 -

Big Data Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Big Data Developer 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 featuring Big Data Developer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) Big Data
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Hive
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
4 4 (57.14%) Scala
5 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
5 3 (42.86%) Tableau
5 3 (42.86%) Unix
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) Banking
5 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
5 3 (42.86%) Kafka
5 3 (42.86%) Impala
6 2 (28.57%) Spark SQL
6 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
6 2 (28.57%) PySpark
6 2 (28.57%) Apache
6 2 (28.57%) MySQL
6 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
6 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
6 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 1 (14.29%) AWS
7 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading

Big Data Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (28.57%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (14.29%) Datadog
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Big Data
2 6 (85.71%) Apache Hive
3 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
4 3 (42.86%) Impala
4 3 (42.86%) Tableau
5 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (28.57%) MySQL
5 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
5 2 (28.57%) Spark SQL
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (14.29%) DataStage
6 1 (14.29%) DB2
6 1 (14.29%) HBase
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Architecture
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Data Collection
3 2 (28.57%) Storage Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Hadoop YARN
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) IBM