Big Data Engineer Contracts

Big Data Engineer
UK

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 668 734
Rank change year-on-year +90 +66 -170
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 22 45 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.075% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.080% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 70
10th Percentile £625 £500 £512
25th Percentile £650 £513 £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £850 £775 £759
90th Percentile - £784 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £774 £700
% change year-on-year -38.63% +10.57% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £70.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Top 7 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 Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +84 21 £800 +23.08% 5
London +94 20 £800 +28.00% 4
Work from Home +115 15 £800 +28.00% 3
UK excluding London +59 2 £475 -38.63% 2
North of England +28 1 £475 -
North West +23 1 £475 -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Big Data Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) Big Data
2 21 (95.45%) Python
3 18 (81.82%) Java
4 17 (77.27%) Finance
5 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
6 15 (68.18%) Data Lake
7 14 (63.64%) AWS
8 13 (59.09%) Terraform
8 13 (59.09%) DevOps
8 13 (59.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 13 (59.09%) Snowflake
9 12 (54.55%) Apache Arrow
9 12 (54.55%) Dremio
9 12 (54.55%) dbt
9 12 (54.55%) Go
9 12 (54.55%) gRPC
9 12 (54.55%) Apache Airflow
9 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
9 12 (54.55%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (54.55%) Hedge funds
9 12 (54.55%) Protocol Buffers
9 12 (54.55%) Clustering
9 12 (54.55%) Asset Management
9 12 (54.55%) Investment Management
9 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
10 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (36.36%) ETL
11 5 (22.73%) Agile
11 5 (22.73%) Azure
11 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark

Big Data Engineer 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 12 (54.55%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (22.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (13.64%) Apache
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) Snowflake
3 12 (54.55%) dbt
4 5 (22.73%) Azure
5 3 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (100.00%) Big Data
2 15 (68.18%) Data Lake
3 12 (54.55%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (54.55%) Apache Arrow
3 12 (54.55%) Dremio
4 8 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (13.64%) BigQuery
5 3 (13.64%) Bigtable
5 3 (13.64%) Cloud Spanner
5 3 (13.64%) Hadoop
5 3 (13.64%) Relational Database
6 2 (9.09%) Apache Hive
6 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
7 1 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (4.55%) DB2
7 1 (4.55%) HBase
7 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 1 (4.55%) Neo4j
7 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (77.27%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (54.55%) gRPC
1 12 (54.55%) Protocol Buffers
2 3 (13.64%) PySpark
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) Clustering
1 12 (54.55%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) DevOps
1 13 (59.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 12 (54.55%) Asset Management
2 12 (54.55%) Investment Management
3 8 (36.36%) ETL
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) Data Migration
6 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.64%) Design Patterns
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 1 (4.55%) Change Management
7 1 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.55%) Data Security
7 1 (4.55%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.55%) Information Security
7 1 (4.55%) Scrum
7 1 (4.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 21 (95.45%) Python
2 18 (81.82%) Java
3 12 (54.55%) Go
3 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Scala
5 1 (4.55%) Gremlin
5 1 (4.55%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 2 (9.09%) HDFS
3 1 (4.55%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (72.73%) Kubernetes
2 13 (59.09%) Terraform
3 12 (54.55%) Prometheus
4 3 (13.64%) Ansible
5 1 (4.55%) Ganglia
5 1 (4.55%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (4.55%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Google
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Teradata