Big Data Analytics Contracts

Big Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Big Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data Analytics over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 707 764
Rank change year-on-year +130 +57 -92
Contract jobs citing Big Data Analytics 9 15 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.028% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 38
10th Percentile £661 £473 £456
25th Percentile £672 £486 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - +43.71%
75th Percentile £766 £794 £625
90th Percentile £788 £879 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +29.17% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Big Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 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 +115 9 £700 +16.67% 15
UK excluding London +68 5 £775 +29.17% 10
London +103 4 £688 +34.15% 5
South East - 3 £775 - 1
Midlands +27 2 - - 1
West Midlands - 2 - - 1

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 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) GCP
3 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Azure Stack
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) IaaS
4 2 (22.22%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Big Data
2 4 (44.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Management Information System
1 4 (44.44%) Security Posture
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
1 9 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (44.44%) Data Management
2 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (44.44%) Data Science
2 4 (44.44%) Design Patterns
2 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
2 4 (44.44%) ETL
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) MLOps
2 4 (44.44%) OO
2 4 (44.44%) OOP
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (44.44%) CISSP
3 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Databricks