Big Data Contract Job Trends in Wales

Big Data
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.90% 0.33% -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.93% 2.56% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £167 -
Median % change year-on-year +131.94% - -
75th Percentile £422 - -
90th Percentile £461 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%

All Database & BI Skills
Wales

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 56 39 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 10.09% 12.87% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 31 66
10th Percentile £279 £200 £249
25th Percentile £363 £222 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £275 £500
Median % change year-on-year +49.55% -45.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £537 £419 £563
90th Percentile £775 £540 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £31.60 £25.23 -
25th Percentile £47.88 £25.44 -
Median hourly rate £80.00 £25.84 -
Median % change year-on-year +209.60% - -
75th Percentile £86.25 £26.19 -
90th Percentile £87.00 £26.38 -
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £33.11 £40.00
% change year-on-year +54.03% -17.23% -30.43%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Wales

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Big Data

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Big Data

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Wales region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
South Wales -9 3 £425 +154.38% 2
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Functions
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Beam
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Physics
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Matching
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) ETL Development
4 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Guidewire
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google