Big Data Contracts in West London

Big Data
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 37 61
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Big Data 4 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.47% 2.03% 1.17%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.09% 8.57% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £512 £536 -
25th Percentile £512 £572 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -20.75% +1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £772 £675
90th Percentile - £819 -
London median daily rate £586 £625 £648
% change year-on-year -6.24% -3.47% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £71.25
25th Percentile - £36.25 £79.38
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year - -57.14% -
75th Percentile - £38.75 £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £100.00 £47.50 £90.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -47.22% -0.99%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West London

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 West London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 44 70 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 16.18% 23.65% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 48 77
10th Percentile £284 £285 £350
25th Percentile £406 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -20.83% +15.38%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £650
90th Percentile £610 £654 -
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 11
10th Percentile £31.66 £32.29 £67.00
25th Percentile £35.55 £34.84 £72.50
Median hourly rate £42.04 £56.25 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% -29.69% +150.00%
75th Percentile £48.52 £81.25 £90.00
90th Percentile £52.41 £92.50 -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% +6.19%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in West London

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Big Data

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West London citing Big Data

Big Data
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in West London

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 West London region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hounslow +7 4 £525 - 2
Big Data
London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Flink
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Pandas
1 3 (75.00%) scikit-learn
1 3 (75.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 4 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Computer Vision
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Science
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 3 (75.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Go
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google