Big Data Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Big Data
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 97 100
Rank change year-on-year -37 +3 +68
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 16 19
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.85% 0.98%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 5.46% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
10th Percentile £373 £525 £306
25th Percentile £392 £575 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £612 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.31% +11.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £413 £725 £575
90th Percentile £434 - £688
England median daily rate £525 £568 £570
% change year-on-year -7.57% -0.35% -5.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 430 293 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.19% 15.62% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 185 211
10th Percentile £372 £344 £313
25th Percentile £450 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +5.26% -7.77%
75th Percentile £581 £625 £600
90th Percentile £651 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £30.70 £20.39 -
25th Percentile £32.74 £25.47 -
Median hourly rate £34.43 £33.93 £31.04
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% +9.31% +158.67%
75th Percentile £35.24 £34.47 -
90th Percentile £35.69 £34.79 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £33.93 £47.90
% change year-on-year +32.63% -29.16% +5.26%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
Birmingham -9 3 £402 -1.71% 2
Solihull - 1 £447 -
Warwickshire - 1 - - 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SSH
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (80.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Parquet
3 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 2 (40.00%) Tableau
4 1 (20.00%) Dremio
4 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) MLflow
1 2 (40.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (40.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Poetry
2 1 (20.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Avro
1 2 (40.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (40.00%) Flask
1 2 (40.00%) NumPy
1 2 (40.00%) Pandas
2 1 (20.00%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (20.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Security
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Secrets Management
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) Groovy
3 1 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Argo
1 2 (40.00%) Istio
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat