Big Data Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Big Data
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 54 90
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 +25
Contract jobs citing Big Data 4 14 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.48% 1.73% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.40% 11.38% 3.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £485 £287 -
25th Percentile £491 £366 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.01% -9.10% -18.37%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £500
90th Percentile £580 £665 £501
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.38% +1.35% -19.96%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 167 123 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.88% 15.17% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 76 119
10th Percentile £363 £338 £373
25th Percentile £400 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £611 £567 £631
90th Percentile £695 £649 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.83 £17.12
25th Percentile - £24.31 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% +15.44%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £22.68
90th Percentile - £32.25 £25.14
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year - +29.05% +11.63%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in West Yorkshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Leeds -20 4 £500 +10.01% 2
Bradford - 1 £600 -
Big Data
Yorkshire

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Health Technology
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Brio
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle