Big Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Big Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £800 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 452 579
Rank change year-on-year +115 +127 -158
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 15 18 55
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.098% 0.070% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.073% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 33
10th Percentile £660 £479 £513
25th Percentile £750 £519 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £850 £694 £750
90th Percentile - £750 £800
UK median daily rate £800 £650 £650
% change year-on-year +23.08% - +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Big Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data Engineer.

Big Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Big Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) Python
1 15 (100.00%) Big Data
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (86.67%) Finance
3 12 (80.00%) Clustering
3 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (80.00%) Asset Management
3 12 (80.00%) Investment Management
3 12 (80.00%) AWS
3 12 (80.00%) Hedge funds
3 12 (80.00%) DevOps
3 12 (80.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 12 (80.00%) Go
3 12 (80.00%) Data Lake
3 12 (80.00%) gRPC
3 12 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (80.00%) Prometheus
3 12 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
3 12 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 12 (80.00%) Dremio
3 12 (80.00%) dbt
3 12 (80.00%) Snowflake
3 12 (80.00%) Terraform
3 12 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
4 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
4 3 (20.00%) Ansible
4 3 (20.00%) Docker
4 3 (20.00%) BigQuery

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 12 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
1 12 (80.00%) dbt
1 12 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) Big Data
2 12 (80.00%) Amazon Athena
2 12 (80.00%) Apache Arrow
2 12 (80.00%) Data Lake
2 12 (80.00%) Dremio
3 3 (20.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (20.00%) Bigtable
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Spanner
3 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (86.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) gRPC
1 12 (80.00%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Clustering
1 12 (80.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Asset Management
1 12 (80.00%) DevOps
1 12 (80.00%) Investment Management
1 12 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (20.00%) Agile
2 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (20.00%) ETL
2 3 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) Java
1 15 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (80.00%) Go
2 12 (80.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (80.00%) Prometheus
2 12 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google