Big Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 211 131
Rank change year-on-year -10 -80 -20
Contract jobs citing Big Data 133 304 927
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 1.16% 2.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.57% 6.06% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 209 628
10th Percentile £430 £463 £444
25th Percentile £500 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.69% +5.92%
75th Percentile £750 £688 £688
90th Percentile £850 £788 £788
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 0
10th Percentile £25.25 £42.18 -
25th Percentile £25.62 £52.82 -
Median hourly rate £26.24 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% - -
75th Percentile £33.12 £86.25 -
90th Percentile £37.25 £95.00 -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £73.00 £65.25
% change year-on-year -41.78% +11.88% +38.10%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,910 5,015 9,739
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.77% 19.16% 21.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 3,653 7,096
10th Percentile £350 £386 £364
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +1.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £744 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £547 £540
% change year-on-year -4.02% +1.30% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 79 85
10th Percentile £19.89 £22.16 £18.77
25th Percentile £22.52 £44.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £66.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +46.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.44 £75.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.63 £87.66 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +41.18% +57.64%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
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.

Big Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Big Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Big Data hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Big Data hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
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 30 (22.56%) Apache Spark
2 14 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.76%) Apache
4 4 (3.01%) IIS
4 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.50%) Confluence
6 1 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.83%) AWS
2 39 (29.32%) Azure
3 12 (9.02%) dbt
3 12 (9.02%) Power Platform
3 12 (9.02%) Snowflake
4 11 (8.27%) GCP
5 10 (7.52%) Serverless
6 9 (6.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 6 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.76%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (3.01%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (3.01%) Azure Functions
10 4 (3.01%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
11 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
11 3 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.01%) SAN
2 1 (0.75%) Firewall
2 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (27.07%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (20.30%) Data Lake
3 17 (12.78%) Hadoop
4 13 (9.77%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (7.52%) Apache Arrow
5 10 (7.52%) Dremio
5 10 (7.52%) Tableau
6 9 (6.77%) Apache Hive
6 9 (6.77%) Power BI
6 9 (6.77%) SQL Server
7 6 (4.51%) BigQuery
7 6 (4.51%) Delta Lake
7 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (3.76%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.01%) Impala
9 4 (3.01%) Parquet
9 4 (3.01%) Presto
9 4 (3.01%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.26%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Git
2 4 (3.01%) JIRA
3 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.50%) RStudio
5 1 (0.75%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.75%) Gradle
5 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.75%) JMeter
5 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
General
1 37 (27.82%) Finance
2 30 (22.56%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.02%) Banking
6 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.26%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.26%) Marketing
7 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Legal
8 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.75%) Back Office
9 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Local Government
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (23.31%) Data Engineer
2 25 (18.80%) Architect
3 19 (14.29%) Developer
4 18 (13.53%) Data Architect
5 15 (11.28%) Analyst
6 13 (9.77%) Big Data Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Lead
9 10 (7.52%) Site Engineer
9 10 (7.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Data Migration Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Migration Engineer
10 9 (6.77%) Senior
11 8 (6.02%) Data Centre Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Python Developer
12 7 (5.26%) AWS Architect
12 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
12 7 (5.26%) Data Analyst
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Data Engineer
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.04%) PySpark
2 12 (9.02%) Kafka
3 10 (7.52%) gRPC
3 10 (7.52%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (3.76%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.76%) XML
5 4 (3.01%) .NET
5 4 (3.01%) Apache Avro
5 4 (3.01%) JSON
6 3 (2.26%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.26%) EDI
6 3 (2.26%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.26%) Web Services
7 2 (1.50%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (1.50%) Spark Streaming
8 1 (0.75%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.75%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.75%) REST
8 1 (0.75%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.53%) Clustering
2 12 (9.02%) Hedge funds
3 10 (7.52%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.02%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.51%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 4 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.01%) NHS
7 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.26%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.50%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.50%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (1.50%) Freedom of Information Act
9 2 (1.50%) Grid Computing
9 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Linux
2 8 (6.02%) VMS
3 4 (3.01%) Unix
3 4 (3.01%) Windows
3 4 (3.01%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (3.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) Data Modelling
2 35 (26.32%) Analytics
3 31 (23.31%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (22.56%) Agile
5 29 (21.80%) ETL
6 24 (18.05%) Migration
7 23 (17.29%) DevOps
8 21 (15.79%) Data Analysis
8 21 (15.79%) Machine Learning
9 20 (15.04%) Artificial Intelligence
9 20 (15.04%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (15.04%) Data Engineering
10 19 (14.29%) Data Science
11 17 (12.78%) CI/CD
12 12 (9.02%) Asset Management
12 12 (9.02%) Investment Management
12 12 (9.02%) Microservices
12 12 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (9.02%) Software Engineering
12 12 (9.02%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (54.89%) Python
2 46 (34.59%) SQL
3 31 (23.31%) Java
4 14 (10.53%) Scala
5 13 (9.77%) Go
6 11 (8.27%) JavaScript
7 8 (6.02%) R
8 4 (3.01%) C#
9 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.50%) Perl
10 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bash
11 1 (0.75%) C++
11 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.75%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (6.77%) Degree
2 6 (4.51%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.01%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.50%) MiFID
3 2 (1.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.75%) EMIR
4 1 (0.75%) FATCA
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.75%) NIST
4 1 (0.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.75%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 20 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.29%) Terraform
3 10 (7.52%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.51%) Ansible
5 3 (2.26%) Consul
5 3 (2.26%) Packer
5 3 (2.26%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.26%) Puppet
6 1 (0.75%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.75%) Oozie
Vendors
1 15 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.53%) Databricks
3 6 (4.51%) Google
3 6 (4.51%) Oracle
4 3 (2.26%) Brio
4 3 (2.26%) Phenom
4 3 (2.26%) Splunk
4 3 (2.26%) Teradata
5 2 (1.50%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.75%) Foundry
6 1 (0.75%) Palantir
6 1 (0.75%) SAP
6 1 (0.75%) Sybase
6 1 (0.75%) Workday