Big Data Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 208 224
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 -96
Contract jobs citing Big Data 98 139 288
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 0.91% 1.11%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.67% 4.77% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 106 196
10th Percentile £421 £439 £463
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +7.83% -2.54%
75th Percentile £602 £750 £688
90th Percentile £750 £850 £775
UK median daily rate £570 £583 £600
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.83% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
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 £57.50 £35.25 £73.00
% change year-on-year +63.12% -51.71% +11.88%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Big Data over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options citing Big Data.

Big Data hourly rate 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 46 (46.94%) Apache Spark
2 15 (15.31%) Apache
3 10 (10.20%) Confluence
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (3.06%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (41.84%) AWS
2 40 (40.82%) Azure
3 21 (21.43%) GCP
4 14 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 7 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (6.12%) Serverless
8 5 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (4.08%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.06%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (2.04%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (34.69%) Hadoop
2 28 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (20.41%) Data Lake
4 12 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (11.22%) NoSQL
6 10 (10.20%) Power BI
7 9 (9.18%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (9.18%) Relational Database
8 8 (8.16%) SQL Server
9 7 (7.14%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (7.14%) Apache Hive
9 7 (7.14%) Metadata
10 6 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (5.10%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (5.10%) HBase
11 5 (5.10%) Impala
11 5 (5.10%) RDBMS
11 5 (5.10%) Tableau
12 4 (4.08%) Data Mining
12 4 (4.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (10.20%) JIRA
2 7 (7.14%) ERwin
3 5 (5.10%) Git
4 4 (4.08%) ER Studio
4 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.08%) MLflow
5 3 (3.06%) Visual Studio
6 2 (2.04%) GitLab
General
1 25 (25.51%) Finance
2 21 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.35%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.24%) Banking
4 12 (12.24%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.06%) Marketing
8 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.04%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.04%) Military
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Advertising
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (17.35%) Architect
2 14 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 13 (13.27%) Data Architect
3 13 (13.27%) Developer
4 11 (11.22%) Senior
5 10 (10.20%) Lead
6 7 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 7 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Big Data Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Data Modeller
8 5 (5.10%) Engagement Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Agile Developer
10 3 (3.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) C# Developer
10 3 (3.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.33%) Kafka
2 9 (9.18%) OpenTelemetry
3 8 (8.16%) PySpark
4 7 (7.14%) scikit-learn
5 6 (6.12%) TensorFlow
6 5 (5.10%) PyTorch
7 4 (4.08%) JSON
7 4 (4.08%) Ray
8 3 (3.06%) Apache Avro
8 3 (3.06%) Pandas
8 3 (3.06%) REST
9 2 (2.04%) Matplotlib
9 2 (2.04%) NumPy
9 2 (2.04%) Shiny
10 1 (1.02%) Apache NiFi
10 1 (1.02%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (1.02%) Loki
10 1 (1.02%) Middleware
10 1 (1.02%) Protocol Buffers
10 1 (1.02%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (5.10%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.10%) Data Fabric
2 5 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Tandem
4 2 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.04%) Life Science
4 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.02%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.02%) IoT
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (13.27%) Linux
2 9 (9.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.06%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.06%) Windows
3 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.84%) Analytics
2 31 (31.63%) Agile
3 29 (29.59%) ETL
4 28 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 27 (27.55%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (24.49%) Data Modelling
6 24 (24.49%) DevOps
7 22 (22.45%) Artificial Intelligence
7 22 (22.45%) CI/CD
7 22 (22.45%) Data Engineering
7 22 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (21.43%) Data Governance
8 21 (21.43%) Data Science
9 18 (18.37%) Data Architecture
9 18 (18.37%) Migration
9 18 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 16 (16.33%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (14.29%) Visualisation
12 13 (13.27%) Containerisation
12 13 (13.27%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.88%) Python
2 34 (34.69%) SQL
3 16 (16.33%) Java
4 11 (11.22%) R
5 7 (7.14%) Scala
6 4 (4.08%) C
6 4 (4.08%) C++
6 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.06%) C#
7 3 (3.06%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.02%) Go
8 1 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.18%) Degree
3 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.08%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (3.06%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.04%) PhD
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.35%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.14%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 7 (7.14%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) HDFS
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (17.35%) Terraform
2 14 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 13 (13.27%) Ansible
4 11 (11.22%) Grafana
5 9 (9.18%) Argo
6 2 (2.04%) Kubeflow
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.02%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 16 (16.33%) Databricks
2 13 (13.27%) Google
3 10 (10.20%) Oracle
4 8 (8.16%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.08%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (4.08%) Cloudera
5 4 (4.08%) Informatica
5 4 (4.08%) Sparx
6 3 (3.06%) Pega
7 2 (2.04%) Adobe
7 2 (2.04%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.04%) IBM
7 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.04%) Sage
8 1 (1.02%) Ariba
8 1 (1.02%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.02%) SAP
8 1 (1.02%) Talend