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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 236 140
Rank change year-on-year +37 -96 -9
Contract jobs citing Big Data 148 250 848
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.01% 1.03% 1.92%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.22% 5.49% 9.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 172 583
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £502 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% -0.86% +4.32%
75th Percentile £819 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £786 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -2.13% -2.08% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £25.25 £48.80 -
25th Percentile £25.62 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £26.24 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% - -
75th Percentile £33.12 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £37.25 £87.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -48.72% +28.93% +54.14%

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 2,837 4,556 9,404
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.42% 18.82% 21.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,094 3,336 6,866
10th Percentile £356 £388 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 78 86
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.31 £20.38
25th Percentile £22.61 £41.44 £22.73
Median hourly rate £40.00 £64.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.98% +29.00% +72.41%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 (20.27%) Apache Spark
2 20 (13.51%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.08%) Apache
4 4 (2.70%) IIS
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.35%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.35%) Confluence
5 2 (1.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 53 (35.81%) AWS
2 52 (35.14%) Azure
3 23 (15.54%) dbt
4 22 (14.86%) Snowflake
5 19 (12.84%) Power Platform
6 14 (9.46%) GCP
7 12 (8.11%) Serverless
8 11 (7.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (6.08%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.38%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.70%) Power Automate
13 3 (2.03%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 3 (2.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (30.41%) Data Lake
2 37 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (16.22%) Amazon Athena
4 23 (15.54%) Apache Arrow
4 23 (15.54%) Dremio
5 16 (10.81%) Hadoop
5 16 (10.81%) Power BI
6 14 (9.46%) Tableau
7 10 (6.76%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.76%) Delta Lake
8 9 (6.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
9 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.38%) Parquet
12 4 (2.70%) Presto
12 4 (2.70%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (2.03%) Bigtable
13 3 (2.03%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 10 (6.76%) Git
2 4 (2.70%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.03%) Cypress.io
3 3 (2.03%) JIRA
3 3 (2.03%) Visual Studio Team System
4 2 (1.35%) Apache Continuum
4 2 (1.35%) RStudio
5 1 (0.68%) Ant
5 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.68%) Gradle
5 1 (0.68%) JMeter
5 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 51 (34.46%) Finance
2 29 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.41%) Banking
6 5 (3.38%) Front Office
6 5 (3.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.70%) Marketing
8 3 (2.03%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.68%) Back Office
10 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Legal
10 1 (0.68%) Local Government
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (23.65%) Data Engineer
2 22 (14.86%) Architect
3 21 (14.19%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (14.19%) Big Data Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Developer
4 18 (12.16%) Site Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Analyst
5 16 (10.81%) Data Architect
6 13 (8.78%) Senior
7 9 (6.08%) Data Migration Engineer
7 9 (6.08%) Migration Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Consultant
8 8 (5.41%) Data Business Analyst
8 8 (5.41%) Data Centre Engineer
8 8 (5.41%) Lead
9 7 (4.73%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.70%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.92%) PySpark
2 18 (12.16%) gRPC
2 18 (12.16%) Protocol Buffers
3 10 (6.76%) Kafka
4 5 (3.38%) Apache Avro
4 5 (3.38%) XML
5 4 (2.70%) JSON
5 4 (2.70%) React
5 4 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (2.70%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.70%) Web Services
6 3 (2.03%) .NET
6 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.03%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.03%) EDI
6 3 (2.03%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.03%) Spring
7 2 (1.35%) jQuery
7 2 (1.35%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.89%) Hedge funds
2 22 (14.86%) Clustering
3 11 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.73%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.38%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.38%) Derivative
7 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.38%) Equities
7 5 (3.38%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.70%) NHS
8 4 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.41%) Linux
1 8 (5.41%) VMS
2 4 (2.70%) Windows
2 4 (2.70%) Windows Server
2 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (30.41%) Analytics
2 43 (29.05%) DevOps
3 42 (28.38%) Data Modelling
4 38 (25.68%) Agile
5 34 (22.97%) ETL
6 26 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (16.89%) Migration
8 24 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (15.54%) Asset Management
9 23 (15.54%) Data Engineering
9 23 (15.54%) Investment Management
10 21 (14.19%) CI/CD
11 20 (13.51%) Machine Learning
12 19 (12.84%) Data Analysis
13 18 (12.16%) Data Science
13 18 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 17 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
15 15 (10.14%) Computer Science
15 15 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
16 14 (9.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 81 (54.73%) Python
2 58 (39.19%) SQL
3 41 (27.70%) Java
4 20 (13.51%) Go
4 20 (13.51%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.08%) Scala
6 5 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.70%) R
8 3 (2.03%) C#
8 3 (2.03%) Rust
9 2 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.68%) Bash
10 1 (0.68%) BeanShell
10 1 (0.68%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.68%) Perl
10 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.68%) Tcl
10 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.11%) Degree
2 6 (4.05%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.35%) MiFID
3 2 (1.35%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) EMIR
4 1 (0.68%) FATCA
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.41%) Docker
2 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (18.24%) Terraform
2 25 (16.89%) Kubernetes
3 18 (12.16%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (15.54%) Databricks
2 21 (14.19%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.43%) Google
4 7 (4.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.03%) Brio
5 3 (2.03%) Phenom
5 3 (2.03%) Splunk
5 3 (2.03%) Teradata
6 2 (1.35%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.35%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.68%) Foundry
7 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.68%) Palantir
7 1 (0.68%) Pardot
7 1 (0.68%) Sage
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase
7 1 (0.68%) Workday