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 18 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 187 222
Rank change year-on-year -18 +35 -79
Contract jobs citing Big Data 100 161 252
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.02% 1.09% 1.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.90% 5.49% 5.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 121 172
10th Percentile £436 £412 £463
25th Percentile £489 £481 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £825 £700
90th Percentile £758 £850 £799
UK median daily rate £569 £569 £600
% change year-on-year +0.04% -5.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £27.25 £48.80
25th Percentile - £30.63 £62.00
Median hourly rate - £37.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.41% -
75th Percentile - £39.38 £82.50
90th Percentile - £39.75 £87.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +43.75% -48.72% +3.38%

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 2,040 2,934 4,425
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.90% 19.86% 18.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,415 2,142 3,226
10th Percentile £363 £358 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.33%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 38 81
10th Percentile £21.02 £18.40 £22.50
25th Percentile £25.99 £22.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.75 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -39.45% +34.74%
75th Percentile £70.63 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.25 £72.50 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -12.50% -31.73% +34.95%

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 18 June 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 43 (43.00%) Apache Spark
2 15 (15.00%) Apache
3 10 (10.00%) Confluence
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (2.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (1.00%) IBM Domino
6 1 (1.00%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 45 (45.00%) AWS
2 41 (41.00%) Azure
3 25 (25.00%) GCP
4 17 (17.00%) Power Platform
5 9 (9.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 8 (8.00%) Amazon S3
7 6 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (6.00%) Snowflake
8 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (4.00%) Serverless
10 3 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (2.00%) GitHub
11 2 (2.00%) Route 53
12 1 (1.00%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (35.00%) Hadoop
2 31 (31.00%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (24.00%) Data Lake
4 14 (14.00%) NoSQL
5 13 (13.00%) Power BI
6 12 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (10.00%) Metadata
7 10 (10.00%) SQL Server
8 9 (9.00%) Relational Database
9 8 (8.00%) Apache Cassandra
9 8 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (8.00%) Tableau
10 7 (7.00%) Apache Hive
11 5 (5.00%) HBase
11 5 (5.00%) Impala
11 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
11 5 (5.00%) MySQL
11 5 (5.00%) RDBMS
12 4 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (4.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) JIRA
2 8 (8.00%) ERwin
3 5 (5.00%) ER Studio
3 5 (5.00%) Git
4 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.00%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.00%) MLflow
General
1 29 (29.00%) Finance
2 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.00%) Banking
5 9 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.00%) Marketing
8 3 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Law
9 2 (2.00%) Military
9 2 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Retail
10 1 (1.00%) Advertising
10 1 (1.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 18 (18.00%) Architect
2 15 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 13 (13.00%) Developer
4 12 (12.00%) Lead
5 10 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 10 (10.00%) Senior
6 7 (7.00%) Data Scientist
6 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.00%) Data Modeller
7 5 (5.00%) Engagement Manager
8 4 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.00%) Data Manager
9 3 (3.00%) Agile C# Developer
9 3 (3.00%) Agile Developer
9 3 (3.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Big Data Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 3 (3.00%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (3.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.00%) Kafka
2 8 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (5.00%) PySpark
3 5 (5.00%) scikit-learn
4 4 (4.00%) JSON
4 4 (4.00%) Pandas
4 4 (4.00%) TensorFlow
5 3 (3.00%) Apache Avro
5 3 (3.00%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (3.00%) Matplotlib
5 3 (3.00%) NumPy
5 3 (3.00%) PyTorch
5 3 (3.00%) REST
6 2 (2.00%) Ray
6 2 (2.00%) Seaborn
7 1 (1.00%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.00%) JWT
7 1 (1.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.00%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.00%) Data Fabric
2 5 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.00%) Life Science
5 2 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.00%) Tandem
6 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.00%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (12.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (3.00%) Ubuntu
3 3 (3.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (42.00%) Analytics
2 31 (31.00%) ETL
3 29 (29.00%) Data Modelling
4 28 (28.00%) Agile
4 28 (28.00%) Data Governance
5 27 (27.00%) Machine Learning
6 25 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 22 (22.00%) Data Architecture
7 22 (22.00%) Data Science
7 22 (22.00%) DevOps
7 22 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (21.00%) Data Engineering
9 20 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 19 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (18.00%) CI/CD
12 17 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (17.00%) Migration
13 15 (15.00%) Visualisation
14 14 (14.00%) Decision-Making
15 12 (12.00%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 36 (36.00%) Python
2 32 (32.00%) SQL
3 15 (15.00%) Java
4 10 (10.00%) R
5 8 (8.00%) Scala
6 5 (5.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.00%) C#
8 2 (2.00%) C
8 2 (2.00%) C++
8 2 (2.00%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.00%) Go
9 1 (1.00%) HiveQL
9 1 (1.00%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.00%) Degree
3 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.00%) PhD
5 2 (2.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (12.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.00%) HDFS
2 2 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (16.00%) Terraform
2 12 (12.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (11.00%) Ansible
4 9 (9.00%) Grafana
5 8 (8.00%) Argo
6 1 (1.00%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (1.00%) Kibana
6 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (17.00%) Databricks
2 12 (12.00%) Google
2 12 (12.00%) Oracle
3 8 (8.00%) Informatica
4 6 (6.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.00%) BiZZdesign
5 4 (4.00%) Sparx
6 3 (3.00%) Cloudera
6 3 (3.00%) Pega
6 3 (3.00%) Talend
7 2 (2.00%) Adobe
7 2 (2.00%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.00%) IBM
7 2 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.00%) Teradata
8 1 (1.00%) Ariba
8 1 (1.00%) Criteo
8 1 (1.00%) Palantir
8 1 (1.00%) SAP