Big Data Contracts in Yorkshire

Big Data
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 87 85 117
Rank change year-on-year -2 +32 -7
Contract jobs citing Big Data 5 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% 0.89% 0.43%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.48% 6.17% 3.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £460 £450 -
25th Percentile £513 £553 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £640 - £665
England median daily rate £575 £586 £600
% change year-on-year -1.92% -2.29% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring database or business intelligence skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 202 243 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 19.86% 14.39% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 183 181
10th Percentile £318 £365 £388
25th Percentile £400 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £600
90th Percentile £650 £645 £693
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £31.50 - -
25th Percentile £31.54 - -
Median hourly rate £32.96 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +199.64% - -
75th Percentile £34.38 £13.50 -
90th Percentile £34.43 - -
England median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
% change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Yorkshire

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Yorkshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Yorkshire

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Yorkshire - 4 £625 - 4
West Yorkshire +3 2 £525 -6.67% 14
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Director
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (20.00%) Market Risk
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudera
1 2 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat