Big Data Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Big Data
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 79 107
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +19
Contract jobs citing Big Data 4 25 6
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.24% 1.70% 0.30%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.16% 10.73% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 4
10th Percentile £485 £421 -
25th Percentile £491 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.35% -19.96%
75th Percentile £550 £535 £557
90th Percentile £580 £630 £658
England median daily rate £525 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -12.43% -0.08% -

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 346 233 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 20.56% 15.87% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 151 154
10th Percentile £322 £370 £307
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £588 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £20.83 £17.12
25th Percentile - £24.31 £19.81
Median hourly rate - £27.50 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year - +29.05% +11.63%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £22.68
90th Percentile - £32.25 £25.14
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Big Data.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Big Data

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Yorkshire

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Big Data.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Big Data

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 15 October 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
West Yorkshire -23 4 £500 +10.01% 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Health Technology
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
2 2 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (50.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Brio
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle