25 of 25 Contract Big Data Jobs in the UK

Senior Data Engineer (Big Data/ Hadoop/ Spark)

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700.0 - £850.0 per day + £700-850 Per Day (Inside IR35)
Your new company Working for a renowned financial services organisation Your new role We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable on prem, high-quality data solutions for low/high-level data platforms that power analytical and business insights. This … hands-on role suited to someone with strong data engineering and big data expertise, ideally gained within financial services. Joining leading commodities, metals, trading, and exchange group, you will support a strategic metals initiative focused on reducing on-prem platform costs and modernising legacy ETL processes. ...

Senior Data Engineer Big Data/ Hadoop/ Spark

Hiring Organisation
Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£700 - £850 per day
Your new company Working for a renowned financial services organisation Your new role We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable on prem, high-quality data solutions for low/high-level data platforms that power analytical and business insights. This … hands-on role suited to someone with strong data engineering and big data expertise, ideally gained within financial services. Joining leading commodities, metals, trading, and exchange group, you will support a strategic metals initiative focused on reducing on-prem platform costs and modernising legacy ETL processes. ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Data Architect (SC Cleared) Location: Edinburgh or Newcastle preferred Other locations considered: Luton, Bristol, Southampton (Hybrid – predominantly onsite ) Contract: 6 months initially (potential to extend) Rate: Up to £69.44 per hour umbrella ( rate may be negotiable ) Clearance: Active SC clearance required Nationality: UK Eyes Only – sole British nationality required … Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to support a high-profile, security-critical programme within a UK government/defence environment. This role focuses on the design, implementation and governance of enterprise-level data architectures , ensuring data is accurate, secure, accessible, and fit for purpose ...

Data Architect - SC Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £750 per day
seeking an experienced Data Architect to support a Central Government department on a major data and analytics programme. This role suits someone with deep data modelling expertise and a strong background designing scalable, well-governed data platforms within complex or regulated environments. The Role You will … play a pivotal role in defining and shaping enterprise data architecture, ensuring data solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with both business and regulatory requirements. You'll work closely with delivery teams, architects, and senior stakeholders to drive best practice across data platforms. Key Responsibilities Include: Designing ...

Senior Backend Developer

Hiring Organisation
Rullion Limited
Location
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Join our client in embarking on an ambitious data transformation journey using Databricks, guided by best practice data governance and architectural principles. To support this, we are recruiting for talented data engineers. As a major UK energy provider, our client is committed to 100% renewable energy … being based in their Nottingham office every two weeks, this is negotiable. It is a full-time role. Accountabilities: Develop and maintain scalable, efficient data pipelines within Databricks, continuously evolving them as requirements and technologies change. Build and manage an enterprise data model within Databricks. Integrate new data ...

SC Cleared Databricks Data Engineer - Hybrid - Outside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
Cleared Databricks Data Engineer - Hybrid - Outside IR35 We are seeking a skilled Databricks Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. In this role, you will work closely with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver reliable, high-performance data solutions using Databricks and modern cloud technologies. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake Build and optimize ETL/ELT workflows for batch and streaming data Develop data models to support analytics, reporting, and machine learning ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
INTEC SELECT LIMITED
Location
City of London, London, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£700 - £900 per day
Data Architect | Hybrid | £700 - £900 p/d PAYE | 24 Month Contract Contract: 24 Months Rate: £700–£900 per day (Inside IR35) Location: Open to someone in London, Leeds or Edinburgh Overview: We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to join a leading consultancy on a 24-month … contract. You will drive the design, governance, and delivery of enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring data assets are resilient, scalable, and aligned with business and regulatory requirements.You will work with cross-functional teams to define future-state data capabilities, integrate systems, and support data governance initiatives ...

Data Architect

Hiring Organisation
Stable Resources Ltd
Location
Pingewood, West Berkshire, Berkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £750/day
Data Architect 24 months – until December 2027 Hybrid – occasional travel to Reading Rate TBD Role Requirements: Subject to clearance requirements Experience: Proven track record as a Data Architect in complex, multinational environments. Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of Azure services (Data Lake, Data Factory, Synapse) and familiarity … strict security boundaries, protective markings, export-control constraints, and multi-tenant segregation. Collaboration: Comfortable working in greenfield projects and multinational defence contexts with varying data access classifications. Key Responsibilities: Define and implement end-to-end data architecture across multiple business areas. Ensure architectural consistency across nations and business ...

Lead PySpark Engineer - Data, SAS, AWS

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£350 - £380 per day
Lead Data Engineer - Pyspark/AWS/Python/SAS - Financial Sector As a Lead PySpark Engineer, you will design, develop, and fix complex data processing solutions using PySpark on AWS. You will work hands-on with code, modernising legacy data workflows and supporting large-scale … PySpark migrations. The role requires strong engineering discipline, deep data understanding, and the ability to deliver production-ready data pipelines in a financial services environment. Essential Skills PySpark & Data Engineering Minimum 5+ years of hands-on PySpark experience. SAS to Pyspark migration experience Proven ability to write ...

Senior Data Engineer (Big Data/ Hadoop/ Spark)

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
City, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 700 - 850 Daily
Your new company Working for a renowned financial services organisation Your new role We're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable on prem, high-quality data solutions for low/high-level data platforms that power analytical and business insights. This … hands-on role suited to someone with strong data engineering and big data expertise, ideally gained within financia click apply for full job details ...

Data Platform Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Matchtech
Location
Penwortham, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 74 Hourly
Data Platform Engineer- 12 month contract - Warton Aerodrome (Remote) - 74.26 ph UMB or 55 ph PAYE (Inside IR35) The Umbrella rate quoted above is the Gross Umbrella rate (i.e. the rate we pay to the Umbrella Company inclusive of ALL employment costs). Please note, the rate paid … Limited Deemed rate or Agency PAYE rate. Please get in touch to discuss the rates via these different payment vehicles. The Role As a Data Platform Engineer in a highly regulated environment, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining secure and scalable data infrastructure that supports ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£60 - £80 per hour
Senior Data Engineer (Data Modernization) We are looking for a proactive, goal-oriented Senior Data Engineer to build and scale high-performance big data pipelines. This role is ideal for a collaborative problem-solver who excels in distributed environments and values technical excellence through …/CD and Agile. The Essentials Pipeline Tech: 5+ years of experience with Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, and DBT . Modern Modeling: Expert skills in Data Vault and Dimensional modeling. Cloud & DevOps: Strong AWS experience with a focus on CI/CD and writing secure code. Data Governance: Proven ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£60 - £80 per hour
Senior Data Engineer (Data Modernization) We are looking for a proactive, goal-oriented Senior Data Engineer to build and scale high-performance big data pipelines. This role is ideal for a collaborative problem-solver who excels in distributed environments and values technical excellence through …/CD and Agile. The Essentials Pipeline Tech: 5+ years of experience with Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, and DBT . Modern Modeling: Expert skills in Data Vault Mandatory and Dimensional modeling. Cloud & DevOps: Strong AWS experience with a focus on CI/CD and writing secure code. Data Governance ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 - £650 per day
Data Engineer - Azure/Databricks £550-650/day overall assignment rate to umbrella 6-month contract London-based - flexibility on remote working Working with a market-leading client who are looking for an Azure Data Engineer contractor to work on a large-scale transformation project. Data Engineer, key skills: Good knowledge of a data scripting Language Strong understanding of ETL/ELT processes Experience of Azure MUST have Databricks experience Strong experience with relational and big data engines Knowledge of good data pipeline implementation and design (Concepts such as Kimball/ ...

Data Scientist - Hybrid - Outside IR35

Hiring Organisation
Tenth Revolution Group
Location
Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
Data Scientist - Hybrid - Outside IR35 About the Role We are seeking a highly analytical and business-minded Data Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will transform complex data into actionable insights, build predictive models, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to drive strategic decision … making. You will work with large datasets, apply advanced statistical and machine learning techniques, and help shape data-driven initiatives across the organization. Key Responsibilities Collect, clean, and analyze structured and unstructured datasets from multiple sources Develop and deploy predictive models and machine learning algorithms Design and conduct experiments ...

python dev

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
unlikely). FaaST description from AppHQ - user base is more than 2000 across the bank, including quantitative analysts and traders/trading support, Quartz, Data Scientists, etc. The Role The role is dev/ops and is split between supporting KYC/AML Client Outreach applications and supporting quantitative … analysts (quants) in Global Corporate and Investment Banking and Global Markets lines of business who utilise Bank of America's Big Data and Analytics platforms, on which KYC/AML Client Outreach applications also run. The Client Outreach KYC/AML Operations and Development Teams The Client Outreach ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 60 - 80 Hourly
Senior Data Engineer (Data Modernization) We are looking for a proactive, goal-oriented Senior Data Engineer to build and scale high-performance big data pipelines. This role is ideal for a collaborative problem-solver who excels in distributed environments and values technical excellence through ...

Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 60 - 80 Hourly
Senior Data Engineer (Data Modernization) We are looking for a proactive, goal-oriented Senior Data Engineer to build and scale high-performance big data pipelines. This role is ideal for a collaborative problem-solver who excels in distributed environments and values technical excellence through ...

Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
InfinityQuest Ltd,
Location
Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £500 per day Inside IR35
Description:- We are seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist AI to design, develop, and deploy advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions. The ideal candidate will work on large datasets, build predictive models, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver scalable, data-driven products. Key Responsibilities:- Design, develop … optimize machine learning and deep learning models. Work on AI/ML projects including NLP, computer vision, recommendation systems, and generative AI. Perform data cleaning, feature engineering, and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Build and manage data pipelines and model training workflows. Deploy models into production ...

DV Cleared DevSecOps Platform Architect & Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£635 - £740/day
looking for a DV Cleared DevSecOps Platform Architect & Engineer to join a high-profile, secure military IT programme, delivering highly resilient, automated, and secure data platforms. This role sits at the intersection of DevSecOps, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, and secure data systems, supporting advanced research and large-scale … data analysis in a mission-critical environment. If you enjoy building things that have to work first time, in places where failure is not an option, you'll feel right at home. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain secure DevSecOps platforms supporting sensitive data workloads Architect and deliver ...

GenAI Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Velocity Talent Ltd
Location
Bromley, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day £500 TO £550 A DAY inside IR35
Minimum 7 years of experience in Information Technology. Miming 2+ years of strong experience in Gen AI, Agentic AI Minimum 5+ years of ML, data Science. Minimum 5 years in Python programming, including OOPs, data structures, Stacks, Queues, Scripting, Linkedlists, Arrays, and API development. Minimum 5 years … Big Data technologies (e.g., , Hadoop). Minimum 4 years in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their AI/ML services. Minimum 5 years in ML model development, data engineering, and software engineering. Minimum 3 years in MLOps and AI/ML deployment. Minimum **2 years ...

Software Development Team Lead Python

Hiring Organisation
INTEC SELECT LIMITED
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£630 - £650 per day
Hands-on front-end development experience. Experience building AI/ML/LLM-powered applications. Interest in LLMs and emerging AI technologies. Experience with big data tooling. Package: 6 months initial contract £650 p/day (Inside IR35) Stratford, London (2x week on-site ...

Contract Senior Software Engineer - eDV Cleared

Hiring Organisation
Searchability NS&D
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £750 per day
/Knowledge of automation IT WOULD BE NICE FOR THE SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER TO HAVE.... Cloud based experience Microservice architecture or server-less architecture Big Data/Messaging technologies such as Apache Nifi/MiNiFi/Kafka TO BE CONSIDERED.... Please either apply by clicking online or emailing ...

Systems Accountant

Hiring Organisation
Robert Walters
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£300 - £550 per day
some or all of the following areas: - Creating dashboards - Power BI/Tableau or something similar - Financial modelling within excel - Experience working with big data sets and Management Information - Very system savvy - A real problem solver who can think out of the box. This role will require occasional ...

Data Scientist

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£479 - £565/day
Data Scientist: Country Risk & Advanced Analytics Join an integrated team of economists, political scientists, and computer scientists to shape the strategic decisions of the world's leading organizations. How You'll Make an Impact: Innovate: Prototype new approaches for extracting insights from structured and unstructured data. Build: Design … both experimentation and production. Who You Are: Technical Expert: You have substantial experience with Python or R, and are skilled in querying and analyzing big data. NLP Specialist: You have a proven track record of developing and refining NLP models. Clear Communicator: You can explain complex ML/ ...