Big Data Contracts in Central London

Big Data
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 111 105
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 -29
Contract jobs citing Big Data 22 65 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 1.76% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.14% 8.45% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 56
10th Percentile £456 £463 £491
25th Percentile £553 £522 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £750 £825 £711
90th Percentile £774 £863 £775
London median daily rate £650 £600 £611
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.76% +6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.25
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - -42.15% -
75th Percentile - - £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £90.00 £75.70
% change year-on-year -52.78% +18.89% +70.11%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 advertised in Central London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 531 769 899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.19% 20.84% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 490 694
10th Percentile £408 £413 £419
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £702 £729 £712
90th Percentile £784 £800 £800
London median daily rate £554 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -3.74% -0.86% +10.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £42.50 £39.45
25th Percentile £46.75 £49.38 £47.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £84.09 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% +52.89% +223.53%
75th Percentile £50.25 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% +74.44%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London -5 19 £650 +8.33% 10
City of Westminster +2 3 £650 +8.33%
Big Data
London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 4 (18.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Jupyter
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) AWS
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
2 2 (9.09%) WhatsApp
3 1 (4.55%) Alation
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.55%) dbt
3 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) Lucidchart
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (13.64%) Metadata
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
4 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.09%) Power BI
4 2 (9.09%) Presto
4 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
5 1 (4.55%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.55%) Impala
5 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.55%) Parquet
5 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.55%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.55%) Spark SQL
5 1 (4.55%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Ant
1 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
1 1 (4.55%) ERwin
1 1 (4.55%) RStudio
1 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Marketing
5 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Big Data Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Python Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 2 (9.09%) Architect
5 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Consultant
5 2 (9.09%) Data Manager
5 2 (9.09%) ETL Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Data Governance Analyst
6 1 (4.55%) Hadoop Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) PySpark
2 2 (9.09%) Kafka
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Avro
3 1 (4.55%) JSON
3 1 (4.55%) JSON Schema
3 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Hedge funds
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Life Science
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) ETL
2 7 (31.82%) Data Modelling
2 7 (31.82%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (27.27%) Analytics
3 6 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Agile
5 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (18.18%) Data Science
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.09%) Business Analysis
7 2 (9.09%) Business Development
7 2 (9.09%) Computer Science
7 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
7 2 (9.09%) Data Management
7 2 (9.09%) Data Transformation
7 2 (9.09%) ERP
7 2 (9.09%) Mathematics
7 2 (9.09%) Microservices
7 2 (9.09%) Ontologies
7 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 10 (45.45%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Scala
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (9.09%) VBA
5 1 (4.55%) Java
5 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) MiFID
1 2 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) EMIR
2 1 (4.55%) FATCA
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
1 1 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.09%) Databricks
3 2 (9.09%) Foundry
3 2 (9.09%) Palantir
3 2 (9.09%) SAP
4 1 (4.55%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) Okta
4 1 (4.55%) Pardot
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) SnapLogic
4 1 (4.55%) Sybase
4 1 (4.55%) Symantec
4 1 (4.55%) Talend
4 1 (4.55%) Varonis