Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 146 123
Rank change year-on-year -27 -23 -34
Contract jobs citing Big Data 245 476 862
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.40% 1.84% 2.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.39% 9.00% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 334 517
10th Percentile £400 £463 £458
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £808
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 2
10th Percentile £25.87 £53.90 £62.42
25th Percentile £36.56 £62.00 £67.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £85.00 £75.70
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +12.29% +70.11%
75th Percentile £47.81 £90.00 £83.61
90th Percentile £55.88 £93.75 £87.99
England median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +47.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,836 5,286 8,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 21.98% 20.43% 21.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,839 3,879 6,081
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £457 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -0.86% +10.48%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £838 £800 £788
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 51 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.25
25th Percentile £25.62 £23.70 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.99% +79.49%
75th Percentile £55.00 £78.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £70.30 £90.00 £81.25
England median hourly rate £40.13 £58.59 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.52% +30.20% +83.67%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London -14 21 £650 +8.33% 9
West London +19 5 £525 -19.23% 3
East London -7 1 £575 +6.98% 6
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 68 (27.76%) Apache Spark
2 31 (12.65%) Apache Airflow
3 21 (8.57%) Apache
4 2 (0.82%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.82%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Tornado
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 104 (42.45%) Azure
2 89 (36.33%) AWS
3 47 (19.18%) GCP
4 37 (15.10%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.61%) Serverless
6 24 (9.80%) Snowflake
7 20 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 19 (7.76%) dbt
9 16 (6.53%) Azure Logic Apps
10 12 (4.90%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (4.90%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.08%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.67%) Amazon EMR
12 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (3.67%) Azure Functions
12 9 (3.67%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (3.67%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (3.67%) Power Automate
12 9 (3.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (31.84%) Data Lake
2 59 (24.08%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 31 (12.65%) Power BI
5 23 (9.39%) Apache Hive
5 23 (9.39%) Tableau
6 22 (8.98%) Amazon Athena
7 19 (7.76%) BigQuery
8 18 (7.35%) NoSQL
9 17 (6.94%) Apache Arrow
9 17 (6.94%) Dremio
9 17 (6.94%) SQL Server
10 16 (6.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 14 (5.71%) Delta Lake
12 13 (5.31%) Impala
13 11 (4.49%) OLTP
14 10 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (3.67%) HBase
16 8 (3.27%) Metadata
16 8 (3.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (8.16%) Git
2 8 (3.27%) JIRA
3 6 (2.45%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (2.04%) ERwin
4 5 (2.04%) Maven
4 5 (2.04%) Subversion
4 5 (2.04%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.22%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.22%) RStudio
7 2 (0.82%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.82%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.82%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.41%) Ant
8 1 (0.41%) Poetry
8 1 (0.41%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (24.08%) Finance
2 54 (22.04%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (20.82%) Social Skills
4 23 (9.39%) Banking
5 17 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.49%) Investment Banking
7 8 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.86%) Marketing
9 4 (1.63%) Publishing
9 4 (1.63%) Retail
10 3 (1.22%) Back Office
10 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.22%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) German Language
11 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Local Government
11 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 63 (25.71%) Architect
2 58 (23.67%) Data Engineer
3 29 (11.84%) Data Architect
4 28 (11.43%) Senior
5 27 (11.02%) Solutions Architect
6 26 (10.61%) Developer
7 24 (9.80%) Big Data Engineer
8 22 (8.98%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (7.76%) Analyst
10 17 (6.94%) Lead
11 16 (6.53%) Cloud Architect
11 16 (6.53%) Site Engineer
11 16 (6.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (6.12%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 14 (5.71%) Consultant
13 14 (5.71%) Data Scientist
14 13 (5.31%) Data Analyst
14 13 (5.31%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (4.49%) Principal Architect
15 11 (4.49%) Principal Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (18.78%) PySpark
2 25 (10.20%) Kafka
3 16 (6.53%) gRPC
3 16 (6.53%) Protocol Buffers
4 12 (4.90%) .NET
4 12 (4.90%) Pandas
5 8 (3.27%) JSON
5 8 (3.27%) SAML
5 8 (3.27%) Web Services
6 7 (2.86%) XML
7 6 (2.45%) ARM Templates
7 6 (2.45%) scikit-learn
7 6 (2.45%) TensorFlow
8 5 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (2.04%) NumPy
9 4 (1.63%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.63%) Apache Avro
9 4 (1.63%) REST
10 3 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.61%) Hedge funds
2 24 (9.80%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.53%) Clustering
4 13 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.67%) Freedom of Information
6 9 (3.67%) Freedom of Information Act
7 8 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (3.27%) Product Ownership
8 7 (2.86%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.45%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
10 5 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.22%) Grid Computing
12 3 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (1.22%) Social Media
12 3 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.35%) Linux
2 6 (2.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.84%) Data Modelling
2 72 (29.39%) Agile
3 70 (28.57%) Analytics
3 70 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 70 (28.57%) ETL
4 64 (26.12%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (18.37%) DevOps
6 43 (17.55%) Machine Learning
7 40 (16.33%) CI/CD
7 40 (16.33%) Data Science
8 38 (15.51%) Data Engineering
9 37 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (14.29%) Computer Science
11 33 (13.47%) Data Analysis
12 31 (12.65%) Data Governance
13 28 (11.43%) Visualisation
14 25 (10.20%) Scrum
15 24 (9.80%) Migration
16 23 (9.39%) Data Architecture
16 23 (9.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 146 (59.59%) Python
2 113 (46.12%) SQL
3 54 (22.04%) Java
4 40 (16.33%) Scala
5 26 (10.61%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.16%) Go
7 17 (6.94%) PowerShell
8 16 (6.53%) R
9 12 (4.90%) C#
10 6 (2.45%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.63%) Bash
11 4 (1.63%) Perl
12 2 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.82%) Rust
12 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.82%) U-SQL
12 2 (0.82%) VBA
13 1 (0.41%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (13.47%) Degree
2 25 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.35%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.31%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.86%) Azure Certification
8 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.63%) CISSP
9 4 (1.63%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.86%) QA
3 3 (1.22%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) MiFID
4 2 (0.82%) NCSC
4 2 (0.82%) NIST
4 2 (0.82%) PMO
4 2 (0.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) EMIR
5 1 (0.41%) FATCA
System Software
1 12 (4.90%) Docker
2 9 (3.67%) HDFS
3 1 (0.41%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 46 (18.78%) Terraform
2 33 (13.47%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.35%) Ansible
4 16 (6.53%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.31%) Puppet
6 6 (2.45%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.63%) Argo
8 3 (1.22%) Oozie
9 2 (0.82%) Ambari
9 2 (0.82%) Consul
9 2 (0.82%) Packer
9 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.41%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 56 (22.86%) Databricks
2 32 (13.06%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.94%) Google
4 13 (5.31%) Talend
5 12 (4.90%) Informatica
6 11 (4.49%) Oracle
7 4 (1.63%) Foundry
7 4 (1.63%) IBM
7 4 (1.63%) Okta
7 4 (1.63%) Palantir
7 4 (1.63%) SAP
7 4 (1.63%) Symantec
7 4 (1.63%) Varonis
8 3 (1.22%) Cloudera
8 3 (1.22%) Phenom
8 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.82%) ESRI
9 2 (0.82%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Teradata