Big Data Contracts in the North of England

Big Data
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 145 194 195
Rank change year-on-year +49 +1 -63
Contract jobs citing Big Data 41 18 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.88% 0.32% 0.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.74% 2.20% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 36
10th Percentile £463 - £400
25th Percentile £505 £463 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £584 £613 £638
90th Percentile £619 £710 £688
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
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
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 714 820 1,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.38% 14.68% 17.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 596 937
10th Percentile £350 £363 £315
25th Percentile £413 £419 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £700 £663
England median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 15 51
10th Percentile £11.00 £35.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £38.70 £17.56
Median hourly rate £40.25 £49.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +58.06% +40.91%
75th Percentile £44.74 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £50.69 £65.60 £77.50
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
Yorkshire +32 24 £550 - 8
North West +24 17 £510 +7.37% 9
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 24 (58.54%) Apache Spark
2 9 (21.95%) Apache
3 7 (17.07%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (9.76%) IIS
4 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 22 (53.66%) AWS
2 17 (41.46%) Azure
3 13 (31.71%) Amazon S3
4 12 (29.27%) Serverless
5 11 (26.83%) GCP
6 9 (21.95%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (17.07%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
8 6 (14.63%) Snowflake
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.20%) FTP
2 4 (9.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) Hadoop
2 13 (31.71%) Amazon Redshift
3 12 (29.27%) Data Lake
4 11 (26.83%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (21.95%) BigQuery
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (17.07%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (12.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (7.32%) Apache Hive
8 3 (7.32%) Spark SQL
9 2 (4.88%) Flink
9 2 (4.88%) Metadata
9 2 (4.88%) MySQL
9 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
9 2 (4.88%) RDBMS
9 2 (4.88%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (2.44%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (2.44%) Impala
10 1 (2.44%) Power BI
10 1 (2.44%) Presto
Development Applications
1 15 (36.59%) Git
2 8 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 5 (12.20%) JIRA
General
1 11 (26.83%) Finance
2 10 (24.39%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (12.20%) Health Technology
4 5 (12.20%) Manufacturing
5 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.32%) Banking
6 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (34.15%) Architect
2 10 (24.39%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (19.51%) Data Centre Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Data Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Data Migration Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Migration Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Data Architect
5 5 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (9.76%) Senior
6 4 (9.76%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Data Modeller
7 2 (4.88%) Designer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Security Consultant
7 2 (4.88%) Senior Designer
7 2 (4.88%) Senior UI Designer
7 2 (4.88%) UI Designer
7 2 (4.88%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (34.15%) Kafka
2 5 (12.20%) JSON
2 5 (12.20%) XML
3 1 (2.44%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.44%) J2EE
3 1 (2.44%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.44%) Spring
3 1 (2.44%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (24.39%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.20%) Virtual Team
3 4 (9.76%) Clustering
4 3 (7.32%) NHS
5 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.51%) VMS
2 5 (12.20%) Linux
3 4 (9.76%) Windows
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (9.76%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (4.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Data Modelling
1 18 (43.90%) ETL
2 14 (34.15%) Containerisation
3 13 (31.71%) Analytics
3 13 (31.71%) Data Governance
4 12 (29.27%) Migration
5 11 (26.83%) DevOps
6 10 (24.39%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (21.95%) Data Engineering
7 9 (21.95%) Data Management
8 8 (19.51%) Data Integration
8 8 (19.51%) Performance Tuning
9 7 (17.07%) CI/CD
9 7 (17.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (17.07%) High Availability
9 7 (17.07%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (17.07%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (17.07%) Translating Business Requirements
10 6 (14.63%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) SQL
2 20 (48.78%) Python
3 17 (41.46%) Java
4 5 (12.20%) C#
5 4 (9.76%) Scala
6 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
1 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (4.88%) NIST
2 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.88%) Docker
2 2 (4.88%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (21.95%) Terraform
2 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Google
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.20%) Databricks
3 5 (12.20%) Informatica
3 5 (12.20%) Talend
4 4 (9.76%) Teradata
5 3 (7.32%) Brio
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle
7 1 (2.44%) Splunk