Big Data Contracts in the Thames Valley

Big Data
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 107 129 126
Rank change year-on-year +22 -3 -22
Contract jobs citing Big Data 23 16 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.87% 0.56% 1.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.89% 3.79% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 30
10th Percentile £243 £481 £411
25th Percentile £350 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £663 £500
Median % change year-on-year -35.92% +32.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £478 £797 £588
90th Percentile £709 £825 £608
South East median daily rate £425 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -22.73% +2.09% +2.62%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 334 422 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.67% 14.74% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 286 434
10th Percentile £307 £340 £325
25th Percentile £382 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £624 £609 £573
90th Percentile £688 £688 £636
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 3
10th Percentile £19.74 £24.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.61 £30.75 £18.13
Median hourly rate £61.60 £43.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.12% +94.00% -48.28%
75th Percentile - £76.61 £43.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £79.19 £54.55
South East median hourly rate £58.91 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.44% +64.29% -19.54%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +38 12 £350 -36.36% 3
Berkshire -3 11 £448 -42.19% 2
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (21.74%) Apache Spark
2 4 (17.39%) Confluence
3 2 (8.70%) Apache
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
3 4 (17.39%) Snowflake
4 3 (13.04%) Azure
4 3 (13.04%) dbt
5 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) Azure Stack
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.70%) IaaS
5 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub
6 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) 5G
1 1 (4.35%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Data Lake
2 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (21.74%) Hadoop
2 5 (21.74%) Power BI
3 3 (13.04%) Apache Hive
3 3 (13.04%) Data Mining
3 3 (13.04%) Impala
3 3 (13.04%) PowerPivot
3 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (4.35%) HDInsight
4 1 (4.35%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 2 (8.70%) Maven
3 2 (8.70%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) Subversion
General
1 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Retail
5 1 (4.35%) Advertising
5 1 (4.35%) Billing
5 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Data Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Big Data Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Mainframe Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Azure Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modeller
4 3 (13.04%) Developer
5 2 (8.70%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Supplier Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Scala Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) Snowpark
3 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Credit Risk
1 4 (17.39%) Mainframe
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Analytics
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
3 4 (17.39%) Data Modelling
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) ETL
3 4 (17.39%) Open Source
4 3 (13.04%) Conceptual Models
4 3 (13.04%) Dashboard Development
4 3 (13.04%) Data Science
4 3 (13.04%) Data Strategy
4 3 (13.04%) Logical Data Model
4 3 (13.04%) Migration
4 3 (13.04%) Physical Data Model
4 3 (13.04%) Statistics
4 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis
5 2 (8.70%) Dimensional Modelling
5 2 (8.70%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) Scala
4 2 (8.70%) Java
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) Control-M
2 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Databricks
3 3 (13.04%) Salesforce
4 2 (8.70%) Informatica
5 1 (4.35%) Cloudera