Big Data Contracts in the Thames Valley

Big Data
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 112 138
Rank change year-on-year +2 +26 -34
Contract jobs citing Big Data 20 30 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.94% 1.13% 1.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.62% 7.94% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 40
10th Percentile £384 £450 £474
25th Percentile £413 £467 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £800 £536
Median % change year-on-year -35.94% +49.18% -5.09%
75th Percentile £745 £850 £752
90th Percentile £800 £889 £784
South East median daily rate £475 £775 £525
% change year-on-year -38.71% +47.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.53 -
South East median hourly rate - £61.53 -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 356 378 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.64% 14.23% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 276 520
10th Percentile £363 £313 £360
25th Percentile £413 £422 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% +10.18% +2.37%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £586
90th Percentile £663 £688 £676
South East median daily rate £500 £535 £500
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 10
10th Percentile £24.85 £32.32 £15.45
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.42 £15.80
Median hourly rate £58.30 £63.00 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.46% +196.47% -37.04%
75th Percentile £61.60 £75.89 £61.06
90th Percentile £64.73 £79.78 £105.00
South East median hourly rate £48.18 £49.00 £21.30
% change year-on-year -1.67% +130.05% -56.53%

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 October 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 October 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
Berkshire +3 14 £719 -10.16% 3
Buckinghamshire +7 6 £425 -46.88% 1
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 10 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (20.00%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (15.00%) IaaS
4 3 (15.00%) PaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (15.00%) SaaS
4 3 (15.00%) Serverless
5 2 (10.00%) Azure AKS
5 2 (10.00%) dbt
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
6 1 (5.00%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (20.00%) Apache Hive
2 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 4 (20.00%) Impala
3 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) HDInsight
4 2 (10.00%) Metadata
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
5 1 (5.00%) PowerPivot
5 1 (5.00%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Corporate Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Billing
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Kafka
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
2 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 3 (15.00%) XML
3 2 (10.00%) PyTorch
3 2 (10.00%) scikit-learn
3 2 (10.00%) Snowpark
3 2 (10.00%) Spring
3 2 (10.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
1 2 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Analytics
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Machine Learning
4 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) ETL
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 3 (15.00%) Data Management
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (15.00%) Data Strategy
7 3 (15.00%) Master Data Management
7 3 (15.00%) Scrum
7 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
8 2 (10.00%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (15.00%) Scala
5 2 (10.00%) R
5 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Databricks
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Palantir
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce