Big Data Contracts with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 203 229 130
Rank change year-on-year +26 -99 -4
Contract jobs citing Big Data 148 265 906
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.00% 1.08% 2.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.15% 5.64% 9.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 183 615
10th Percentile £450 £463 £450
25th Percentile £507 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £588 £581
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% +1.21% +3.71%
75th Percentile £788 £700 £675
90th Percentile £850 £775 £783
UK median daily rate £600 £584 £600
% change year-on-year +2.78% -2.71% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £25.25 £51.00 -
25th Percentile £25.62 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £26.24 £72.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -63.56% - -
75th Percentile £33.12 £88.13 -
90th Percentile £37.25 £96.25 -
UK median hourly rate £35.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -54.81% +28.93% +61.33%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,875 4,698 9,504
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.43% 19.06% 21.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,118 3,428 6,908
10th Percentile £357 £385 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £545
% change year-on-year -3.67% - +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 80 91
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.16 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £43.75 £23.05
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +38.95% +41.79%
75th Percentile £63.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +30.43% +73.58%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Big Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Big Data hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 31 (20.95%) Apache Spark
2 19 (12.84%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.38%) Apache
4 4 (2.70%) IIS
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.35%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.35%) Confluence
5 2 (1.35%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 52 (35.14%) AWS
2 48 (32.43%) Azure
3 18 (12.16%) dbt
3 18 (12.16%) Snowflake
4 15 (10.14%) GCP
5 14 (9.46%) Serverless
6 13 (8.78%) Power Platform
7 10 (6.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (6.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (6.08%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (4.73%) Amazon S3
10 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.38%) Azure Functions
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.70%) Power Automate
14 3 (2.03%) Azure API Management
14 3 (2.03%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) SAN
2 1 (0.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (26.35%) Data Lake
2 36 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (14.86%) Amazon Athena
4 19 (12.84%) Hadoop
5 17 (11.49%) Apache Arrow
5 17 (11.49%) Dremio
6 11 (7.43%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.76%) Delta Lake
7 10 (6.76%) Power BI
8 9 (6.08%) SQL Server
8 9 (6.08%) Tableau
9 8 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
11 5 (3.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.38%) Parquet
12 4 (2.70%) Presto
12 4 (2.70%) Spark SQL
13 3 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (2.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (2.03%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Git
2 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.70%) Cypress.io
4 3 (2.03%) JIRA
4 3 (2.03%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (1.35%) RStudio
6 1 (0.68%) Ant
6 1 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.68%) Gradle
6 1 (0.68%) JMeter
6 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
General
1 48 (32.43%) Finance
2 33 (22.30%) Social Skills
3 17 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.38%) Banking
6 4 (2.70%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.70%) Marketing
7 3 (2.03%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.35%) Legal
8 2 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.68%) Back Office
9 1 (0.68%) Front Office
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) Data Engineer
2 27 (18.24%) Architect
3 19 (12.84%) Big Data Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Data Architect
4 18 (12.16%) Developer
5 16 (10.81%) Site Engineer
5 16 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Analyst
7 12 (8.11%) Senior
8 11 (7.43%) Lead
9 9 (6.08%) Data Migration Engineer
9 9 (6.08%) Migration Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) Data Centre Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Consultant
11 7 (4.73%) Data Analyst
11 7 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (4.05%) AWS Architect
12 6 (4.05%) Business Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.24%) PySpark
2 16 (10.81%) gRPC
2 16 (10.81%) Protocol Buffers
3 13 (8.78%) Kafka
4 5 (3.38%) Apache Avro
4 5 (3.38%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.38%) XML
5 4 (2.70%) .NET
5 4 (2.70%) JSON
5 4 (2.70%) React
5 4 (2.70%) Web Services
6 3 (2.03%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.03%) ARM Templates
6 3 (2.03%) EDI
6 3 (2.03%) PyTorch
6 3 (2.03%) Spark Streaming
6 3 (2.03%) Spring
7 2 (1.35%) jQuery
7 2 (1.35%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.51%) Clustering
2 19 (12.84%) Hedge funds
3 11 (7.43%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 7 (4.73%) Algorithms
6 6 (4.05%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.70%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.70%) NHS
8 4 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
9 3 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (1.35%) Freedom of Information Act
10 2 (1.35%) Grid Computing
10 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.35%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.08%) Linux
2 8 (5.41%) VMS
3 4 (2.70%) Windows
3 4 (2.70%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.73%) Data Modelling
2 41 (27.70%) Analytics
3 40 (27.03%) DevOps
4 35 (23.65%) ETL
5 34 (22.97%) Agile
6 30 (20.27%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (17.57%) CI/CD
8 25 (16.89%) Data Engineering
9 24 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (16.22%) Migration
10 23 (15.54%) Machine Learning
11 22 (14.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (13.51%) Data Analysis
13 18 (12.16%) Asset Management
13 18 (12.16%) Data Science
13 18 (12.16%) Investment Management
14 16 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 15 (10.14%) Software Engineering
16 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (8.78%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.43%) Python
2 54 (36.49%) SQL
3 43 (29.05%) Java
4 20 (13.51%) Go
5 19 (12.84%) JavaScript
6 8 (5.41%) Scala
7 6 (4.05%) R
8 4 (2.70%) C#
9 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.03%) Rust
10 2 (1.35%) Perl
11 1 (0.68%) Bash
11 1 (0.68%) C++
11 1 (0.68%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.68%) Tcl
11 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (6.76%) Degree
2 6 (4.05%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.38%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.35%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.35%) MiFID
3 2 (1.35%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) EMIR
4 1 (0.68%) FATCA
4 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
4 1 (0.68%) NIST
4 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 10 (6.76%) Docker
2 4 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (18.92%) Terraform
2 26 (17.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (10.81%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.38%) Ansible
5 2 (1.35%) Consul
5 2 (1.35%) Packer
5 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.35%) Puppet
6 1 (0.68%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.68%) Oozie
Vendors
1 21 (14.19%) Databricks
2 20 (13.51%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.43%) Google
4 7 (4.73%) Oracle
5 3 (2.03%) Brio
5 3 (2.03%) Phenom
5 3 (2.03%) Splunk
5 3 (2.03%) Teradata
6 2 (1.35%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.68%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.68%) Foundry
7 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.68%) Palantir
7 1 (0.68%) Pardot
7 1 (0.68%) Sage
7 1 (0.68%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.68%) Sybase
7 1 (0.68%) Workday