Big Data Engineer Contracts in England

Big Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in England is £800, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 619 693
Rank change year-on-year +100 +74 -119
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 31 17 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.036% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.038% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 13 57
10th Percentile £625 £470 £519
25th Percentile £650 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -25.00% +27.27%
75th Percentile £850 £700 £750
90th Percentile - £750 £838
UK median daily rate £800 £525 £685
% change year-on-year +52.38% -23.36% +23.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London +96 29 £800 +52.38% 1
North of England +16 1 £475 -
North West +14 1 £475 -
South West +1 1 £650 +36.84%
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Big Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (100.00%) Big Data
2 29 (93.55%) Python
3 24 (77.42%) Finance
4 23 (74.19%) Java
5 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
6 21 (67.74%) Data Lake
7 20 (64.52%) DevOps
8 19 (61.29%) Terraform
8 19 (61.29%) Apache Airflow
8 19 (61.29%) dbt
8 19 (61.29%) Snowflake
8 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
8 19 (61.29%) Investment Management
8 19 (61.29%) AWS
9 18 (58.06%) Hedge funds
9 18 (58.06%) Protocol Buffers
9 18 (58.06%) Go
9 18 (58.06%) Asset Management
9 18 (58.06%) Clustering
9 18 (58.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 18 (58.06%) Dremio
9 18 (58.06%) Apache Arrow
9 18 (58.06%) Prometheus
9 18 (58.06%) Amazon Athena
9 18 (58.06%) gRPC
10 9 (29.03%) ETL
11 8 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
12 5 (16.13%) Agile
12 5 (16.13%) Azure

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 19 (61.29%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (16.13%) Apache Spark
3 3 (9.68%) Apache
4 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) AWS
1 19 (61.29%) dbt
1 19 (61.29%) Snowflake
2 5 (16.13%) Azure
3 3 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.23%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (100.00%) Big Data
2 21 (67.74%) Data Lake
3 18 (58.06%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (58.06%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (58.06%) Dremio
4 8 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.68%) BigQuery
5 3 (9.68%) Bigtable
5 3 (9.68%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
6 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.23%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.23%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.23%) Sqoop
7 1 (3.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.23%) Git
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (77.42%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Investment Banking
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (58.06%) gRPC
1 18 (58.06%) Protocol Buffers
2 5 (16.13%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) React
Miscellaneous
1 18 (58.06%) Clustering
1 18 (58.06%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.23%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) DevOps
2 19 (61.29%) Investment Management
3 18 (58.06%) Asset Management
3 18 (58.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 9 (29.03%) ETL
5 5 (16.13%) Agile
5 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.90%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (9.68%) Data Migration
7 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
7 3 (9.68%) Migration
7 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (6.45%) Analytics
8 2 (6.45%) Data Analytics
8 2 (6.45%) Data Engineering
9 1 (3.23%) Architectural Design
9 1 (3.23%) Business Transformation
9 1 (3.23%) Data Acquisition
9 1 (3.23%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 29 (93.55%) Python
2 23 (74.19%) Java
3 19 (61.29%) JavaScript
4 18 (58.06%) Go
5 2 (6.45%) Scala
5 2 (6.45%) SQL
6 1 (3.23%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) Gremlin
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.23%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (70.97%) Kubernetes
2 19 (61.29%) Terraform
3 18 (58.06%) Prometheus
4 3 (9.68%) Ansible
5 1 (3.23%) Ganglia
5 1 (3.23%) Kibana
5 1 (3.23%) logstash
5 1 (3.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.23%) Informatica
4 1 (3.23%) SnapLogic
4 1 (3.23%) Teradata