Big Data Contracts in England

Big Data
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 227 179
Rank change year-on-year +7 -48 -63
Contract jobs citing Big Data 403 547 1,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.07% 1.16% 1.64%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.29% 6.64% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 357 718
10th Percentile £363 £463 £450
25th Percentile £459 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.35%
75th Percentile £763 £738 £703
90th Percentile £850 £837 £800
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 3
10th Percentile £18.20 £44.40 £59.40
25th Percentile £19.90 £70.50 £59.63
Median hourly rate £41.25 £78.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.12% +28.93% +47.56%
75th Percentile £46.56 £90.00 £76.33
90th Percentile £51.13 - £85.07
UK median hourly rate £41.25 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -47.12% +28.93% +47.56%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,409 8,241 13,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 17.09% 17.52% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,613 5,916 9,942
10th Percentile £350 £365 £369
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £669
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 154 165
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £14.50
25th Percentile £20.77 £32.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%
75th Percentile £52.83 £75.00 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.30 £82.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £43.95
% change year-on-year -31.73% +33.31% +62.78%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
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 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 -6 270 £650 +8.33% 119
North of England +44 44 £523 -5.00% 23
South East +15 34 £425 -26.09% 29
Midlands +28 31 £642 +27.10% 19
Yorkshire +36 29 £550 - 3
West Midlands +24 21 £650 +23.81% 16
North West +20 15 £510 +7.37% 15
East Midlands +12 10 £450 -10.89% 3
South West -23 10 £623 +11.41% 11
East of England -2 3 £500 -14.89% 9
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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
1 130 (32.26%) Apache Spark
2 51 (12.66%) Apache
3 46 (11.41%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (2.48%) Confluence
5 4 (0.99%) IIS
5 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.99%) SAS
6 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.50%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (2.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 153 (37.97%) AWS
2 151 (37.47%) Azure
3 70 (17.37%) GCP
4 67 (16.63%) Power Platform
5 50 (12.41%) Snowflake
6 44 (10.92%) Serverless
7 31 (7.69%) Amazon S3
7 31 (7.69%) dbt
8 30 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (6.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
11 19 (4.71%) Cloud Computing
12 17 (4.22%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (3.72%) Amazon EMR
14 12 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (2.73%) Entra ID
15 11 (2.73%) PaaS
16 10 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 10 (2.48%) GitHub
16 10 (2.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.47%) Intrusion Detection
1 18 (4.47%) Network Security
2 5 (1.24%) FTP
3 4 (0.99%) SAN
4 2 (0.50%) Internet
5 1 (0.25%) 5G
5 1 (0.25%) Broadband
5 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (30.77%) Data Lake
2 96 (23.82%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (20.35%) Hadoop
4 61 (15.14%) Power BI
5 42 (10.42%) Tableau
6 39 (9.68%) Amazon Athena
7 33 (8.19%) Amazon Redshift
8 30 (7.44%) Apache Hive
8 30 (7.44%) BigQuery
9 27 (6.70%) Apache Arrow
10 26 (6.45%) Dremio
11 25 (6.20%) SQL Server
12 22 (5.46%) NoSQL
13 18 (4.47%) Delta Lake
13 18 (4.47%) Impala
13 18 (4.47%) Relational Database
14 16 (3.97%) Spark SQL
15 13 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
16 12 (2.98%) Metadata
16 12 (2.98%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 48 (11.91%) Git
2 26 (6.45%) JIRA
3 16 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.99%) Maven
5 7 (1.74%) Subversion
6 6 (1.49%) Visual Studio Team System
7 5 (1.24%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.24%) ERwin
7 5 (1.24%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.74%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.74%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.50%) kappa
10 2 (0.50%) RStudio
11 1 (0.25%) git-flow
11 1 (0.25%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 95 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
1 95 (23.57%) Finance
2 90 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.17%) Banking
4 24 (5.96%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.21%) Investment Banking
6 10 (2.48%) Marketing
6 10 (2.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.99%) Front Office
8 8 (1.99%) Retail
9 6 (1.49%) Health Technology
10 5 (1.24%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.99%) Legal
11 4 (0.99%) Publishing
12 3 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.74%) Police
13 2 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 91 (22.58%) Architect
2 85 (21.09%) Data Engineer
3 45 (11.17%) Data Architect
4 44 (10.92%) Developer
5 43 (10.67%) Solutions Architect
6 40 (9.93%) Senior
7 34 (8.44%) Analyst
8 31 (7.69%) Big Data Engineer
9 29 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
10 20 (4.96%) Consultant
11 19 (4.71%) Data Analyst
12 18 (4.47%) Lead
12 18 (4.47%) Site Engineer
12 18 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 16 (3.97%) Cloud Architect
14 15 (3.72%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (3.47%) Azure Architect
15 14 (3.47%) Cloud Solutions Architect
16 13 (3.23%) Azure Data Architect
16 13 (3.23%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.65%) PySpark
2 50 (12.41%) Kafka
3 24 (5.96%) Apache NiFi
4 18 (4.47%) gRPC
4 18 (4.47%) Protocol Buffers
5 14 (3.47%) JSON
6 12 (2.98%) XML
7 11 (2.73%) .NET
8 9 (2.23%) Web Services
9 8 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (1.99%) Pandas
9 8 (1.99%) SAML
10 6 (1.49%) ARM Templates
10 6 (1.49%) React
11 5 (1.24%) Node.js
11 5 (1.24%) REST
11 5 (1.24%) TensorFlow
12 4 (0.99%) NumPy
12 4 (0.99%) RESTful
12 4 (0.99%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (8.93%) Hedge funds
2 25 (6.20%) Algorithms
2 25 (6.20%) Management Information System
3 22 (5.46%) Clustering
4 18 (4.47%) Cyber Defence
4 18 (4.47%) Distributed Applications
5 15 (3.72%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.47%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.48%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (2.23%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.99%) Derivative
10 8 (1.99%) Equities
10 8 (1.99%) Fixed Income
10 8 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.99%) Freedom of Information
10 8 (1.99%) Freedom of Information Act
11 7 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
11 7 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 44 (10.92%) Linux
2 26 (6.45%) Unix
3 20 (4.96%) Windows
4 18 (4.47%) Android
4 18 (4.47%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.99%) VMS
6 4 (0.99%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (36.48%) Analytics
2 124 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 112 (27.79%) ETL
4 110 (27.30%) Agile
5 108 (26.80%) Data Pipeline
6 90 (22.33%) Business Intelligence
7 87 (21.59%) Data Engineering
8 72 (17.87%) DevOps
9 69 (17.12%) Data Science
10 65 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
11 64 (15.88%) Data Analysis
12 61 (15.14%) Data Governance
12 61 (15.14%) Machine Learning
13 55 (13.65%) Computer Science
14 52 (12.90%) Data Management
15 50 (12.41%) CI/CD
16 45 (11.17%) Migration
17 42 (10.42%) Data Architecture
18 39 (9.68%) Data Analytics
18 39 (9.68%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 215 (53.35%) Python
2 183 (45.41%) SQL
3 89 (22.08%) Java
4 59 (14.64%) Scala
5 31 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 20 (4.96%) Go
7 18 (4.47%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.97%) C#
9 15 (3.72%) R
10 10 (2.48%) Bash
11 7 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 6 (1.49%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.24%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.99%) Perl
14 4 (0.99%) Ruby
15 3 (0.74%) C++
15 3 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 2 (0.50%) Gremlin
16 2 (0.50%) Rust
16 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 57 (14.14%) Degree
2 50 (12.41%) Security Cleared
3 39 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 24 (5.96%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (3.72%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.73%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.99%) CISSP
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (13.90%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.47%) Actionable Recommendations
3 8 (1.99%) QA
4 7 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.74%) NIST
6 2 (0.50%) GDPR
6 2 (0.50%) MiFID
6 2 (0.50%) NCSC
6 2 (0.50%) PMO
6 2 (0.50%) SLA
7 1 (0.25%) EMIR
7 1 (0.25%) FATCA
7 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (5.21%) Docker
2 13 (3.23%) HDFS
3 4 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 55 (13.65%) Terraform
2 47 (11.66%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.71%) Prometheus
4 15 (3.72%) Ansible
5 10 (2.48%) Puppet
6 6 (1.49%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (1.24%) Kibana
8 4 (0.99%) Argo
8 4 (0.99%) logstash
8 4 (0.99%) Rancher
9 2 (0.50%) Control-M
9 2 (0.50%) Ganglia
10 1 (0.25%) Ambari
10 1 (0.25%) Oozie
Vendors
1 71 (17.62%) Databricks
2 53 (13.15%) Microsoft
3 32 (7.94%) Google
4 19 (4.71%) Informatica
4 19 (4.71%) Oracle
5 17 (4.22%) Talend
6 14 (3.47%) Red Hat
7 12 (2.98%) Cloudera
8 7 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.74%) Teradata
9 6 (1.49%) SAP
10 5 (1.24%) Foundry
10 5 (1.24%) Palantir
11 4 (0.99%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.99%) Brio
12 3 (0.74%) IBM
12 3 (0.74%) Okta
12 3 (0.74%) Splunk
12 3 (0.74%) Symantec