Big Data Engineer Contracts in London

Big Data Engineer
England > London

The median Big Data Engineer daily rate in London 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 371 467 523
Rank change year-on-year +96 +56 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 29 15 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.060% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.063% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 11 49
10th Percentile £650 £500 £522
25th Percentile £681 £513 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £525 £700
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -25.00% +19.66%
75th Percentile £850 £725 £750
90th Percentile - £750 £840
England median daily rate £800 £525 £700
% change year-on-year +52.38% -25.00% +27.27%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 4 £700 - 1
Big Data Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) Big Data
2 27 (93.10%) Python
3 23 (79.31%) Finance
4 22 (75.86%) Java
5 21 (72.41%) Kubernetes
5 21 (72.41%) Data Lake
6 19 (65.52%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (65.52%) dbt
6 19 (65.52%) DevOps
6 19 (65.52%) Investment Management
7 18 (62.07%) Asset Management
7 18 (62.07%) JavaScript
7 18 (62.07%) Clustering
7 18 (62.07%) Protocol Buffers
7 18 (62.07%) Go
7 18 (62.07%) AWS
7 18 (62.07%) Hedge funds
7 18 (62.07%) Snowflake
7 18 (62.07%) Dremio
7 18 (62.07%) Apache Arrow
7 18 (62.07%) gRPC
7 18 (62.07%) Terraform
7 18 (62.07%) Prometheus
7 18 (62.07%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (62.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 8 (27.59%) ETL
9 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (17.24%) PySpark
11 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
11 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (65.52%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (13.79%) Apache Spark
3 2 (6.90%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 19 (65.52%) dbt
2 18 (62.07%) AWS
2 18 (62.07%) Snowflake
3 4 (13.79%) Azure
4 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.34%) GCP
5 1 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (100.00%) Big Data
2 21 (72.41%) Data Lake
3 18 (62.07%) Amazon Athena
3 18 (62.07%) Apache Arrow
3 18 (62.07%) Dremio
4 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
5 3 (10.34%) Bigtable
5 3 (10.34%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
7 1 (3.45%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.45%) Impala
7 1 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.45%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Sqoop
7 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
General
1 23 (79.31%) Finance
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 3 (10.34%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (62.07%) gRPC
1 18 (62.07%) Protocol Buffers
2 5 (17.24%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 18 (62.07%) Clustering
1 18 (62.07%) Hedge funds
2 1 (3.45%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) DevOps
1 19 (65.52%) Investment Management
2 18 (62.07%) Asset Management
2 18 (62.07%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) ETL
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) CI/CD
4 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.34%) Data Migration
5 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (10.34%) Design Patterns
5 3 (10.34%) Migration
6 2 (6.90%) Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics
6 2 (6.90%) Data Engineering
6 2 (6.90%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (3.45%) Data Acquisition
7 1 (3.45%) Data Science
7 1 (3.45%) ETL Development
7 1 (3.45%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 27 (93.10%) Python
2 22 (75.86%) Java
3 18 (62.07%) Go
3 18 (62.07%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) SQL
5 1 (3.45%) Gremlin
5 1 (3.45%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) Kubernetes
2 18 (62.07%) Prometheus
2 18 (62.07%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Databricks
1 3 (10.34%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) SnapLogic