Big Data Contracts in London

Big Data
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with 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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 148 137
Rank change year-on-year -16 -11 -47
Contract jobs citing Big Data 265 440 835
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.50% 1.74% 2.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.73% 8.51% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 299 500
10th Percentile £388 £455 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £781 £740 £738
90th Percentile £850 £831 £813
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 2
10th Percentile £34.00 £56.60 £62.42
25th Percentile £40.63 £62.00 £67.16
Median hourly rate £42.50 £90.00 £75.70
Median % change year-on-year -52.78% +18.89% +70.11%
75th Percentile £48.13 - £83.61
90th Percentile £58.25 - £87.99
England 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
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 3,936 5,168 8,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.30% 20.45% 20.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,929 3,792 6,037
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £475 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% -1.71% +10.38%
75th Percentile £706 £700 £700
90th Percentile £850 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 52 37
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £26.69
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.10 £34.25
Median hourly rate £48.50 £53.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +2.38% +70.39%
75th Percentile £54.13 £80.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.40 £90.00 £75.34
England median hourly rate £40.00 £59.30 £42.50
% change year-on-year -32.54% +39.52% +70.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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 -1 22 £650 +8.33% 11
West London +19 3 £663 +1.92% 4
East London -4 1 £575 +9.52% 3
Big Data
England

Big Data
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 77 (29.06%) Apache Spark
2 35 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (11.70%) Apache
4 3 (1.13%) SAS
5 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.75%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.75%) Confluence
5 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 112 (42.26%) Azure
2 100 (37.74%) AWS
3 50 (18.87%) Power Platform
4 46 (17.36%) GCP
5 34 (12.83%) Snowflake
6 27 (10.19%) dbt
7 23 (8.68%) Serverless
8 22 (8.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 21 (7.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (6.04%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (4.15%) Amazon S3
11 11 (4.15%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.77%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 9 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.40%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.40%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.40%) PowerApps
13 9 (3.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (34.34%) Data Lake
2 66 (24.91%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (16.60%) Power BI
4 38 (14.34%) Hadoop
5 33 (12.45%) Tableau
6 27 (10.19%) Apache Arrow
7 26 (9.81%) Dremio
8 25 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
9 22 (8.30%) Apache Hive
10 17 (6.42%) BigQuery
10 17 (6.42%) SQL Server
11 16 (6.04%) Delta Lake
11 16 (6.04%) NoSQL
12 14 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
13 13 (4.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (4.91%) Impala
14 11 (4.15%) OLTP
14 11 (4.15%) Spark SQL
15 10 (3.77%) Relational Database
16 8 (3.02%) HBase
Development Applications
1 19 (7.17%) Git
2 8 (3.02%) JIRA
3 6 (2.26%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (1.89%) ERwin
4 5 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.89%) Maven
4 5 (1.89%) Subversion
4 5 (1.89%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.51%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.75%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.75%) RStudio
7 1 (0.38%) Ant
7 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.38%) git-flow
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 68 (25.66%) Finance
2 56 (21.13%) Analytical Skills
2 56 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 31 (11.70%) Banking
4 19 (7.17%) Investment Banking
5 15 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.02%) Front Office
7 7 (2.64%) Marketing
7 7 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.51%) Publishing
9 3 (1.13%) Back Office
9 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.13%) Legal
9 3 (1.13%) Retail
9 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.38%) German Language
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (24.15%) Data Engineer
2 60 (22.64%) Architect
3 34 (12.83%) Senior
4 31 (11.70%) Developer
5 30 (11.32%) Data Architect
6 29 (10.94%) Big Data Engineer
7 28 (10.57%) AWS Engineer
7 28 (10.57%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (7.92%) Analyst
9 18 (6.79%) Site Engineer
9 18 (6.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 17 (6.42%) Consultant
11 16 (6.04%) Lead
12 15 (5.66%) Cloud Architect
13 14 (5.28%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 14 (5.28%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (4.53%) Data Analyst
15 11 (4.15%) Azure Engineer
15 11 (4.15%) Data Scientist
16 10 (3.77%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.74%) PySpark
2 23 (8.68%) Kafka
3 18 (6.79%) gRPC
3 18 (6.79%) Protocol Buffers
4 9 (3.40%) .NET
5 8 (3.02%) JSON
5 8 (3.02%) Pandas
5 8 (3.02%) SAML
6 7 (2.64%) Web Services
6 7 (2.64%) XML
7 6 (2.26%) ARM Templates
8 5 (1.89%) Apache NiFi
8 5 (1.89%) REST
8 5 (1.89%) TensorFlow
9 4 (1.51%) Apache Avro
9 4 (1.51%) NumPy
9 4 (1.51%) scikit-learn
10 3 (1.13%) EDI
10 3 (1.13%) Middleware
10 3 (1.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.58%) Hedge funds
2 21 (7.92%) Algorithms
3 18 (6.79%) Clustering
4 15 (5.66%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (5.28%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.77%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.40%) Freedom of Information
7 9 (3.40%) Freedom of Information Act
8 8 (3.02%) Derivative
8 8 (3.02%) Equities
8 8 (3.02%) Fixed Income
8 8 (3.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.64%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.64%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.51%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.28%) Linux
2 6 (2.26%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Android
3 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (33.21%) Analytics
2 79 (29.81%) Agile
3 78 (29.43%) Data Modelling
4 74 (27.92%) ETL
5 69 (26.04%) Data Pipeline
6 68 (25.66%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (17.74%) DevOps
8 43 (16.23%) Computer Science
8 43 (16.23%) Machine Learning
9 42 (15.85%) Data Science
9 42 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
10 41 (15.47%) Data Engineering
11 36 (13.58%) Data Governance
12 33 (12.45%) CI/CD
13 31 (11.70%) Data Analysis
14 29 (10.94%) Scrum
15 28 (10.57%) Asset Management
16 27 (10.19%) Investment Management
17 26 (9.81%) Data Architecture
18 25 (9.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 149 (56.23%) Python
2 123 (46.42%) SQL
3 55 (20.75%) Java
4 46 (17.36%) Scala
5 24 (9.06%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.55%) Go
7 18 (6.79%) PowerShell
8 12 (4.53%) R
9 9 (3.40%) C#
10 5 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 5 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.13%) Bash
12 2 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.75%) Gremlin
12 2 (0.75%) Perl
12 2 (0.75%) Rust
12 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.75%) U-SQL
12 2 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 41 (15.47%) Degree
2 24 (9.06%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.68%) SC Cleared
4 16 (6.04%) DV Cleared
5 13 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (4.53%) AWS Certification
7 10 (3.77%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.26%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.51%) CISSP
10 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.75%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (16.60%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.64%) QA
3 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.13%) GDPR
4 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.75%) MiFID
4 2 (0.75%) NCSC
4 2 (0.75%) NIST
4 2 (0.75%) PMO
4 2 (0.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) EMIR
5 1 (0.38%) FATCA
System Software
1 11 (4.15%) Docker
2 8 (3.02%) HDFS
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 42 (15.85%) Terraform
2 34 (12.83%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.79%) Prometheus
4 15 (5.66%) Ansible
5 10 (3.77%) Puppet
6 5 (1.89%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.51%) Argo
8 2 (0.75%) Ambari
8 2 (0.75%) Ganglia
8 2 (0.75%) Oozie
Vendors
1 57 (21.51%) Databricks
2 33 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 18 (6.79%) Google
4 12 (4.53%) Informatica
4 12 (4.53%) Oracle
4 12 (4.53%) Talend
5 8 (3.02%) Cloudera
6 5 (1.89%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.51%) Foundry
7 4 (1.51%) Palantir
7 4 (1.51%) SAP
8 3 (1.13%) IBM
8 3 (1.13%) Okta
8 3 (1.13%) Phenom
8 3 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.13%) Symantec
8 3 (1.13%) Varonis
9 2 (0.75%) ESRI
9 2 (0.75%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.38%) Teradata