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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 223 147
Rank change year-on-year +28 -76 -17
Contract jobs citing Big Data 153 255 840
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.04% 1.07% 1.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.32% 5.68% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 177 578
10th Percentile £413 £463 £450
25th Percentile £500 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £588 £590
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -0.42% +7.27%
75th Percentile £825 £700 £680
90th Percentile £850 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +5.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £26.50 £48.80 -
25th Percentile £28.75 £62.00 -
Median hourly rate £32.50 £64.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -49.22% - -
75th Percentile £36.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £38.50 £87.00 -
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
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 2,876 4,493 9,407
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 19.62% 18.78% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,115 3,293 6,875
10th Percentile £356 £388 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £788 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 78 86
10th Percentile £18.00 £23.86 £19.00
25th Percentile £21.88 £45.31 £21.19
Median hourly rate £37.75 £65.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.37% +35.05% +61.67%
75th Percentile £58.50 £73.75 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.72%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 (20.26%) Apache Spark
2 19 (12.42%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (8.50%) Apache
4 4 (2.61%) IIS
4 4 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.31%) Apache Solr
5 2 (1.31%) Confluence
5 2 (1.31%) nginx
6 1 (0.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.65%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.25%) AWS
2 54 (35.29%) Azure
3 26 (16.99%) dbt
4 24 (15.69%) Snowflake
5 23 (15.03%) Power Platform
6 14 (9.15%) GCP
7 12 (7.84%) Serverless
8 11 (7.19%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (5.23%) Amazon S3
10 8 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (5.23%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (3.27%) Azure Functions
12 4 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.61%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.61%) npm
12 4 (2.61%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.96%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.61%) SAN
2 1 (0.65%) Firewall
2 1 (0.65%) HTTPS
2 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (31.37%) Data Lake
2 37 (24.18%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (17.65%) Apache Arrow
4 26 (16.99%) Dremio
5 24 (15.69%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (13.07%) Power BI
7 17 (11.11%) Tableau
8 16 (10.46%) Hadoop
9 10 (6.54%) BigQuery
9 10 (6.54%) Delta Lake
10 9 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (5.88%) SQL Server
11 8 (5.23%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (3.27%) Parquet
14 4 (2.61%) Presto
14 4 (2.61%) Spark SQL
15 3 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (1.96%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.96%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 10 (6.54%) Git
2 5 (3.27%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.61%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.96%) JIRA
4 3 (1.96%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (1.31%) Apache Continuum
6 1 (0.65%) Ant
6 1 (0.65%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.65%) Gradle
6 1 (0.65%) JMeter
6 1 (0.65%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.65%) RStudio
6 1 (0.65%) Selenium
General
1 56 (36.60%) Finance
2 29 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.15%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.19%) Banking
4 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
5 8 (5.23%) Front Office
5 8 (5.23%) Investment Banking
6 5 (3.27%) Marketing
7 4 (2.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.96%) Health Technology
8 3 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (22.88%) Data Engineer
2 21 (13.73%) AWS Engineer
2 21 (13.73%) Big Data Engineer
3 20 (13.07%) Architect
3 20 (13.07%) Developer
4 18 (11.76%) Site Engineer
4 18 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 17 (11.11%) Analyst
6 14 (9.15%) Data Architect
6 14 (9.15%) Senior
7 9 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
7 9 (5.88%) Data Migration Engineer
7 9 (5.88%) Lead
7 9 (5.88%) Migration Engineer
8 8 (5.23%) Consultant
8 8 (5.23%) Data Centre Engineer
9 7 (4.58%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.27%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (18.30%) PySpark
2 18 (11.76%) gRPC
2 18 (11.76%) Protocol Buffers
3 11 (7.19%) Kafka
4 5 (3.27%) Apache Avro
4 5 (3.27%) React
4 5 (3.27%) XML
5 4 (2.61%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.61%) JSON
5 4 (2.61%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (2.61%) Spring
5 4 (2.61%) TensorFlow
5 4 (2.61%) Web Services
6 3 (1.96%) .NET
6 3 (1.96%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.96%) EDI
6 3 (1.96%) PyTorch
7 2 (1.31%) jQuery
7 2 (1.31%) OpenAPI
7 2 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 28 (18.30%) Hedge funds
2 22 (14.38%) Clustering
3 12 (7.84%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (7.19%) Product Ownership
5 8 (5.23%) Data Centre
5 8 (5.23%) Derivative
5 8 (5.23%) Equities
5 8 (5.23%) Fixed Income
5 8 (5.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
6 6 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (3.27%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.27%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.61%) NHS
8 4 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 2 (1.31%) Freedom of Information Act
10 2 (1.31%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.23%) Linux
1 8 (5.23%) VMS
2 4 (2.61%) Windows
2 4 (2.61%) Windows Server
2 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (2.61%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (33.33%) Analytics
2 44 (28.76%) Agile
3 43 (28.10%) Data Modelling
3 43 (28.10%) DevOps
4 33 (21.57%) ETL
5 26 (16.99%) Asset Management
5 26 (16.99%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (16.99%) Investment Management
6 25 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (16.34%) Data Engineering
6 25 (16.34%) Migration
7 22 (14.38%) CI/CD
8 19 (12.42%) Machine Learning
9 18 (11.76%) Data Analysis
9 18 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 17 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
10 17 (11.11%) Computer Science
10 17 (11.11%) Data Science
11 16 (10.46%) Data Governance
11 16 (10.46%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (54.25%) Python
2 64 (41.83%) SQL
3 44 (28.76%) Java
4 20 (13.07%) Go
4 20 (13.07%) JavaScript
5 11 (7.19%) Scala
6 5 (3.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.96%) C#
7 3 (1.96%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.96%) R
7 3 (1.96%) Rust
8 1 (0.65%) Bash
8 1 (0.65%) BeanShell
8 1 (0.65%) C++
8 1 (0.65%) Haskell
8 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.65%) Perl
8 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.65%) Tcl
8 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.50%) Degree
2 6 (3.92%) Azure Certification
2 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.27%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.96%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.31%) MiFID
3 2 (1.31%) PMO
4 1 (0.65%) EMIR
4 1 (0.65%) FATCA
4 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.65%) NCSC
4 1 (0.65%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (5.23%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (17.65%) Terraform
2 25 (16.34%) Kubernetes
3 18 (11.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.96%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (15.03%) Databricks
2 21 (13.73%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.19%) Google
4 7 (4.58%) Oracle
5 3 (1.96%) Brio
5 3 (1.96%) Cloudera
5 3 (1.96%) Phenom
5 3 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.96%) Splunk
5 3 (1.96%) Teradata
6 2 (1.31%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) Foundry
7 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.65%) Palantir
7 1 (0.65%) Pardot
7 1 (0.65%) Sage
7 1 (0.65%) SAP
7 1 (0.65%) Sybase
7 1 (0.65%) Workday