Big Data Contracts in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 120 140 163
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 -50
Contract jobs citing Big Data 15 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.54% 0.33% 0.47%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.64% 2.06% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 17
10th Percentile £463 £458 £445
25th Percentile £505 £463 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -24.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £650 £650
90th Percentile £630 £713 £675
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £37.50 -
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
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 412 486 727
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.76% 16.14% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 356 538
10th Percentile £338 £325 £314
25th Percentile £401 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £631 £678 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 39
10th Percentile £22.83 £28.26 £13.47
25th Percentile £37.63 £35.00 £15.24
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +88.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £54.69 £75.00
90th Percentile £66.75 £64.80 £77.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +72.48%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cheshire +1 10 £510 -24.44% 1
Manchester +12 5 £588 +11.90% 11
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (73.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (40.00%) Apache
3 5 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (13.33%) Metadata
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
4 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
5 1 (6.67%) HBase
5 1 (6.67%) Impala
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI
5 1 (6.67%) Presto
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
5 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Manufacturing
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
5 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Data Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Data Modeller
5 1 (6.67%) Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Security Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior UI Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior UX Designer
5 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) UI Designer
5 1 (6.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ETL
2 8 (53.33%) Performance Tuning
3 7 (46.67%) Data Engineering
3 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (40.00%) Data Management
4 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Analytics
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (33.33%) OO
5 5 (33.33%) OOP
5 5 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 5 (33.33%) Scrum
5 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Data Architecture
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) SQL
2 9 (60.00%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) Java
4 5 (33.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) Scala
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Informatica
1 5 (33.33%) Talend
2 3 (20.00%) Databricks
2 3 (20.00%) Teradata
3 2 (13.33%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk