Big Data Contracts in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 166 181 159
Rank change year-on-year +15 -22 -17
Contract jobs citing Big Data 34 34 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.60% 1.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.37% 4.29% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 71
10th Percentile £259 £500 £413
25th Percentile £350 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £543
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +5.99% +3.33%
75th Percentile £575 £753 £613
90th Percentile £744 £835 £713
England median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.20 - -
Median hourly rate £19.38 - -
75th Percentile £20.55 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 633 793 1,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.00% 14.00% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 551 948
10th Percentile £313 £315 £347
25th Percentile £394 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 42 28
10th Percentile £18.20 £22.18 £17.69
25th Percentile £22.61 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £48.18 £58.59 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.77% +160.40% -48.28%
75th Percentile £62.62 £74.69 £49.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.68 £57.53
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +14 23 £412 -46.84% 11
Buckinghamshire +35 13 £375 -44.44% 3
Berkshire -7 10 £436 -43.74% 1
Hampshire -11 5 £738 +37.21% 1
Surrey +12 3 £375 -31.82% 8
West Sussex - 3 - - 3
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.76%) Confluence
3 2 (5.88%) Apache
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 12 (35.29%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Power Platform
2 7 (20.59%) Snowflake
3 5 (14.71%) Azure
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon Neptune
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (8.82%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (8.82%) dbt
5 3 (8.82%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.88%) PaaS
7 1 (2.94%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub
7 1 (2.94%) IaaS
7 1 (2.94%) SaaS
7 1 (2.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) 5G
1 1 (2.94%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Data Lake
2 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (20.59%) Power BI
4 6 (17.65%) Hadoop
5 5 (14.71%) Data Mining
6 4 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (11.76%) Apache Hive
6 4 (11.76%) Impala
6 4 (11.76%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (8.82%) PowerPivot
8 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.88%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 1 (2.94%) HDInsight
9 1 (2.94%) Looker
9 1 (2.94%) Metadata
9 1 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (2.94%) Sqoop
9 1 (2.94%) Tableau
9 1 (2.94%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Git
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
4 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (5.88%) kappa
4 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.94%) Subversion
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Retail
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Marketing
4 3 (8.82%) Police
4 3 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Advertising
6 1 (2.94%) Billing
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 5 (14.71%) Data Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Big Data Analyst
4 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Mainframe Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Data Modeller
6 2 (5.88%) Azure Architect
6 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
6 2 (5.88%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.88%) Supplier Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Scala Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) Kafka
2 3 (8.82%) Snowpark
3 2 (5.88%) Spring
4 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Credit Risk
1 4 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 3 (8.82%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Data Modelling
2 11 (32.35%) Analytics
3 9 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (23.53%) Agile
5 7 (20.59%) Data Science
6 6 (17.65%) Data Engineering
7 5 (14.71%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
7 5 (14.71%) Data Integration
7 5 (14.71%) Data Strategy
7 5 (14.71%) ETL
7 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
8 4 (11.76%) Data Governance
8 4 (11.76%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.76%) DevOps
8 4 (11.76%) Migration
8 4 (11.76%) Statistics
9 3 (8.82%) Kimball Methodology
9 3 (8.82%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) SQL
2 13 (38.24%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) Java
3 4 (11.76%) Scala
4 1 (2.94%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) C++
4 1 (2.94%) PHP
4 1 (2.94%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (17.65%) Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.88%) Control-M
3 1 (2.94%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Databricks
2 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.88%) Adobe
4 2 (5.88%) Cloudera
4 2 (5.88%) Informatica
5 1 (2.94%) Google
5 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow