Big Data Contracts in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 260 323 226
Rank change year-on-year +63 -97 -57
Contract jobs citing Big Data 138 124 327
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.54% 1.07%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 3.63% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 78 226
10th Percentile £350 £463 £425
25th Percentile £413 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £637 £703 £625
90th Percentile £732 £779 £713
UK median daily rate £575 £594 £600
% change year-on-year -3.16% -1.04% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 1
10th Percentile - £37.00 -
25th Percentile £18.20 £70.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.38 £78.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -75.16% +30.00% +144.90%
75th Percentile £20.55 - -
90th Percentile - £85.20 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -48.72% +28.93% +54.14%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,582 3,412 5,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.38% 14.89% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,827 2,430 3,831
10th Percentile £313 £338 £331
25th Percentile £400 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 107 127
10th Percentile £13.61 £21.66 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.50 £32.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.45%
75th Percentile £59.50 £73.73 £56.88
90th Percentile £73.50 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -33.33% +34.91% +64.97%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +54 43 £525 -4.55% 23
South East +7 33 £425 -22.73% 27
Midlands +34 30 £650 +28.71% 19
Yorkshire +40 26 £550 - 4
West Midlands +20 21 £650 +23.81% 16
Scotland +47 19 £494 -21.00% 20
North West +22 17 £510 +7.37% 15
East Midlands +14 9 £463 -8.42% 3
South West -12 9 £615 -5.38% 17
East of England +1 3 £500 -14.89% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 - 8
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 48 (34.78%) Apache Spark
2 19 (13.77%) Apache
3 11 (7.97%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (5.07%) Confluence
5 4 (2.90%) IIS
5 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 46 (33.33%) AWS
2 32 (23.19%) Azure
3 19 (13.77%) GCP
4 18 (13.04%) Amazon S3
5 17 (12.32%) Serverless
6 14 (10.14%) Power Platform
7 13 (9.42%) Snowflake
8 12 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (5.80%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 7 (5.07%) OpenShift
12 6 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (3.62%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (2.90%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (2.90%) PaaS
15 3 (2.17%) Amazon Neptune
15 3 (2.17%) dbt
15 3 (2.17%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 18 (13.04%) Intrusion Detection
1 18 (13.04%) Network Security
2 5 (3.62%) FTP
3 4 (2.90%) SAN
4 1 (0.72%) 5G
4 1 (0.72%) Broadband
4 1 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (26.09%) Hadoop
2 28 (20.29%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (18.84%) Data Lake
4 17 (12.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (10.14%) Power BI
6 13 (9.42%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (8.70%) BigQuery
8 11 (7.97%) Apache Hive
9 8 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (5.80%) Impala
10 7 (5.07%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
11 6 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (4.35%) Spark SQL
11 6 (4.35%) Tableau
12 5 (3.62%) Data Mining
12 5 (3.62%) MySQL
12 5 (3.62%) SQL Server
13 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.90%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 22 (15.94%) Git
2 16 (11.59%) JIRA
3 10 (7.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.62%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.17%) JMeter
5 3 (2.17%) LoadRunner
5 3 (2.17%) Selenium
5 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.45%) kappa
6 2 (1.45%) Maven
6 2 (1.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.72%) Gradle
7 1 (0.72%) Subversion
General
1 35 (25.36%) Analytical Skills
1 35 (25.36%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Finance
3 15 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 11 (7.97%) Banking
5 7 (5.07%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (4.35%) Health Technology
7 5 (3.62%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.90%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.90%) Retail
9 3 (2.17%) Police
9 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.45%) Marketing
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Billing
11 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (21.74%) Architect
2 21 (15.22%) Developer
3 15 (10.87%) Analyst
3 15 (10.87%) Data Architect
4 14 (10.14%) Data Engineer
4 14 (10.14%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (6.52%) Data Analyst
6 8 (5.80%) Data Centre Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Data Migration Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Migration Engineer
7 7 (5.07%) Senior
8 6 (4.35%) Azure Architect
9 5 (3.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Consultant
9 5 (3.62%) Data Modeller
9 5 (3.62%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.90%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (2.90%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.39%) Kafka
2 20 (14.49%) Apache NiFi
3 6 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
3 6 (4.35%) PySpark
3 6 (4.35%) React
4 5 (3.62%) JSON
4 5 (3.62%) Spring
4 5 (3.62%) XML
5 4 (2.90%) Apache Avro
6 3 (2.17%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.17%) Node.js
6 3 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (2.17%) Snowpark
7 2 (1.45%) .NET
7 2 (1.45%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.45%) REST
8 1 (0.72%) J2EE
8 1 (0.72%) RESTful
8 1 (0.72%) SOAP
8 1 (0.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Cyber Defence
1 18 (13.04%) Distributed Applications
2 16 (11.59%) Management Information System
3 13 (9.42%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.80%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.35%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.62%) Clustering
6 5 (3.62%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.90%) Credit Risk
7 4 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (2.90%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.17%) NHS
8 3 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.45%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (21.01%) Linux
2 22 (15.94%) Unix
3 20 (14.49%) Windows
4 16 (11.59%) Android
4 16 (11.59%) Apple iOS
5 8 (5.80%) VMS
6 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.03%) Analytics
2 42 (30.43%) Data Modelling
3 36 (26.09%) ETL
4 35 (25.36%) Data Engineering
5 33 (23.91%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (22.46%) Data Management
7 28 (20.29%) Agile
8 27 (19.57%) Data Analysis
9 22 (15.94%) DevOps
10 20 (14.49%) Information Security
10 20 (14.49%) Migration
11 19 (13.77%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (13.77%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (13.77%) Security Architecture
12 18 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (13.04%) CI/CD
12 18 (13.04%) Data Governance
12 18 (13.04%) SIEM
13 17 (12.32%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 54 (39.13%) Python
2 53 (38.41%) SQL
3 30 (21.74%) Java
4 9 (6.52%) Scala
5 7 (5.07%) C#
6 6 (4.35%) Bash
7 5 (3.62%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.90%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.17%) R
9 3 (2.17%) Ruby
9 3 (2.17%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.45%) Perl
11 1 (0.72%) C++
11 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.72%) PHP
11 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.94%) DV Cleared
3 16 (11.59%) Degree
4 6 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.62%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.04%) Actionable Recommendations
2 12 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.45%) NIST
4 2 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 8 (5.80%) Docker
2 4 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.90%) HDFS
3 1 (0.72%) KVM
3 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.70%) Terraform
2 10 (7.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.90%) Kibana
4 3 (2.17%) logstash
4 3 (2.17%) Rancher
5 2 (1.45%) Ansible
6 1 (0.72%) Control-M
6 1 (0.72%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.72%) Nagios
6 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.72%) Puppet
6 1 (0.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 16 (11.59%) Google
3 14 (10.14%) Red Hat
4 12 (8.70%) Databricks
5 11 (7.97%) Oracle
6 7 (5.07%) Informatica
6 7 (5.07%) Teradata
7 5 (3.62%) Talend
8 4 (2.90%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.17%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.17%) Brio
9 3 (2.17%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.45%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.45%) Splunk
11 1 (0.72%) Adobe
11 1 (0.72%) Ariba
11 1 (0.72%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.72%) BT
11 1 (0.72%) Sage
11 1 (0.72%) VMware