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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 156 135
Rank change year-on-year -8 -21 -48
Contract jobs citing Big Data 262 443 835
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.50% 1.74% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.74% 8.53% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 305 498
10th Percentile £388 £453 £462
25th Percentile £475 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -2.04% +6.52%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £725
90th Percentile £850 £825 £813
England median daily rate £600 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +2.13% -2.08% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 2
10th Percentile £25.87 £56.60 £62.42
25th Percentile £36.56 £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 £47.81 - £83.61
90th Percentile £55.88 - £87.99
England median hourly rate £40.00 £78.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -48.72% +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 3,887 5,196 8,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 22.20% 20.43% 20.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,883 3,818 5,981
10th Percentile £375 £400 £406
25th Percentile £455 £475 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -0.86% +9.43%
75th Percentile £700 £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 34 53 34
10th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £27.14
25th Percentile £25.31 £24.50 £34.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.33% +74.44%
75th Percentile £54.03 £80.00 £71.56
90th Percentile £70.85 £90.00 £75.59
England median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £43.68
% change year-on-year -33.33% +37.35% +76.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -5 22 £650 +8.33% 11
West London +19 5 £525 -19.23% 4
East London -7 1 £575 +4.55% 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 76 (29.01%) Apache Spark
2 36 (13.74%) Apache Airflow
3 27 (10.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.15%) SAS
5 2 (0.76%) Apache Solr
5 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.76%) Confluence
5 2 (0.76%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 108 (41.22%) Azure
2 95 (36.26%) AWS
3 48 (18.32%) GCP
4 47 (17.94%) Power Platform
5 32 (12.21%) Snowflake
6 25 (9.54%) dbt
7 23 (8.78%) Serverless
8 21 (8.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 20 (7.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
11 12 (4.58%) Amazon S3
12 11 (4.20%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (4.20%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.44%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.44%) Azure Functions
13 9 (3.44%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (3.44%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.44%) PowerApps
14 8 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (33.21%) Data Lake
2 65 (24.81%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (15.65%) Power BI
4 37 (14.12%) Hadoop
5 30 (11.45%) Tableau
6 25 (9.54%) Amazon Athena
7 24 (9.16%) Apache Arrow
7 24 (9.16%) Dremio
8 22 (8.40%) Apache Hive
9 19 (7.25%) BigQuery
10 16 (6.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 16 (6.11%) NoSQL
10 16 (6.11%) SQL Server
11 15 (5.73%) Delta Lake
12 13 (4.96%) Impala
13 12 (4.58%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (4.20%) OLTP
14 11 (4.20%) Spark SQL
15 8 (3.05%) HBase
15 8 (3.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) Git
2 8 (3.05%) JIRA
3 6 (2.29%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (1.91%) ERwin
4 5 (1.91%) Maven
4 5 (1.91%) Subversion
4 5 (1.91%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.53%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.15%) RStudio
7 2 (0.76%) Apache Continuum
7 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.76%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.76%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.38%) Ant
8 1 (0.38%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (24.05%) Finance
2 56 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
3 53 (20.23%) Social Skills
4 28 (10.69%) Banking
5 17 (6.49%) Investment Banking
6 16 (6.11%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.67%) Marketing
7 7 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.29%) Front Office
9 4 (1.53%) Publishing
10 3 (1.15%) Back Office
10 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.15%) Legal
10 3 (1.15%) Retail
10 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.38%) German Language
12 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 65 (24.81%) Data Engineer
2 59 (22.52%) Architect
3 33 (12.60%) Senior
4 31 (11.83%) Developer
5 30 (11.45%) Data Architect
6 29 (11.07%) Big Data Engineer
7 28 (10.69%) AWS Engineer
8 27 (10.31%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (8.02%) Analyst
10 18 (6.87%) Site Engineer
10 18 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (6.49%) Consultant
12 15 (5.73%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (5.73%) Lead
13 14 (5.34%) Cloud Solutions Architect
13 14 (5.34%) Senior Data Engineer
14 13 (4.96%) Data Analyst
15 12 (4.58%) Data Scientist
16 11 (4.20%) Azure Engineer
17 10 (3.82%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (17.94%) PySpark
2 24 (9.16%) Kafka
3 18 (6.87%) gRPC
3 18 (6.87%) Protocol Buffers
4 10 (3.82%) .NET
5 9 (3.44%) Pandas
6 8 (3.05%) JSON
6 8 (3.05%) SAML
6 8 (3.05%) Web Services
7 7 (2.67%) XML
8 6 (2.29%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.29%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.91%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (1.91%) REST
9 5 (1.91%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.53%) Apache Avro
10 4 (1.53%) NumPy
11 3 (1.15%) .NET Core
11 3 (1.15%) SailPoint
11 3 (1.15%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.98%) Hedge funds
2 21 (8.02%) Algorithms
3 18 (6.87%) Clustering
4 14 (5.34%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.82%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.44%) Freedom of Information
7 9 (3.44%) Freedom of Information Act
8 8 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (2.29%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.29%) Derivative
10 6 (2.29%) Equities
10 6 (2.29%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.29%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.91%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.73%) Linux
2 6 (2.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (31.30%) Analytics
2 78 (29.77%) Data Modelling
3 76 (29.01%) Agile
4 73 (27.86%) ETL
5 71 (27.10%) Data Pipeline
6 67 (25.57%) Business Intelligence
7 47 (17.94%) DevOps
8 43 (16.41%) Data Science
8 43 (16.41%) Machine Learning
9 40 (15.27%) Computer Science
10 39 (14.89%) Data Engineering
10 39 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (12.98%) CI/CD
11 34 (12.98%) Data Governance
12 33 (12.60%) Data Analysis
13 28 (10.69%) Scrum
14 26 (9.92%) Asset Management
15 25 (9.54%) Investment Management
15 25 (9.54%) Migration
16 24 (9.16%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 152 (58.02%) Python
2 122 (46.56%) SQL
3 54 (20.61%) Java
4 43 (16.41%) Scala
5 25 (9.54%) JavaScript
6 20 (7.63%) Go
7 18 (6.87%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.34%) R
9 10 (3.82%) C#
10 5 (1.91%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.53%) Bash
11 4 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.15%) Perl
13 2 (0.76%) C++
13 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.76%) Rust
13 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.76%) U-SQL
13 2 (0.76%) VBA
14 1 (0.38%) Gremlin
Qualifications
1 38 (14.50%) Degree
2 25 (9.54%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.49%) DV Cleared
5 12 (4.58%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.44%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.91%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.53%) CISSP
11 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (16.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.67%) QA
3 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.15%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.76%) MiFID
4 2 (0.76%) NCSC
4 2 (0.76%) NIST
4 2 (0.76%) PMO
4 2 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) EMIR
5 1 (0.38%) FATCA
System Software
1 12 (4.58%) Docker
2 8 (3.05%) HDFS
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 43 (16.41%) Terraform
2 35 (13.36%) Kubernetes
3 18 (6.87%) Prometheus
4 15 (5.73%) Ansible
5 10 (3.82%) Puppet
6 5 (1.91%) Hadoop YARN
7 4 (1.53%) Argo
8 2 (0.76%) Ambari
8 2 (0.76%) Oozie
9 1 (0.38%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 57 (21.76%) Databricks
2 33 (12.60%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.25%) Google
4 12 (4.58%) Talend
5 11 (4.20%) Informatica
5 11 (4.20%) Oracle
6 7 (2.67%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.53%) Foundry
7 4 (1.53%) Palantir
7 4 (1.53%) SAP
7 4 (1.53%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.15%) IBM
8 3 (1.15%) Okta
8 3 (1.15%) Phenom
8 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.15%) Symantec
8 3 (1.15%) Varonis
9 2 (0.76%) ESRI
9 2 (0.76%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.38%) Teradata