Big Data Analytics Contracts

Big Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Big Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data Analytics 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 567 668 788
Rank change year-on-year +101 +120 -70
Contract jobs citing Big Data Analytics 12 16 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.028% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.032% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 38
10th Percentile £279 £480 £475
25th Percentile £321 £500 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% - +29.73%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £625
90th Percentile £779 £883 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £555 £600
% change year-on-year +39.64% -7.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Big Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Big Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Big Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Big Data Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Big Data Analytics over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Big Data Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Big Data Analytics in the UK

Big Data Analytics
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Analytics within the UK 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
England +93 12 £505 -15.83% 13
London +101 8 £505 -40.59% 7
UK excluding London +43 3 £775 +39.64% 5
South East +12 3 £775 -
Work from Home +108 2 £333 -34.16% 5

Big Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 7 (58.33%) PaaS
3 6 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (50.00%) Snowflake
4 5 (41.67%) SaaS
5 4 (33.33%) GCP
6 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (16.67%) Azure Stack
6 2 (16.67%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) Big Data
2 6 (50.00%) Power BI
2 6 (50.00%) Tableau
3 5 (41.67%) Tableau Server
4 4 (33.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Junior
4 1 (8.33%) Junior Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 4 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Analytics
1 12 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 10 (83.33%) OO
2 10 (83.33%) OOP
3 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
4 7 (58.33%) Agile
5 6 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
6 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
6 5 (41.67%) ITSM
6 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
6 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (41.67%) Scrum
6 5 (41.67%) Service Management
6 5 (41.67%) Statistics
7 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (33.33%) Data Management
7 4 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 4 (33.33%) ETL
7 4 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) CISSP
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft