Big Data Engineer Jobs in England

Big Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Big Data Engineer salary in England is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
1 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 788 832 959
Rank change year-on-year +44 +127 -222
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 77 69 230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.085% 0.082% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.090% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 77 31 105
10th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £63,715 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,294 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +0.37% -
75th Percentile £118,750 £106,250 £88,750
90th Percentile £143,750 £110,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.98% +3.60% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data Engineer in England

Big Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the England 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Median Salary
Past 6 Months		 Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London +117 57 £112,500 +40.11% 1
South West -23 16 £80,000 +15.20%
East of England - 3 £80,000 -
Midlands -13 1 £72,500 +52.63%
West Midlands -14 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Big Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (100.00%) Big Data
2 73 (94.81%) Kubernetes
3 71 (92.21%) Python
4 70 (90.91%) DevOps
4 70 (90.91%) Terraform
4 70 (90.91%) Prometheus
4 70 (90.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 59 (76.62%) Java
6 56 (72.73%) Data Lake
7 55 (71.43%) Finance
7 55 (71.43%) AWS
8 54 (70.13%) Investment Management
8 54 (70.13%) Hedge funds
8 54 (70.13%) Go
8 54 (70.13%) Protocol Buffers
8 54 (70.13%) Clustering
8 54 (70.13%) JavaScript
8 54 (70.13%) Asset Management
8 54 (70.13%) gRPC
8 54 (70.13%) Apache Airflow
8 54 (70.13%) Amazon Athena
8 54 (70.13%) Dremio
8 54 (70.13%) dbt
8 54 (70.13%) Snowflake
8 54 (70.13%) Apache Arrow
9 20 (25.97%) Docker
10 19 (24.68%) Linux
11 18 (23.38%) Hadoop
12 17 (22.08%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (22.08%) Jenkins

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 54 (70.13%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (22.08%) Apache
2 17 (22.08%) Apache Spark
3 16 (20.78%) Jupyter
3 16 (20.78%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 55 (71.43%) AWS
2 54 (70.13%) dbt
2 54 (70.13%) Snowflake
3 16 (20.78%) Amazon S3
3 16 (20.78%) MinIO
3 16 (20.78%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.60%) Azure
5 1 (1.30%) GCP
5 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (100.00%) Big Data
2 56 (72.73%) Data Lake
3 54 (70.13%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (70.13%) Apache Arrow
3 54 (70.13%) Dremio
4 18 (23.38%) Hadoop
5 16 (20.78%) Presto
6 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.30%) HBase
Development Applications
1 17 (22.08%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 55 (71.43%) Finance
2 1 (1.30%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (70.13%) gRPC
1 54 (70.13%) Protocol Buffers
2 17 (22.08%) Apache NiFi
2 17 (22.08%) RabbitMQ
3 16 (20.78%) ActiveMQ
3 16 (20.78%) Elastic Stack
3 16 (20.78%) YAML
4 2 (2.60%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 54 (70.13%) Clustering
1 54 (70.13%) Hedge funds
2 16 (20.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.19%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (90.91%) DevOps
1 70 (90.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 54 (70.13%) Asset Management
2 54 (70.13%) Investment Management
3 16 (20.78%) CI/CD
3 16 (20.78%) Containerisation
3 16 (20.78%) Data Engineering
3 16 (20.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (20.78%) Observability
3 16 (20.78%) Requirements Engineering
3 16 (20.78%) Service Delivery
3 16 (20.78%) Thought Leadership
4 3 (3.90%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (3.90%) Resource Management
5 1 (1.30%) Agile
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science
5 1 (1.30%) Parallel Processing
5 1 (1.30%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (1.30%) Scrum
5 1 (1.30%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (92.21%) Python
2 59 (76.62%) Java
3 54 (70.13%) Go
3 54 (70.13%) JavaScript
4 16 (20.78%) Bash
4 16 (20.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) DV Cleared
1 17 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.30%) Degree
2 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (25.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 73 (94.81%) Kubernetes
2 70 (90.91%) Prometheus
2 70 (90.91%) Terraform
3 17 (22.08%) Ansible
4 16 (20.78%) Grafana
4 16 (20.78%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 2 (2.60%) Databricks
2 1 (1.30%) Cloudera
2 1 (1.30%) Google