Big Data Jobs in England

Big Data
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 389 136 112
Rank change year-on-year -253 -24 +18
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 603 2,261 4,634
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.66% 2.69% 3.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.89% 12.54% 11.73%
Number of salaries quoted 434 904 1,764
10th Percentile £47,450 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £128,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +19.23%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,498 18,030 39,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.03% 21.43% 27.98%
Number of salaries quoted 11,455 11,617 18,850
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
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 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 -133 321 £93,475 +16.42% 133
South West -46 109 £80,000 +14.29% 16
North of England -221 63 £55,000 -21.43% 23
North West -145 46 £55,000 -21.43% 15
South East -184 45 £55,000 -21.43% 27
East of England -43 35 £60,000 -9.09% 10
Midlands -130 28 £58,750 -9.62% 19
West Midlands -99 18 £57,500 -4.17% 15
North East -9 11 £42,500 -37.04% 4
East Midlands -52 10 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire -114 6 £90,139 +28.77% 4
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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
1 197 (32.67%) Apache Spark
2 115 (19.07%) Apache
3 96 (15.92%) Apache Airflow
4 36 (5.97%) SAS
5 16 (2.65%) Jupyter
5 16 (2.65%) nginx
6 7 (1.16%) Apache Pig
7 6 (1.00%) Luigi
8 5 (0.83%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.50%) Confluence
9 3 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 29 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.49%) SPSS
4 6 (1.00%) Trello
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.66%) Primavera
3 4 (0.66%) Relativity
4 3 (0.50%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.17%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 265 (43.95%) AWS
2 224 (37.15%) Azure
3 116 (19.24%) GCP
4 91 (15.09%) Snowflake
5 84 (13.93%) Power Platform
6 74 (12.27%) Serverless
7 70 (11.61%) dbt
8 53 (8.79%) OpenShift
9 45 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (6.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 41 (6.80%) SaaS
12 34 (5.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 34 (5.64%) Azure Data Factory
13 33 (5.47%) Amazon EKS
14 31 (5.14%) Amazon S3
15 24 (3.98%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
16 23 (3.81%) GitHub
17 18 (2.99%) Amazon EMR
18 16 (2.65%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.81%) AMQP
2 17 (2.82%) Wireless
3 16 (2.65%) Firewall
4 10 (1.66%) Internet
5 5 (0.83%) RFID
6 4 (0.66%) RS-232
7 3 (0.50%) DNS
7 3 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.50%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.50%) LAN
7 3 (0.50%) MQTT
7 3 (0.50%) Network Security
7 3 (0.50%) SAN
7 3 (0.50%) VoIP
7 3 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.50%) WebEx
8 2 (0.33%) 4G
8 2 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (26.53%) Data Lake
2 137 (22.72%) Hadoop
3 118 (19.57%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (12.60%) Power BI
5 70 (11.61%) Amazon Athena
6 67 (11.11%) Dremio
7 66 (10.95%) Apache Arrow
8 64 (10.61%) NoSQL
9 54 (8.96%) Tableau
10 51 (8.46%) Relational Database
11 43 (7.13%) SQL Server
12 40 (6.63%) Data Mining
13 29 (4.81%) Cloudera CDH
14 28 (4.64%) Amazon Redshift
15 27 (4.48%) BigQuery
16 23 (3.81%) Apache Hive
16 23 (3.81%) Metadata
17 22 (3.65%) MongoDB
18 20 (3.32%) Flink
18 20 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 57 (9.45%) Git
2 46 (7.63%) Jenkins
3 16 (2.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (2.65%) JIRA
4 8 (1.33%) JUnit
4 8 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (1.33%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
6 6 (1.00%) Checkstyle
6 6 (1.00%) MLflow
7 4 (0.66%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.66%) GitLab
7 4 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.66%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.66%) Subversion
7 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.50%) Selenium
9 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 165 (27.36%) Finance
2 148 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 83 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (11.11%) Banking
5 46 (7.63%) Aerospace
6 28 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.64%) Retail
7 26 (4.31%) Marketing
7 26 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (4.15%) Legal
9 17 (2.82%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.32%) Law
11 13 (2.16%) Retail Banking
12 12 (1.99%) Electronics
12 12 (1.99%) Front Office
12 12 (1.99%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.66%) Korean Language
14 9 (1.49%) Games
15 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 132 (21.89%) Data Engineer
2 121 (20.07%) Senior
3 77 (12.77%) Big Data Engineer
4 69 (11.44%) Architect
5 58 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
6 54 (8.96%) Site Engineer
6 54 (8.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 51 (8.46%) Software Engineer
8 48 (7.96%) Developer
9 45 (7.46%) Analyst
10 42 (6.97%) Lead
11 37 (6.14%) Data Architect
12 31 (5.14%) Data Scientist
12 31 (5.14%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
13 30 (4.98%) DevOps Engineer
13 30 (4.98%) Senior Data Engineer
14 22 (3.65%) Consultant
14 22 (3.65%) Data Manager
15 17 (2.82%) Senior Data Scientist
16 16 (2.65%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (14.93%) gRPC
2 73 (12.11%) Kafka
3 54 (8.96%) Protocol Buffers
4 50 (8.29%) PySpark
5 48 (7.96%) Spring Boot
6 47 (7.79%) RabbitMQ
7 45 (7.46%) Spring
8 42 (6.97%) Node.js
9 39 (6.47%) REST
10 35 (5.80%) React
11 30 (4.98%) AngularJS
12 29 (4.81%) Material-UI
12 29 (4.81%) OpenAPI
12 29 (4.81%) Swagger
13 26 (4.31%) Apache Beam
14 24 (3.98%) .NET
14 24 (3.98%) Apache NiFi
15 19 (3.15%) ActiveMQ
16 18 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (2.99%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 70 (11.61%) Hedge funds
2 55 (9.12%) Clustering
3 53 (8.79%) Cloud Native
4 47 (7.79%) Algorithms
5 36 (5.97%) Data Structures
6 32 (5.31%) Onboarding
6 32 (5.31%) Product Ownership
7 31 (5.14%) Management Information System
8 26 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (3.15%) Greenfield Project
10 18 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (2.65%) IoT
12 15 (2.49%) Cybercrime
13 13 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (2.16%) Derivative
13 13 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
13 13 (2.16%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
14 12 (1.99%) Equities
14 12 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 88 (14.59%) Linux
2 31 (5.14%) CentOS
2 31 (5.14%) Debian
2 31 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 31 (5.14%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.16%) Windows
3 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.66%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (36.48%) Agile
2 189 (31.34%) DevOps
3 188 (31.18%) Analytics
4 152 (25.21%) Data Science
5 149 (24.71%) Machine Learning
6 128 (21.23%) Business Intelligence
7 121 (20.07%) Data Engineering
8 120 (19.90%) Data Modelling
8 120 (19.90%) ETL
9 110 (18.24%) CI/CD
10 109 (18.08%) Computer Science
11 106 (17.58%) Artificial Intelligence
11 106 (17.58%) Data Pipeline
12 92 (15.26%) Software Engineering
13 90 (14.93%) Asset Management
13 90 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
14 82 (13.60%) Visualisation
15 80 (13.27%) Microservices
16 72 (11.94%) Containerisation
17 70 (11.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 356 (59.04%) Python
2 260 (43.12%) SQL
3 191 (31.67%) Java
4 108 (17.91%) JavaScript
5 75 (12.44%) Go
6 52 (8.62%) R
6 52 (8.62%) Scala
7 45 (7.46%) C#
8 19 (3.15%) Shell Script
9 16 (2.65%) Bash
9 16 (2.65%) C
10 15 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.82%) C++
11 11 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (1.33%) Ruby
13 6 (1.00%) PHP
14 5 (0.83%) XAML
15 4 (0.66%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.66%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.66%) VB
Qualifications
1 182 (30.18%) Degree
2 97 (16.09%) Security Cleared
3 66 (10.95%) SC Cleared
4 59 (9.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 59 (9.78%) DV Cleared
5 49 (8.13%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.16%) PhD
8 11 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.00%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.00%) IIBA
11 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.66%) CIMA
12 3 (0.50%) CISSP
12 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.50%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
13 2 (0.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.79%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.48%) GDPR
3 20 (3.32%) QA
4 11 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (11.11%) Docker
2 17 (2.82%) HDFS
3 5 (0.83%) Firmware
4 4 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.50%) vSphere
6 2 (0.33%) IAG
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 157 (26.04%) Kubernetes
2 136 (22.55%) Terraform
3 73 (12.11%) Ansible
4 71 (11.77%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.30%) Puppet
6 16 (2.65%) Grafana
6 16 (2.65%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.50%) Podman
8 2 (0.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 102 (16.92%) Databricks
2 100 (16.58%) Microsoft
3 53 (8.79%) Google
4 29 (4.81%) Red Hat
4 29 (4.81%) SaltStack
5 16 (2.65%) Cloudera
6 14 (2.32%) Oracle
7 11 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.82%) Teradata
8 8 (1.33%) SAP
8 8 (1.33%) YouTube
9 4 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.66%) Citrix
9 4 (0.66%) Hortonworks
9 4 (0.66%) Intapp
9 4 (0.66%) Sparx
9 4 (0.66%) Splunk
9 4 (0.66%) VMware
10 3 (0.50%) 3PAR
10 3 (0.50%) Facebook