Big Data Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 247 157 199
Rank change year-on-year -90 +42 -21
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 812 1,287 1,497
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.07% 2.28% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.54% 11.77% 9.00%
Number of salaries quoted 220 448 556
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,831 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,750 £70,000 £69,925
Median % change year-on-year -10.36% +0.11% +27.14%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,188 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £87,500 -
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
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,407 10,930 16,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.33% 19.33% 22.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,121 6,530 10,124
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,750 £80,000
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 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
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the UK excluding 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland +62 518 £70,576 +0.82% 20
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
Wales -16 11 £46,131 -34.10% 2
East Midlands -52 10 £60,000 -20.00% 4
Yorkshire -114 6 £90,139 +28.77% 4
Northern Ireland +8 3 £115,000 +31.43% 6
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
1 572 (70.44%) Apache Spark
2 171 (21.06%) Apache
3 91 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.97%) Jupyter
4 16 (1.97%) nginx
5 14 (1.72%) SAS
6 6 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.62%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.49%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.74%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.37%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 452 (55.67%) AWS
2 139 (17.12%) Azure
3 101 (12.44%) GCP
4 97 (11.95%) Serverless
5 86 (10.59%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (9.61%) Amazon EKS
7 63 (7.76%) Amazon SQS
8 58 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
9 53 (6.53%) SaaS
10 50 (6.16%) OpenShift
11 49 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
12 48 (5.91%) Power Platform
13 35 (4.31%) Amazon S3
14 29 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
16 23 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
17 16 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
17 16 (1.97%) MinIO
18 14 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.57%) AMQP
2 17 (2.09%) Firewall
3 16 (1.97%) DSL
4 7 (0.86%) Internet
5 5 (0.62%) RFID
6 4 (0.49%) RS-232
6 4 (0.49%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.37%) MQTT
7 3 (0.37%) Network Security
8 2 (0.25%) 4G
8 2 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.25%) Wireless
9 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (39.16%) NoSQL
2 256 (31.53%) Hadoop
3 62 (7.64%) Apache Hive
4 61 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
5 57 (7.02%) Data Lake
6 49 (6.03%) Electronic Patient Records
7 38 (4.68%) Power BI
7 38 (4.68%) Relational Database
7 38 (4.68%) SQL Server
8 36 (4.43%) HBase
9 31 (3.82%) MongoDB
10 29 (3.57%) Cloudera CDH
11 28 (3.45%) Tableau
12 21 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
14 18 (2.22%) Flink
14 18 (2.22%) Redis
15 16 (1.97%) DB2
15 16 (1.97%) Presto
15 16 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 86 (10.59%) Git
2 54 (6.65%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.31%) Bitbucket Server
4 16 (1.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (1.35%) JIRA
6 7 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.74%) Jasmine
7 6 (0.74%) Karma Test Runner
7 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.49%) Subversion
8 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.37%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.37%) Selenium
9 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.25%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.25%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.25%) GitLab
10 2 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.25%) SonarQube
General
1 515 (63.42%) Finance
2 501 (61.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 474 (58.37%) Law
4 246 (30.30%) Marketing
5 220 (27.09%) Legal
6 158 (19.46%) Influencing Skills
7 84 (10.34%) Social Skills
8 71 (8.74%) Financial Institution
9 68 (8.37%) Banking
10 51 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
11 46 (5.67%) Aerospace
12 24 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.59%) Retail
14 19 (2.34%) Investment Banking
15 17 (2.09%) Private Banking
16 11 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.23%) Korean Language
17 10 (1.23%) Public Sector
18 9 (1.11%) Electronics
19 6 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 450 (55.42%) Software Engineer
2 392 (48.28%) Big Data Engineer
3 372 (45.81%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 275 (33.87%) Data Engineer
5 201 (24.75%) Scala Engineer
5 201 (24.75%) Scala Software Engineer
6 177 (21.80%) Java Engineer
7 174 (21.43%) Java Software Engineer
8 157 (19.33%) Lead
9 144 (17.73%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 144 (17.73%) Lead Software Engineer
10 137 (16.87%) AWS Engineer
11 136 (16.75%) AWS Software Engineer
12 119 (14.66%) Java Scala Software Engineer
13 117 (14.41%) Senior
14 99 (12.19%) Python Engineer
15 96 (11.82%) Lead Java Engineer
16 91 (11.21%) Python Software Engineer
17 54 (6.65%) Engineering Manager
17 54 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (12.32%) Kafka
2 99 (12.19%) PySpark
3 98 (12.07%) Spring
4 90 (11.08%) Spring Boot
5 56 (6.90%) AngularJS
6 45 (5.54%) RabbitMQ
7 41 (5.05%) React
8 39 (4.80%) Node.js
9 36 (4.43%) REST
10 35 (4.31%) OpenAPI
10 35 (4.31%) Swagger
11 29 (3.57%) gRPC
11 29 (3.57%) Material-UI
12 21 (2.59%) .NET
13 17 (2.09%) Apache NiFi
14 16 (1.97%) ActiveMQ
14 16 (1.97%) CSS
14 16 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
14 16 (1.97%) YAML
15 15 (1.85%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 233 (28.69%) Cloud Native
2 182 (22.41%) Algorithms
3 48 (5.91%) Public Cloud
4 45 (5.54%) Data Structures
5 42 (5.17%) Management Information System
6 41 (5.05%) Legacy Code
7 21 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.34%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
10 15 (1.85%) Cyber Defence
10 15 (1.85%) IoT
11 13 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.35%) NHS
13 9 (1.11%) Reinsurance
14 8 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
14 8 (0.99%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.99%) Robotics
15 7 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.84%) Linux
2 35 (4.31%) Unix
3 31 (3.82%) CentOS
3 31 (3.82%) Debian
3 31 (3.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (3.82%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.48%) Windows
5 6 (0.74%) Mesosphere
5 6 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (73.28%) Agile
2 555 (68.35%) Software Engineering
3 470 (57.88%) CI/CD
4 425 (52.34%) SDLC
5 378 (46.55%) Operational Stability
6 263 (32.39%) Machine Learning
7 245 (30.17%) Artificial Intelligence
8 237 (29.19%) Risk Management
9 224 (27.59%) Performance Tuning
10 219 (26.97%) Community of Practice
11 180 (22.17%) Visualisation
12 178 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
13 164 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 120 (14.78%) Mentoring
15 117 (14.41%) Data Modelling
16 109 (13.42%) Analytics
16 109 (13.42%) Decision-Making
17 106 (13.05%) Coaching
18 100 (12.32%) DevOps
19 97 (11.95%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 482 (59.36%) SQL
2 436 (53.69%) Java
3 349 (42.98%) Python
4 317 (39.04%) Scala
5 57 (7.02%) JavaScript
6 51 (6.28%) PL/SQL
7 30 (3.69%) Bash
8 29 (3.57%) C#
9 25 (3.08%) Go
10 22 (2.71%) R
11 21 (2.59%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.97%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.85%) C
14 8 (0.99%) C++
14 8 (0.99%) Ruby
15 6 (0.74%) PHP
15 6 (0.74%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.62%) XAML
17 4 (0.49%) Embedded C
18 2 (0.25%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 98 (12.07%) Degree
2 83 (10.22%) Security Cleared
3 56 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 52 (6.40%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.35%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.99%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.86%) PhD
12 6 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.74%) IIBA
13 5 (0.62%) CCNA
13 5 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.49%) CISSP
14 4 (0.49%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.82%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.69%) SLA
3 22 (2.71%) GDPR
4 17 (2.09%) QA
5 9 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.74%) WAI
7 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.25%) SEPA
9 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (6.53%) Docker
2 36 (4.43%) HDFS
3 6 (0.74%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.62%) Firmware
5 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 170 (20.94%) Kubernetes
2 102 (12.56%) Terraform
3 71 (8.74%) Ansible
4 43 (5.30%) Puppet
5 16 (1.97%) Grafana
5 16 (1.97%) HAProxy
5 16 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (0.74%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.37%) Perfmon
9 2 (0.25%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.25%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 125 (15.39%) Databricks
2 58 (7.14%) Google
3 57 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 36 (4.43%) Informatica
5 29 (3.57%) Red Hat
5 29 (3.57%) SaltStack
6 25 (3.08%) Oracle
7 16 (1.97%) Alteryx
7 16 (1.97%) Cognos
7 16 (1.97%) Sybase
8 14 (1.72%) Dell
9 10 (1.23%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.11%) Teradata
11 7 (0.86%) YouTube
12 6 (0.74%) Cloudera
12 6 (0.74%) VMware
13 4 (0.49%) Cisco
14 3 (0.37%) Citrix
14 3 (0.37%) SAP
14 3 (0.37%) SnapLogic