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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 132 112
Rank change year-on-year -237 -20 +18
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 601 2,380 4,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 2.69% 3.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.93% 12.47% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 433 943 1,765
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +20.75%
75th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

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 15,293 19,086 38,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.68% 21.57% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,414 12,044 19,009
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £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 £84,056 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £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 20 May 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 20 May 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 -137 321 £95,000 +18.32% 141
South West -45 106 £80,000 +14.29% 20
North of England -210 64 £55,000 -21.43% 29
South East -168 45 £54,500 -22.14% 34
North West -142 44 £55,000 -21.43% 14
East of England -44 35 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Midlands -128 28 £60,000 -7.69% 20
West Midlands -77 18 £60,000 - 18
North East 0 11 £42,500 -37.04% 8
East Midlands -53 10 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -114 9 £87,500 +25.00% 7
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
1 200 (33.28%) Apache Spark
2 104 (17.30%) Apache
3 95 (15.81%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (6.16%) SAS
5 18 (3.00%) Jupyter
5 18 (3.00%) nginx
6 8 (1.33%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.83%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.67%) Luigi
9 3 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.33%) Confluence
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.50%) SPSS
3 6 (1.00%) Trello
4 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.67%) Primavera
3 4 (0.67%) 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%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 256 (42.60%) AWS
2 226 (37.60%) Azure
3 113 (18.80%) GCP
4 89 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 73 (12.15%) Power Platform
5 73 (12.15%) Serverless
6 62 (10.32%) dbt
7 52 (8.65%) OpenShift
8 43 (7.15%) AWS Lambda
8 43 (7.15%) SaaS
9 41 (6.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 33 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 33 (5.49%) Azure Data Factory
11 31 (5.16%) Amazon EKS
11 31 (5.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (3.99%) GitHub
13 23 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
14 22 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
15 18 (3.00%) MinIO
16 17 (2.83%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.49%) AMQP
2 21 (3.49%) Wireless
3 16 (2.66%) Firewall
4 10 (1.66%) Internet
5 5 (0.83%) RFID
6 4 (0.67%) 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
9 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (26.29%) Data Lake
2 136 (22.63%) Hadoop
3 119 (19.80%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (11.48%) Amazon Athena
5 68 (11.31%) NoSQL
6 65 (10.82%) Power BI
7 59 (9.82%) Dremio
8 58 (9.65%) Apache Arrow
9 47 (7.82%) Relational Database
10 45 (7.49%) Tableau
11 42 (6.99%) Data Mining
11 42 (6.99%) SQL Server
12 27 (4.49%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (4.49%) Cloudera CDH
13 26 (4.33%) BigQuery
14 25 (4.16%) Apache Hive
15 21 (3.49%) Flink
15 21 (3.49%) Metadata
16 20 (3.33%) MongoDB
16 20 (3.33%) Presto
Development Applications
1 54 (8.99%) Git
2 47 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (2.66%) JIRA
5 9 (1.50%) JUnit
5 9 (1.50%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.33%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (1.16%) Checkstyle
8 5 (0.83%) MLflow
9 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.67%) GitLab
9 4 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (0.67%) Subversion
9 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.50%) Selenium
10 3 (0.50%) Spinnaker
11 2 (0.33%) Apache Continuum
11 2 (0.33%) Maven
11 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
General
1 162 (26.96%) Finance
2 147 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 83 (13.81%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (10.48%) Banking
5 44 (7.32%) Aerospace
6 34 (5.66%) Retail
7 31 (5.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (4.83%) Marketing
9 27 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (4.16%) Legal
11 14 (2.33%) Retail Banking
12 13 (2.16%) Law
13 12 (2.00%) Electronics
13 12 (2.00%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.66%) Games
15 10 (1.66%) Korean Language
16 8 (1.33%) Investment Banking
17 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 4 (0.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 135 (22.46%) Data Engineer
2 121 (20.13%) Senior
3 79 (13.14%) Big Data Engineer
4 74 (12.31%) Architect
5 58 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
6 54 (8.99%) Site Engineer
6 54 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 51 (8.49%) Software Engineer
8 50 (8.32%) Developer
9 44 (7.32%) Lead
10 40 (6.66%) Analyst
11 38 (6.32%) Data Architect
12 33 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
13 31 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
14 29 (4.83%) Data Scientist
14 29 (4.83%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 24 (3.99%) Data Manager
16 22 (3.66%) Consultant
17 17 (2.83%) Big Data Architect
18 16 (2.66%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (14.31%) gRPC
2 71 (11.81%) Kafka
3 54 (8.99%) Protocol Buffers
4 47 (7.82%) PySpark
4 47 (7.82%) RabbitMQ
4 47 (7.82%) Spring Boot
5 44 (7.32%) Spring
6 38 (6.32%) Node.js
7 36 (5.99%) REST
8 35 (5.82%) React
9 29 (4.83%) AngularJS
10 27 (4.49%) .NET
10 27 (4.49%) Apache Beam
10 27 (4.49%) Material-UI
10 27 (4.49%) OpenAPI
10 27 (4.49%) Swagger
11 26 (4.33%) Apache NiFi
12 21 (3.49%) ActiveMQ
13 20 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (3.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.32%) Hedge funds
2 55 (9.15%) Clustering
3 53 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 45 (7.49%) Algorithms
5 36 (5.99%) Data Structures
6 34 (5.66%) Onboarding
7 33 (5.49%) Management Information System
8 28 (4.66%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (4.49%) Product Ownership
10 20 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
11 19 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
12 16 (2.66%) IoT
13 15 (2.50%) Cybercrime
13 15 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
14 13 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (2.00%) Distributed Applications
15 12 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
17 7 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 91 (15.14%) Linux
2 29 (4.83%) CentOS
2 29 (4.83%) Debian
2 29 (4.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (4.83%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.16%) Windows
3 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.33%) Android
6 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (34.78%) Agile
2 188 (31.28%) DevOps
3 181 (30.12%) Analytics
4 150 (24.96%) Data Science
5 146 (24.29%) Machine Learning
6 126 (20.97%) Business Intelligence
7 122 (20.30%) Data Modelling
8 119 (19.80%) Data Engineering
8 119 (19.80%) ETL
9 111 (18.47%) CI/CD
10 106 (17.64%) Computer Science
11 103 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
12 102 (16.97%) Data Pipeline
13 91 (15.14%) Software Engineering
14 86 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (13.81%) Visualisation
16 81 (13.48%) Asset Management
17 79 (13.14%) Microservices
18 77 (12.81%) Containerisation
19 72 (11.98%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 348 (57.90%) Python
2 254 (42.26%) SQL
3 190 (31.61%) Java
4 109 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 74 (12.31%) Go
6 54 (8.99%) R
7 52 (8.65%) Scala
8 46 (7.65%) C#
9 20 (3.33%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.00%) Bash
11 16 (2.66%) C
12 14 (2.33%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.00%) C++
14 11 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 8 (1.33%) Ruby
16 6 (1.00%) PHP
16 6 (1.00%) VB
17 5 (0.83%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.83%) XAML
18 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 179 (29.78%) Degree
2 96 (15.97%) Security Cleared
3 63 (10.48%) SC Cleared
4 59 (9.82%) DV Cleared
5 53 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (7.82%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.83%) PhD
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 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.67%) CIMA
12 3 (0.50%) CISSP
12 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.50%) MBA
13 2 (0.33%) CISA
13 2 (0.33%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.82%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.33%) GDPR
3 21 (3.49%) QA
4 10 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 68 (11.31%) Docker
2 18 (3.00%) HDFS
3 6 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.83%) Firmware
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
1 156 (25.96%) Kubernetes
2 133 (22.13%) Terraform
3 73 (12.15%) Prometheus
4 71 (11.81%) Ansible
5 36 (5.99%) Puppet
6 18 (3.00%) Grafana
6 18 (3.00%) 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 (16.97%) Databricks
2 99 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 46 (7.65%) Google
4 27 (4.49%) Red Hat
4 27 (4.49%) SaltStack
5 16 (2.66%) Cloudera
6 14 (2.33%) Oracle
7 11 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.83%) Teradata
8 8 (1.33%) SAP
8 8 (1.33%) YouTube
9 6 (1.00%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.00%) VMware
10 4 (0.67%) Citrix
10 4 (0.67%) Intapp
10 4 (0.67%) Sparx
10 4 (0.67%) Splunk
11 3 (0.50%) CA
11 3 (0.50%) ShoreTel
11 3 (0.50%) SnapLogic