Big Data
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 134 116
Rank change year-on-year -109 -18 +15
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 1,194 2,627 5,039
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 2.59% 3.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.57% 12.15% 11.50%
Number of salaries quoted 483 1,076 1,886
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £46,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,000 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
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 £76,250 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
UK excluding London -74 856 £65,000 -7.14% 86
England -238 588 £80,000 +14.29% 178
Scotland +80 561 £70,576 +0.82% 11
London -143 306 £95,000 +18.32% 105
Work from Home -188 296 £86,250 +23.21% 85
South West -43 105 £80,000 +14.29% 18
North of England -207 65 £55,000 -21.43% 13
North West -142 45 £55,000 -21.43% 5
South East -178 45 £54,500 -22.14% 10
East of England -38 36 £57,500 -11.54% 10
Midlands -129 29 £60,000 -11.11% 17
West Midlands -85 18 £60,000 - 14
North East -6 11 £42,500 -37.04% 2
East Midlands -42 11 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Wales -16 10 £44,316 -36.69% 1
Yorkshire -110 9 £87,500 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland +26 5 £115,000 +31.43% 7

Big Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 718 (60.13%) Apache Spark
2 220 (18.43%) Apache
3 168 (14.07%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.52%) SAS
5 19 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.42%) nginx
7 9 (0.75%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.42%) Kinematics
10 4 (0.34%) Luigi
11 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.17%) Confluence
13 1 (0.084%) CMS
Applications
1 32 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.26%) SPSS
4 6 (0.50%) Trello
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.34%) Primavera
4 4 (0.34%) Relativity
5 3 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.084%) Magento
7 1 (0.084%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 639 (53.52%) AWS
2 268 (22.45%) Azure
3 152 (12.73%) GCP
4 128 (10.72%) Serverless
5 94 (7.87%) AWS Lambda
6 82 (6.87%) Amazon SQS
7 81 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (6.78%) Power Platform
7 81 (6.78%) Snowflake
8 79 (6.62%) SaaS
9 67 (5.61%) Amazon EMR
10 55 (4.61%) Amazon S3
11 53 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
12 52 (4.36%) Amazon ECS
12 52 (4.36%) OpenShift
13 50 (4.19%) dbt
14 45 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 41 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
16 39 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 30 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.18%) AMQP
2 23 (1.93%) Wireless
3 19 (1.59%) Firewall
4 18 (1.51%) DSL
5 13 (1.09%) Internet
6 5 (0.42%) Network Security
6 5 (0.42%) RFID
7 4 (0.34%) RS-232
7 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) DNS
8 3 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.25%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.25%) LAN
8 3 (0.25%) MQTT
8 3 (0.25%) SAN
8 3 (0.25%) VoIP
8 3 (0.25%) WAN
8 3 (0.25%) WebEx
9 2 (0.17%) 4G
9 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (32.41%) NoSQL
2 330 (27.64%) Hadoop
3 178 (14.91%) Data Lake
4 128 (10.72%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (7.87%) Apache Hive
6 70 (5.86%) Power BI
7 63 (5.28%) Tableau
8 55 (4.61%) SQL Server
9 54 (4.52%) Amazon Athena
10 52 (4.36%) Electronic Patient Records
11 47 (3.94%) Relational Database
12 43 (3.60%) Dremio
13 42 (3.52%) Apache Arrow
13 42 (3.52%) Data Mining
14 41 (3.43%) MongoDB
15 40 (3.35%) HBase
16 36 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
17 35 (2.93%) Flink
18 28 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
19 26 (2.18%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 99 (8.29%) Git
2 82 (6.87%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.10%) Bitbucket Server
4 18 (1.51%) JIRA
5 17 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (0.92%) JUnit
7 10 (0.84%) CircleCI
7 10 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.67%) Checkstyle
8 8 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.59%) GitLab
10 6 (0.50%) Jasmine
10 6 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
11 5 (0.42%) MLflow
12 4 (0.34%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.34%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.34%) Subversion
12 4 (0.34%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 666 (55.78%) Finance
2 568 (47.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 515 (43.13%) Law
4 288 (24.12%) Marketing
5 260 (21.78%) Legal
6 188 (15.75%) Social Skills
7 165 (13.82%) Influencing Skills
8 114 (9.55%) Banking
9 111 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
10 78 (6.53%) Financial Institution
11 42 (3.52%) Aerospace
12 41 (3.43%) Retail
13 31 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (2.09%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 17 (1.42%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.26%) Games
18 14 (1.17%) Retail Banking
19 12 (1.01%) Electronics
19 12 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 494 (41.37%) Software Engineer
2 456 (38.19%) Big Data Engineer
3 390 (32.66%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 355 (29.73%) Data Engineer
5 209 (17.50%) Scala Engineer
5 209 (17.50%) Scala Software Engineer
6 194 (16.25%) Lead
7 191 (16.00%) Senior
8 190 (15.91%) AWS Engineer
9 181 (15.16%) Java Engineer
10 178 (14.91%) Java Software Engineer
11 150 (12.56%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 149 (12.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 144 (12.06%) AWS Software Engineer
14 119 (9.97%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 109 (9.13%) Python Engineer
16 103 (8.63%) Architect
17 96 (8.04%) Lead Java Engineer
18 95 (7.96%) Python Software Engineer
19 72 (6.03%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (13.90%) Kafka
2 134 (11.22%) PySpark
3 117 (9.80%) Spring
4 109 (9.13%) Spring Boot
5 73 (6.11%) gRPC
6 58 (4.86%) AngularJS
7 47 (3.94%) React
8 45 (3.77%) RabbitMQ
9 42 (3.52%) Protocol Buffers
10 38 (3.18%) Node.js
11 36 (3.02%) .NET
12 35 (2.93%) REST
13 32 (2.68%) OpenAPI
13 32 (2.68%) Swagger
14 28 (2.35%) Apache Beam
15 26 (2.18%) Apache NiFi
15 26 (2.18%) Material-UI
16 23 (1.93%) GraphQL
17 20 (1.68%) ActiveMQ
17 20 (1.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 260 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 224 (18.76%) Algorithms
3 72 (6.03%) Data Structures
4 62 (5.19%) Management Information System
5 54 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 54 (4.52%) Public Cloud
6 46 (3.85%) Hedge funds
7 44 (3.69%) Onboarding
8 43 (3.60%) Clustering
8 43 (3.60%) Legacy Code
9 31 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.84%) IoT
12 21 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
13 19 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.51%) Hybrid Cloud
15 15 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
15 15 (1.26%) Cybercrime
16 13 (1.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 102 (8.54%) Linux
2 37 (3.10%) Unix
3 28 (2.35%) CentOS
3 28 (2.35%) Debian
3 28 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (2.35%) Ubuntu
4 22 (1.84%) Windows
5 13 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.50%) Mesosphere
7 4 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.17%) Android
9 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 723 (60.55%) Agile
2 629 (52.68%) Software Engineering
3 549 (45.98%) CI/CD
4 504 (42.21%) SDLC
5 403 (33.75%) Operational Stability
6 357 (29.90%) Machine Learning
7 307 (25.71%) Artificial Intelligence
8 253 (21.19%) Risk Management
9 243 (20.35%) Visualisation
10 242 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
11 238 (19.93%) Performance Tuning
12 231 (19.35%) Community of Practice
13 215 (18.01%) Analytics
14 202 (16.92%) Data Modelling
15 201 (16.83%) DevOps
16 199 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
17 192 (16.08%) Data Science
18 158 (13.23%) Mentoring
19 156 (13.07%) Business Intelligence
20 143 (11.98%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 664 (55.61%) SQL
2 576 (48.24%) Java
3 570 (47.74%) Python
4 377 (31.57%) Scala
5 108 (9.05%) JavaScript
6 89 (7.45%) Go
7 59 (4.94%) C#
8 55 (4.61%) PL/SQL
8 55 (4.61%) R
9 43 (3.60%) Bash
10 20 (1.68%) T-SQL
11 19 (1.59%) Shell Script
12 16 (1.34%) C
13 14 (1.17%) C++
14 11 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.92%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.67%) Ruby
16 7 (0.59%) PHP
16 7 (0.59%) VB
17 5 (0.42%) XAML
Qualifications
1 208 (17.42%) Degree
2 97 (8.12%) Security Cleared
3 65 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 57 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 53 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (4.19%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.42%) PhD
8 16 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.26%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.50%) CISSP
14 6 (0.50%) IIBA
15 5 (0.42%) CCNA
15 5 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
16 4 (0.34%) CIMA
16 4 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
17 3 (0.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.61%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.85%) SLA
3 28 (2.35%) QA
4 26 (2.18%) GDPR
5 16 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.50%) WAI
7 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.34%) SEPA
8 1 (0.084%) GMP
8 1 (0.084%) PMO
System Software
1 92 (7.71%) Docker
2 56 (4.69%) HDFS
3 9 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.42%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.25%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) IAG
8 1 (0.084%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.084%) KVM
8 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 252 (21.11%) Kubernetes
2 163 (13.65%) Terraform
3 75 (6.28%) Ansible
4 61 (5.11%) Prometheus
5 41 (3.43%) Puppet
6 18 (1.51%) Grafana
7 17 (1.42%) HAProxy
8 9 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.25%) Perfmon
11 3 (0.25%) Podman
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.084%) Rancher
13 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.084%) vRealize
Vendors
1 204 (17.09%) Databricks
2 114 (9.55%) Microsoft
3 75 (6.28%) Google
4 38 (3.18%) Informatica
5 31 (2.60%) Oracle
6 26 (2.18%) Red Hat
6 26 (2.18%) SaltStack
7 24 (2.01%) Dell
8 22 (1.84%) Alteryx
8 22 (1.84%) Cloudera
9 20 (1.68%) Cognos
10 18 (1.51%) Sybase
11 16 (1.34%) VMware
12 12 (1.01%) Teradata
13 11 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.92%) SAP
14 8 (0.67%) YouTube
15 7 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.59%) Citrix
16 6 (0.50%) Sparx