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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 131 112
Rank change year-on-year -110 -19 +19
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 1,184 2,709 5,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 2.61% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.52% 12.23% 11.59%
Number of salaries quoted 476 1,118 1,943
10th Percentile £43,750 £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% +23.08%
75th Percentile £108,125 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +22.73%

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 18,159 22,148 43,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.41% 21.34% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 12,577 13,812 21,421
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 £78,750
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% +7.78%

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 3 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 3 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 -84 849 £65,000 -7.14% 91
England -249 574 £80,000 +14.29% 195
Scotland +75 564 £70,576 +0.82% 15
London -141 302 £95,000 +18.32% 117
Work from Home -181 295 £85,000 +21.43% 87
South West -47 101 £80,000 +14.29% 13
North of England -217 65 £55,000 -21.43% 15
North West -139 45 £55,000 -18.52% 10
South East -176 40 £54,500 -22.14% 16
East of England -49 37 £57,500 -11.54% 12
Midlands -111 26 £60,000 -11.11% 17
West Midlands -84 17 £61,250 +2.08% 14
North East -6 11 £42,500 -37.04% 2
Wales -13 10 £44,316 -36.69%
East Midlands -35 9 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -117 9 £87,500 +25.00% 3
Northern Ireland +29 6 £115,000 +31.43% 5

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
1 721 (60.90%) Apache Spark
2 225 (19.00%) Apache
3 161 (13.60%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.55%) SAS
5 19 (1.60%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.44%) nginx
7 9 (0.76%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.51%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.34%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.17%) Confluence
11 2 (0.17%) Luigi
12 1 (0.084%) CMS
Applications
1 33 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.27%) SPSS
4 6 (0.51%) 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 (0.51%) 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
1 630 (53.21%) AWS
2 264 (22.30%) Azure
3 154 (13.01%) GCP
4 129 (10.90%) Serverless
5 95 (8.02%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (7.26%) Power Platform
7 80 (6.76%) Amazon EKS
7 80 (6.76%) Amazon SQS
8 79 (6.67%) SaaS
9 73 (6.17%) Snowflake
10 69 (5.83%) Amazon EMR
11 55 (4.65%) Amazon S3
12 53 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
13 52 (4.39%) Amazon ECS
13 52 (4.39%) OpenShift
14 45 (3.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 45 (3.80%) dbt
15 41 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
16 39 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
17 31 (2.62%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.11%) AMQP
2 23 (1.94%) Wireless
3 18 (1.52%) DSL
3 18 (1.52%) Firewall
4 12 (1.01%) Internet
5 5 (0.42%) Network Security
6 4 (0.34%) RFID
6 4 (0.34%) RS-232
6 4 (0.34%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.25%) DNS
7 3 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.25%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.25%) LAN
7 3 (0.25%) MQTT
7 3 (0.25%) SAN
7 3 (0.25%) VoIP
7 3 (0.25%) WAN
7 3 (0.25%) WebEx
8 2 (0.17%) 4G
8 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 389 (32.85%) NoSQL
2 330 (27.87%) Hadoop
3 175 (14.78%) Data Lake
4 126 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
5 96 (8.11%) Apache Hive
6 75 (6.33%) Power BI
7 66 (5.57%) Tableau
8 54 (4.56%) SQL Server
9 52 (4.39%) Electronic Patient Records
10 49 (4.14%) Relational Database
11 46 (3.89%) Amazon Athena
12 42 (3.55%) Data Mining
13 40 (3.38%) HBase
13 40 (3.38%) MongoDB
14 37 (3.13%) Dremio
15 36 (3.04%) Apache Arrow
16 35 (2.96%) Flink
17 34 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
18 30 (2.53%) BigQuery
19 28 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 98 (8.28%) Git
2 86 (7.26%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.13%) Bitbucket Server
4 19 (1.60%) JIRA
5 17 (1.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (0.93%) JUnit
7 10 (0.84%) CircleCI
7 10 (0.84%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.68%) Checkstyle
8 8 (0.68%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (0.59%) GitLab
10 6 (0.51%) Jasmine
10 6 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
10 6 (0.51%) 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
1 665 (56.17%) Finance
2 569 (48.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 516 (43.58%) Law
4 288 (24.32%) Marketing
5 264 (22.30%) Legal
6 181 (15.29%) Social Skills
7 167 (14.10%) Influencing Skills
8 121 (10.22%) Banking
9 107 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
10 79 (6.67%) Financial Institution
11 45 (3.80%) Retail
12 39 (3.29%) Aerospace
13 31 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
14 26 (2.20%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.60%) Private Banking
16 17 (1.44%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.27%) Games
18 14 (1.18%) Retail Banking
19 11 (0.93%) Electronics
19 11 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 493 (41.64%) Software Engineer
2 450 (38.01%) Big Data Engineer
3 390 (32.94%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 356 (30.07%) Data Engineer
5 209 (17.65%) Scala Engineer
5 209 (17.65%) Scala Software Engineer
6 196 (16.55%) Lead
7 190 (16.05%) Senior
8 184 (15.54%) AWS Engineer
9 181 (15.29%) Java Engineer
10 178 (15.03%) Java Software Engineer
11 150 (12.67%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 149 (12.58%) Lead Software Engineer
13 144 (12.16%) AWS Software Engineer
14 119 (10.05%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 110 (9.29%) Python Engineer
16 106 (8.95%) Architect
17 96 (8.11%) Lead Java Engineer
18 95 (8.02%) Python Software Engineer
19 73 (6.17%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (14.61%) Kafka
2 133 (11.23%) PySpark
3 119 (10.05%) Spring
4 111 (9.38%) Spring Boot
5 66 (5.57%) gRPC
6 57 (4.81%) AngularJS
7 46 (3.89%) React
8 44 (3.72%) RabbitMQ
9 36 (3.04%) .NET
9 36 (3.04%) Node.js
9 36 (3.04%) Protocol Buffers
10 34 (2.87%) REST
11 31 (2.62%) OpenAPI
11 31 (2.62%) Swagger
12 28 (2.36%) Apache Beam
13 26 (2.20%) Apache NiFi
14 25 (2.11%) Material-UI
15 23 (1.94%) GraphQL
16 20 (1.69%) ActiveMQ
17 19 (1.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 259 (21.88%) Cloud Native
2 223 (18.83%) Algorithms
3 70 (5.91%) Data Structures
4 62 (5.24%) Management Information System
5 54 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 54 (4.56%) Public Cloud
6 43 (3.63%) Legacy Code
7 42 (3.55%) Onboarding
8 40 (3.38%) Hedge funds
9 37 (3.13%) Clustering
10 31 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.86%) IoT
13 21 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
16 16 (1.35%) Robotics
17 15 (1.27%) Cybercrime
18 14 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 97 (8.19%) Linux
2 37 (3.13%) Unix
3 26 (2.20%) CentOS
3 26 (2.20%) Debian
3 26 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 26 (2.20%) Ubuntu
4 22 (1.86%) Windows
5 13 (1.10%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.51%) 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
1 725 (61.23%) Agile
2 630 (53.21%) Software Engineering
3 551 (46.54%) CI/CD
4 508 (42.91%) SDLC
5 403 (34.04%) Operational Stability
6 356 (30.07%) Machine Learning
7 310 (26.18%) Artificial Intelligence
8 250 (21.11%) Risk Management
9 244 (20.61%) Visualisation
10 241 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
11 238 (20.10%) Performance Tuning
12 231 (19.51%) Community of Practice
13 215 (18.16%) Analytics
14 200 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
15 199 (16.81%) Data Modelling
16 192 (16.22%) DevOps
17 190 (16.05%) Data Science
18 160 (13.51%) Mentoring
19 159 (13.43%) Business Intelligence
20 148 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 656 (55.41%) SQL
2 570 (48.14%) Java
3 557 (47.04%) Python
4 380 (32.09%) Scala
5 100 (8.45%) JavaScript
6 83 (7.01%) Go
7 55 (4.65%) C#
7 55 (4.65%) PL/SQL
8 54 (4.56%) R
9 44 (3.72%) Bash
10 19 (1.60%) Shell Script
10 19 (1.60%) T-SQL
11 15 (1.27%) C
12 12 (1.01%) C++
13 11 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 11 (0.93%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.68%) Ruby
15 7 (0.59%) PHP
15 7 (0.59%) VB
16 5 (0.42%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 199 (16.81%) Degree
2 94 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 56 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 49 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (4.05%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.27%) PhD
9 14 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 9 (0.76%) DBS Check
12 8 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.51%) CISSP
13 6 (0.51%) IIBA
14 5 (0.42%) CCNA
14 5 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 4 (0.34%) CIMA
15 4 (0.34%) Network+ Certification
16 3 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.31%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.87%) SLA
3 25 (2.11%) GDPR
3 25 (2.11%) QA
4 16 (1.35%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.51%) WAI
6 5 (0.42%) SEPA
7 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.084%) GMP
8 1 (0.084%) PMO
System Software
1 96 (8.11%) Docker
2 56 (4.73%) HDFS
3 9 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.34%) 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
1 247 (20.86%) Kubernetes
2 160 (13.51%) Terraform
3 73 (6.17%) Ansible
4 55 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 40 (3.38%) Puppet
6 18 (1.52%) Grafana
7 17 (1.44%) HAProxy
8 9 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.51%) 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
13 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.084%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.084%) Rancher
13 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.084%) vRealize
Vendors
1 200 (16.89%) Databricks
2 113 (9.54%) Microsoft
3 76 (6.42%) Google
4 38 (3.21%) Informatica
5 31 (2.62%) Oracle
6 25 (2.11%) Red Hat
6 25 (2.11%) SaltStack
7 24 (2.03%) Dell
8 22 (1.86%) Alteryx
8 22 (1.86%) Cloudera
9 20 (1.69%) Cognos
10 18 (1.52%) Sybase
11 17 (1.44%) VMware
12 12 (1.01%) Teradata
13 11 (0.93%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.93%) SAP
14 8 (0.68%) YouTube
15 7 (0.59%) Atlassian
15 7 (0.59%) Citrix
16 6 (0.51%) Sparx