Big Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Big Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 712 802
Rank change year-on-year +258 +90 -132
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 351 16 72
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.029% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.033% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 20 10 12
10th Percentile - £41,227 £58,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £46,563 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% +6.84% +4.48%
75th Percentile £87,500 £100,000 £75,000
90th Percentile - £117,236 -
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £78,750
% change year-on-year +8.98% +1.96% -1.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 331 - -
South West -38 16 £80,000 -5.58%
East of England - 3 £80,000 -
West Midlands -10 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Midlands -37 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Big Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 351 (100.00%) Big Data
2 347 (98.86%) Apache Spark
3 332 (94.59%) Finance
4 331 (94.30%) Law
4 331 (94.30%) Agile
4 331 (94.30%) Software Engineering
4 331 (94.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 305 (86.89%) CI/CD
6 297 (84.62%) Operational Stability
6 297 (84.62%) SDLC
7 238 (67.81%) SQL
8 211 (60.11%) Java
9 208 (59.26%) AWS
10 204 (58.12%) NoSQL
11 189 (53.85%) Legal
11 189 (53.85%) Risk Management
12 187 (53.28%) Scala
13 158 (45.01%) Community of Practice
14 148 (42.17%) Hadoop
15 142 (40.46%) Marketing
16 141 (40.17%) Python
17 136 (38.75%) Cloud Native
18 133 (37.89%) Performance Tuning
19 108 (30.77%) Machine Learning
20 107 (30.48%) Algorithms
20 107 (30.48%) Artificial Intelligence
20 107 (30.48%) Continuous Improvement
20 107 (30.48%) Visualisation
21 99 (28.21%) Apache
22 90 (25.64%) Influencing Skills

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
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
1 347 (98.86%) Apache Spark
2 99 (28.21%) Apache
3 79 (22.51%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (4.56%) Jupyter
4 16 (4.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 208 (59.26%) AWS
2 42 (11.97%) Amazon EC2
2 42 (11.97%) Amazon ECS
2 42 (11.97%) Amazon EKS
2 42 (11.97%) Amazon EMR
2 42 (11.97%) Amazon SQS
2 42 (11.97%) AWS Lambda
2 42 (11.97%) Serverless
3 16 (4.56%) Amazon S3
3 16 (4.56%) MinIO
3 16 (4.56%) OpenShift
4 1 (0.28%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.28%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 351 (100.00%) Big Data
2 204 (58.12%) NoSQL
3 148 (42.17%) Hadoop
4 44 (12.54%) Apache Hive
5 42 (11.97%) Electronic Patient Records
6 31 (8.83%) HBase
7 16 (4.56%) Presto
8 14 (3.99%) Impala
Development Applications
1 46 (13.11%) Jenkins
2 30 (8.55%) Bitbucket Server
2 30 (8.55%) Git
3 16 (4.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 332 (94.59%) Finance
2 331 (94.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 331 (94.30%) Law
3 189 (53.85%) Legal
4 142 (40.46%) Marketing
5 90 (25.64%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.28%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.51%) PySpark
2 40 (11.40%) Kafka
3 34 (9.69%) Spring
3 34 (9.69%) Spring Boot
4 16 (4.56%) ActiveMQ
4 16 (4.56%) Apache NiFi
4 16 (4.56%) Elastic Stack
4 16 (4.56%) RabbitMQ
4 16 (4.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (38.75%) Cloud Native
2 107 (30.48%) Algorithms
3 34 (9.69%) Legacy Code
4 16 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 14 (3.99%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.28%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (8.55%) Unix
2 19 (5.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (94.30%) Agile
1 331 (94.30%) Software Engineering
2 305 (86.89%) CI/CD
3 297 (84.62%) Operational Stability
3 297 (84.62%) SDLC
4 189 (53.85%) Risk Management
5 158 (45.01%) Community of Practice
6 133 (37.89%) Performance Tuning
7 108 (30.77%) Machine Learning
8 107 (30.48%) Artificial Intelligence
8 107 (30.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (30.48%) Visualisation
9 85 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (15.67%) Decision-Making
11 50 (14.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 48 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
13 42 (11.97%) Tech Ops
14 40 (11.40%) Coaching
14 40 (11.40%) Mentoring
15 39 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 238 (67.81%) SQL
2 211 (60.11%) Java
3 187 (53.28%) Scala
4 141 (40.17%) Python
5 30 (8.55%) PL/SQL
6 16 (4.56%) Bash
6 16 (4.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (4.56%) DV Cleared
1 16 (4.56%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.28%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.99%) SLA
2 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (8.55%) HDFS
2 19 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 58 (16.52%) Kubernetes
2 46 (13.11%) Terraform
3 16 (4.56%) Ansible
3 16 (4.56%) Grafana
3 16 (4.56%) HAProxy
3 16 (4.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 40 (11.40%) Databricks
2 30 (8.55%) Informatica
3 1 (0.28%) Google