Big Data Engineer
UK

The median Big Data Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 882 1000
Rank change year-on-year +387 +118 -240
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 460 70 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.072% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.47% 0.079% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 78 31 107
10th Percentile £72,500 £47,500 £55,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £63,715 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,294 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +3.60% -3.13%
75th Percentile £118,750 £106,250 £85,625
90th Percentile £143,750 £110,000 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £59,724 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.95% -8.12% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 97,260 88,990 160,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.78% 91.41% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 69,382 56,369 85,188
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,663
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 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 +328 403 £80,000 +33.95%
Scotland - 382 - -
England +81 78 £87,500 +8.98% 1
London +147 57 £112,500 +40.11% 1
Work from Home +112 56 £112,500 +88.37%
South West -21 17 £80,000 +15.20%
East of England - 3 £80,000 -
West Midlands +10 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Midlands -5 1 £72,500 +52.63%

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 460 (100.00%) Big Data
2 437 (95.00%) Finance
3 390 (84.78%) Apache Spark
4 383 (83.26%) Agile
4 383 (83.26%) Software Engineering
5 382 (83.04%) Law
5 382 (83.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 349 (75.87%) CI/CD
7 340 (73.91%) Operational Stability
7 340 (73.91%) SDLC
8 308 (66.96%) Java
9 299 (65.00%) AWS
10 285 (61.96%) SQL
11 243 (52.83%) NoSQL
12 223 (48.48%) Scala
13 222 (48.26%) Legal
13 222 (48.26%) Risk Management
14 207 (45.00%) Python
15 176 (38.26%) Hadoop
16 173 (37.61%) Community of Practice
17 160 (34.78%) Marketing
18 157 (34.13%) Performance Tuning
19 154 (33.48%) Cloud Native
20 133 (28.91%) Apache Airflow
20 133 (28.91%) Machine Learning
21 132 (28.70%) Artificial Intelligence
22 130 (28.26%) Visualisation
22 130 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
22 130 (28.26%) Algorithms
23 117 (25.43%) Apache

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
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
1 390 (84.78%) Apache Spark
2 133 (28.91%) Apache Airflow
3 117 (25.43%) Apache
4 17 (3.70%) Jupyter
4 17 (3.70%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 299 (65.00%) AWS
2 54 (11.74%) dbt
2 54 (11.74%) Snowflake
3 51 (11.09%) Serverless
4 50 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
4 50 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
4 50 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
4 50 (10.87%) Amazon EMR
4 50 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
4 50 (10.87%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 17 (3.70%) MinIO
5 17 (3.70%) OpenShift
6 8 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.43%) Azure
8 1 (0.22%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 460 (100.00%) Big Data
2 243 (52.83%) NoSQL
3 176 (38.26%) Hadoop
4 56 (12.17%) Data Lake
5 54 (11.74%) Amazon Athena
5 54 (11.74%) Apache Arrow
5 54 (11.74%) Dremio
6 50 (10.87%) Electronic Patient Records
7 46 (10.00%) Apache Hive
8 31 (6.74%) HBase
9 17 (3.70%) Presto
10 16 (3.48%) Impala
11 2 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.22%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 48 (10.43%) Jenkins
2 30 (6.52%) Bitbucket Server
2 30 (6.52%) Git
3 17 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 437 (95.00%) Finance
2 382 (83.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 382 (83.04%) Law
3 222 (48.26%) Legal
4 160 (34.78%) Marketing
5 106 (23.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (17.17%) PySpark
2 54 (11.74%) gRPC
2 54 (11.74%) Protocol Buffers
3 42 (9.13%) Spring
3 42 (9.13%) Spring Boot
4 41 (8.91%) Kafka
5 18 (3.91%) Apache NiFi
5 18 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (33.48%) Cloud Native
2 130 (28.26%) Algorithms
3 54 (11.74%) Clustering
3 54 (11.74%) Hedge funds
4 42 (9.13%) Legacy Code
5 17 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.48%) Public Cloud
7 8 (1.74%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.52%) Unix
2 20 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (83.26%) Agile
1 383 (83.26%) Software Engineering
2 349 (75.87%) CI/CD
3 340 (73.91%) Operational Stability
3 340 (73.91%) SDLC
4 222 (48.26%) Risk Management
5 173 (37.61%) Community of Practice
6 157 (34.13%) Performance Tuning
7 133 (28.91%) Machine Learning
8 132 (28.70%) Artificial Intelligence
9 130 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
9 130 (28.26%) Visualisation
10 113 (24.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 108 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
12 71 (15.43%) DevOps
13 67 (14.57%) Decision-Making
14 56 (12.17%) Technical Leadership
15 54 (11.74%) Asset Management
15 54 (11.74%) Investment Management
16 50 (10.87%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 308 (66.96%) Java
2 285 (61.96%) SQL
3 223 (48.48%) Scala
4 207 (45.00%) Python
5 54 (11.74%) Go
5 54 (11.74%) JavaScript
6 30 (6.52%) PL/SQL
7 17 (3.70%) Bash
7 17 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (3.91%) DV Cleared
1 18 (3.91%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.22%) Degree
2 1 (0.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.48%) SLA
2 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (6.52%) HDFS
2 21 (4.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 113 (24.57%) Kubernetes
2 101 (21.96%) Terraform
3 71 (15.43%) Prometheus
4 18 (3.91%) Ansible
5 17 (3.70%) Grafana
5 17 (3.70%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 51 (11.09%) Databricks
2 30 (6.52%) Informatica
3 1 (0.22%) Cloudera
3 1 (0.22%) Google