Big Data Software Engineer Jobs

Big Data Software Engineer
UK

As of 28 May 2024, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Big Data Software Engineer salary in the UK.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 946 1219
Rank change year-on-year +393 +273 -321
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Software Engineer 382 6 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.006% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.007% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 12
10th Percentile - - £64,925
25th Percentile - £41,227 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £58,123 £68,823
Median % change year-on-year - -15.55% -13.97%
75th Percentile - £77,715 £90,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - £58,123 -

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 Software Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Software Engineer in the UK

Big Data Software Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Big Data Software Engineer in the UK

Big Data Software Engineer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Software 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 +324 382 - -
Scotland - 382 - -

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Big Data Software 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 Software Engineer in the job title.

1 382 (100.00%) Finance
1 382 (100.00%) Law
1 382 (100.00%) Agile
1 382 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 382 (100.00%) Big Data
1 382 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 372 (97.38%) Apache Spark
3 340 (89.01%) SDLC
3 340 (89.01%) Operational Stability
4 332 (86.91%) CI/CD
5 285 (74.61%) SQL
6 249 (65.18%) Java
7 244 (63.87%) AWS
8 243 (63.61%) NoSQL
9 223 (58.38%) Scala
10 222 (58.12%) Risk Management
10 222 (58.12%) Legal
11 173 (45.29%) Community of Practice
12 160 (41.88%) Marketing
13 157 (41.10%) Hadoop
14 156 (40.84%) Performance Tuning
15 154 (40.31%) Cloud Native
16 135 (35.34%) Python
17 132 (34.55%) Artificial Intelligence
17 132 (34.55%) Machine Learning
18 130 (34.03%) Continuous Improvement
18 130 (34.03%) Algorithms
18 130 (34.03%) Visualisation
19 107 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
20 106 (27.75%) Influencing Skills

Big Data Software 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
1 372 (97.38%) Apache Spark
2 99 (25.92%) Apache
3 79 (20.68%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 244 (63.87%) AWS
2 50 (13.09%) Amazon EC2
2 50 (13.09%) Amazon ECS
2 50 (13.09%) Amazon EKS
2 50 (13.09%) Amazon EMR
2 50 (13.09%) Amazon SQS
2 50 (13.09%) AWS Lambda
2 50 (13.09%) Serverless
3 8 (2.09%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 382 (100.00%) Big Data
2 243 (63.61%) NoSQL
3 157 (41.10%) Hadoop
4 50 (13.09%) Electronic Patient Records
5 46 (12.04%) Apache Hive
6 30 (7.85%) HBase
7 16 (4.19%) Impala
Development Applications
1 30 (7.85%) Bitbucket Server
1 30 (7.85%) Git
1 30 (7.85%) Jenkins
General
1 382 (100.00%) Finance
1 382 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 382 (100.00%) Law
2 222 (58.12%) Legal
3 160 (41.88%) Marketing
4 106 (27.75%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (20.68%) PySpark
2 42 (10.99%) Spring
2 42 (10.99%) Spring Boot
3 39 (10.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 154 (40.31%) Cloud Native
2 130 (34.03%) Algorithms
3 42 (10.99%) Legacy Code
4 16 (4.19%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 382 (100.00%) Agile
1 382 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 340 (89.01%) Operational Stability
2 340 (89.01%) SDLC
3 332 (86.91%) CI/CD
4 222 (58.12%) Risk Management
5 173 (45.29%) Community of Practice
6 156 (40.84%) Performance Tuning
7 132 (34.55%) Artificial Intelligence
7 132 (34.55%) Machine Learning
8 130 (34.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 130 (34.03%) Visualisation
9 107 (28.01%) Problem-Solving
10 67 (17.54%) Decision-Making
11 56 (14.66%) Technical Leadership
12 50 (13.09%) Tech Ops
13 42 (10.99%) Data Modelling
13 42 (10.99%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 40 (10.47%) Coaching
14 40 (10.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 285 (74.61%) SQL
2 249 (65.18%) Java
3 223 (58.38%) Scala
4 135 (35.34%) Python
5 30 (7.85%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.19%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (7.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 39 (10.21%) Kubernetes
2 30 (7.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (12.83%) Databricks
2 30 (7.85%) Informatica