The first table below looks at the demand for Big Data skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Big Data over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Big Data
Rank 263 617 845
Rank change year-on-year
+354 +228
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 1011 252 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.000% 0.222% 0.004%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.225% 0.740% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 854 219 2
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% +15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,750 £42,000
10% offered a salary of more than £95,000 £85,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.38% +17.50%
All Database & Business Intelligence
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
31345 34035 34314
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 30.99% 30.02% 29.13%
Number of salaries quoted 27431 30316 30069
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Big Data across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

England Big Data Jobs Demand Trend

Big Data
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Big Data across the England region.

England Big Data Salary Trend

Big Data
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Big Data across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Big Data Salary Histogram

Big Data
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +246 660 £60,000 -
South East +149 199 £50,000 +7.52%
East of England +65 64 £41,500 -2.35%
North West +36 33 £47,500 -5.00%
South West +23 26 £40,000 -10.61%
East Midlands - 8 £40,000 -
Yorkshire +8 6 £71,500 +30.00%
West Midlands - 6 £40,000 -
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Big Data also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Big Data.

1 862 (45.01%) Java
2 712 (37.18%) Hadoop
3 521 (27.21%) NoSQL
4 478 (24.96%) SQL
5 472 (24.65%) Analytics
6 409 (21.36%) Degree
7 397 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
8 381 (19.90%) Linux
9 380 (19.84%) Finance
10 378 (19.74%) Python
11 375 (19.58%) Oracle
12 368 (19.22%) Computer Science
13 332 (17.34%) Data Warehouse
14 319 (16.66%) SQL Server
15 310 (16.19%) JavaScript
16 306 (15.98%) PHP
17 285 (14.88%) Agile Software Development
18 281 (14.67%) MySQL
19 265 (13.84%) C#
20 261 (13.63%) TDD
21 258 (13.47%) ETL
22 249 (13.00%) C++
23 238 (12.43%) Open Source
24 224 (11.70%) Ruby
25 223 (11.64%) Apache Cassandra
25 223 (11.64%) XML
26 212 (11.07%) .NET
27 211 (11.02%) MongoDB
28 209 (10.91%) OO
29 204 (10.65%) Spring

Big Data
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Big Data also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Big Data. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 223 (11.64%) XML
2 212 (11.07%) .NET
3 204 (10.65%) Spring
4 201 (10.50%) CSS
5 200 (10.44%) Web Services
6 190 (9.922%) MapReduce
7 175 (9.138%) HTML
8 142 (7.415%) REST
9 128 (6.684%) J2EE
10 121 (6.319%) jQuery
11 103 (5.379%) HTML5
12 100 (5.222%) Lucene
13 94 (4.909%) Hibernate
14 80 (4.178%) JMS
15 76 (3.969%) Middleware
15 76 (3.969%) LAMP
16 72 (3.760%) RESTful
17 69 (3.603%) Java EE
18 64 (3.342%) JSON
19 60 (3.133%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 157 (8.198%) SAS
2 146 (7.624%) Apache
3 140 (7.311%) Apache Pig
4 74 (3.864%) CMS
5 70 (3.655%) Amazon AWS
6 68 (3.551%) Tomcat
7 58 (3.029%) Apache Solr
8 56 (2.924%) RabbitMQ
9 50 (2.611%) ESB
10 48 (2.507%) Windows Azure
11 38 (1.984%) Oracle Coherence
12 37 (1.932%) MQSeries
13 33 (1.723%) SharePoint
14 27 (1.410%) Drupal
15 26 (1.358%) Documentum
16 24 (1.253%) GemFire
16 24 (1.253%) Amazon EC2
17 22 (1.149%) Alfresco
18 20 (1.044%) WebLogic
19 15 (0.783%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 130 (6.789%) MS Excel
2 74 (3.864%) SPSS
3 7 (0.366%) Weka
4 6 (0.313%) Photoshop
5 3 (0.157%) MS Office
5 3 (0.157%) FastStats
6 2 (0.104%) OmniGraffle
6 2 (0.104%) S-PLUS
6 2 (0.104%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.104%) Stata
7 1 (0.052%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.052%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 37 (1.932%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (0.522%) Hyperion Planning
2 10 (0.522%) HFM
3 4 (0.209%) Oracle CRM
4 3 (0.157%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.104%) Agresso
6 1 (0.052%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.052%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.052%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 136 (7.102%) Internet
2 83 (4.334%) HTTP
3 35 (1.828%) SAN
4 32 (1.671%) Firewall
5 30 (1.567%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.358%) SNMP
6 26 (1.358%) SSL
7 20 (1.044%) Fibre Channel
8 17 (0.888%) iSCSI
8 17 (0.888%) Network Security
9 16 (0.836%) HTTPS
10 13 (0.679%) WAN
11 11 (0.574%) LAN
11 11 (0.574%) Wireless
12 8 (0.418%) Broadband
12 8 (0.418%) DNS
13 6 (0.313%) BGP
14 5 (0.261%) VPN
15 4 (0.209%) DHCP
15 4 (0.209%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 712 (37.18%) Hadoop
2 521 (27.21%) NoSQL
3 332 (17.34%) Data Warehouse
4 319 (16.66%) SQL Server
5 281 (14.67%) MySQL
6 223 (11.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 211 (11.02%) MongoDB
8 200 (10.44%) Data Mining
9 150 (7.833%) Apache Hive
10 120 (6.266%) OLAP
11 106 (5.535%) HBase
12 97 (5.065%) Redis
13 94 (4.909%) DB2
14 93 (4.856%) PostgreSQL
15 78 (4.073%) DataStage
16 77 (4.021%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 73 (3.812%) RDBMS
17 73 (3.812%) Oracle BI EE
18 70 (3.655%) Oracle OLAP
19 68 (3.551%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 88 (4.595%) Git (software)
2 80 (4.178%) Subversion
3 63 (3.290%) Maven
4 54 (2.820%) JIRA
5 49 (2.559%) Jenkins
6 45 (2.350%) Visual Studio
7 32 (1.671%) TeamCity
8 31 (1.619%) JUnit
9 29 (1.514%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.358%) Hudson
11 25 (1.305%) Eclipse
12 21 (1.097%) Selenium
13 19 (0.992%) Talend Open Studio
14 16 (0.836%) GitHub
15 13 (0.679%) Ant
15 13 (0.679%) QuickTest Pro
15 13 (0.679%) ERwin
15 13 (0.679%) NUnit
16 11 (0.574%) Team Foundation Server
16 11 (0.574%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 380 (19.84%) Finance
2 131 (6.841%) Marketing
3 101 (5.274%) Banking
4 68 (3.551%) Publishing
5 67 (3.499%) Retail
6 65 (3.394%) Games
7 49 (2.559%) Front Office
8 48 (2.507%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.141%) Advertising
10 37 (1.932%) Investment Banking
11 18 (0.940%) Manufacturing
11 18 (0.940%) Pharmaceutical
12 16 (0.836%) German Language
12 16 (0.836%) Financial Institution
13 15 (0.783%) Music
14 13 (0.679%) French Language
14 13 (0.679%) Online Betting
15 10 (0.522%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.522%) Law
16 9 (0.470%) Legal
Job Titles
1 738 (38.54%) Developer
2 278 (14.52%) Architect
3 268 (13.99%) Java Developer
4 145 (7.572%) Software Engineer
5 140 (7.311%) Consultant
6 107 (5.587%) Senior Developer
7 93 (4.856%) Data Architect
8 77 (4.021%) Analyst
8 77 (4.021%) Solutions Architect
9 69 (3.603%) Business Intelligence Consultant
10 62 (3.238%) C# Developer
11 61 (3.185%) Technical Architect
12 58 (3.029%) Software Developer
13 55 (2.872%) Business Consultant
14 53 (2.768%) .NET Developer
14 53 (2.768%) Administrator
15 49 (2.559%) C# .NET Developer
16 48 (2.507%) PHP Developer
17 47 (2.454%) Web Developer
18 46 (2.402%) Senior Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 368 (19.22%) Computer Science
2 238 (12.43%) Open Source
3 162 (8.460%) Mathematics
4 139 (7.258%) SaaS
5 122 (6.371%) Machine Learning
6 100 (5.222%) Social Media
7 90 (4.700%) Management Information System
8 74 (3.864%) Statistics
9 72 (3.760%) Data Integration
10 71 (3.708%) Physics
11 69 (3.603%) Cloud Computing
12 58 (3.029%) Visualisation
12 58 (3.029%) Enterprise Software
13 51 (2.663%) Clustering
14 47 (2.454%) Digital Media
15 46 (2.402%) Equities
16 41 (2.141%) Replication
17 40 (2.089%) Mobile App
18 38 (1.984%) Social Network
19 33 (1.723%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 381 (19.90%) Linux
2 166 (8.668%) UNIX
3 136 (7.102%) Windows
4 54 (2.820%) Android
5 49 (2.559%) Apple iOS
6 34 (1.775%) Ubuntu
7 29 (1.514%) CentOS
8 25 (1.305%) Debian
9 17 (0.888%) FreeBSD
10 9 (0.470%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (0.366%) Solaris
11 7 (0.366%) Mac OS X
12 5 (0.261%) AIX
13 3 (0.157%) VMS
13 3 (0.157%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.157%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Phone
14 1 (0.052%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (24.65%) Analytics
2 397 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
3 285 (14.88%) Agile Software Development
4 261 (13.63%) TDD
5 258 (13.47%) ETL
6 209 (10.91%) OO
7 194 (10.13%) Data Management
8 188 (9.817%) E-Commerce
9 170 (8.877%) Data Modelling
10 164 (8.564%) Scrum
11 161 (8.407%) Continuous Integration
12 126 (6.580%) MVC
13 114 (5.953%) Software Engineering
14 107 (5.587%) Multithreading
15 100 (5.222%) Information Management
16 98 (5.117%) Data Analysis
17 96 (5.013%) SOA
18 93 (4.856%) Master Data Management
19 87 (4.543%) Unit Testing
19 87 (4.543%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 862 (45.01%) Java
2 478 (24.96%) SQL
3 378 (19.74%) Python
4 310 (16.19%) JavaScript
5 306 (15.98%) PHP
6 265 (13.84%) C#
7 249 (13.00%) C++
8 224 (11.70%) Ruby
9 183 (9.556%) Perl
10 163 (8.512%) Scala
11 125 (6.527%) C
12 111 (5.796%) Bash shell
13 72 (3.760%) R
14 71 (3.708%) T-SQL
15 69 (3.603%) Shell Script
16 62 (3.238%) Clojure
17 57 (2.977%) MATLAB
18 50 (2.611%) Groovy
19 28 (1.462%) SPARQL
19 28 (1.462%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 409 (21.36%) Degree
2 71 (3.708%) PhD
3 32 (1.671%) Postgraduate
4 17 (0.888%) Security Cleared
5 14 (0.731%) ISEB
6 11 (0.574%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (0.522%) MCITP
7 10 (0.522%) SAP Certification
8 9 (0.470%) SC Cleared
9 8 (0.418%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 6 (0.313%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.261%) MBA
12 4 (0.209%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.209%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.157%) HND
14 2 (0.104%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.104%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.052%) MCSE
15 1 (0.052%) CCNP
15 1 (0.052%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (4.595%) QA
2 38 (1.984%) Data Quality
3 11 (0.574%) MiFID
4 4 (0.209%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.209%) SLA
5 3 (0.157%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.104%) Basel III
7 1 (0.052%) GCP
System Software
1 25 (1.305%) NFS
1 25 (1.305%) Samba
1 25 (1.305%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 13 (0.679%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.313%) Active Directory
4 5 (0.261%) Varnish
5 4 (0.209%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.104%) Xen
6 2 (0.104%) OpenSSO
6 2 (0.104%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.052%) VMware ESX
7 1 (0.052%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 83 (4.334%) Puppet
2 24 (1.253%) Nagios
3 17 (0.888%) MOM
3 17 (0.888%) CFEngine
4 11 (0.574%) Splunk
5 10 (0.522%) Ganglia
6 9 (0.470%) Business Desktop Deployment
7 8 (0.418%) SCOM
7 8 (0.418%) HP Quality Center
7 8 (0.418%) Munin
7 8 (0.418%) Cacti
7 8 (0.418%) HP SIM
8 6 (0.313%) OSSEC
8 6 (0.313%) Red Hat Spacewalk
9 3 (0.157%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.157%) Tivoli Monitoring
10 1 (0.052%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Zenoss
10 1 (0.052%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 375 (19.58%) Oracle
2 172 (8.982%) Microsoft
3 128 (6.684%) Informatica
4 109 (5.692%) Teradata
5 83 (4.334%) Business Objects
6 77 (4.021%) Cognos
7 75 (3.916%) Netezza
8 69 (3.603%) SAP
8 69 (3.603%) IBM
9 68 (3.551%) Ab Initio
10 66 (3.446%) Tableau
11 48 (2.507%) MicroStrategy
12 43 (2.245%) Sybase
13 42 (2.193%) DataFlux
13 42 (2.193%) Rackspace
14 32 (1.671%) Vertica
15 31 (1.619%) Red Hat
15 31 (1.619%) Hyperion
16 30 (1.567%) Twitter
17 29 (1.514%) JBoss
London
Java Developers are needed to join a small specialist software company based in central Bristol. As a java developer, you will become an integral part of a the...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £27000 to £55000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Applicants need to be very experienced developing Java and should have considerable expertise in UNIX - this includes scripting and Perl. The client is using SQL on SQL Server -...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Java Developer / Software Engineer London to £50k. Java Developer / Software Engineer (Algorithm Big Data Hadoop AWS Git Java)... Requirements for Java Developer: Strong object orientated Java programming skills...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £50k + share options
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Candidates should have strong Java backgrounds, experience of Hadoop in a commercial environment, some experience of working on big data/analytics and have a range of tools ideally...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: Market Rates
Posted: 22 May 2013
City, London
As a Suitable Java Developer you will have exposure to some of the following technologies; *Agile software development including TDD and pair programming *Implementing large-scale distributed systems...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £55000.00 per annum + Great benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Job Role: Java DeveloperLocation: London, CitySalary: £40k to £50k + share options Java Developer / Software Engineer (Algorithm Big Data Hadoop AWS Git). Award winning technology start-up that has...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £50k + share options
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Production experience with Hadoop, HBase or ElasticSearch would be highly advantageous, and exposure to other NoSQL databases or search platforms would be useful... The ideal candidate will have:...
Oliver Bernard
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum Excellent Package & Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Technical Manager -Big Data... Ideally coming form a development background within a Java environment. Essential Skills: -Previous experience handling big data ideally using Hadoop. -Experience coding in Java,...
Pertemps IT
Salary: 70,000 - 80,000
Posted: 22 May 2013
Lancashire, North West
Hard Skills - Java (ideally J2EE) SQL databases (MySQL, MS-SQL Server) Agile/TDD experience Soft Skills - 'Forward thinking' (always looking to advance your career and explore new technologies)...
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Role Responsibilities *Working within a fully Agile environment including TDD and Pair Programming to build cutting edge software. *To promote and breed continuous improvement throughout the business... Candidate...
Stott & May
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
They are growing at a phenomenal rate and tackle some extremely complex problems relating to the efficiency of Big Data applications... As a web applications developer you would...
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Surrey
Java Developer (Big Data, Cloud), West London, £45-55k... Combining Big Data, Social Media and cloud technologies, this mature start-up is looking to expand their team with...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
The technologies you will be using will be big data technologies like MongoDB, Hadoop and Solr. Requirements: Strong OO PHP and MySQL Experience developing high availability web apps...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Berkshire, Thames Valley
As the Developer Support Engineer you will be working with one of the hottest "big data" and "real-time" technology companies in the world, well-funded by investors...
bridgenoble
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Berkshire
Essential skills & experience Essential: 1+ Years' experience with two or more of the following languages: Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby or .NET Software development experience including web...
Bridge Noble
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Git or Subversion) * Experience from a start-up or a personal web project Preferred experience: * Apache Hadoop and Apache Hive * Redis and Memcache * NoSQL databases, especially Cassandra * Jira,...
Opilio Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - 60000 Per Annum Very Competitive, dependent on experienc
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Node.JS Developer, JavaScript Developer, Node.JS, JavaScript, Node.JS, Hadoop, Redis, Big Data, Real-Time, Socket.IO, Backbone.JS, Java... Degree in Computer Science or related discipline...
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per month + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Essential criteria: *Excellent development experience using Java*SQL on MS SQL Server and/or other relational database*Excellent understanding of Unix including scripting, including Perl*Experience in developing...
Streamline IT Recruitment
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Pension, Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Linux, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, HBase, Redis, Hadoop, Lucene/Solr, Puppet, Python, Java, Ruby My client is a well backed, fast growing early stage organisation who is tackling ground...
Engage PSG
Salary: £50000 - £80000 per annum + 20% bonus, equity, benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Must-haves: - A great sense of humour & energy levels - Master Python hacker as well as Java or C/C++ - Excellent knowledge of Object-oriented programming, data structures, algorithms...
greywood
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Your role will be to provide expertise in the analysis, presentation and utilisation of big data to allow this global enterprise to gain commercial advantage - across the business...
JAM
Salary: £50000 - £85000 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
You will require a strong track record in the field of big data, data mining, statistics, analysis and general software engineering... Required Profile - Big Data Analyst / Scientist / Central...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £85000 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
In order to be successful for this role, you must have (Commercial / Academic / Personal) experience of: *Python *HTML / CSS *JavaScript (ideally jQuery) *SQL (ideally PostgreSQL) Any experience/knowledge...
e-Recruiter
Salary: £25000 - £45000 per annum + Pension + Holidays + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Java, J2EE, Big Data, Spring, Hibernate, VOD & Agile / Scrum... MUST HAVE: Java / J2EE Technology Stack (Developing business critical systems) Agile (TDD, BDD, Scrum, Continuous Integration) VOD experience The...
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Salary: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
BI, DWH, New Technologies, "Big Data", SQL, Developer, Data Migration A niche consultancy is looking for BI Consultants / Developers from a SQL Background... Key skills SQL Server 2005/...
Venturi
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013