Big Data Jobs in England

Big Data
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 122 113
Rank change year-on-year -258 -9 +18
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 573 2,604 4,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.67% 2.81% 3.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.79% 13.00% 11.77%
Number of salaries quoted 414 1,020 1,780
10th Percentile £44,000 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £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 £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,136 20,026 36,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.79% 21.63% 27.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,449 12,555 19,262
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £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 £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,308 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
London -137 306 £96,250 +19.87% 130
South West -45 100 £80,000 +14.29% 17
North of England -233 66 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North West -158 45 £55,000 -20.00% 16
East of England -58 37 £57,500 -11.54% 17
South East -186 37 £54,500 -22.14% 20
Midlands -120 24 £60,000 -11.11% 27
West Midlands -87 16 £62,500 - 21
North East -7 11 £42,500 -37.04%
Yorkshire -109 10 £87,500 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -44 8 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 202 (35.25%) Apache Spark
2 103 (17.98%) Apache
3 78 (13.61%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (6.63%) SAS
5 18 (3.14%) Jupyter
5 18 (3.14%) nginx
6 9 (1.57%) Apache Pig
7 3 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
9 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.62%) SPSS
4 6 (1.05%) Trello
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.70%) Primavera
3 4 (0.70%) Relativity
4 3 (0.52%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 230 (40.14%) AWS
2 222 (38.74%) Azure
3 111 (19.37%) GCP
4 72 (12.57%) Power Platform
4 72 (12.57%) Serverless
5 69 (12.04%) Snowflake
6 53 (9.25%) OpenShift
7 43 (7.50%) SaaS
8 42 (7.33%) AWS Lambda
8 42 (7.33%) dbt
9 39 (6.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 31 (5.41%) Amazon S3
10 31 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 28 (4.89%) Amazon EKS
11 28 (4.89%) AWS CloudFormation
11 28 (4.89%) GitHub
12 25 (4.36%) Amazon Kinesis
13 21 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (3.32%) Amazon EMR
15 18 (3.14%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.36%) Wireless
2 24 (4.19%) AMQP
3 13 (2.27%) Firewall
4 7 (1.22%) Internet
5 4 (0.70%) RS-232
6 3 (0.52%) DNS
6 3 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.52%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.52%) LAN
6 3 (0.52%) MQTT
6 3 (0.52%) Network Security
6 3 (0.52%) SAN
6 3 (0.52%) VoIP
6 3 (0.52%) WAN
6 3 (0.52%) WebEx
7 2 (0.35%) 4G
7 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.35%) RFID
8 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (24.78%) Data Lake
2 133 (23.21%) Hadoop
3 117 (20.42%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (12.39%) NoSQL
5 64 (11.17%) Power BI
6 46 (8.03%) Amazon Athena
7 45 (7.85%) Relational Database
8 42 (7.33%) Data Mining
8 42 (7.33%) Tableau
9 38 (6.63%) SQL Server
10 37 (6.46%) Dremio
11 36 (6.28%) Apache Arrow
12 29 (5.06%) BigQuery
13 28 (4.89%) Apache Hive
14 25 (4.36%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (4.19%) Cloudera CDH
16 22 (3.84%) Flink
17 20 (3.49%) Presto
18 19 (3.32%) MongoDB
19 16 (2.79%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 52 (9.08%) Git
2 49 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 18 (3.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (2.79%) JIRA
5 9 (1.57%) JUnit
5 9 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.40%) Checkstyle
6 8 (1.40%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.87%) MLflow
8 4 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.70%) Subversion
8 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.52%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.52%) GitLab
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.35%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 144 (25.13%) Finance
2 138 (24.08%) Social Skills
3 79 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (10.65%) Banking
5 38 (6.63%) Retail
6 37 (6.46%) Aerospace
7 30 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (5.06%) Marketing
9 28 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (4.54%) Legal
11 14 (2.44%) Retail Banking
12 12 (2.09%) Law
12 12 (2.09%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.75%) Games
13 10 (1.75%) Korean Language
14 9 (1.57%) Electronics
14 9 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 6 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
17 4 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (23.91%) Data Engineer
2 120 (20.94%) Senior
3 76 (13.26%) Architect
4 61 (10.65%) Big Data Engineer
5 54 (9.42%) Developer
6 48 (8.38%) Software Engineer
7 47 (8.20%) Lead
8 40 (6.98%) AWS Engineer
9 39 (6.81%) Data Architect
10 37 (6.46%) Analyst
11 36 (6.28%) Site Engineer
11 36 (6.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 35 (6.11%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (5.24%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (4.71%) Data Manager
14 27 (4.71%) Data Scientist
15 26 (4.54%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
16 22 (3.84%) Consultant
17 18 (3.14%) Big Data Architect
18 16 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.79%) Kafka
2 65 (11.34%) gRPC
3 47 (8.20%) Spring Boot
4 45 (7.85%) PySpark
5 44 (7.68%) RabbitMQ
6 42 (7.33%) Spring
7 36 (6.28%) Protocol Buffers
8 33 (5.76%) Node.js
8 33 (5.76%) React
8 33 (5.76%) REST
9 29 (5.06%) .NET
10 28 (4.89%) Apache Beam
11 27 (4.71%) AngularJS
12 26 (4.54%) Apache NiFi
13 24 (4.19%) Material-UI
13 24 (4.19%) OpenAPI
13 24 (4.19%) Swagger
14 22 (3.84%) ActiveMQ
15 20 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (3.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.90%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.50%) Algorithms
3 41 (7.16%) Hedge funds
4 37 (6.46%) Clustering
5 33 (5.76%) Data Structures
6 32 (5.58%) Management Information System
7 30 (5.24%) Onboarding
8 29 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
9 23 (4.01%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
10 19 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (3.14%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (2.62%) Cybercrime
13 14 (2.44%) IoT
14 12 (2.09%) Distributed Applications
14 12 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
15 11 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (1.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.66%) Linux
2 25 (4.36%) CentOS
2 25 (4.36%) Debian
2 25 (4.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 25 (4.36%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.22%) Windows
3 7 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.70%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (34.73%) Agile
2 168 (29.32%) Analytics
3 164 (28.62%) DevOps
4 144 (25.13%) Data Science
5 139 (24.26%) Machine Learning
6 125 (21.82%) Business Intelligence
7 120 (20.94%) ETL
8 116 (20.24%) Data Engineering
9 115 (20.07%) Data Modelling
10 110 (19.20%) CI/CD
11 102 (17.80%) Data Pipeline
12 101 (17.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 99 (17.28%) Computer Science
14 93 (16.23%) Software Engineering
15 85 (14.83%) Problem-Solving
16 83 (14.49%) Visualisation
17 79 (13.79%) Microservices
18 74 (12.91%) Containerisation
19 69 (12.04%) Data Analytics
20 67 (11.69%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 318 (55.50%) Python
2 244 (42.58%) SQL
3 171 (29.84%) Java
4 88 (15.36%) JavaScript
5 56 (9.77%) Go
6 55 (9.60%) Scala
7 49 (8.55%) R
8 44 (7.68%) C#
9 21 (3.66%) Bash
10 20 (3.49%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.27%) C
12 12 (2.09%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.40%) C++
14 8 (1.40%) Ruby
14 8 (1.40%) VB
15 6 (1.05%) PHP
16 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.70%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.70%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 165 (28.80%) Degree
2 88 (15.36%) Security Cleared
3 56 (9.77%) DV Cleared
4 55 (9.60%) SC Cleared
5 48 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (7.68%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.57%) PhD
9 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.40%) DBS Check
10 6 (1.05%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.05%) IIBA
11 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.70%) CIMA
12 3 (0.52%) CISM
12 3 (0.52%) CISSP
12 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.52%) MBA
13 2 (0.35%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (6.81%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.19%) GDPR
3 16 (2.79%) QA
4 11 (1.92%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) GMP
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 76 (13.26%) Docker
2 19 (3.32%) HDFS
3 6 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.52%) vSphere
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (24.26%) Kubernetes
2 113 (19.72%) Terraform
3 66 (11.52%) Ansible
4 55 (9.60%) Prometheus
5 32 (5.58%) Puppet
6 18 (3.14%) Grafana
6 18 (3.14%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.35%) Kibana
7 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.17%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.17%) Nagios
8 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 98 (17.10%) Databricks
1 98 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.85%) Google
3 24 (4.19%) Red Hat
3 24 (4.19%) SaltStack
4 15 (2.62%) Cloudera
5 12 (2.09%) Oracle
6 11 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 11 (1.92%) Teradata
7 9 (1.57%) VMware
8 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.40%) SAP
8 8 (1.40%) YouTube
9 4 (0.70%) Citrix
9 4 (0.70%) Intapp
9 4 (0.70%) Splunk
10 3 (0.52%) 3PAR
10 3 (0.52%) Facebook
10 3 (0.52%) MicroStrategy
10 3 (0.52%) Mitel