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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 129 113
Rank change year-on-year -251 -16 +16
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 576 2,424 4,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.68% 2.68% 3.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 12.51% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 416 972 1,764
10th Percentile £44,000 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £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 15,073 19,372 36,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.70% 21.42% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 11,382 12,195 19,052
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £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 £97,500 £105,000 £96,225
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 7 May 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 7 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
London -140 303 £95,000 +18.32% 123
South West -56 100 £80,000 +14.29% 14
North of England -216 65 £55,000 -21.43% 21
North West -134 45 £55,000 -21.43% 12
South East -171 42 £54,500 -22.14% 20
East of England -43 37 £57,500 -11.54% 13
Midlands -123 27 £60,000 -9.77% 20
West Midlands -74 17 £61,250 +2.08% 17
North East -5 11 £42,500 -37.04% 2
East Midlands -42 10 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -114 9 £87,500 +25.00% 7
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
1 198 (34.38%) Apache Spark
2 98 (17.01%) Apache
3 83 (14.41%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (6.42%) SAS
5 17 (2.95%) Jupyter
5 17 (2.95%) nginx
6 9 (1.56%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.87%) Kinematics
8 3 (0.52%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.35%) Confluence
9 2 (0.35%) Luigi
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.60%) SPSS
4 6 (1.04%) 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 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.69%) Primavera
3 4 (0.69%) 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
1 237 (41.15%) AWS
2 225 (39.06%) Azure
3 108 (18.75%) GCP
4 75 (13.02%) Serverless
4 75 (13.02%) Snowflake
5 69 (11.98%) Power Platform
6 52 (9.03%) OpenShift
7 47 (8.16%) dbt
8 44 (7.64%) AWS Lambda
8 44 (7.64%) SaaS
9 40 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 32 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
11 30 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
11 30 (5.21%) Amazon S3
11 30 (5.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 24 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 24 (4.17%) GitHub
13 22 (3.82%) Azure DevOps
14 18 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (2.95%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.51%) AMQP
2 23 (3.99%) Wireless
3 14 (2.43%) Firewall
4 10 (1.74%) Internet
5 5 (0.87%) RFID
6 4 (0.69%) RS-232
7 3 (0.52%) DNS
7 3 (0.52%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.52%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.52%) LAN
7 3 (0.52%) MQTT
7 3 (0.52%) Network Security
7 3 (0.52%) SAN
7 3 (0.52%) VoIP
7 3 (0.52%) WAN
7 3 (0.52%) WebEx
8 2 (0.35%) 4G
8 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (24.83%) Data Lake
2 135 (23.44%) Hadoop
3 118 (20.49%) Data Warehouse
4 67 (11.63%) NoSQL
5 61 (10.59%) Power BI
6 52 (9.03%) Amazon Athena
7 44 (7.64%) Relational Database
8 43 (7.47%) Dremio
9 42 (7.29%) Apache Arrow
9 42 (7.29%) Data Mining
10 38 (6.60%) SQL Server
10 38 (6.60%) Tableau
11 28 (4.86%) Apache Hive
12 26 (4.51%) Cloudera CDH
13 25 (4.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 25 (4.34%) BigQuery
14 22 (3.82%) Flink
15 20 (3.47%) MongoDB
16 19 (3.30%) Presto
17 17 (2.95%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 53 (9.20%) Git
2 45 (7.81%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (2.78%) JIRA
5 10 (1.74%) JUnit
5 10 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.39%) Checkstyle
6 8 (1.39%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.87%) MLflow
8 4 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.69%) GitLab
8 4 (0.69%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.69%) Subversion
8 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
10 2 (0.35%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.35%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 147 (25.52%) Finance
2 139 (24.13%) Social Skills
3 77 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.07%) Banking
5 41 (7.12%) Aerospace
6 35 (6.08%) Retail
7 31 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (5.21%) Marketing
9 28 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (4.34%) Legal
11 14 (2.43%) Retail Banking
12 13 (2.26%) Law
13 12 (2.08%) Electronics
13 12 (2.08%) Public Sector
14 10 (1.74%) Games
14 10 (1.74%) Korean Language
14 10 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.22%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.69%) Advertising
16 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (23.44%) Data Engineer
2 116 (20.14%) Senior
3 76 (13.19%) Architect
4 66 (11.46%) Big Data Engineer
5 52 (9.03%) Developer
6 50 (8.68%) Software Engineer
7 46 (7.99%) AWS Engineer
8 44 (7.64%) Lead
9 42 (7.29%) Site Engineer
9 42 (7.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 38 (6.60%) Data Architect
11 37 (6.42%) Analyst
12 34 (5.90%) Senior Data Engineer
13 30 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (4.86%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
15 26 (4.51%) Data Scientist
16 25 (4.34%) Data Manager
17 22 (3.82%) Consultant
18 18 (3.13%) Big Data Architect
19 16 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (12.67%) gRPC
1 73 (12.67%) Kafka
2 49 (8.51%) Spring Boot
3 45 (7.81%) PySpark
3 45 (7.81%) RabbitMQ
4 44 (7.64%) Spring
5 42 (7.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 37 (6.42%) Node.js
7 35 (6.08%) React
7 35 (6.08%) REST
8 29 (5.03%) AngularJS
9 28 (4.86%) .NET
9 28 (4.86%) Apache Beam
10 26 (4.51%) Material-UI
10 26 (4.51%) OpenAPI
10 26 (4.51%) Swagger
11 25 (4.34%) Apache NiFi
12 20 (3.47%) ActiveMQ
13 19 (3.30%) Elastic Stack
14 17 (2.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.20%) Cloud Native
2 46 (7.99%) Hedge funds
3 44 (7.64%) Algorithms
4 43 (7.47%) Clustering
5 35 (6.08%) Data Structures
6 33 (5.73%) Management Information System
7 30 (5.21%) Onboarding
8 29 (5.03%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (4.17%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (2.78%) IoT
13 15 (2.60%) Cybercrime
14 12 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
14 12 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
14 12 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (1.39%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 88 (15.28%) Linux
2 28 (4.86%) CentOS
2 28 (4.86%) Debian
2 28 (4.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 28 (4.86%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.22%) Windows
3 7 (1.22%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.69%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.35%) Android
6 2 (0.35%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (34.72%) Agile
2 171 (29.69%) DevOps
3 168 (29.17%) Analytics
4 141 (24.48%) Data Science
5 138 (23.96%) Machine Learning
6 121 (21.01%) Business Intelligence
7 119 (20.66%) Data Modelling
8 116 (20.14%) ETL
9 111 (19.27%) Data Engineering
10 106 (18.40%) CI/CD
11 100 (17.36%) Computer Science
12 99 (17.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 98 (17.01%) Data Pipeline
14 96 (16.67%) Software Engineering
15 84 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
16 82 (14.24%) Microservices
17 78 (13.54%) Visualisation
18 75 (13.02%) Containerisation
19 66 (11.46%) Project Management
20 65 (11.28%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 324 (56.25%) Python
2 244 (42.36%) SQL
3 178 (30.90%) Java
4 97 (16.84%) JavaScript
5 62 (10.76%) Go
6 54 (9.38%) Scala
7 48 (8.33%) R
8 46 (7.99%) C#
9 19 (3.30%) Shell Script
10 18 (3.13%) Bash
11 16 (2.78%) C
12 13 (2.26%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.91%) C++
13 11 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.39%) Ruby
15 7 (1.22%) VB
16 6 (1.04%) PHP
17 5 (0.87%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.87%) XAML
18 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 170 (29.51%) Degree
2 92 (15.97%) Security Cleared
3 60 (10.42%) SC Cleared
4 57 (9.90%) DV Cleared
5 49 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 44 (7.64%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.74%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.56%) PhD
10 8 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.04%) IIBA
12 4 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.69%) CIMA
12 4 (0.69%) CISSP
13 3 (0.52%) CISM
13 3 (0.52%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.52%) MBA
14 2 (0.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.34%) GDPR
3 20 (3.47%) QA
4 10 (1.74%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) GMP
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 73 (12.67%) Docker
2 19 (3.30%) HDFS
3 6 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.87%) Firmware
5 3 (0.52%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.52%) vSphere
6 2 (0.35%) IAG
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 145 (25.17%) Kubernetes
2 118 (20.49%) Terraform
3 68 (11.81%) Ansible
4 60 (10.42%) Prometheus
5 35 (6.08%) Puppet
6 17 (2.95%) Grafana
6 17 (2.95%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.52%) Podman
8 2 (0.35%) Kibana
8 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.35%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 99 (17.19%) Databricks
2 96 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 43 (7.47%) Google
4 26 (4.51%) Red Hat
4 26 (4.51%) SaltStack
5 15 (2.60%) Cloudera
6 12 (2.08%) Oracle
7 11 (1.91%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.91%) Teradata
8 8 (1.39%) SAP
8 8 (1.39%) YouTube
9 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
9 7 (1.22%) VMware
10 4 (0.69%) Citrix
10 4 (0.69%) Intapp
10 4 (0.69%) Splunk
11 3 (0.52%) CA
11 3 (0.52%) ShoreTel
11 3 (0.52%) SnapLogic
11 3 (0.52%) Sparx