Big Data Jobs in London

Big Data
England > London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 239 96 87
Rank change year-on-year -143 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 302 1,215 2,884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.28% 3.43% 4.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.99% 13.86% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 228 571 1,199
10th Percentile £57,125 £55,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,294 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.32% -5.54% +13.33%
75th Percentile £117,500 £105,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £117,500 £115,000
England 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
London

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 London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,045 8,768 21,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.37% 24.78% 31.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3,800 6,056 9,091
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £116,250 £107,500
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London -11 26 £97,500 +13.04% 9
South London -47 1 £125,000 +19.05%
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 113 (37.42%) Apache Spark
2 69 (22.85%) Apache Airflow
3 46 (15.23%) Apache
4 24 (7.95%) SAS
5 9 (2.98%) Apache Pig
6 3 (0.99%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.66%) Luigi
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 17 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.97%) SPSS
3 10 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Primavera
1 4 (1.32%) Relativity
2 2 (0.66%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 1 (0.33%) Magento
3 1 (0.33%) Ringtail
3 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 136 (45.03%) AWS
2 121 (40.07%) Azure
3 61 (20.20%) Snowflake
4 41 (13.58%) GCP
5 37 (12.25%) dbt
6 33 (10.93%) Power Platform
7 29 (9.60%) Serverless
8 28 (9.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 22 (7.28%) Amazon Kinesis
10 17 (5.63%) GitHub
11 13 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (3.97%) Dropbox
13 10 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (3.31%) SaaS
14 9 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (2.65%) Power Automate
15 8 (2.65%) PowerApps
15 8 (2.65%) Stackdriver
16 7 (2.32%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.95%) Wireless
2 3 (0.99%) DNS
2 3 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (0.99%) Firewall
2 3 (0.99%) Internet
2 3 (0.99%) iSCSI
2 3 (0.99%) LAN
2 3 (0.99%) SAN
2 3 (0.99%) VoIP
2 3 (0.99%) WAN
2 3 (0.99%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (34.77%) Data Lake
2 62 (20.53%) Data Warehouse
3 60 (19.87%) Hadoop
4 49 (16.23%) NoSQL
5 42 (13.91%) Amazon Athena
6 37 (12.25%) Dremio
7 36 (11.92%) Apache Arrow
7 36 (11.92%) Data Mining
8 32 (10.60%) Power BI
9 27 (8.94%) Tableau
10 25 (8.28%) Apache Hive
11 21 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 16 (5.30%) SQL Server
13 15 (4.97%) EDRMS
14 14 (4.64%) BigQuery
14 14 (4.64%) Flink
15 13 (4.30%) Relational Database
16 12 (3.97%) Text Mining
17 9 (2.98%) BusinessObjects
17 9 (2.98%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (8.61%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.97%) Git
3 8 (2.65%) Checkstyle
3 8 (2.65%) CircleCI
3 8 (2.65%) JUnit
3 8 (2.65%) SonarQube
4 5 (1.66%) JIRA
5 2 (0.66%) GitLab
5 2 (0.66%) MLflow
5 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.33%) ERwin
6 1 (0.33%) GDB
6 1 (0.33%) Mockito
6 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.33%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.33%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 102 (33.77%) Finance
2 83 (27.48%) Social Skills
3 49 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.61%) Banking
5 23 (7.62%) Legal
6 19 (6.29%) Marketing
7 18 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.64%) Law
9 10 (3.31%) Games
9 10 (3.31%) Retail
10 8 (2.65%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.66%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.32%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.99%) Advertising
13 3 (0.99%) Electronics
13 3 (0.99%) Military
13 3 (0.99%) Police
14 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (22.19%) Senior
2 63 (20.86%) Data Engineer
3 44 (14.57%) Architect
4 39 (12.91%) Big Data Engineer
5 38 (12.58%) AWS Engineer
6 36 (11.92%) Site Engineer
6 36 (11.92%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 34 (11.26%) Lead
8 33 (10.93%) Developer
9 29 (9.60%) Data Architect
10 22 (7.28%) Data Manager
10 22 (7.28%) Senior Data Engineer
11 19 (6.29%) Analyst
12 17 (5.63%) Big Data Architect
12 17 (5.63%) Data Scientist
13 15 (4.97%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.97%) Lead Developer
15 11 (3.64%) Big Data Manager
15 11 (3.64%) Consultant
16 10 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (16.23%) Kafka
2 41 (13.58%) gRPC
3 36 (11.92%) Protocol Buffers
3 36 (11.92%) PySpark
4 19 (6.29%) Apache Beam
5 14 (4.64%) .NET
5 14 (4.64%) JSON
6 13 (4.30%) Pandas
7 12 (3.97%) Spring
7 12 (3.97%) Spring Boot
8 10 (3.31%) XML
9 9 (2.98%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (2.65%) Apache Avro
10 8 (2.65%) J2EE
11 7 (2.32%) Apache NiFi
12 6 (1.99%) React
13 5 (1.66%) RESTful
13 5 (1.66%) scikit-learn
14 4 (1.32%) NumPy
14 4 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 40 (13.25%) Hedge funds
2 37 (12.25%) Clustering
3 23 (7.62%) Algorithms
4 20 (6.62%) Onboarding
5 19 (6.29%) Product Ownership
6 16 (5.30%) Data Structures
6 16 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
6 16 (5.30%) Management Information System
7 15 (4.97%) Cybercrime
7 15 (4.97%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (3.97%) Cloud Native
10 10 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (2.98%) Distributed Applications
12 8 (2.65%) Client/Server
13 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.66%) Taxonomies
14 4 (1.32%) IoT
15 3 (0.99%) Blog
15 3 (0.99%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.30%) Linux
2 7 (2.32%) Windows
2 7 (2.32%) Windows Server
3 3 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.47%) Analytics
2 88 (29.14%) Agile
3 83 (27.48%) DevOps
4 76 (25.17%) Data Science
5 75 (24.83%) Data Modelling
5 75 (24.83%) ETL
6 68 (22.52%) Business Intelligence
7 66 (21.85%) Machine Learning
8 61 (20.20%) Data Engineering
9 59 (19.54%) Computer Science
10 55 (18.21%) Asset Management
10 55 (18.21%) Data Pipeline
11 49 (16.23%) CI/CD
11 49 (16.23%) Visualisation
12 48 (15.89%) SDLC
13 47 (15.56%) Data Visualisation
14 43 (14.24%) Data Analysis
14 43 (14.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 42 (13.91%) Artificial Intelligence
16 41 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 166 (54.97%) Python
2 138 (45.70%) SQL
3 94 (31.13%) Java
4 46 (15.23%) Go
5 42 (13.91%) JavaScript
6 33 (10.93%) Scala
7 28 (9.27%) R
8 27 (8.94%) C#
9 11 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.32%) VB
11 4 (1.32%) C++
11 4 (1.32%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.66%) Bash
12 2 (0.66%) F#
12 2 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.66%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.66%) VBA
13 1 (0.33%) C
13 1 (0.33%) JCL
Qualifications
1 98 (32.45%) Degree
2 25 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (7.62%) Master's Degree
4 15 (4.97%) Security Cleared
5 11 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.65%) PhD
7 7 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.32%) CIMA
9 3 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.99%) MBA
10 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.33%) CISSP
11 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.64%) QA
3 7 (2.32%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (8.28%) Docker
2 18 (5.96%) HDFS
3 6 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.99%) vSphere
5 2 (0.66%) IAG
6 1 (0.33%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.33%) KVM
6 1 (0.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (17.88%) Terraform
2 52 (17.22%) Kubernetes
3 37 (12.25%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.99%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Kibana
5 2 (0.66%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.33%) Nagios
6 1 (0.33%) Podman
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 67 (22.19%) Databricks
2 49 (16.23%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.30%) Cloudera
4 11 (3.64%) Google
5 8 (2.65%) VMware
6 7 (2.32%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.66%) SAP
8 4 (1.32%) Citrix
8 4 (1.32%) Intapp
8 4 (1.32%) Oracle
9 3 (0.99%) 3PAR
9 3 (0.99%) CA
9 3 (0.99%) Facebook
9 3 (0.99%) Mitel
9 3 (0.99%) ShoreTel
9 3 (0.99%) Teradata
10 2 (0.66%) Nuix
10 2 (0.66%) Recommind
10 2 (0.66%) Splunk
10 2 (0.66%) Veeam