Big Data Jobs in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 86 181
Rank change year-on-year -160 +95 -4
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 45 326 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 4.07% 1.82%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.50% 21.06% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 24 86 81
10th Percentile £25,000 £47,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -3.57% +21.74%
75th Percentile £74,688 £70,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £76,875 £95,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +20.75%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,802 1,548 2,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 18.59% 19.33% 22.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 883 1,301
10th Percentile £32,925 £33,750 £34,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £54,882 £52,779
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +3.98% +8.82%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,831 £80,000 £80,000
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 the North West

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North West.

Salary trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the North West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Manchester -108 38 £62,500 -3.85% 9
Cheshire -26 4 £55,000 - 3
Merseyside -27 3 £25,000 -64.29% 1
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 21 (46.67%) Apache Spark
2 12 (26.67%) Apache
3 4 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) Azure
1 26 (57.78%) GCP
2 17 (37.78%) AWS
3 12 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 11 (24.44%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (24.44%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (24.44%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (24.44%) OpenShift
4 11 (24.44%) Serverless
5 7 (15.56%) SaaS
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.22%) dbt
7 1 (2.22%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 11 (24.44%) AMQP
2 4 (8.89%) RS-232
3 3 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 11 (24.44%) Cloudera CDH
3 7 (15.56%) Power BI
4 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 5 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (6.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.22%) LogicBlox
6 1 (2.22%) Looker
6 1 (2.22%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (31.11%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) Subversion
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 11 (24.44%) Aerospace
2 10 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.89%) Electronics
7 3 (6.67%) Retail
8 1 (2.22%) Finance
8 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.22%) Marketing
8 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (40.00%) Senior
1 18 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Data Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Data Scientist
3 7 (15.56%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (11.11%) Junior
4 5 (11.11%) Junior Data Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Platform Manager
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) AngularJS
1 11 (24.44%) gRPC
1 11 (24.44%) Material-UI
1 11 (24.44%) Node.js
1 11 (24.44%) OpenAPI
1 11 (24.44%) RabbitMQ
1 11 (24.44%) React
1 11 (24.44%) REST
1 11 (24.44%) Spring
1 11 (24.44%) Spring Boot
1 11 (24.44%) Swagger
2 3 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.22%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (24.44%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Low-Code
3 4 (8.89%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Smart Energy
4 3 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 18 (40.00%) Linux
2 11 (24.44%) CentOS
2 11 (24.44%) Debian
2 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (24.44%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.89%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) Agile
2 26 (57.78%) Software Engineering
3 20 (44.44%) Data Science
4 18 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 15 (33.33%) Analytics
6 14 (31.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (28.89%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (26.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (26.67%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (26.67%) Machine Learning
8 12 (26.67%) Scrum
9 11 (24.44%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (24.44%) API Development
9 11 (24.44%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (24.44%) Configuration Management
9 11 (24.44%) DevOps
9 11 (24.44%) Kanban
9 11 (24.44%) Microservices
9 11 (24.44%) Open Source
9 11 (24.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 33 (73.33%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 15 (33.33%) Java
4 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
5 4 (8.89%) C
5 4 (8.89%) Embedded C
5 4 (8.89%) R
5 4 (8.89%) Scala
6 3 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 11 (24.44%) DV Cleared
1 11 (24.44%) SC Cleared
1 11 (24.44%) Security Cleared
2 8 (17.78%) Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Master's Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Certification
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.44%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.22%) GMP
1 1 (2.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Terraform
2 14 (31.11%) Ansible
2 14 (31.11%) Kubernetes
2 14 (31.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Google
2 11 (24.44%) Red Hat
2 11 (24.44%) SaltStack
3 8 (17.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (11.11%) YouTube
5 3 (6.67%) Databricks