Big Data Jobs in the South West

Big Data
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 152 146
Rank change year-on-year -40 -6 -35
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 105 124 181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.13% 1.83% 2.24%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.73% 9.63% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 66 70 86
10th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £48,375
25th Percentile £63,750 £52,188 £61,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - +27.27%
75th Percentile £97,990 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,750 £117,236 £90,000
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
South 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 South West with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,359 1,288 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 14.64% 18.99% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 972 828 1,462
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,525 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,125 £70,481 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £84,875
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South West over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bristol -3 64 £80,000 +14.29% 13
Gloucestershire -36 17 £60,000 -17.24% 2
Wiltshire -2 14 £62,500 -16.67% 1
Dorset -22 9 £67,500 -15.63%
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 45 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 36 (34.29%) Apache
3 17 (16.19%) Jupyter
3 17 (16.19%) nginx
4 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.90%) Luigi
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (5.71%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 50 (47.62%) AWS
2 41 (39.05%) Azure
3 34 (32.38%) OpenShift
4 31 (29.52%) GCP
5 21 (20.00%) Serverless
6 17 (16.19%) Amazon S3
6 17 (16.19%) MinIO
7 15 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
7 15 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
7 15 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (10.48%) SaaS
9 7 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.71%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.29%) AMQP
2 13 (12.38%) Firewall
3 2 (1.90%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (40.95%) Hadoop
2 19 (18.10%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (17.14%) Relational Database
4 17 (16.19%) Presto
5 15 (14.29%) Cloudera CDH
5 15 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 8 (7.62%) BigQuery
6 8 (7.62%) Data Lake
6 8 (7.62%) Flink
7 7 (6.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (6.67%) Star Schema
8 6 (5.71%) Power BI
8 6 (5.71%) Tableau
9 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.81%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.86%) Data Mining
11 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
12 2 (1.90%) CouchDB
12 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 17 (16.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 7 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (5.71%) JIRA
5 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.90%) Maven
5 2 (1.90%) Selenium
6 1 (0.95%) Git
General
1 28 (26.67%) Aerospace
2 16 (15.24%) Finance
3 15 (14.29%) Banking
4 10 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 9 (8.57%) Retail
6 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.90%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (30.48%) Data Engineer
2 21 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Architect
3 17 (16.19%) Big Data Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (15.24%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
5 13 (12.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Senior
7 8 (7.62%) Enterprise Architect
8 7 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Python Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (5.71%) Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Lead
9 6 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (5.71%) Technical Business Analyst
10 5 (4.76%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.81%) Head of Engineering
11 4 (3.81%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (30.48%) RabbitMQ
2 21 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 18 (17.14%) Apache NiFi
4 17 (16.19%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (16.19%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (16.19%) React
4 17 (16.19%) Spring
4 17 (16.19%) YAML
5 16 (15.24%) Kafka
6 15 (14.29%) AngularJS
6 15 (14.29%) gRPC
6 15 (14.29%) Material-UI
6 15 (14.29%) Node.js
6 15 (14.29%) OpenAPI
6 15 (14.29%) REST
6 15 (14.29%) Swagger
7 8 (7.62%) .NET
7 8 (7.62%) Apache Beam
8 5 (4.76%) PySpark
9 2 (1.90%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 17 (16.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (12.38%) Cyber Defence
4 8 (7.62%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.71%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.71%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.76%) Reinsurance
7 4 (3.81%) Blockchain
7 4 (3.81%) Robotics
7 4 (3.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.90%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.95%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 47 (44.76%) Linux
2 15 (14.29%) CentOS
2 15 (14.29%) Debian
2 15 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 15 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 2 (1.90%) Android
3 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.29%) Agile
2 37 (35.24%) DevOps
3 34 (32.38%) Containerisation
4 32 (30.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (30.48%) Microservices
5 30 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
5 30 (28.57%) Service Delivery
6 29 (27.62%) Machine Learning
6 29 (27.62%) Software Engineering
7 26 (24.76%) CI/CD
7 26 (24.76%) Data Engineering
8 23 (21.90%) Artificial Intelligence
9 22 (20.95%) Actionable Insight
10 21 (20.00%) Open Source
10 21 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
11 18 (17.14%) Data Science
11 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (16.19%) Analytics
12 17 (16.19%) Requirements Engineering
12 17 (16.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 71 (67.62%) Python
2 38 (36.19%) Java
3 36 (34.29%) SQL
4 21 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 17 (16.19%) Bash
5 17 (16.19%) Shell Script
6 11 (10.48%) Scala
7 8 (7.62%) Ruby
8 7 (6.67%) Go
9 6 (5.71%) R
9 6 (5.71%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.86%) C
10 3 (2.86%) C#
11 2 (1.90%) C++
11 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.90%) Rust
Qualifications
1 59 (56.19%) Security Cleared
2 39 (37.14%) DV Cleared
3 31 (29.52%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.14%) Degree
5 10 (9.52%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (5.71%) IIBA
7 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.86%) PhD
9 2 (1.90%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.90%) CISA
9 2 (1.90%) CISM
9 2 (1.90%) CISSP
9 2 (1.90%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.95%) GDPR
1 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 32 (30.48%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (54.29%) Kubernetes
2 45 (42.86%) Ansible
3 33 (31.43%) Terraform
4 17 (16.19%) Grafana
4 17 (16.19%) HAProxy
4 17 (16.19%) Prometheus
5 15 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Google
2 15 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 15 (14.29%) SaltStack
3 8 (7.62%) Oracle
3 8 (7.62%) Teradata
4 7 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.76%) Databricks
6 2 (1.90%) Splunk
7 1 (0.95%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (0.95%) Sparx