Big Data Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 156 199
Rank change year-on-year -74 +43 -15
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 856 1,330 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.21% 2.21% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.96% 11.46% 8.82%
Number of salaries quoted 228 483 540
10th Percentile £41,250 £46,400 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,556 £60,000 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £73,697 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £85,000 -
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,303 11,608 16,141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.35% 19.30% 22.79%
Number of salaries quoted 8,165 6,794 10,245
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
Scotland +80 561 £70,576 +0.82% 11
South West -43 105 £80,000 +14.29% 17
North of England -207 65 £55,000 -21.43% 17
North West -142 45 £55,000 -21.43% 9
South East -178 45 £54,500 -22.14% 13
East of England -38 36 £57,500 -11.54% 11
Midlands -129 29 £60,000 -11.11% 18
West Midlands -85 18 £60,000 - 16
North East -6 11 £42,500 -37.04% 2
East Midlands -42 11 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Wales -16 10 £44,316 -36.69% 1
Yorkshire -110 9 £87,500 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland +26 5 £115,000 +31.43% 7
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 601 (70.21%) Apache Spark
2 172 (20.09%) Apache
3 91 (10.63%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.99%) Jupyter
4 17 (1.99%) nginx
5 14 (1.64%) SAS
6 6 (0.70%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.58%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.23%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.70%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.70%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.35%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 484 (56.54%) AWS
2 136 (15.89%) Azure
3 110 (12.85%) GCP
4 96 (11.21%) Serverless
5 85 (9.93%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (9.00%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
8 65 (7.59%) SaaS
9 60 (7.01%) Amazon EMR
10 51 (5.96%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (5.96%) Amazon ECS
11 48 (5.61%) OpenShift
11 48 (5.61%) Power Platform
12 45 (5.26%) Amazon S3
13 30 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
14 27 (3.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.69%) Google Docs
15 23 (2.69%) Lucidchart
15 23 (2.69%) Miro
15 23 (2.69%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.04%) AMQP
2 18 (2.10%) DSL
3 16 (1.87%) Firewall
4 7 (0.82%) Internet
5 5 (0.58%) RFID
6 4 (0.47%) RS-232
6 4 (0.47%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.35%) MQTT
7 3 (0.35%) Network Security
8 2 (0.23%) 4G
8 2 (0.23%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.23%) Wireless
9 1 (0.12%) HTTP
9 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 338 (39.49%) NoSQL
2 273 (31.89%) Hadoop
3 68 (7.94%) Apache Hive
4 62 (7.24%) Data Warehouse
5 60 (7.01%) Data Lake
6 51 (5.96%) Electronic Patient Records
7 39 (4.56%) HBase
8 38 (4.44%) Power BI
9 37 (4.32%) SQL Server
10 36 (4.21%) Relational Database
11 33 (3.86%) Tableau
12 32 (3.74%) MongoDB
13 28 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
14 26 (3.04%) Cloudera CDH
15 25 (2.92%) Redis
16 23 (2.69%) Scylla
17 19 (2.22%) Flink
18 18 (2.10%) DB2
19 17 (1.99%) Impala
19 17 (1.99%) Presto
Development Applications
1 86 (10.05%) Git
2 57 (6.66%) Jenkins
3 37 (4.32%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (1.52%) JIRA
6 7 (0.82%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.70%) Jasmine
7 6 (0.70%) Karma Test Runner
7 6 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.47%) Subversion
8 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.35%) JUnit
9 3 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.35%) Selenium
9 3 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.23%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.23%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.23%) GitLab
10 2 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 552 (64.49%) Finance
2 542 (63.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 504 (58.88%) Law
4 265 (30.96%) Marketing
5 234 (27.34%) Legal
6 164 (19.16%) Influencing Skills
7 93 (10.86%) Social Skills
8 84 (9.81%) Banking
9 75 (8.76%) Financial Institution
10 55 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
11 42 (4.91%) Aerospace
12 29 (3.39%) Retail
13 27 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
14 23 (2.69%) Investment Banking
15 19 (2.22%) Private Banking
16 10 (1.17%) Korean Language
16 10 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.05%) Electronics
17 9 (1.05%) Public Sector
18 6 (0.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 483 (56.43%) Software Engineer
2 411 (48.01%) Big Data Engineer
3 390 (45.56%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 288 (33.64%) Data Engineer
5 209 (24.42%) Scala Engineer
5 209 (24.42%) Scala Software Engineer
6 181 (21.14%) Java Engineer
7 178 (20.79%) Java Software Engineer
8 162 (18.93%) Lead
9 149 (17.41%) Lead Software Engineer
10 148 (17.29%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 145 (16.94%) AWS Engineer
12 144 (16.82%) AWS Software Engineer
13 119 (13.90%) Java Scala Software Engineer
14 117 (13.67%) Senior
15 103 (12.03%) Python Engineer
16 96 (11.21%) Lead Java Engineer
17 95 (11.10%) Python Software Engineer
18 56 (6.54%) Engineering Manager
18 56 (6.54%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (13.67%) Kafka
2 105 (12.27%) Spring
3 97 (11.33%) Spring Boot
4 96 (11.21%) PySpark
5 56 (6.54%) AngularJS
6 43 (5.02%) RabbitMQ
7 41 (4.79%) React
8 35 (4.09%) Node.js
9 33 (3.86%) REST
10 32 (3.74%) OpenAPI
10 32 (3.74%) Swagger
11 26 (3.04%) gRPC
11 26 (3.04%) Material-UI
12 23 (2.69%) GraphQL
13 22 (2.57%) .NET
14 19 (2.22%) Apache NiFi
15 17 (1.99%) ActiveMQ
15 17 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
15 17 (1.99%) YAML
16 16 (1.87%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 243 (28.39%) Cloud Native
2 200 (23.36%) Algorithms
3 56 (6.54%) Data Structures
4 53 (6.19%) Public Cloud
5 46 (5.37%) Management Information System
6 43 (5.02%) Legacy Code
7 28 (3.27%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.45%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
11 15 (1.75%) IoT
12 14 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.52%) Robotics
14 10 (1.17%) Blockchain
14 10 (1.17%) Low-Code
15 9 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (1.05%) NHS
16 7 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
16 7 (0.82%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 88 (10.28%) Linux
2 37 (4.32%) Unix
3 28 (3.27%) CentOS
3 28 (3.27%) Debian
3 28 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 28 (3.27%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.40%) Windows
5 6 (0.70%) Mesosphere
5 6 (0.70%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.23%) Android
7 2 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (73.25%) Agile
2 594 (69.39%) Software Engineering
3 498 (58.18%) CI/CD
4 455 (53.15%) SDLC
5 401 (46.85%) Operational Stability
6 278 (32.48%) Machine Learning
7 259 (30.26%) Artificial Intelligence
8 246 (28.74%) Risk Management
9 234 (27.34%) Performance Tuning
10 231 (26.99%) Community of Practice
11 195 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
12 191 (22.31%) Visualisation
13 174 (20.33%) Continuous Improvement
14 125 (14.60%) Mentoring
15 121 (14.14%) Data Modelling
16 118 (13.79%) Decision-Making
17 113 (13.20%) Analytics
18 108 (12.62%) Coaching
19 106 (12.38%) Microservices
20 102 (11.92%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 504 (58.88%) SQL
2 474 (55.37%) Java
3 373 (43.57%) Python
4 345 (40.30%) Scala
5 59 (6.89%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.43%) PL/SQL
7 41 (4.79%) Bash
8 35 (4.09%) Go
9 28 (3.27%) C#
10 22 (2.57%) R
11 20 (2.34%) T-SQL
12 17 (1.99%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.75%) C
14 8 (0.93%) C++
14 8 (0.93%) Ruby
15 7 (0.82%) TypeScript
16 6 (0.70%) PHP
17 5 (0.58%) XAML
18 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
19 3 (0.35%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 97 (11.33%) Degree
2 79 (9.23%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.96%) SC Cleared
4 50 (5.84%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (2.69%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.40%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.93%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.70%) IIBA
11 6 (0.70%) PhD
12 5 (0.58%) CCNA
12 5 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
12 5 (0.58%) CISSP
13 4 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.35%) CISM
14 3 (0.35%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.97%) SLA
2 27 (3.15%) Data Quality
3 21 (2.45%) GDPR
4 17 (1.99%) QA
5 9 (1.05%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.70%) WAI
7 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.47%) SEPA
8 1 (0.12%) GMP
8 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 63 (7.36%) Docker
2 38 (4.44%) HDFS
3 6 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.58%) Firmware
5 3 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 188 (21.96%) Kubernetes
2 103 (12.03%) Terraform
3 69 (8.06%) Ansible
4 40 (4.67%) Puppet
5 18 (2.10%) Grafana
5 18 (2.10%) Prometheus
6 17 (1.99%) HAProxy
7 7 (0.82%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.35%) Perfmon
11 2 (0.23%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.23%) Podman
12 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 129 (15.07%) Databricks
2 64 (7.48%) Google
3 56 (6.54%) Microsoft
4 38 (4.44%) Informatica
5 27 (3.15%) Oracle
6 26 (3.04%) Red Hat
6 26 (3.04%) SaltStack
7 24 (2.80%) Dell
8 18 (2.10%) Alteryx
8 18 (2.10%) Cognos
8 18 (2.10%) Sybase
9 10 (1.17%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.05%) Teradata
11 8 (0.93%) Cloudera
12 7 (0.82%) YouTube
13 6 (0.70%) VMware
14 4 (0.47%) Cisco
15 3 (0.35%) Citrix
15 3 (0.35%) SAP
15 3 (0.35%) SnapLogic