Big Data Jobs in Wales

Big Data
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 101 123
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -40
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 10 30 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.50% 1.80% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.23% 8.93% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 4
10th Percentile £37,042 £47,500 £35,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £66,875 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,316 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -36.69% +33.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £61,523 - £66,250
90th Percentile £74,500 - £70,750
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
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 310 336 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 15.37% 20.18% 19.93%
Number of salaries quoted 174 192 255
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,115
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% +7.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,506 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £71,250
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 Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Wales over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Wales region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Wales +4 5 £42,500 -15.00%
South Wales -14 3 £72,500 +3.57% 5
Mid Wales - 2 £37,436 - 1
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (30.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) Data Vault
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) DBA
2 3 (30.00%) SQL DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Coordinator
3 2 (20.00%) ICT Coordinator
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Programme Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Programme Management
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
1 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (20.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Genomics
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (10.00%) NHS
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Database Mirroring
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) ETL
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Statistics
4 2 (20.00%) Big Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Data Science
4 2 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) ETL Development
4 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) User Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (30.00%) C#
4 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Google