Big Data Job Trends in Berkshire

Big Data
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 125 123
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 8 13 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.42% 0.59% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.09% 3.10% 3.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 17
10th Percentile - - £60,500
25th Percentile £59,000 £72,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £69,000 £77,500 -
90th Percentile - - £81,500
South East median annual salary £73,250 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.18% -21.43% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 383 420 477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 20.21% 19.00% 24.97%
Number of salaries quoted 109 187 267
10th Percentile £37,150 £42,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,368 £67,500 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +13.92% -8.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £78,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £112,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,918 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.15% -0.15% -

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Big Data relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Big Data job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Big Data
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Big Data

Big Data
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 2025. 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
Windsor - 3 - -
Slough -41 2 - - 27
Maidenhead -48 2 - -
Reading +29 1 £64,000 - 3
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Data Lake
1 7 (87.50%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (87.50%) Hadoop
1 7 (87.50%) NoSQL
General
1 7 (87.50%) Law
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Data Analytics Director
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (87.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Cloud Native
1 7 (87.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 8 (100.00%) Decision-Making
2 7 (87.50%) AI
2 7 (87.50%) Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) Computer Science
2 7 (87.50%) Data Acquisition
2 7 (87.50%) Data Analytics
2 7 (87.50%) Data Architecture
2 7 (87.50%) Data Engineering
2 7 (87.50%) Data Ingestion
2 7 (87.50%) Data Modelling
2 7 (87.50%) Data Science
2 7 (87.50%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) ETL
2 7 (87.50%) High Availability
2 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (87.50%) Machine Learning
2 7 (87.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 7 (87.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) AWS Certification
1 7 (87.50%) Azure Certification
1 7 (87.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (87.50%) Degree
1 7 (87.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (87.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks