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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 134 123
Rank change year-on-year -4 -11 -1
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 8 8 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.22% 0.42% 0.54%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.26% 2.07% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
10th Percentile £77,500 - -
25th Percentile £83,125 £59,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £64,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% - -
75th Percentile - £69,000 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £100,000 £65,750 £54,750
% change year-on-year +52.09% +20.09% -21.79%

All Database & 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 188 386 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.18% 20.37% 18.58%
Number of salaries quoted 128 109 184
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,150 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,972 £50,000 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.70% +8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £56,500 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +2.73% +0.92% -0.91%

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
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Berkshire over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Berkshire

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 16 October 2026. 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
Reading -34 7 £100,000 +56.25% 2
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 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Zeppelin
1 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) git-flow
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) PyCharm
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Linux Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Senior
1 6 (75.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
1 6 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) AI Agents
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (25.00%) Rocky
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) AI
2 2 (25.00%) Analytics
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Agile
3 1 (12.50%) Choice Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Econometrics
3 1 (12.50%) Economics
3 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
3 1 (12.50%) Operations Research
3 1 (12.50%) Physics
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Statistics
3 1 (12.50%) Use Case
3 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) R
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) zsh
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 1 (12.50%) Google