Big Data Jobs in Birmingham

Big Data
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 142 107
Rank change year-on-year +46 -35 +18
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 8 5 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.60% 0.18% 1.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.79% 0.91% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 10
10th Percentile £54,600 £33,980 £53,350
25th Percentile £58,875 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £47,450 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -32.21% +7.69%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £81,500 £77,200 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £61,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -14.29%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 211 548 367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.85% 19.62% 19.50%
Number of salaries quoted 166 448 281
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £35,625
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,725 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £76,250
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% +3.96% -3.81%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Birmingham

Big Data
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Birmingham

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Birmingham over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Birmingham

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) GCP
2 4 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 3 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (25.00%) Lucidchart
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
2 3 (37.50%) Power BI
3 2 (25.00%) Looker
3 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) ER Studio
1 2 (25.00%) ERwin
1 2 (25.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 5 (62.50%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Advertising
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Data Modeller
1 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) gRPC
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) NumPy
1 2 (25.00%) Pandas
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (25.00%) Reference Data
1 2 (25.00%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Analytics
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Science
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (37.50%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 2 (25.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Data Munging
4 2 (25.00%) High Availability
4 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (25.00%) Microservices
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft