Big Data Job Trends in Bristol

Big Data
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 76 73
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +39
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 2 30 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Bristol 0.098% 2.16% 3.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.33% 12.05% 14.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1 21 48
10th Percentile - £25,000 £64,978
25th Percentile £47,500 £25,313 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -36.67% +4.11%
75th Percentile £52,500 £83,750 £91,934
90th Percentile - £85,000 £120,000
South West median annual salary £95,000 £55,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +72.73% -26.67% +11.11%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 150 249 415
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 7.35% 17.93% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 107 148 345
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £40,625 £44,688 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +25.70%
75th Percentile £75,625 £74,164 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £85,000 £91,934
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Bristol

Big Data
Salary Trend in Bristol

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Big Data

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Graduate
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Computational Fluid Dynamics
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Physics
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle