Big Data Jobs in Central London

Big Data
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 169 151
Rank change year-on-year +20 -18 -47
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 16 28 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.63% 0.74% 1.83%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.76% 3.12% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 15 26 88
10th Percentile £59,500 £61,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £87,500 £67,188 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £97,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £111,250 £113,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £118,000 £130,000 £113,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £96,250 £80,294
% change year-on-year -22.08% +19.87% -5.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 579 897 1,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 22.80% 23.71% 23.29%
Number of salaries quoted 403 670 1,100
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £96,125 £92,500 £96,375
90th Percentile £117,500 £105,250 £111,250
London median annual salary £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +7.14%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Central London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Central London

Big Data
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Central London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
City of London +27 16 £100,000 +2.56% 7
Big Data
London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) AWS
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) GCP
3 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (12.50%) GitHub
5 2 (12.50%) WhatsApp
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (6.25%) dbt
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.25%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (6.25%) SaaS
6 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.25%) GIS
4 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.25%) Parquet
4 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Back Office
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Local Government
4 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Architect
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Data Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Lead Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Senior Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Team Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Report Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineering Team Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) PySpark
3 2 (12.50%) pytest
3 2 (12.50%) REST
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Avro
4 1 (6.25%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (6.25%) Flask
4 1 (6.25%) JSON
4 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
3 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) ETL
2 7 (43.75%) Analytics
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
4 5 (31.25%) Data Strategy
4 5 (31.25%) Microservices
4 5 (31.25%) Software Engineering
5 4 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (18.75%) Data Architecture
6 3 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Trade Surveillance
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
4 1 (6.25%) Kotlin
4 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.25%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
1 2 (12.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Databricks
2 4 (25.00%) Google
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 2 (12.50%) Informatica
4 2 (12.50%) Talend
4 2 (12.50%) Workday
5 1 (6.25%) Palantir