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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 164 150
Rank change year-on-year +13 -14 -43
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 9 24 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.38% 0.63% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.73% 2.52% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 77
10th Percentile £94,150 £63,750 £59,900
25th Percentile £95,000 £67,188 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £96,250 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £121,750 £113,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £93,475 £80,294
% change year-on-year -25.11% +16.42% -2.67%

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 519 951 1,120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 21.63% 25.15% 22.40%
Number of salaries quoted 362 670 982
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,200 £50,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £119,875 £110,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - +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
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 31 May 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 +25 9 £105,000 +7.69% 10
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 2 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Parquet
3 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
1 1 (11.11%) JMeter
1 1 (11.11%) JUnit
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Data Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Qualitative Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Quantitative Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Quantitative Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) PySpark
2 2 (22.22%) pytest
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Avro
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Thrift
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Sports Betting
3 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ETL
2 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 3 (33.33%) Data Science
2 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Security
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Deep Learning
3 2 (22.22%) ETL Development
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
3 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
3 2 (22.22%) Mathematical Modelling
3 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
3 2 (22.22%) Physics
3 2 (22.22%) Trade Surveillance
3 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Python
2 6 (66.67%) SQL
3 5 (55.56%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) C#
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Databricks
2 3 (33.33%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) Informatica
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Talend
4 1 (11.11%) Workday