Big Data Jobs in the City of London

Big Data
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 130 155 146
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 -40
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 9 23 84
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.69% 1.88%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.17% 2.69% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 69
10th Percentile £94,150 - £59,950
25th Percentile £95,000 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £105,000 £97,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £124,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £105,000 £96,250 £87,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% +6.06%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 414 854 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.17% 25.52% 23.10%
Number of salaries quoted 323 616 900
10th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £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% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +5.63%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the City of London.

Salary trend for Big Data in the City of London

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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