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

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 148 154
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -46
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 10 25 85
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.49% 0.75% 1.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 2.97% 7.77%
Number of salaries quoted 10 20 70
10th Percentile £74,500 £58,000 £59,975
25th Percentile £93,875 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £99,250 £96,250 £88,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.12% +8.45% +7.58%
75th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £113,375 £124,000 £115,250
Central London median annual salary £99,250 £95,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year +4.47% +8.57% +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 434 842 1,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 21.34% 25.28% 23.67%
Number of salaries quoted 339 615 959
10th Percentile £47,500 £45,300 £49,600
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 £93,750 £97,500
90th Percentile £118,000 £110,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

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
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram 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 3 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) GCP
3 3 (30.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub
5 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (10.00%) PaaS
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (20.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) Parquet
4 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JMeter
1 1 (10.00%) JUnit
1 1 (10.00%) Selenium
1 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Back Office
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Data Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Kafka
2 3 (30.00%) PySpark
3 2 (20.00%) pytest
3 2 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (10.00%) Flask
4 1 (10.00%) JSON
4 1 (10.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) NHS
2 1 (10.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Data Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Data Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Trade Surveillance
4 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) Economics
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (10.00%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Informatica
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Talend
4 1 (10.00%) Palantir
4 1 (10.00%) Workday