Big Data Job Trends in the East Midlands

Big Data
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands 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 132 123 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 -6 +12
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 3 5 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 1.59% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £46,000
25th Percentile - - £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.73%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £63,000
England median annual salary £70,500 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.03% -3.13% +2.38%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 228 315 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.16% 14.28% 22.14%
Number of salaries quoted 160 196 348
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,688 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,625 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £70,000 £73,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Big Data
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Big Data

Big Data
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Nottinghamshire +21 3 £65,000 - 4
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
1 3 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks