Big Data Job Trends in the East of England

Big Data
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 144 183
Rank change year-on-year -36 +39 -39
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 10 36 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.15% 1.04% 0.53%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.07% 8.78% 4.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 28
10th Percentile £52,326 £70,275 £39,325
25th Percentile £55,175 £82,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £85,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.06% +41.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £63,725 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £66,980 - £93,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -18.75% +14.29%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 483 410 848
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 7.36% 11.80% 13.10%
Number of salaries quoted 340 307 693
10th Percentile £33,750 £26,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.50% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £92,988 £83,738 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the East of England

Big Data
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the East of England

Big Data
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Cambridgeshire -21 9 £59,450 -
Hertfordshire -45 1 £75,000 -11.76% 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
1 9 (90.00%) Serverless
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Datadog
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) ERwin
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (80.00%) Lead
1 8 (80.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 8 (80.00%) Technical Leader
1 8 (80.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (90.00%) Data Management
3 8 (80.00%) Change Control
3 8 (80.00%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (80.00%) Server Management
3 8 (80.00%) Storage Management
4 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (90.00%) Master's Degree
3 8 (80.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform