Big Data Jobs in England

Big Data
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 374 123
Rank change year-on-year +48 -251 -11
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 387 573 2,573
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.84% 0.67% 2.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.76% 3.77% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 200 412 1,024
10th Percentile £25,313 £44,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,500 £122,500 £111,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,722 15,182 19,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.60% 17.82% 21.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,760 11,477 12,554
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,779 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in England.

Salary trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London -44 112 £75,000 -21.05% 407
South East +155 84 £62,500 +14.68% 120
South West +67 60 £25,625 -67.97% 33
North of England +73 54 £52,500 -4.55% 76
East of England +65 45 £85,000 +47.83% 29
Midlands +86 28 £61,500 +2.50% 50
Yorkshire +93 27 £25,625 -70.71% 25
North West +14 27 £58,000 +5.45% 41
West Midlands +56 22 £60,250 -3.60% 31
East Midlands +48 6 £75,000 +25.00% 16
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 81 (20.93%) Apache Spark
2 26 (6.72%) SharePoint
3 24 (6.20%) Apache
4 23 (5.94%) Jupyter
5 15 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.52%) Confluence
8 1 (0.26%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.26%) Luigi
8 1 (0.26%) nginx
8 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.26%) Simulink
4 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.26%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.78%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.26%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 108 (27.91%) AWS
2 107 (27.65%) Azure
3 76 (19.64%) Power Platform
4 50 (12.92%) GCP
5 41 (10.59%) Serverless
6 36 (9.30%) SaaS
7 32 (8.27%) Snowflake
8 31 (8.01%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (6.98%) PowerApps
10 26 (6.72%) Power Automate
11 24 (6.20%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (5.68%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (4.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 18 (4.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (4.13%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (4.13%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (3.88%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (3.88%) Boomi
17 14 (3.62%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.03%) Internet
2 3 (0.78%) Firewall
2 3 (0.78%) Network Security
3 2 (0.52%) VLAN
3 2 (0.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (19.64%) Power BI
2 71 (18.35%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (17.83%) Data Lake
4 46 (11.89%) Tableau
5 45 (11.63%) Hadoop
6 41 (10.59%) NoSQL
7 18 (4.65%) Relational Database
8 17 (4.39%) GIS
9 16 (4.13%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.62%) Amazon Redshift
10 14 (3.62%) MongoDB
10 14 (3.62%) SQL Server
11 12 (3.10%) Metadata
12 9 (2.33%) Delta Lake
12 9 (2.33%) MySQL
12 9 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (2.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.81%) Apache Hive
14 7 (1.81%) Looker
14 7 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (5.17%) Git
2 12 (3.10%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.29%) JMeter
3 5 (1.29%) Selenium
4 4 (1.03%) JIRA
4 4 (1.03%) Locust
4 4 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.03%) Postman
4 4 (1.03%) Robot Framework
4 4 (1.03%) webpack
5 3 (0.78%) ERwin
5 3 (0.78%) GitLab
5 3 (0.78%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.52%) Babel
6 2 (0.52%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.52%) Mocha
6 2 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.52%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.52%) Sinon.JS
General
1 123 (31.78%) Finance
2 115 (29.72%) Social Skills
3 99 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (18.35%) Banking
5 57 (14.73%) Advertising
6 56 (14.47%) Law
7 55 (14.21%) Marketing
8 48 (12.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (8.27%) Public Sector
10 11 (2.84%) Retail
11 7 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.29%) Automotive
14 4 (1.03%) Front Office
14 4 (1.03%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.78%) Legal
15 3 (0.78%) Local Government
16 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
17 1 (0.26%) Police
Job Titles
1 105 (27.13%) Senior
2 71 (18.35%) Lead
3 57 (14.73%) Data Engineer
4 55 (14.21%) Data Scientist
5 51 (13.18%) Senior Manager
6 49 (12.66%) Account Manager
6 49 (12.66%) Senior Account Manager
7 47 (12.14%) Analyst
8 35 (9.04%) Architect
8 35 (9.04%) Data Analyst
9 23 (5.94%) Senior Data Scientist
10 21 (5.43%) Software Engineer
10 21 (5.43%) Solutions Architect
11 20 (5.17%) Consultant
12 19 (4.91%) Senior Data Engineer
13 17 (4.39%) Analytics Consultant
14 14 (3.62%) GIS Consultant
14 14 (3.62%) Spatial Consultant
15 12 (3.10%) Lead Data Engineer
16 10 (2.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.82%) Kafka
2 23 (5.94%) RESTful
3 17 (4.39%) Pandas
4 16 (4.13%) PySpark
5 15 (3.88%) JWT
5 15 (3.88%) OAuth
6 12 (3.10%) REST
7 11 (2.84%) React
8 10 (2.58%) gRPC
9 8 (2.07%) .NET
9 8 (2.07%) PyTorch
9 8 (2.07%) Spring
9 8 (2.07%) Spring Boot
9 8 (2.07%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.81%) pytest
10 7 (1.81%) YAML
11 6 (1.55%) CSS
11 6 (1.55%) HTML
11 6 (1.55%) scikit-learn
11 6 (1.55%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 57 (14.73%) Algorithms
2 49 (12.66%) Digital Media
2 49 (12.66%) Marketing Technology
3 46 (11.89%) Cyberattack
4 21 (5.43%) Data Structures
5 16 (4.13%) Cloud Native
6 15 (3.88%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.62%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.36%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.36%) Public Cloud
9 11 (2.84%) Reference Data
10 10 (2.58%) Replication
11 7 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 7 (1.81%) Robotics
12 6 (1.55%) FMCG
13 4 (1.03%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.78%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
14 3 (0.78%) IoT
14 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.33%) Linux
2 3 (0.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.52%) CentOS
3 2 (0.52%) Debian
3 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.26%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.39%) Analytics
2 138 (35.66%) Artificial Intelligence
3 136 (35.14%) Visualisation
4 116 (29.97%) Data Science
5 111 (28.68%) Computer Science
6 109 (28.17%) Machine Learning
7 107 (27.65%) Data Analytics
8 105 (27.13%) Project Management
9 104 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
10 95 (24.55%) Business Intelligence
11 89 (23.00%) ETL
12 87 (22.48%) Data Analysis
13 84 (21.71%) Data Engineering
14 81 (20.93%) DevOps
14 81 (20.93%) Mathematics
15 80 (20.67%) Statistics
16 76 (19.64%) Mentoring
17 70 (18.09%) CI/CD
18 68 (17.57%) Predictive Modelling
19 67 (17.31%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 156 (40.31%) Python
2 151 (39.02%) SQL
3 104 (26.87%) Java
4 37 (9.56%) JavaScript
5 32 (8.27%) C#
6 22 (5.68%) Scala
7 12 (3.10%) Bash
7 12 (3.10%) PowerShell
8 8 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (2.07%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.07%) R
9 5 (1.29%) C++
9 5 (1.29%) Go
9 5 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.03%) PHP
11 2 (0.52%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.52%) Ruby
12 1 (0.26%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.26%) Perl
12 1 (0.26%) Rust
Qualifications
1 147 (37.98%) Degree
2 74 (19.12%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.89%) DV Cleared
4 43 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (5.94%) Numerate Degree
6 17 (4.39%) Master's Degree
7 13 (3.36%) SC Cleared
8 9 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.55%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 4 (1.03%) PhD
11 3 (0.78%) APMG
11 3 (0.78%) CCIE
11 3 (0.78%) CCNP
11 3 (0.78%) CCSE
11 3 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.78%) CISM
11 3 (0.78%) CISSP
11 3 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (15.76%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.62%) GDPR
3 8 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.78%) HIPAA
4 3 (0.78%) QA
4 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
5 2 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 55 (14.21%) Docker
2 5 (1.29%) HDFS
3 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (17.57%) Kubernetes
2 34 (8.79%) Terraform
3 3 (0.78%) Ansible
3 3 (0.78%) Grafana
3 3 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.52%) Hadoop YARN
4 2 (0.52%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.26%) Argo
5 1 (0.26%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.26%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 73 (18.86%) Microsoft
2 46 (11.89%) Databricks
3 41 (10.59%) ServiceNow
4 29 (7.49%) Google
5 22 (5.68%) Informatica
6 17 (4.39%) Oracle
7 15 (3.88%) Alteryx
7 15 (3.88%) MuleSoft
8 14 (3.62%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.29%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.29%) Talend
10 3 (0.78%) Adobe
10 3 (0.78%) Arista
10 3 (0.78%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.78%) Cisco
10 3 (0.78%) F5
10 3 (0.78%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.78%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.78%) SAP
11 2 (0.52%) IBM