Big Data Job Trends in England

Big Data
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 395 298
Rank change year-on-year -29 -97 -195
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 208 298 603
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.67% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.45% 3.66% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 108 194 411
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,313 £43,750
25th Percentile £60,938 £51,563 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £71,991 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year +3.49% -9.60% +2.75%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £118,500 £120,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £71,991 £79,632
% change year-on-year +4.18% -9.60% -0.03%

All Database & 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 6,037 8,150 12,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.21% 18.22% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3,886 4,657 10,437
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in England

Big Data
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 14 February 2026.

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 14 February 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
London +46 142 £85,000 -10.53% 29
North of England -31 21 £55,000 +21.55% 20
South West -41 14 £70,000 +173.17% 4
North West -2 12 £53,750 -3.59% 13
South East -14 12 £59,000 +2.61% 20
East of England +11 6 £52,500 -22.79% 7
North East -3 6 £55,000 +20.88% 5
Midlands -4 4 £65,000 -9.09% 5
East Midlands -18 3 £65,000 - 2
Yorkshire -49 3 £75,000 +192.68% 3
West Midlands +9 1 - - 3
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 77 (37.02%) Apache Spark
2 15 (7.21%) Apache
3 13 (6.25%) SAS
4 11 (5.29%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.40%) IIS
6 3 (1.44%) Confluence
7 1 (0.48%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 18 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.81%) SPSS
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.96%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.96%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.50%) Azure
2 75 (36.06%) AWS
3 45 (21.63%) Cloud Computing
4 43 (20.67%) GCP
5 24 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 22 (10.58%) Serverless
7 19 (9.13%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (8.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (7.21%) Snowflake
10 12 (5.77%) Amazon EMR
11 10 (4.81%) Amazon Kinesis
11 10 (4.81%) Dropbox
11 10 (4.81%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (3.85%) SaaS
13 7 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.88%) Amazon S3
15 5 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
15 5 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
15 5 (2.40%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) AMQP
1 5 (2.40%) Broadband
2 4 (1.92%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.96%) Internet
4 1 (0.48%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (30.77%) Hadoop
2 34 (16.35%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (14.42%) NoSQL
4 23 (11.06%) Power BI
5 19 (9.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (8.65%) MongoDB
7 15 (7.21%) Apache Hive
7 15 (7.21%) Neo4j
7 15 (7.21%) SQL Server
7 15 (7.21%) Tableau
8 13 (6.25%) Data Lake
8 13 (6.25%) DynamoDB
8 13 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (5.77%) Relational Database
10 11 (5.29%) MySQL
11 10 (4.81%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (4.81%) EDRMS
11 10 (4.81%) Pentaho
12 9 (4.33%) DataStage
12 9 (4.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Git
2 5 (2.40%) JIRA
3 4 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.96%) GitLab
5 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.48%) JMeter
6 1 (0.48%) JUnit
6 1 (0.48%) MLflow
6 1 (0.48%) Selenium
6 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 89 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 88 (42.31%) Finance
3 39 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (16.83%) Marketing
5 28 (13.46%) Banking
6 24 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (9.13%) Law
8 10 (4.81%) Financial Institution
8 10 (4.81%) Legal
9 7 (3.37%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.40%) Retail
12 4 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.44%) Avionics
13 3 (1.44%) Electronics
13 3 (1.44%) Front Office
13 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 30 (14.42%) Senior
3 23 (11.06%) Accountant
3 23 (11.06%) Financial Accountant
4 22 (10.58%) Developer
5 20 (9.62%) Lead
5 20 (9.62%) Lecturer
6 18 (8.65%) Senior Data Engineer
7 17 (8.17%) Architect
8 16 (7.69%) Python Developer
9 13 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
9 13 (6.25%) DataOps Engineer
9 13 (6.25%) DataOps Leader
9 13 (6.25%) Lead Big Data Engineer
10 9 (4.33%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.33%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Analyst
11 8 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
11 8 (3.85%) Forensic Manager
11 8 (3.85%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.71%) Kafka
2 22 (10.58%) REST
3 10 (4.81%) PySpark
4 9 (4.33%) TensorFlow
5 7 (3.37%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.37%) boto
5 7 (3.37%) React
5 7 (3.37%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (2.88%) NumPy
6 6 (2.88%) Pandas
6 6 (2.88%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.88%) Spring
6 6 (2.88%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.40%) gRPC
7 5 (2.40%) LDAP
7 5 (2.40%) Material-UI
7 5 (2.40%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.40%) OpenAPI
7 5 (2.40%) Play Framework
7 5 (2.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (14.90%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (11.54%) IoT
3 23 (11.06%) Social Network
4 18 (8.65%) Algorithms
5 15 (7.21%) Product Ownership
6 14 (6.73%) Management Information System
7 13 (6.25%) Cloud Native
8 10 (4.81%) Cybercrime
9 9 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 7 (3.37%) e-Learning
10 7 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (2.40%) Public Cloud
12 4 (1.92%) FMCG
13 3 (1.44%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (1.44%) Equities
13 3 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (0.96%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.69%) Linux
2 10 (4.81%) Unix
3 6 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.40%) CentOS
4 5 (2.40%) Debian
4 5 (2.40%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (36.06%) Analytics
2 69 (33.17%) AI
3 57 (27.40%) CI/CD
4 55 (26.44%) Data Pipeline
5 49 (23.56%) Data Engineering
6 47 (22.60%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (22.60%) ETL
6 47 (22.60%) Software Engineering
7 44 (21.15%) Data Governance
8 43 (20.67%) Computer Science
9 42 (20.19%) Machine Learning
10 41 (19.71%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (19.23%) Data Science
12 37 (17.79%) Agile
12 37 (17.79%) Data Modelling
13 36 (17.31%) DevOps
14 35 (16.83%) Data Analytics
15 34 (16.35%) Fintech
16 31 (14.90%) Roadmaps
17 29 (13.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 110 (52.88%) Python
2 83 (39.90%) SQL
3 52 (25.00%) Java
4 21 (10.10%) Scala
5 13 (6.25%) R
6 11 (5.29%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.37%) Bash
8 5 (2.40%) C
8 5 (2.40%) C#
9 4 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.44%) C++
10 3 (1.44%) Google Apps Script
10 3 (1.44%) MATLAB
10 3 (1.44%) Tcl
11 2 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.96%) Perl
11 2 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.48%) Go
12 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (29.33%) Degree
2 30 (14.42%) Master's Degree
3 23 (11.06%) ACCA
4 22 (10.58%) Security Cleared
5 20 (9.62%) HND
6 17 (8.17%) SC Cleared
7 14 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.81%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.40%) MBA
10 4 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.06%) IFRS
2 20 (9.62%) Data Quality
3 14 (6.73%) GAAP
4 13 (6.25%) SLA
5 8 (3.85%) QA
6 7 (3.37%) GDPR
7 5 (2.40%) Accessibility
7 5 (2.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (9.13%) Docker
2 9 (4.33%) HDFS
3 5 (2.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.62%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.25%) Ansible
2 13 (6.25%) Terraform
3 8 (3.85%) EnCase
3 8 (3.85%) FTK
4 5 (2.40%) Puppet
5 3 (1.44%) Grafana
6 2 (0.96%) Kibana
6 2 (0.96%) logstash
7 1 (0.48%) Podman
7 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (20.67%) Databricks
2 18 (8.65%) Oracle
3 16 (7.69%) Google
4 11 (5.29%) Informatica
5 10 (4.81%) Talend
6 8 (3.85%) Cellebrite
7 7 (3.37%) Dell
8 5 (2.40%) BT
8 5 (2.40%) Microsoft
8 5 (2.40%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.40%) SaltStack
8 5 (2.40%) SAP
9 2 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.96%) EMC
9 2 (0.96%) HP
9 2 (0.96%) IBM
9 2 (0.96%) Nuix
10 1 (0.48%) ArcSight