Big Data Jobs in England

Big Data
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 123 116
Rank change year-on-year -259 -7 +16
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 570 2,692 4,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.67% 2.89% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.78% 13.30% 11.76%
Number of salaries quoted 408 1,022 1,766
10th Percentile £43,925 £50,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,088 20,237 35,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.79% 21.71% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,400 12,641 19,245
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -150 301 £95,000 +18.32% 117
South West -33 102 £80,000 +14.29% 19
North of England -220 66 £55,000 -21.43% 25
North West -153 45 £55,000 -18.52% 16
East of England -65 37 £57,500 -11.54% 18
South East -161 37 £54,500 -22.14% 16
Midlands -135 24 £60,000 -11.11% 27
West Midlands -98 16 £62,500 - 21
North East -6 11 £42,500 -37.04%
Yorkshire -111 10 £87,500 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -47 8 £60,000 -20.00% 6
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
1 205 (35.96%) Apache Spark
2 106 (18.60%) Apache
3 72 (12.63%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (6.67%) SAS
5 17 (2.98%) Jupyter
5 17 (2.98%) nginx
6 9 (1.58%) Apache Pig
7 3 (0.53%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.35%) Confluence
8 2 (0.35%) Kinematics
8 2 (0.35%) Luigi
9 1 (0.18%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.63%) SPSS
4 6 (1.05%) Trello
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.05%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.70%) Primavera
3 4 (0.70%) Relativity
4 3 (0.53%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.18%) Magento
6 1 (0.18%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 225 (39.47%) AWS
2 223 (39.12%) Azure
3 116 (20.35%) GCP
4 76 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 72 (12.63%) Serverless
6 63 (11.05%) Snowflake
7 52 (9.12%) OpenShift
8 43 (7.54%) SaaS
9 42 (7.37%) AWS Lambda
10 39 (6.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 36 (6.32%) dbt
12 32 (5.61%) GitHub
13 31 (5.44%) Azure Data Factory
14 30 (5.26%) Amazon S3
15 28 (4.91%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (4.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 25 (4.39%) Amazon Kinesis
17 21 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
18 19 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
19 17 (2.98%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 25 (4.39%) Wireless
2 24 (4.21%) AMQP
3 13 (2.28%) Firewall
4 7 (1.23%) Internet
5 4 (0.70%) RS-232
6 3 (0.53%) DNS
6 3 (0.53%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (0.53%) iSCSI
6 3 (0.53%) LAN
6 3 (0.53%) MQTT
6 3 (0.53%) Network Security
6 3 (0.53%) SAN
6 3 (0.53%) VoIP
6 3 (0.53%) WAN
6 3 (0.53%) WebEx
7 2 (0.35%) 4G
7 2 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.35%) RFID
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (24.39%) Data Lake
2 132 (23.16%) Hadoop
3 117 (20.53%) Data Warehouse
4 76 (13.33%) NoSQL
5 68 (11.93%) Power BI
6 49 (8.60%) Relational Database
7 45 (7.89%) Tableau
8 42 (7.37%) Data Mining
9 40 (7.02%) Amazon Athena
10 38 (6.67%) SQL Server
11 33 (5.79%) BigQuery
12 31 (5.44%) Dremio
13 30 (5.26%) Apache Arrow
14 28 (4.91%) Apache Hive
15 25 (4.39%) Amazon Redshift
16 24 (4.21%) Cloudera CDH
17 22 (3.86%) Flink
18 19 (3.33%) MongoDB
18 19 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
18 19 (3.33%) Presto
Development Applications
1 52 (9.12%) Git
1 52 (9.12%) Jenkins
2 17 (2.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (2.81%) JIRA
4 9 (1.58%) JUnit
4 9 (1.58%) SonarQube
5 8 (1.40%) Checkstyle
5 8 (1.40%) CircleCI
5 8 (1.40%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.88%) MLflow
7 4 (0.70%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.70%) Subversion
7 4 (0.70%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.53%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.53%) GitLab
8 3 (0.53%) Maven
8 3 (0.53%) Selenium
9 2 (0.35%) Apache Continuum
9 2 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.35%) Spinnaker
General
1 142 (24.91%) Finance
2 137 (24.04%) Social Skills
3 81 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (11.40%) Banking
5 42 (7.37%) Retail
6 37 (6.49%) Aerospace
7 30 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (5.09%) Marketing
9 28 (4.91%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (4.56%) Legal
11 14 (2.46%) Retail Banking
12 12 (2.11%) Law
12 12 (2.11%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.75%) Games
13 10 (1.75%) Korean Language
14 9 (1.58%) Electronics
14 9 (1.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 136 (23.86%) Data Engineer
2 120 (21.05%) Senior
3 76 (13.33%) Architect
4 54 (9.47%) Big Data Engineer
4 54 (9.47%) Developer
5 49 (8.60%) Lead
5 49 (8.60%) Software Engineer
6 39 (6.84%) Data Architect
7 36 (6.32%) Analyst
8 35 (6.14%) Senior Data Engineer
9 34 (5.96%) AWS Engineer
10 30 (5.26%) Site Engineer
10 30 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 29 (5.09%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (4.74%) Data Manager
12 27 (4.74%) Data Scientist
13 26 (4.56%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 22 (3.86%) Consultant
15 18 (3.16%) Big Data Architect
16 16 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (14.56%) Kafka
2 59 (10.35%) gRPC
3 47 (8.25%) Spring Boot
4 45 (7.89%) PySpark
5 43 (7.54%) RabbitMQ
6 42 (7.37%) Spring
7 33 (5.79%) Node.js
7 33 (5.79%) React
7 33 (5.79%) REST
8 30 (5.26%) Protocol Buffers
9 29 (5.09%) .NET
10 28 (4.91%) Apache Beam
11 27 (4.74%) AngularJS
12 25 (4.39%) Apache NiFi
13 24 (4.21%) Material-UI
13 24 (4.21%) OpenAPI
13 24 (4.21%) Swagger
14 21 (3.68%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (3.16%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (8.95%) Cloud Native
2 43 (7.54%) Algorithms
3 35 (6.14%) Hedge funds
4 33 (5.79%) Data Structures
5 32 (5.61%) Management Information System
6 31 (5.44%) Clustering
7 30 (5.26%) Onboarding
8 29 (5.09%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (4.21%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
12 15 (2.63%) Cybercrime
13 14 (2.46%) IoT
14 12 (2.11%) Distributed Applications
14 12 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.93%) Cyber Defence
15 11 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
17 8 (1.40%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.74%) Linux
2 25 (4.39%) CentOS
2 25 (4.39%) Debian
2 25 (4.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 25 (4.39%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.23%) Windows
3 7 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.70%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.53%) Android
5 3 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (35.79%) Agile
2 171 (30.00%) Analytics
3 157 (27.54%) DevOps
4 144 (25.26%) Data Science
5 143 (25.09%) Machine Learning
6 129 (22.63%) Business Intelligence
7 124 (21.75%) ETL
8 119 (20.88%) Data Engineering
9 115 (20.18%) Data Modelling
10 113 (19.82%) CI/CD
11 106 (18.60%) Data Pipeline
12 105 (18.42%) Artificial Intelligence
13 99 (17.37%) Computer Science
14 94 (16.49%) Software Engineering
15 87 (15.26%) Visualisation
16 85 (14.91%) Problem-Solving
17 79 (13.86%) Microservices
18 73 (12.81%) Containerisation
19 72 (12.63%) Data Analytics
20 71 (12.46%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 311 (54.56%) Python
2 244 (42.81%) SQL
3 166 (29.12%) Java
4 82 (14.39%) JavaScript
5 55 (9.65%) Scala
6 51 (8.95%) Go
7 49 (8.60%) R
8 44 (7.72%) C#
9 20 (3.51%) Bash
10 19 (3.33%) Shell Script
11 13 (2.28%) C
12 12 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.40%) C++
14 8 (1.40%) Ruby
14 8 (1.40%) VB
15 6 (1.05%) PHP
16 5 (0.88%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.88%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.70%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 164 (28.77%) Degree
2 87 (15.26%) Security Cleared
3 55 (9.65%) DV Cleared
3 55 (9.65%) SC Cleared
4 48 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (7.72%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (1.58%) PhD
8 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.40%) DBS Check
9 6 (1.05%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.05%) IIBA
10 4 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.70%) CIMA
11 3 (0.53%) CISM
11 3 (0.53%) CISSP
11 3 (0.53%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.53%) MBA
12 2 (0.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.21%) GDPR
3 16 (2.81%) QA
4 11 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.18%) GMP
6 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 75 (13.16%) Docker
2 19 (3.33%) HDFS
3 6 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.53%) vSphere
5 2 (0.35%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) IAG
6 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.18%) KVM
6 1 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 133 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 110 (19.30%) Terraform
3 65 (11.40%) Ansible
4 48 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 32 (5.61%) Puppet
6 17 (2.98%) Grafana
6 17 (2.98%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.35%) Kibana
7 2 (0.35%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.35%) Podman
8 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
8 1 (0.18%) Nagios
8 1 (0.18%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 98 (17.19%) Databricks
2 97 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 49 (8.60%) Google
4 24 (4.21%) Red Hat
4 24 (4.21%) SaltStack
5 15 (2.63%) Cloudera
6 12 (2.11%) Oracle
7 11 (1.93%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.93%) Teradata
8 9 (1.58%) VMware
9 8 (1.40%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.40%) SAP
9 8 (1.40%) YouTube
10 4 (0.70%) Citrix
10 4 (0.70%) Intapp
10 4 (0.70%) Splunk
11 3 (0.53%) CA
11 3 (0.53%) Facebook
11 3 (0.53%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.53%) Mitel