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 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 358 282
Rank change year-on-year -58 -76 -158
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 205 344 505
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.71% 1.08%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.49% 3.93% 5.30%
Number of salaries quoted 94 217 322
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,800 £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £53,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% - +2.38%
75th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £103,994
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year -9.38% +0.46% -0.46%

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 5,876 8,743 9,523
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.24% 17.96% 20.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,876 4,935 7,569
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £97,058
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.43% +4.63% -4.00%

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 6 January 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 6 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
London +27 148 £80,000 -15.79% 48
North of England +7 20 £55,000 +10.00% 6
North West +10 11 £54,250 -6.87% 3
South East -20 10 £61,500 +9.33% 33
South West -24 8 £95,000 +26.67% 5
East of England +25 7 £52,500 -19.23% 14
North East +10 6 £55,000 +20.88% 1
Midlands +3 4 £65,000 -9.09% 2
East Midlands 0 3 £65,000 - 2
Yorkshire -15 3 £75,000 +192.68% 2
West Midlands +11 1 - -
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 81 (39.51%) Apache Spark
2 12 (5.85%) SAS
3 11 (5.37%) Apache
4 8 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (2.44%) IIS
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.39%) SPSS
3 4 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (4.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.98%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 81 (39.51%) AWS
1 81 (39.51%) Azure
2 43 (20.98%) Cloud Computing
3 42 (20.49%) GCP
4 21 (10.24%) Serverless
5 18 (8.78%) AWS Lambda
6 17 (8.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (7.80%) Power Platform
7 16 (7.80%) Snowflake
8 13 (6.34%) Amazon EMR
8 13 (6.34%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (4.39%) AWS Step Functions
9 9 (4.39%) Dropbox
10 8 (3.90%) Amazon S3
10 8 (3.90%) OpenShift
11 7 (3.41%) SaaS
12 6 (2.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (1.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) Broadband
2 4 (1.95%) Kerberos
3 3 (1.46%) AMQP
4 2 (0.98%) Internet
5 1 (0.49%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (35.12%) Hadoop
2 47 (22.93%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (18.05%) NoSQL
4 29 (14.15%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (9.27%) SQL Server
6 18 (8.78%) MongoDB
7 16 (7.80%) Apache Hive
7 16 (7.80%) Neo4j
7 16 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (7.32%) Power BI
9 14 (6.83%) DynamoDB
9 14 (6.83%) Relational Database
9 14 (6.83%) Tableau
10 12 (5.85%) Data Lake
10 12 (5.85%) Metadata
11 11 (5.37%) MySQL
11 11 (5.37%) Pentaho
12 10 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
12 10 (4.88%) DataStage
12 10 (4.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (3.90%) Git
2 5 (2.44%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.46%) JIRA
3 3 (1.46%) MLflow
4 2 (0.98%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.49%) GitLab
5 1 (0.49%) JMeter
5 1 (0.49%) JUnit
5 1 (0.49%) Selenium
5 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.49%) WebDriver
General
1 90 (43.90%) Social Skills
2 86 (41.95%) Finance
3 43 (20.98%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.07%) Marketing
5 33 (16.10%) Law
6 25 (12.20%) Banking
7 24 (11.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (7.80%) Financial Institution
9 9 (4.39%) Legal
10 7 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (2.93%) Aerospace
12 5 (2.44%) Retail
13 4 (1.95%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.46%) Avionics
14 3 (1.46%) Electronics
14 3 (1.46%) Front Office
14 3 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.98%) Investment Banking
15 2 (0.98%) Manufacturing
16 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (21.46%) Data Engineer
2 28 (13.66%) Senior
3 21 (10.24%) Accountant
3 21 (10.24%) Financial Accountant
4 20 (9.76%) Architect
4 20 (9.76%) Developer
4 20 (9.76%) Lecturer
5 18 (8.78%) Lead
6 16 (7.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 13 (6.34%) Data Architect
7 13 (6.34%) Python Developer
8 10 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) AWS Data Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) AWS Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Product Lead
10 7 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.41%) Forensic Manager
11 6 (2.93%) Analyst
11 6 (2.93%) Azure Data Engineer
11 6 (2.93%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (22.93%) Kafka
2 17 (8.29%) REST
3 11 (5.37%) TensorFlow
4 10 (4.88%) Spark Streaming
5 8 (3.90%) boto
5 8 (3.90%) PySpark
5 8 (3.90%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.93%) NumPy
6 6 (2.93%) Pandas
6 6 (2.93%) scikit-learn
7 5 (2.44%) LDAP
7 5 (2.44%) OAuth
7 5 (2.44%) OAuth2
7 5 (2.44%) Play Framework
8 4 (1.95%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.95%) React
8 4 (1.95%) Spring
8 4 (1.95%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.46%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.46%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.56%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (12.20%) IoT
3 22 (10.73%) Product Ownership
4 21 (10.24%) Social Network
5 17 (8.29%) Algorithms
6 13 (6.34%) Management Information System
7 10 (4.88%) Cloud Native
7 10 (4.88%) e-Learning
7 10 (4.88%) FMCG
7 10 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (4.39%) Cybercrime
9 8 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (2.44%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.46%) Distributed Architecture
11 3 (1.46%) Equities
11 3 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.98%) Clustering
12 2 (0.98%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.98%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.34%) Linux
2 11 (5.37%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.46%) CentOS
4 3 (1.46%) Debian
4 3 (1.46%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (41.95%) Analytics
2 66 (32.20%) AI
3 63 (30.73%) Data Pipeline
4 57 (27.80%) ETL
5 56 (27.32%) CI/CD
6 55 (26.83%) Data Engineering
7 52 (25.37%) Data Modelling
8 50 (24.39%) Data Governance
9 49 (23.90%) Machine Learning
10 44 (21.46%) Data Analytics
11 43 (20.98%) Business Intelligence
11 43 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (20.49%) Data Science
13 40 (19.51%) DevOps
14 38 (18.54%) Software Engineering
15 37 (18.05%) Computer Science
16 34 (16.59%) Agile
16 34 (16.59%) Decision-Making
17 31 (15.12%) Fintech
18 29 (14.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 103 (50.24%) Python
2 88 (42.93%) SQL
3 52 (25.37%) Java
4 25 (12.20%) Scala
5 14 (6.83%) R
6 7 (3.41%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.44%) C
8 4 (1.95%) Bash
8 4 (1.95%) C#
9 3 (1.46%) Google Apps Script
9 3 (1.46%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.46%) Tcl
9 3 (1.46%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.98%) C++
10 2 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.98%) Perl
11 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (28.78%) Degree
2 33 (16.10%) Master's Degree
3 21 (10.24%) ACCA
4 20 (9.76%) HND
5 17 (8.29%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (6.34%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.93%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.44%) MBA
10 4 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.46%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.22%) Data Quality
2 21 (10.24%) IFRS
3 19 (9.27%) GAAP
4 14 (6.83%) QA
5 10 (4.88%) GDPR
6 5 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (2.44%) SLA
7 4 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) CDISC
8 1 (0.49%) DICOM
8 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.49%) HL7
8 1 (0.49%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (9.27%) Docker
2 10 (4.88%) HDFS
3 5 (2.44%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.98%) Firmware
5 1 (0.49%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 18 (8.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.88%) Ansible
3 9 (4.39%) Terraform
4 7 (3.41%) EnCase
4 7 (3.41%) FTK
5 3 (1.46%) Puppet
6 2 (0.98%) Grafana
6 2 (0.98%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.49%) Kibana
7 1 (0.49%) logstash
7 1 (0.49%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (20.49%) Databricks
2 21 (10.24%) Oracle
3 16 (7.80%) Google
4 12 (5.85%) Informatica
5 11 (5.37%) SAP
5 11 (5.37%) Talend
6 7 (3.41%) Cellebrite
6 7 (3.41%) Dell
6 7 (3.41%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.44%) BT
8 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.46%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.46%) SaltStack
9 2 (0.98%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.98%) EMC
9 2 (0.98%) HP
9 2 (0.98%) IBM
9 2 (0.98%) Nuix
10 1 (0.49%) ArcSight