Big Data Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Big Data
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 57 85
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 -13
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 7 14 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.96% 2.54% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 9.21% 8.59% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £54,750 -
25th Percentile £45,000 £61,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £77,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% +82.35% -26.09%
75th Percentile £55,000 £91,875 £63,125
90th Percentile - £98,250 £71,750
South West median annual salary £70,000 £36,563 £75,000
% change year-on-year +91.45% -51.25% +13.21%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 76 163 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 10.45% 29.53% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 48 35 114
10th Percentile - £43,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £50,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £91,750 £95,000 £65,000
South West median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Big Data
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Big Data

Big Data
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Gloucester -2 3 - -
Filton - 3 - -
Big Data
South West

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Google Workspace
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (14.29%) Cloudera CDH
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (42.86%) Avionics
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
1 3 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Vue
2 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
2 2 (28.57%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (28.57%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (28.57%) React
3 1 (14.29%) gRPC
3 1 (14.29%) Material-UI
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) OpenAPI
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) REST
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) CentOS
1 1 (14.29%) Debian
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) AI
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Data Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Innovative Thinking
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Statistics
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
3 3 (42.86%) Bash
3 3 (42.86%) C
3 3 (42.86%) Google Apps Script
3 3 (42.86%) MATLAB
3 3 (42.86%) Tcl
4 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 1 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (14.29%) Go
5 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Grafana
2 2 (28.57%) Kibana
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) logstash
3 1 (14.29%) Podman
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) SaltStack