Big Data Jobs in London

Big Data
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 240 93
Rank change year-on-year -52 -147 -6
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 101 317 1,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.80% 1.32% 3.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.75% 6.02% 13.63%
Number of salaries quoted 52 244 515
10th Percentile £45,800 £57,500 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £75,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £93,475 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -25.11% +16.42% -2.67%
75th Percentile £106,250 £118,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £119,500 £143,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £61,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.13% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,693 5,268 8,187
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.22% 21.97% 24.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,767 3,872 5,677
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,750 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £112,500 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £136,750 £128,750 £117,236
England 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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in London

Big Data
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in London

Big Data
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
South London +10 11 - - 1
Central London +11 9 £105,000 +9.09% 9
West London - 4 £65,000 - 29
North London - 3 - -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 31 (30.69%) Apache Spark
2 8 (7.92%) Apache
3 7 (6.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.99%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.99%) Luigi
4 1 (0.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (16.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.99%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.99%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 51 (50.50%) AWS
2 37 (36.63%) Azure
3 22 (21.78%) GCP
3 22 (21.78%) Snowflake
4 17 (16.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 13 (12.87%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (10.89%) Power Platform
7 10 (9.90%) Serverless
8 8 (7.92%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (5.94%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (4.95%) Amazon S3
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.96%) Azure Functions
11 4 (3.96%) dbt
12 3 (2.97%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (2.97%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.97%) GitHub
13 2 (1.98%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (19.80%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (18.81%) NoSQL
3 16 (15.84%) Hadoop
4 14 (13.86%) GIS
5 13 (12.87%) Data Lake
6 11 (10.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (10.89%) Power BI
7 9 (8.91%) BigQuery
8 8 (7.92%) Metadata
8 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
9 6 (5.94%) Delta Lake
10 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
11 4 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (3.96%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (3.96%) MongoDB
12 3 (2.97%) Spark SQL
12 3 (2.97%) Tableau
13 2 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.87%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.95%) JMeter
3 5 (4.95%) Selenium
4 4 (3.96%) Locust
4 4 (3.96%) Postman
4 4 (3.96%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.99%) GitLab
5 1 (0.99%) JIRA
5 1 (0.99%) JUnit
5 1 (0.99%) kappa
5 1 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.99%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.99%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (45.54%) Analytical Skills
1 46 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.78%) Marketing
3 21 (20.79%) Finance
4 20 (19.80%) Advertising
5 16 (15.84%) Law
6 14 (13.86%) Banking
7 12 (11.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.98%) Front Office
10 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.99%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.99%) Games
11 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (30.69%) Senior
2 21 (20.79%) Senior Manager
3 20 (19.80%) Lead
4 19 (18.81%) Account Manager
4 19 (18.81%) Senior Account Manager
5 15 (14.85%) Analytics Consultant
5 15 (14.85%) Consultant
6 14 (13.86%) Data Engineer
6 14 (13.86%) GIS Consultant
6 14 (13.86%) Spatial Consultant
7 13 (12.87%) Software Engineer
8 12 (11.88%) Architect
9 7 (6.93%) Python Engineer
9 7 (6.93%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) AWS Software Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.94%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.95%) Analyst
11 5 (4.95%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.82%) Kafka
2 9 (8.91%) PySpark
3 7 (6.93%) pytest
3 7 (6.93%) YAML
4 6 (5.94%) Spring
5 4 (3.96%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.96%) REST
5 4 (3.96%) Web Services
6 2 (1.98%) CSS
6 2 (1.98%) CSS3
6 2 (1.98%) gRPC
6 2 (1.98%) HTML5
6 2 (1.98%) Material-UI
6 2 (1.98%) Node.js
6 2 (1.98%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.98%) React
6 2 (1.98%) Spark Streaming
6 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.98%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (1.98%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.81%) Digital Media
1 19 (18.81%) Marketing Technology
2 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
3 11 (10.89%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.92%) Data Structures
5 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
5 6 (5.94%) FMCG
5 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.95%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.96%) Derivative
7 4 (3.96%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.98%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.98%) Replication
9 2 (1.98%) Social Media
9 2 (1.98%) Sports Betting
10 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.98%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (43.56%) Artificial Intelligence
2 42 (41.58%) Analytics
3 41 (40.59%) ETL
4 33 (32.67%) CI/CD
4 33 (32.67%) Visualisation
5 30 (29.70%) Machine Learning
6 29 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (27.72%) Data Modelling
8 27 (26.73%) DevOps
9 24 (23.76%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (23.76%) Project Management
10 21 (20.79%) Data Engineering
10 21 (20.79%) Strategic Thinking
11 20 (19.80%) Agile
11 20 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (19.80%) Process Improvement
12 19 (18.81%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (18.81%) Digital Marketing
12 19 (18.81%) Marketing Strategy
12 19 (18.81%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (57.43%) SQL
2 57 (56.44%) Python
3 21 (20.79%) Java
4 12 (11.88%) Scala
5 6 (5.94%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.95%) C#
7 4 (3.96%) Kotlin
8 3 (2.97%) C++
8 3 (2.97%) R
9 2 (1.98%) Bash
9 2 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.98%) Go
9 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.99%) C
10 1 (0.99%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.99%) Perl
10 1 (0.99%) PHP
10 1 (0.99%) Rust
10 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (12.87%) Degree
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.94%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.94%) Azure Certification
3 6 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.95%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (1.98%) PhD
6 2 (1.98%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.99%) CBAP
7 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.99%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.94%) GDPR
3 4 (3.96%) HIPAA
3 4 (3.96%) QA
4 3 (2.97%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.98%) NIST
6 1 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.99%) MiFID
System Software
1 22 (21.78%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 23 (22.77%) Kubernetes
2 22 (21.78%) Terraform
3 1 (0.99%) Bugsnag
3 1 (0.99%) Grafana
3 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 31 (30.69%) Databricks
2 28 (27.72%) Microsoft
3 14 (13.86%) Alteryx
3 14 (13.86%) Google
4 3 (2.97%) Splunk
5 2 (1.98%) Informatica
5 2 (1.98%) Talend
5 2 (1.98%) YouTube
6 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle
6 1 (0.99%) Vertica
6 1 (0.99%) Workday