Big Data Job Trends in London

Big Data
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 245 213
Rank change year-on-year +21 -32 -95
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 159 213 260
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.20% 1.31% 1.45%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.54% 5.47% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 68 147 181
10th Percentile £63,000 £55,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £75,208
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £96,000 £91,950
Median % change year-on-year -19.27% +4.40% +8.18%
75th Percentile £133,125 £121,875 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £140,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -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 2,433 3,897 3,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.34% 23.90% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 2,465 3,105
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £59,750 £61,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £111,250 £92,500
90th Percentile £125,750 £138,750 £114,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +6.56% -2.40%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in London

Big Data
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in London over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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
Central London +38 29 £68,750 -27.25% 8
West London +2 3 £73,250 +62.78% 1
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 73 (45.91%) Apache Spark
2 10 (6.29%) SAS
3 7 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.14%) Apache
5 3 (1.89%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (12.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.66%) SPSS
3 3 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (7.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.26%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 61 (38.36%) AWS
2 60 (37.74%) Azure
3 33 (20.75%) Cloud Computing
4 31 (19.50%) GCP
5 18 (11.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (9.43%) Serverless
7 14 (8.81%) Amazon Kinesis
8 13 (8.18%) Power Platform
9 12 (7.55%) Amazon EMR
10 11 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
10 11 (6.92%) Snowflake
11 9 (5.66%) Dropbox
12 8 (5.03%) AWS Step Functions
13 5 (3.14%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.52%) Amazon S3
14 4 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
14 4 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.52%) Azure Functions
14 4 (2.52%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (2.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) Kerberos
2 3 (1.89%) Broadband
3 2 (1.26%) Internet
4 1 (0.63%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (33.96%) Hadoop
2 46 (28.93%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (20.13%) NoSQL
4 31 (19.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (10.69%) SQL Server
7 15 (9.43%) Metadata
8 14 (8.81%) Apache Hive
8 14 (8.81%) Relational Database
9 13 (8.18%) DynamoDB
9 13 (8.18%) MongoDB
10 12 (7.55%) MySQL
10 12 (7.55%) Pentaho
10 12 (7.55%) Power BI
11 11 (6.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 11 (6.92%) DataStage
11 11 (6.92%) Neo4j
11 11 (6.92%) RDBMS
12 9 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
12 9 (5.66%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Git
1 7 (4.40%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.89%) JIRA
3 2 (1.26%) CircleCI
3 2 (1.26%) JMeter
3 2 (1.26%) JUnit
3 2 (1.26%) MLflow
3 2 (1.26%) Selenium
3 2 (1.26%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
General
1 84 (52.83%) Finance
2 78 (49.06%) Social Skills
3 38 (23.90%) Law
4 36 (22.64%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (14.47%) Marketing
6 20 (12.58%) Financial Institution
6 20 (12.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (11.95%) Banking
8 9 (5.66%) Legal
9 3 (1.89%) Front Office
9 3 (1.89%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.89%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.89%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (18.24%) Data Engineer
2 20 (12.58%) Senior
3 19 (11.95%) Lead
4 17 (10.69%) Accountant
4 17 (10.69%) Architect
4 17 (10.69%) Financial Accountant
5 15 (9.43%) Developer
5 15 (9.43%) Lecturer
5 15 (9.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 12 (7.55%) Product Lead
6 12 (7.55%) Python Developer
7 11 (6.92%) Data Architect
7 11 (6.92%) Principal Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Junior
9 8 (5.03%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (5.03%) AWS Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Forensic Manager
11 6 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.89%) Analyst
12 3 (1.89%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (32.08%) Kafka
2 14 (8.81%) REST
3 10 (6.29%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (5.03%) boto
4 8 (5.03%) PySpark
5 7 (4.40%) TensorFlow
6 5 (3.14%) LDAP
6 5 (3.14%) OAuth
6 5 (3.14%) OAuth2
6 5 (3.14%) PyTorch
7 4 (2.52%) scikit-learn
8 3 (1.89%) Apache Beam
8 3 (1.89%) Django
8 3 (1.89%) JDBC
8 3 (1.89%) JSON
8 3 (1.89%) ODBC
8 3 (1.89%) React
9 2 (1.26%) Apache Thrift
9 2 (1.26%) NumPy
9 2 (1.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.87%) Distributed Systems
2 27 (16.98%) Product Ownership
3 19 (11.95%) IoT
4 17 (10.69%) Social Network
5 14 (8.81%) Management Information System
6 13 (8.18%) FMCG
7 11 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (6.29%) e-Learning
9 9 (5.66%) Cybercrime
10 8 (5.03%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (3.77%) Algorithms
11 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
12 4 (2.52%) Public Cloud
13 3 (1.89%) Equities
13 3 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
14 2 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
14 2 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
14 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
14 2 (1.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.29%) Unix
2 7 (4.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (49.69%) Analytics
2 56 (35.22%) Data Modelling
3 55 (34.59%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (32.70%) ETL
5 48 (30.19%) CI/CD
6 47 (29.56%) Data Engineering
7 45 (28.30%) Data Governance
8 44 (27.67%) Data Analytics
9 41 (25.79%) AI
9 41 (25.79%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (22.64%) Machine Learning
11 34 (21.38%) DevOps
12 32 (20.13%) Data Science
13 31 (19.50%) Fintech
13 31 (19.50%) Software Engineering
14 27 (16.98%) Decision-Making
15 26 (16.35%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (15.72%) SDLC
17 22 (13.84%) Information Security
18 21 (13.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 70 (44.03%) Python
2 67 (42.14%) SQL
3 39 (24.53%) Java
4 14 (8.81%) Scala
5 5 (3.14%) R
6 2 (1.26%) C
6 2 (1.26%) Perl
7 1 (0.63%) Bash
7 1 (0.63%) C++
7 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.63%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.63%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (23.27%) Degree
2 21 (13.21%) Master's Degree
3 17 (10.69%) ACCA
4 15 (9.43%) HND
5 8 (5.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 17 (10.69%) GAAP
2 17 (10.69%) QA
3 14 (8.81%) IFRS
4 9 (5.66%) GDPR
5 3 (1.89%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.26%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.03%) HDFS
2 7 (4.40%) Docker
3 5 (3.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.40%) EnCase
2 7 (4.40%) FTK
3 6 (3.77%) Terraform
4 5 (3.14%) Ansible
5 2 (1.26%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.63%) Grafana
6 1 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (22.01%) Databricks
2 17 (10.69%) Oracle
3 14 (8.81%) SAP
4 12 (7.55%) Informatica
4 12 (7.55%) Talend
5 7 (4.40%) Cellebrite
5 7 (4.40%) Dell
6 5 (3.14%) Google
7 3 (1.89%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.89%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.26%) EMC
8 2 (1.26%) HP
8 2 (1.26%) IBM
8 2 (1.26%) Nuix