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 18 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 208 81
Rank change year-on-year -105 -127 +2
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 133 323 1,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.84% 1.51% 3.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.57% 7.07% 15.27%
Number of salaries quoted 83 227 674
10th Percentile £55,500 £53,750 £55,000
25th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £92,169 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% +5.34% +2.94%
75th Percentile £113,740 £110,000 £108,750
90th Percentile £138,000 £137,500 £118,750
England median annual salary £71,991 £80,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -10.01% +3.23% -

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 3,722 4,569 10,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 23.56% 21.42% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,076 3,608 6,927
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.24% -3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £115,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.04% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 -7 29 £96,000 -4.00% 22
South London -11 8 £85,000 -32.00%
West London - 1 £65,000 - 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 32 (24.06%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.26%) Apache Solr
2 7 (5.26%) nginx
3 6 (4.51%) Apache
4 2 (1.50%) Confluence
4 2 (1.50%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.75%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.51%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.75%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.85%) AWS
2 52 (39.10%) GCP
3 50 (37.59%) Azure
4 20 (15.04%) Power Platform
4 20 (15.04%) Snowflake
5 13 (9.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 12 (9.02%) Serverless
7 11 (8.27%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (7.52%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.77%) Amazon S3
10 8 (6.02%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.51%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (3.76%) GitHub
13 4 (3.01%) dbt
13 4 (3.01%) Stackdriver
13 4 (3.01%) WhatsApp
14 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
14 3 (2.26%) SaaS
15 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (1.50%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Wireless
2 7 (5.26%) Network Security
3 5 (3.76%) Broadband
4 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (24.81%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (21.80%) Data Lake
2 29 (21.80%) NoSQL
3 20 (15.04%) BigQuery
3 20 (15.04%) Power BI
4 17 (12.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (12.03%) Hadoop
6 10 (7.52%) Tableau
7 7 (5.26%) DynamoDB
7 7 (5.26%) MySQL
8 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.76%) Data Mining
10 4 (3.01%) GIS
10 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
11 3 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (2.26%) Flink
11 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (1.50%) Dremio
12 2 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (10.53%) Git
2 6 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.50%) JUnit
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.75%) Gradle
4 1 (0.75%) JMeter
4 1 (0.75%) Selenium
4 1 (0.75%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 40 (30.08%) Finance
3 25 (18.80%) Banking
3 25 (18.80%) Marketing
4 20 (15.04%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.27%) Retail
6 10 (7.52%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (7.52%) Telecoms
7 9 (6.77%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (4.51%) Front Office
8 6 (4.51%) Games
8 6 (4.51%) Law
8 6 (4.51%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.76%) Health Technology
9 5 (3.76%) Tech for Good
10 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.01%) Local Government
11 3 (2.26%) Advertising
12 2 (1.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Architect
2 33 (24.81%) Senior
3 24 (18.05%) Data Engineer
4 21 (15.79%) Data Architect
5 19 (14.29%) Lead
6 15 (11.28%) Python Engineer
7 14 (10.53%) Consultant
8 13 (9.77%) Software Engineer
9 11 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (7.52%) Developer
10 10 (7.52%) Python Data Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) AWS Data Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) AWS Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) Senior Data Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) Analyst
13 7 (5.26%) Big Data Architect
13 7 (5.26%) Presales Consultant
13 7 (5.26%) Senior Consultant
13 7 (5.26%) Solutions Consultant
14 6 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.29%) Kafka
2 7 (5.26%) jQuery
3 6 (4.51%) Apache Beam
3 6 (4.51%) PyTorch
3 6 (4.51%) Spring
3 6 (4.51%) Spring Boot
3 6 (4.51%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.76%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.01%) PySpark
6 3 (2.26%) Pandas
6 3 (2.26%) React
7 2 (1.50%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.50%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.50%) Flask
7 2 (1.50%) Google JAX
7 2 (1.50%) gRPC
7 2 (1.50%) Hugging Face
7 2 (1.50%) NumPy
7 2 (1.50%) REST
7 2 (1.50%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Algorithms
4 7 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (4.51%) Blockchain
5 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.51%) IoT
6 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
6 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
6 5 (3.76%) Social Media
7 4 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.50%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.50%) Replication
10 1 (0.75%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.75%) Equities
10 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Linux
2 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.35%) Analytics
2 45 (33.83%) ETL
3 40 (30.08%) Machine Learning
4 36 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (25.56%) Software Engineering
6 31 (23.31%) Data Pipeline
6 31 (23.31%) Visualisation
7 30 (22.56%) Data Science
8 29 (21.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 28 (21.05%) Mentoring
10 26 (19.55%) Computer Science
10 26 (19.55%) Data Visualisation
11 25 (18.80%) Agile
12 24 (18.05%) Microservices
13 23 (17.29%) Data Analytics
13 23 (17.29%) Data Modelling
14 22 (16.54%) Data Engineering
15 21 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (15.04%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (15.04%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (45.86%) Python
2 56 (42.11%) SQL
3 38 (28.57%) Java
4 15 (11.28%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.52%) Go
6 8 (6.02%) Scala
7 7 (5.26%) Rust
8 4 (3.01%) Bash
9 3 (2.26%) C
9 3 (2.26%) C++
10 2 (1.50%) C#
10 2 (1.50%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.50%) R
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (31.58%) Degree
2 20 (15.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (7.52%) Master's Degree
4 7 (5.26%) APMG
4 7 (5.26%) CCIE
4 7 (5.26%) CCNP
4 7 (5.26%) CCSE
4 7 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.26%) CISM
4 7 (5.26%) CISSP
5 3 (2.26%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.26%) PhD
5 3 (2.26%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.75%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.51%) GDPR
2 3 (2.26%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) QA
4 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (7.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.50%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 13 (9.77%) Terraform
2 8 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Databricks
2 22 (16.54%) Google
3 11 (8.27%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.77%) Cisco
4 9 (6.77%) F5
4 9 (6.77%) Fortinet
5 7 (5.26%) Arista
5 7 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 7 (5.26%) Palo Alto
6 6 (4.51%) SAP
7 4 (3.01%) Cloudera
7 4 (3.01%) Informatica
7 4 (3.01%) Talend
8 2 (1.50%) Hortonworks
8 2 (1.50%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Teradata
8 2 (1.50%) Workday
9 1 (0.75%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) Palantir
9 1 (0.75%) Splunk