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 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 256 212
Rank change year-on-year +23 -44 -101
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 151 189 254
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.10% 1.19% 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.27% 5.06% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 68 129 176
10th Percentile £63,750 £59,750 £61,250
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £77,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £95,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.16% +1.33% +8.70%
75th Percentile £133,125 £120,000 £110,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £140,000 £140,000
England median annual salary £71,750 £80,000 £80,500
% change year-on-year -10.31% -0.62% +3.02%

All Database & 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 2,408 3,734 3,809
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 17.58% 23.56% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,556 2,303 3,035
10th Percentile £43,563 £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,750 £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 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £121,250 £132,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 31 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 31 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 +24 26 £70,000 -25.93% 41
West London -3 3 £73,250 +46.50% 2
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 67 (44.37%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.28%) SAS
3 6 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.65%) Apache
5 1 (0.66%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (0.66%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (11.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.96%) SPSS
3 4 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (5.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.32%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 58 (38.41%) AWS
2 56 (37.09%) Azure
3 31 (20.53%) Cloud Computing
4 29 (19.21%) GCP
5 15 (9.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.27%) Power Platform
7 12 (7.95%) Amazon EMR
7 12 (7.95%) Amazon Kinesis
7 12 (7.95%) Serverless
8 11 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.28%) Snowflake
9 9 (5.96%) Dropbox
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Step Functions
11 5 (3.31%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.31%) OpenShift
12 4 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.65%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (2.65%) SaaS
13 3 (1.99%) Dataform
13 3 (1.99%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.65%) Broadband
1 4 (2.65%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.66%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (32.45%) Hadoop
2 43 (28.48%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (17.88%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (15.89%) NoSQL
5 18 (11.92%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (9.93%) Apache Hive
7 14 (9.27%) Relational Database
7 14 (9.27%) SQL Server
8 13 (8.61%) DynamoDB
8 13 (8.61%) MongoDB
8 13 (8.61%) Power BI
9 12 (7.95%) Metadata
9 12 (7.95%) MySQL
9 12 (7.95%) Pentaho
10 11 (7.28%) Apache Cassandra
10 11 (7.28%) DataStage
10 11 (7.28%) Neo4j
10 11 (7.28%) RDBMS
11 9 (5.96%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (5.96%) EDRMS
Development Applications
1 7 (4.64%) Git
2 5 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.99%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.32%) JMeter
4 2 (1.32%) JUnit
4 2 (1.32%) MLflow
4 2 (1.32%) Selenium
4 2 (1.32%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.66%) Cucumber
General
1 80 (52.98%) Finance
2 74 (49.01%) Social Skills
3 29 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (19.21%) Law
4 25 (16.56%) Marketing
5 20 (13.25%) Banking
5 20 (13.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (11.26%) Financial Institution
7 9 (5.96%) Legal
8 4 (2.65%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.65%) Retail
9 3 (1.99%) Front Office
10 2 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (17.88%) Data Engineer
2 18 (11.92%) Senior
3 17 (11.26%) Lead
4 16 (10.60%) Developer
5 15 (9.93%) Accountant
5 15 (9.93%) Architect
5 15 (9.93%) Financial Accountant
5 15 (9.93%) Lecturer
6 13 (8.61%) Python Developer
7 12 (7.95%) Senior Data Engineer
8 11 (7.28%) Data Architect
8 11 (7.28%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (5.96%) Product Lead
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Data Engineer
10 8 (5.30%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (4.64%) Forensic Manager
12 6 (3.97%) Junior
13 4 (2.65%) Analyst
13 4 (2.65%) Data Analyst
13 4 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (29.14%) Kafka
2 15 (9.93%) REST
3 10 (6.62%) Spark Streaming
4 8 (5.30%) boto
5 7 (4.64%) TensorFlow
6 6 (3.97%) PySpark
7 5 (3.31%) LDAP
7 5 (3.31%) OAuth
7 5 (3.31%) OAuth2
8 4 (2.65%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.99%) JDBC
9 3 (1.99%) JSON
9 3 (1.99%) ODBC
9 3 (1.99%) scikit-learn
10 2 (1.32%) Apache Thrift
10 2 (1.32%) NumPy
10 2 (1.32%) Pandas
11 1 (0.66%) RESTful
11 1 (0.66%) SciPy
11 1 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.87%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (15.23%) Product Ownership
3 19 (12.58%) IoT
4 15 (9.93%) Social Network
5 14 (9.27%) Management Information System
6 11 (7.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (6.62%) e-Learning
7 10 (6.62%) FMCG
8 9 (5.96%) Cybercrime
9 8 (5.30%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (3.97%) Algorithms
10 6 (3.97%) Cloud Native
11 4 (2.65%) Public Cloud
12 3 (1.99%) Equities
12 3 (1.99%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (1.32%) Clustering
13 2 (1.32%) Distributed Architecture
13 2 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (1.32%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.62%) Unix
2 7 (4.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (47.68%) Analytics
2 50 (33.11%) Data Modelling
3 49 (32.45%) Data Pipeline
4 45 (29.80%) ETL
5 43 (28.48%) CI/CD
5 43 (28.48%) Data Governance
6 42 (27.81%) Business Intelligence
7 41 (27.15%) Data Engineering
8 39 (25.83%) AI
9 38 (25.17%) Data Analytics
10 35 (23.18%) Machine Learning
11 32 (21.19%) Fintech
12 31 (20.53%) Software Engineering
13 30 (19.87%) Data Science
14 26 (17.22%) DevOps
15 24 (15.89%) Decision-Making
15 24 (15.89%) SDLC
16 23 (15.23%) Information Security
16 23 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
17 21 (13.91%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 71 (47.02%) Python
2 64 (42.38%) SQL
3 38 (25.17%) Java
4 14 (9.27%) Scala
5 5 (3.31%) R
6 2 (1.32%) C
6 2 (1.32%) Perl
7 1 (0.66%) Bash
7 1 (0.66%) C++
7 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.66%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (24.50%) Degree
2 21 (13.91%) Master's Degree
3 15 (9.93%) ACCA
3 15 (9.93%) HND
4 7 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.32%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.26%) Data Quality
2 15 (9.93%) IFRS
3 14 (9.27%) GAAP
3 14 (9.27%) QA
4 9 (5.96%) GDPR
5 4 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.65%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.30%) HDFS
2 6 (3.97%) Docker
3 5 (3.31%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.66%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.64%) EnCase
2 7 (4.64%) FTK
3 5 (3.31%) Ansible
4 4 (2.65%) Terraform
5 2 (1.32%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.66%) Grafana
6 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (19.21%) Databricks
2 17 (11.26%) Oracle
3 12 (7.95%) Informatica
3 12 (7.95%) Talend
4 11 (7.28%) SAP
5 7 (4.64%) Cellebrite
5 7 (4.64%) Dell
6 6 (3.97%) Google
7 3 (1.99%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.99%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.32%) EMC
8 2 (1.32%) HP
8 2 (1.32%) IBM
8 2 (1.32%) Nuix