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 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 243 97
Rank change year-on-year -50 -146 -8
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 115 324 1,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.89% 1.31% 3.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.15% 5.96% 13.60%
Number of salaries quoted 53 252 494
10th Percentile £45,850 £57,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £74,688 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £90,000 £80,294
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.09% -2.67%
75th Percentile £105,000 £118,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £119,000 £143,750 £116,750
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 2,774 5,433 7,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 21.53% 21.92% 24.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,790 3,960 5,493
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +3.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £110,000 £100,000 £97,290
90th Percentile £135,000 £136,250 £117,500
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 14 June 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 June 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 +13 11 - - 4
Central London +14 9 £105,000 +10.53% 125
West London +25 4 £65,000 +23.81% 4
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 36 (31.30%) Apache Spark
2 11 (9.57%) Apache
3 9 (7.83%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Synapse
4 1 (0.87%) Luigi
4 1 (0.87%) nginx
4 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (14.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (54.78%) AWS
2 40 (34.78%) Azure
3 24 (20.87%) GCP
3 24 (20.87%) Snowflake
4 18 (15.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (10.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (10.43%) Serverless
6 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.96%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (6.96%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (6.09%) Amazon S3
8 7 (6.09%) dbt
9 6 (5.22%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (4.35%) GitHub
11 4 (3.48%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.48%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (3.48%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (3.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (21.74%) NoSQL
2 24 (20.87%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (14.78%) Hadoop
4 14 (12.17%) GIS
5 13 (11.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (10.43%) Data Lake
7 11 (9.57%) Power BI
8 10 (8.70%) BigQuery
9 9 (7.83%) Metadata
10 8 (6.96%) Apache Iceberg
10 8 (6.96%) Relational Database
11 7 (6.09%) DynamoDB
12 6 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (5.22%) Delta Lake
13 5 (4.35%) Spark SQL
14 4 (3.48%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
14 4 (3.48%) Tableau
15 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
16 2 (1.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Git
2 7 (6.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.35%) JMeter
3 5 (4.35%) Selenium
4 4 (3.48%) Locust
4 4 (3.48%) Postman
4 4 (3.48%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) JIRA
5 1 (0.87%) JUnit
5 1 (0.87%) kappa
5 1 (0.87%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.87%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.87%) WebDriver
General
1 51 (44.35%) Social Skills
2 48 (41.74%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (28.70%) Finance
4 28 (24.35%) Law
5 24 (20.87%) Marketing
6 22 (19.13%) Banking
6 22 (19.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 20 (17.39%) Advertising
8 4 (3.48%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.74%) Front Office
10 2 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.87%) Czech Language
11 1 (0.87%) Games
11 1 (0.87%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (29.57%) Senior
2 27 (23.48%) Lead
3 21 (18.26%) Senior Manager
3 21 (18.26%) Software Engineer
4 19 (16.52%) Account Manager
4 19 (16.52%) Senior Account Manager
5 15 (13.04%) Analytics Consultant
5 15 (13.04%) Consultant
6 14 (12.17%) Architect
6 14 (12.17%) Data Engineer
6 14 (12.17%) GIS Consultant
6 14 (12.17%) Spatial Consultant
7 13 (11.30%) Python Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) AWS Software Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) Java Engineer
8 12 (10.43%) Java Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Lead Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Python Software Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (17.39%) Kafka
2 10 (8.70%) Spring
3 9 (7.83%) PySpark
4 8 (6.96%) Web Services
5 7 (6.09%) pytest
5 7 (6.09%) YAML
6 6 (5.22%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.22%) REST
7 4 (3.48%) Bootstrap
7 4 (3.48%) CSS
7 4 (3.48%) CSS3
7 4 (3.48%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.48%) HTML
7 4 (3.48%) HTML5
7 4 (3.48%) Material-UI
7 4 (3.48%) React
7 4 (3.48%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (3.48%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (3.48%) Vue
8 2 (1.74%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.52%) Digital Media
1 19 (16.52%) Distributed Systems
1 19 (16.52%) Marketing Technology
2 17 (14.78%) Cloud Native
3 10 (8.70%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.96%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.96%) Derivative
4 8 (6.96%) Equity Derivative
5 7 (6.09%) FMCG
5 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
5 7 (6.09%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.74%) Replication
6 2 (1.74%) Social Media
6 2 (1.74%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.87%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.87%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (44.35%) Artificial Intelligence
2 47 (40.87%) ETL
3 44 (38.26%) Analytics
4 40 (34.78%) CI/CD
5 39 (33.91%) Machine Learning
6 37 (32.17%) Visualisation
7 35 (30.43%) Data Modelling
8 34 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (28.70%) DevOps
10 28 (24.35%) Data Pipeline
10 28 (24.35%) Software Engineering
11 27 (23.48%) Agile
12 25 (21.74%) Project Management
13 23 (20.00%) Data Engineering
14 21 (18.26%) Business Intelligence
14 21 (18.26%) Strategic Thinking
15 20 (17.39%) Process Improvement
16 19 (16.52%) Data Governance
16 19 (16.52%) Digital Marketing
16 19 (16.52%) Marketing Strategy
Programming Languages
1 64 (55.65%) SQL
2 63 (54.78%) Python
3 27 (23.48%) Java
4 16 (13.91%) Scala
5 8 (6.96%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.96%) Kotlin
6 5 (4.35%) C#
7 3 (2.61%) C++
7 3 (2.61%) R
8 2 (1.74%) Bash
8 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.74%) Go
8 2 (1.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.87%) C
9 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.87%) Perl
9 1 (0.87%) PHP
9 1 (0.87%) Rust
9 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (12.17%) Degree
2 8 (6.96%) AWS Certification
3 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.35%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.48%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (3.48%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.74%) PhD
7 2 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CBAP
8 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.43%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.22%) GDPR
3 5 (4.35%) QA
4 4 (3.48%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.61%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.87%) MiFID
System Software
1 29 (25.22%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (27.83%) Kubernetes
2 30 (26.09%) Terraform
3 1 (0.87%) Bugsnag
3 1 (0.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (27.83%) Databricks
2 27 (23.48%) Microsoft
3 15 (13.04%) Google
4 14 (12.17%) Alteryx
5 5 (4.35%) Splunk
6 2 (1.74%) Informatica
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.74%) Talend
6 2 (1.74%) YouTube
7 1 (0.87%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.87%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.87%) SAP
7 1 (0.87%) Vertica
7 1 (0.87%) Workday