Big Data Job Trends in Manchester

Big Data
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 137 131
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -44
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 9 19 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.31% 0.71% 0.79%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.26% 3.85% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 4 16 18
10th Percentile £49,200 £25,156 £35,500
25th Percentile £49,875 £38,203 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% +4.17% -1.93%
75th Percentile £64,438 £84,063 £81,167
90th Percentile £78,275 £115,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £54,250 £56,509 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -5.82% -4.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 276 493 493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 9.46% 18.49% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 218 231 414
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £44,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £88,250 £87,500 £85,700
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in Manchester

Big Data
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Manchester

Big Data
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bolton - 1 £52,500 - 2
Big Data
North West

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (77.78%) Apache Spark
2 5 (55.56%) Apache
3 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 6 (66.67%) GCP
3 4 (44.44%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (44.44%) Serverless
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Hadoop
2 3 (33.33%) Cloudera CDH
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 1 (11.11%) Neo4j
3 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
1 4 (44.44%) React
2 3 (33.33%) gRPC
2 3 (33.33%) Material-UI
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
2 3 (33.33%) OpenAPI
2 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (33.33%) REST
2 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 3 (33.33%) Swagger
3 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) CentOS
2 3 (33.33%) Debian
2 3 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (44.44%) Microservices
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) AI
5 3 (33.33%) API Development
5 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) ETL
5 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
5 3 (33.33%) Kanban
5 3 (33.33%) Open Source
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
2 5 (55.56%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
3 4 (44.44%) Scala
4 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
1 1 (11.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
1 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 3 (33.33%) SaltStack
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Databricks
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle