Big Data Jobs in Manchester

Big Data
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 180 98
Rank change year-on-year +40 -82 +18
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 22 39 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.99% 0.72% 3.76%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.72% 3.51% 17.55%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 44
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,000 £49,375
25th Percentile £27,000 £45,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £68,750
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -9.09% -3.51%
75th Percentile £76,250 £101,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - £73,875
North West median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - -21.43% -

All Database and 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 466 1,111 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 21.07% 20.41% 21.40%
Number of salaries quoted 281 759 594
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,501 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.69% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £83,759 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.84% -7.27% +4.76%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Manchester

Big Data
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in Manchester.

Salary trend for Big Data in Manchester

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Manchester over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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
Bury - 1 £60,000 -
Big Data
North West

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 7 (31.82%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.64%) Apache
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon EMR
2 3 (13.64%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (13.64%) Serverless
3 2 (9.09%) Azure
3 2 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
1 1 (4.55%) VLAN
1 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Hadoop
2 3 (13.64%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Apache Hive
4 1 (4.55%) Data Lake
4 1 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (4.55%) MySQL
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
4 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) RStudio
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Advertising
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Automotive
4 2 (9.09%) Cantonese Language
4 2 (9.09%) Mandarin Language
4 2 (9.09%) Marketing
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Electronics
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Data Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Data Analyst
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Scientist
4 2 (9.09%) Business Development Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Business Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Development Manager
4 2 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior
4 2 (9.09%) Junior DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Junior Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 2 (9.09%) gRPC
3 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.55%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Algorithms
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 2 (9.09%) Reference Data
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
2 2 (9.09%) Tandem
3 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Data Fabric
3 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.55%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) CentOS
2 1 (4.55%) Debian
2 1 (4.55%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) Analytics
2 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Data Analytics
4 7 (31.82%) Statistics
4 7 (31.82%) Visualisation
5 6 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (27.27%) Data Science
5 6 (27.27%) ETL
5 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 5 (22.73%) Data Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Machine Learning
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
7 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Culture
7 4 (18.18%) Data Extraction
7 4 (18.18%) Predictive Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Statistical Modelling
7 4 (18.18%) Storytelling
8 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 3 (13.64%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Python
3 8 (36.36%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) C#
4 5 (22.73%) Scala
5 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Ansible
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 1 (4.55%) Cloudera
1 1 (4.55%) Databricks
1 1 (4.55%) Google
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle