Big Data Jobs in the Midlands

Big Data
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 294 165
Rank change year-on-year +59 -129 +66
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 27 28 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.40% 0.22% 1.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 1.45% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 39
10th Percentile £52,200 £44,345 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,750 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -9.62% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,300 £78,600
England median annual salary £63,750 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 740 1,929 1,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.89% 15.30% 19.88%
Number of salaries quoted 500 1,451 1,085
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £39,162 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £72,500
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 the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the Midlands

Big Data
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
West Midlands +66 20 £60,500 +5.22% 102
East Midlands +36 7 £70,000 +16.67% 77
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (22.22%) Apache Spark
2 2 (7.41%) Jupyter
3 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
1 10 (37.04%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) Power Platform
3 6 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (7.41%) IaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Lucidchart
5 2 (7.41%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) SaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) Hadoop
2 4 (14.81%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.81%) Tableau
3 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Looker
4 2 (7.41%) Metadata
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
4 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) ER Studio
1 2 (7.41%) ERwin
1 2 (7.41%) Git
1 2 (7.41%) PowerDesigner
1 2 (7.41%) RStudio
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Advertising
6 1 (3.70%) Law
6 1 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 6 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Data Scientist
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Data Modeller
5 2 (7.41%) Data Technician
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Scientist
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Trainer
6 1 (3.70%) Analytics Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Dask
1 4 (14.81%) Polars
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (7.41%) CSS
3 2 (7.41%) gRPC
3 2 (7.41%) HTML
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) Next.js
3 2 (7.41%) NumPy
3 2 (7.41%) Pandas
3 2 (7.41%) PySpark
3 2 (7.41%) React
3 2 (7.41%) RESTful
3 2 (7.41%) Vue
4 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Ionic Framework
4 1 (3.70%) Laravel
4 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.70%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
2 4 (14.81%) Cyberattack
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Driving Licence
3 2 (7.41%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Reference Data
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Analytics
2 13 (48.15%) Machine Learning
3 10 (37.04%) Data Governance
3 10 (37.04%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
4 8 (29.63%) Data Science
4 8 (29.63%) Visualisation
5 7 (25.93%) Mathematics
5 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (22.22%) Computer Science
6 6 (22.22%) Microservices
6 6 (22.22%) Statistics
6 6 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 5 (18.52%) Agile
7 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
7 5 (18.52%) Data Engineering
7 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
7 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
1 12 (44.44%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Java
3 3 (11.11%) C#
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) PHP
4 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) DBS Check
2 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (37.04%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Tagetik