Big Data Job Trends in the Midlands

Big Data
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 222 226 208
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 -53
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 4 20 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.051% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.56% 2.39% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 16
10th Percentile - £57,125 £45,625
25th Percentile - £62,500 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £71,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +19.17% -12.73%
75th Percentile - £89,375 £63,688
90th Percentile - £90,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% - +2.38%

All Database & 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 720 838 1,034
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.16% 12.86% 19.29%
Number of salaries quoted 536 474 899
10th Percentile £33,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,900 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.48% +0.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £65,063 £65,001 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
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 the Midlands

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Big Data
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Big Data

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 7 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
East Midlands +1 3 £65,000 - 8
West Midlands +10 1 - -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft