Big Data Jobs in the North of England

Big Data
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 288 323 109
Rank change year-on-year +35 -214 +91
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 58 64 515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.50% 0.35% 3.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.94% 2.07% 14.98%
Number of salaries quoted 51 41 139
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £25,313 £38,750 £64,356
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £73,818 £81,250 -
90th Percentile £78,750 £101,250 £79,000
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,175 3,091 3,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.15% 17.07% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 781 2,263 1,776
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,316 £34,723
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,603 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,751 £81,000 £80,000
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the North of England.

Salary trend for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Big Data in the North of England

Big Data
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the North of England 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
North West -15 30 £55,000 - 139
Yorkshire +82 27 £25,625 -72.38% 112
North East +38 1 £47,500 +11.76% 31
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 11 (18.97%) Apache Spark
2 5 (8.62%) Apache
3 2 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.72%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.72%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) AWS
2 9 (15.52%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.62%) Azure
4 3 (5.17%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) SaaS
4 3 (5.17%) Serverless
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.72%) GitHub
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Firewall
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
1 1 (1.72%) PuTTY
1 1 (1.72%) VLAN
1 1 (1.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (18.97%) NoSQL
3 9 (15.52%) Data Lake
3 9 (15.52%) Power BI
4 7 (12.07%) Hadoop
5 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.62%) Tableau
7 4 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (3.45%) Apache Hive
8 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
8 2 (3.45%) MySQL
9 1 (1.72%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.72%) HBase
9 1 (1.72%) Metadata
9 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.72%) QlikView
9 1 (1.72%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
2 1 (1.72%) RStudio
General
1 31 (53.45%) Finance
2 28 (48.28%) Banking
3 7 (12.07%) Retail
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Advertising
5 4 (6.90%) Automotive
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.90%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.45%) Cantonese Language
7 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Mandarin Language
7 2 (3.45%) Marketing
7 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Analyst
1 19 (32.76%) Data Analyst
2 13 (22.41%) Data Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Senior
4 9 (15.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Architect
5 8 (13.79%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (12.07%) Data Scientist
7 5 (8.62%) Junior
8 4 (6.90%) Software Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Data Engineer
9 3 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Business Development Manager
10 2 (3.45%) Business Manager
10 2 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Junior DevOps
10 2 (3.45%) Junior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Junior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Junior Support Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) Kafka
2 3 (5.17%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (5.17%) PySpark
3 2 (3.45%) gRPC
3 2 (3.45%) Node.js
3 2 (3.45%) React
3 2 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.72%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.72%) Plotly
4 1 (1.72%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.72%) Shiny
4 1 (1.72%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.52%) Product Ownership
2 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.45%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.45%) Replication
4 2 (3.45%) Tandem
5 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) CentOS
2 1 (1.72%) Debian
2 1 (1.72%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (60.34%) Analytics
2 26 (44.83%) Visualisation
3 24 (41.38%) Data Analytics
3 24 (41.38%) Statistics
4 23 (39.66%) Mathematics
5 18 (31.03%) ETL
5 18 (31.03%) Predictive Modelling
6 17 (29.31%) Data Extraction
6 17 (29.31%) Data Science
6 17 (29.31%) Statistical Modelling
6 17 (29.31%) Storytelling
7 15 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (24.14%) Agile
9 12 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (18.97%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (18.97%) Data Engineering
10 11 (18.97%) Microservices
10 11 (18.97%) OO
11 10 (17.24%) Computer Science
11 10 (17.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) SQL
2 21 (36.21%) Python
3 18 (31.03%) Java
4 5 (8.62%) C#
4 5 (8.62%) Scala
5 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.45%) Bash
6 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.45%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.72%) PROC SQL
7 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Flume
2 1 (1.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Kubernetes
1 6 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (1.72%) Grafana
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
2 1 (1.72%) logstash
2 1 (1.72%) Oozie
2 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.72%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Talend
4 1 (1.72%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Informatica
4 1 (1.72%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) SAP