Big Data Job Trends in the North of England

Big Data
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 214 319
Rank change year-on-year -91 +105 -215
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 20 51 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.11% 0.69% 0.36%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.36% 4.39% 2.08%
Number of salaries quoted 15 46 43
10th Percentile £46,250 £25,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £49,375 £25,313 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £61,625 £73,886 £79,375
90th Percentile £71,750 £80,000 £100,308
England median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +19.23% -18.75% +14.29%

All Database & 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 1,472 1,162 2,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 7.99% 15.65% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 918 803 2,284
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +13.00% -6.10%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +11.30% -11.54%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the North of England

Big Data
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Big Data

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 9 May 2026.

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 9 May 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
North East - 8 £56,250 - 8
North West -36 7 £52,500 -4.55% 10
Yorkshire -73 5 £47,500 +85.37% 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 8 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (20.00%) Apache
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Azure
3 6 (30.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (15.00%) dbt
5 3 (15.00%) GitHub
5 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (15.00%) SaaS
6 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.00%) Dagster
7 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (15.00%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.00%) Data Vault
4 1 (5.00%) Power BI
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.00%) Legal
4 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Accountant
2 4 (20.00%) Financial Accountant
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Data Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Web Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Web Content Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (15.00%) Flask
1 3 (15.00%) gRPC
1 3 (15.00%) Material-UI
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) OpenAPI
1 3 (15.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (15.00%) React
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) Spring
1 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (15.00%) Swagger
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (20.00%) Social Network
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (15.00%) Life Science
2 3 (15.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) CentOS
1 3 (15.00%) Debian
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) AI
2 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (35.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
6 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 3 (15.00%) Bioinformatics
7 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
7 3 (15.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) ACCA
4 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 4 (20.00%) GAAP
2 4 (20.00%) IFRS
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (15.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Google
1 3 (15.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (15.00%) SaltStack
2 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Dataiku