Big Data Job Trends in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 235 213 210
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 -50
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 16 19 31
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.13% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.87% 2.93% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 12 17 16
10th Percentile £43,750 £32,550 £40,292
25th Percentile £45,625 £50,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £57,500 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +1.75% -19.27%
75th Percentile £72,801 £65,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -17.65% +21.43%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 854 649 1,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.81% 12.59% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 641 390 557
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,500 £32,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.56%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the North West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the North West over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Manchester -35 11 £48,000 -12.73% 16
Cheshire +9 3 £52,500 - 1
Lancashire +5 1 £66,805 +16.18% 1
Merseyside - 1 £48,000 -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 7 (43.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (31.25%) Apache
3 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) AWS
2 6 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Serverless
3 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon S3
4 3 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (18.75%) OpenShift
5 2 (12.50%) Stripe
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) AMQP
2 1 (6.25%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (18.75%) Cloudera CDH
2 3 (18.75%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 2 (12.50%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (6.25%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
2 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Software Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Terraform
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) gRPC
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) Material-UI
2 3 (18.75%) Node.js
2 3 (18.75%) OpenAPI
2 3 (18.75%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (18.75%) React
2 3 (18.75%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) Spring
2 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
2 3 (18.75%) Swagger
3 2 (12.50%) Laravel
3 2 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (6.25%) LangChain
4 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
4 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) PMI
3 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
3 1 (6.25%) Autonomous Agent
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) CentOS
1 3 (18.75%) Debian
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (18.75%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Analytics
2 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 9 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (56.25%) Machine Learning
3 9 (56.25%) Use Case
4 8 (50.00%) AI
4 8 (50.00%) Generative AI
5 7 (43.75%) LLM
6 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
7 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 4 (25.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (25.00%) Microservices
8 4 (25.00%) Open Source
8 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 4 (25.00%) Validation
9 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (18.75%) Kanban
9 3 (18.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Python
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Java
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
4 3 (18.75%) Scala
5 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) PMI Certification
5 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
5 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat
2 3 (18.75%) SaltStack
3 2 (12.50%) OpenAI
4 1 (6.25%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Informatica