Big Data Jobs in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 255 234 93
Rank change year-on-year -21 -141 +47
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 21 54 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.27% 0.51% 3.58%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 3.10% 17.08%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 63
10th Percentile £30,400 £41,542 £62,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £52,500 £68,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,509 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -19.27% -
75th Percentile £61,500 £78,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £101,250 £79,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and 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 746 1,743 1,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.70% 16.41% 20.94%
Number of salaries quoted 441 1,107 902
10th Percentile £33,500 £32,900 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +1.66%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,075 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,964 £82,250
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +8.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the North West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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
Manchester +26 13 £55,000 -13.73% 22
Lancashire - 5 £57,500 - 16
Merseyside +27 3 £55,000 +120.00% 4
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (38.10%) Apache Spark
2 5 (23.81%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 3 (14.29%) Serverless
4 2 (9.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) VLAN
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (19.05%) Hadoop
3 4 (19.05%) Tableau
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 1 (4.76%) MySQL
6 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) RStudio
General
1 7 (33.33%) Retail
2 4 (19.05%) Advertising
2 4 (19.05%) Manufacturing
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Automotive
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Cantonese Language
3 2 (9.52%) Electronics
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (9.52%) Marketing
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Senior
2 8 (38.10%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Data Scientist
3 3 (14.29%) Junior
4 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Junior DevOps
4 2 (9.52%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Junior Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Technician
5 1 (4.76%) Junior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (9.52%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (9.52%) gRPC
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
1 2 (9.52%) Reference Data
1 2 (9.52%) Replication
1 2 (9.52%) Tandem
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Debian
2 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Analytics
2 12 (57.14%) Data Science
2 12 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (52.38%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (47.62%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 9 (42.86%) ETL
6 8 (38.10%) Data Engineering
7 7 (33.33%) Data Analytics
8 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
9 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
10 4 (19.05%) Machine Learning
10 4 (19.05%) Statistics
11 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 3 (14.29%) DevOps
11 3 (14.29%) Mathematics
11 3 (14.29%) OO
11 3 (14.29%) Validation
11 3 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) SQL
3 8 (38.10%) Java
4 5 (23.81%) C#
5 4 (19.05%) Scala
6 2 (9.52%) Shell Script
7 1 (4.76%) Bash
7 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
3 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Ansible
3 1 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Talend
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle