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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 218 217 154
Rank change year-on-year -1 -63 -32
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 19 29 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.37% 0.37% 1.48%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.94% 2.73% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 17 16 57
10th Percentile £32,550 £40,292 £63,631
25th Percentile £50,250 £52,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,509 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -19.27% +4.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £83,872
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -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 647 1,064 926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 12.54% 13.68% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 390 541 775
10th Percentile £33,500 £33,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £37,625 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,793 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,625 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £64,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +6.67%

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

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +27 13 £55,000 +4.76% 8
Lancashire - 4 £57,500 - 6
Cheshire -23 1 - - 3
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 5 (26.32%) Apache
1 5 (26.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
2 5 (26.32%) Power Platform
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (21.05%) Serverless
4 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (15.79%) Azure
5 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Broadband
1 1 (5.26%) Firewall
1 1 (5.26%) VLAN
1 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 5 (26.32%) Power BI
3 4 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (15.79%) Hadoop
5 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
5 2 (10.53%) Neo4j
5 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
5 2 (10.53%) Tableau
6 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) RStudio
General
1 7 (36.84%) Retail
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Advertising
3 2 (10.53%) Cantonese Language
3 2 (10.53%) Electronics
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Law
3 2 (10.53%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 2 (10.53%) Marketing
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Data Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Junior
4 2 (10.53%) Junior DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Junior Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Gen AI Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Tandem
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) IoT
2 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.26%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) CentOS
2 1 (5.26%) Debian
2 1 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Data Pipeline
2 11 (57.89%) Analytics
3 10 (52.63%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (47.37%) Data Engineering
4 9 (47.37%) ETL
5 7 (36.84%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (36.84%) Data Modelling
6 6 (31.58%) Data Analytics
6 6 (31.58%) Data Science
7 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
8 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
8 4 (21.05%) DevOps
8 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Automation
9 3 (15.79%) MapReduce
9 3 (15.79%) Roadmaps
9 3 (15.79%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Scala
4 4 (21.05%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
2 1 (5.26%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Ansible
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
3 1 (5.26%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.26%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Databricks
2 1 (5.26%) Google