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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 190 164
Rank change year-on-year +21 -26 -54
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 11 25 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.18% 0.48% 0.61%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.23% 3.24% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 21
10th Percentile £49,200 £37,344 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,875 £46,875 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £58,254 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% -10.86% +0.54%
75th Percentile £64,438 £76,563 £84,056
90th Percentile £78,275 £104,500 -
England median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% - +2.38%

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 494 771 757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.97% 14.91% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 377 384 621
10th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,734
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +3.48% -3.36%
75th Percentile £68,666 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £83,375 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.00%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +11 9 £54,250 -13.20% 3
Cheshire -14 1 - -
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 (63.64%) Apache Spark
2 5 (45.45%) Apache
3 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) AWS
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
2 7 (63.64%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (36.36%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
5 1 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) AMQP
2 1 (9.09%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) Hadoop
2 3 (27.27%) Cloudera CDH
3 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
3 2 (18.18%) Neo4j
3 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
3 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (27.27%) Aerospace
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Software Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Data Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IoT Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AngularJS
1 4 (36.36%) React
2 3 (27.27%) gRPC
2 3 (27.27%) Material-UI
2 3 (27.27%) Node.js
2 3 (27.27%) OpenAPI
2 3 (27.27%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (27.27%) REST
2 3 (27.27%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Swagger
3 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) CentOS
2 3 (27.27%) Debian
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
2 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (54.55%) Software Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) AI
4 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 4 (36.36%) Generative AI
4 4 (36.36%) Microservices
5 3 (27.27%) Analytics
5 3 (27.27%) API Development
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 3 (27.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (27.27%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Java
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 4 (36.36%) Scala
5 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Firmware
2 1 (9.09%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Google
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) SaltStack
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) Databricks