Big Data Job Trends in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 263 206 334
Rank change year-on-year -57 +128 -118
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 12 62 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.098% 0.87% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.20% 4.80% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1 25 16
10th Percentile - £46,500 £43,269
25th Percentile £53,000 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +15.00% -25.93%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,188
90th Percentile - £74,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £76,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +16.92% -18.75% +5.92%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,001 1,292 2,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.19% 18.03% 16.30%
Number of salaries quoted 584 774 1,841
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.87% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the South East

Big Data
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Big Data

Big Data
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the South East region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Berkshire -5 5 £59,000 -21.33% 1
Thames Valley -17 5 £59,000 -21.33% 3
Surrey -33 5 - -
Hampshire -9 2 - - 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (41.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Snowflake
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Data Mining
1 5 (41.67%) Hadoop
1 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
1 5 (41.67%) Tableau
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
General
1 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Marketing
2 5 (41.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 1 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Data Science Manager
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Manager
3 4 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (33.33%) OSS Business Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Architect
5 1 (8.33%) ArcSight Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Governance Analyst
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Play Framework
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (41.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 6 (50.00%) Analytics
2 6 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (41.67%) Actionable Insight
3 5 (41.67%) AI
3 5 (41.67%) AI Transformation
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Modelling
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Business Analytics
3 5 (41.67%) Business Transformation
3 5 (41.67%) Data Science
3 5 (41.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 5 (41.67%) Digital Transformation Strategy
3 5 (41.67%) LLM
3 5 (41.67%) Machine Learning
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Strategic Thinking
3 5 (41.67%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (41.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (41.67%) Java
3 5 (41.67%) R
3 5 (41.67%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) Bash
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
1 5 (41.67%) Master's Degree
1 5 (41.67%) MBA
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (41.67%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) BT
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) ArcSight
2 1 (8.33%) Google