Big Data Jobs in the South East

Big Data
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 355 187
Rank change year-on-year +165 -168 -44
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 87 35 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 0.21% 1.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.17% 1.33% 10.21%
Number of salaries quoted 30 20 106
10th Percentile £44,625 £42,950 £31,500
25th Percentile £52,813 £46,509 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -22.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,188 £77,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £91,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -18.75% +10.34% -9.38%

All Database and 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 1,214 2,626 2,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 14.79% 15.91% 17.77%
Number of salaries quoted 754 1,977 1,810
10th Percentile £35,075 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £85,000 £85,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the South East.

Salary trend for Big Data in the South East

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South East over the 6 months to 21 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the South East

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 21 April 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
Thames Valley +93 36 £50,000 -8.26% 23
Berkshire +74 32 £45,000 -28.57% 17
Surrey +77 25 £65,000 -25.71% 6
Hampshire +62 10 £57,500 +13.30% 13
Middlesex - 8 - -
Kent - 7 £57,500 - 1
Buckinghamshire +50 2 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Oxfordshire +49 2 £76,250 +53.27% 5
West Sussex +31 1 £42,500 - 13
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 32 (36.78%) Apache Spark
2 26 (29.89%) SharePoint
3 8 (9.20%) Apache
4 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (45.98%) Azure
1 40 (45.98%) Power Platform
2 26 (29.89%) Power Automate
2 26 (29.89%) PowerApps
3 10 (11.49%) AWS
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (8.05%) SaaS
6 6 (6.90%) Snowflake
7 4 (4.60%) GCP
7 4 (4.60%) Serverless
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.30%) H2O.ai
8 2 (2.30%) IaaS
8 2 (2.30%) npm
8 2 (2.30%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.30%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (48.28%) Data Lake
2 40 (45.98%) Power BI
3 30 (34.48%) Tableau
4 26 (29.89%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (13.79%) NoSQL
6 11 (12.64%) Hadoop
7 6 (6.90%) Apache Hive
7 6 (6.90%) Impala
7 6 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (5.75%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (4.60%) Geospatial Data
9 4 (4.60%) Parquet
10 3 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
10 3 (3.45%) Delta Lake
10 3 (3.45%) Metadata
10 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.30%) Apache Hudi
11 2 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) webpack
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) Babel
3 2 (2.30%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.30%) ESLint
3 2 (2.30%) Git
3 2 (2.30%) JIRA
3 2 (2.30%) Mocha
3 2 (2.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (2.30%) rollup.js
3 2 (2.30%) Sinon.JS
3 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.15%) ERwin
General
1 36 (41.38%) Law
2 34 (39.08%) Social Skills
3 25 (28.74%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (18.39%) Advertising
4 16 (18.39%) Marketing
5 7 (8.05%) Finance
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Electronics
7 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Lead
2 25 (28.74%) Senior
3 15 (17.24%) Account Manager
3 15 (17.24%) Senior Account Manager
3 15 (17.24%) Senior Manager
4 12 (13.79%) Analyst
4 12 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Design Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Development Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Java Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Senior Developer
7 4 (4.60%) Snowflake Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Monitoring Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
9 2 (2.30%) Data Analytics Director
9 2 (2.30%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.64%) REST
2 10 (11.49%) Kafka
2 10 (11.49%) Pandas
3 6 (6.90%) PySpark
4 4 (4.60%) Jest
4 4 (4.60%) React
5 3 (3.45%) Dask
5 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (3.45%) Spring
5 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.30%) .NET
6 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.30%) ARM Templates
6 2 (2.30%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.30%) CSS
6 2 (2.30%) HTML
6 2 (2.30%) LESS
6 2 (2.30%) PyArrow
6 2 (2.30%) Sass
6 2 (2.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Digital Media
1 15 (17.24%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (5.75%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.30%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.30%) Cybercrime
3 2 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.30%) IoT
3 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.15%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.30%) Unix
2 1 (1.15%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (58.62%) Business Intelligence
2 46 (52.87%) Analytics
2 46 (52.87%) Project Management
3 40 (45.98%) Data Governance
4 37 (42.53%) Data Analytics
5 36 (41.38%) Data Science
6 32 (36.78%) Computer Science
6 32 (36.78%) Data Engineering
7 31 (35.63%) Data Analysis
8 29 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (32.18%) Data Integration
9 28 (32.18%) Data Management
10 26 (29.89%) Business Strategy
10 26 (29.89%) ITSM
10 26 (29.89%) Mentoring
10 26 (29.89%) Service Management
10 26 (29.89%) Storytelling
11 23 (26.44%) Data Modelling
12 21 (24.14%) ETL
13 20 (22.99%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.78%) SQL
2 30 (34.48%) Python
3 10 (11.49%) Java
4 9 (10.34%) PL/SQL
5 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
6 6 (6.90%) Bash
6 6 (6.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.30%) C#
8 2 (2.30%) C++
8 2 (2.30%) Ruby
8 2 (2.30%) Scala
8 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.15%) Go
Qualifications
1 39 (44.83%) Degree
2 9 (10.34%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (43.68%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.60%) GDPR
4 2 (2.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) HDFS
2 3 (3.45%) Docker
3 2 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.60%) Terraform
3 2 (2.30%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (1.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 29 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (29.89%) ServiceNow
3 9 (10.34%) Oracle
4 6 (6.90%) Informatica
5 5 (5.75%) Databricks
6 4 (4.60%) Google
7 3 (3.45%) Cloudera
8 2 (2.30%) Dataiku
8 2 (2.30%) MapR
8 2 (2.30%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.30%) SAP
9 1 (1.15%) Atlassian