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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 249 252
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -63
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 10 45 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.096% 0.50% 0.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.07% 2.78% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 27 24
10th Percentile £53,600 £43,911 -
25th Percentile £54,500 £50,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £57,500 £70,875
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -18.87% -5.50%
75th Percentile £68,000 £61,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £68,600 £80,820 £85,125
England median annual salary £71,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.39% -3.13% +2.38%

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 935 1,618 1,665
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.98% 18.01% 18.92%
Number of salaries quoted 537 843 1,247
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £69,840 £75,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,160 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.08%

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 15 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
Surrey -6 5 - - 5
Thames Valley +4 3 £61,500 +23.02% 18
Berkshire -7 2 £61,500 -18.00% 16
Hampshire +29 1 - - 4
Oxfordshire +11 1 - - 1
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 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Hadoop
1 6 (60.00%) NoSQL
2 5 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 5 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Neo4j
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 7 (70.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Marketing
2 5 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Data Science Manager
1 5 (50.00%) Senior
1 5 (50.00%) Senior Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Gen AI Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) Play Framework
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (50.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Decision-Making
2 7 (70.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (60.00%) AI
3 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (60.00%) Data Visualisation
3 6 (60.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (60.00%) Mathematics
3 6 (60.00%) Statistics
3 6 (60.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (50.00%) Analytical Modelling
4 5 (50.00%) Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) Business Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) Business Transformation
4 5 (50.00%) Econometrics
4 5 (50.00%) Economics
4 5 (50.00%) Market Research
4 5 (50.00%) Operations Research
4 5 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (50.00%) R
2 5 (50.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
1 6 (60.00%) Master's Degree
2 5 (50.00%) MBA
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Databricks
2 5 (50.00%) BT
3 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle