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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 286 170
Rank change year-on-year +41 -116 +11
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 77 62 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.72% 0.44% 1.78%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.10% 2.95% 9.32%
Number of salaries quoted 20 39 106
10th Percentile £44,625 £43,430 £51,875
25th Percentile £54,375 £47,581 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £54,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.27% -22.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £59,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £65,300 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -23.53% +21.43% -12.50%

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 1,262 2,099 2,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.83% 14.80% 19.08%
Number of salaries quoted 660 1,403 1,516
10th Percentile £31,813 £35,000 £35,625
25th Percentile £40,188 £42,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £69,840 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.20% -3.85% +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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +30 41 £45,000 -17.43% 12
Berkshire +29 40 £54,500 -13.83% 10
Surrey +27 20 £65,000 +12.07% 1
Hampshire +48 9 £67,500 +25.58% 6
Kent - 6 - - 6
Oxfordshire +16 1 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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 26 (33.77%) SharePoint
2 25 (32.47%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.49%) Apache
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.14%) Azure
2 40 (51.95%) Power Platform
3 26 (33.77%) Power Automate
3 26 (33.77%) PowerApps
4 12 (15.58%) AWS
5 9 (11.69%) GCP
6 6 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.19%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.19%) SaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.60%) Matillion
8 2 (2.60%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (54.55%) Data Lake
2 40 (51.95%) Power BI
3 27 (35.06%) Tableau
4 21 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (15.58%) NoSQL
6 11 (14.29%) Hadoop
7 6 (7.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (7.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (5.19%) Parquet
9 3 (3.90%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (1.30%) Apache Hudi
11 1 (1.30%) Apache Iceberg
11 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) Babel
2 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.30%) Mocha
2 1 (1.30%) rollup.js
2 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 36 (46.75%) Law
2 35 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (20.78%) Marketing
5 15 (19.48%) Advertising
6 4 (5.19%) Finance
7 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Electronics
9 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.30%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Lead
2 19 (24.68%) Senior
3 15 (19.48%) Account Manager
3 15 (19.48%) Senior Account Manager
3 15 (19.48%) Senior Manager
4 14 (18.18%) Analyst
5 9 (11.69%) Data Analytics Director
6 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Design Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Development Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Business Support Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Java Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Java Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Systems Support
8 3 (3.90%) Systems Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Kafka
2 9 (11.69%) Pandas
3 4 (5.19%) PySpark
3 4 (5.19%) REST
4 3 (3.90%) Spring
4 3 (3.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.30%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.30%) CSS
5 1 (1.30%) HTML
5 1 (1.30%) Jest
5 1 (1.30%) LESS
5 1 (1.30%) PyArrow
5 1 (1.30%) React
5 1 (1.30%) Sass
5 1 (1.30%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.48%) Digital Media
1 15 (19.48%) Marketing Technology
2 9 (11.69%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.69%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.30%) Cybercrime
3 1 (1.30%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Robot Operating System
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.94%) Analytics
1 50 (64.94%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (57.14%) Data Governance
3 41 (53.25%) Data Analytics
3 41 (53.25%) Project Management
4 38 (49.35%) Computer Science
4 38 (49.35%) Data Engineering
5 36 (46.75%) Data Science
6 35 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (38.96%) Data Analysis
8 29 (37.66%) Data Management
9 26 (33.77%) Business Strategy
9 26 (33.77%) Data Integration
9 26 (33.77%) ITSM
9 26 (33.77%) Mentoring
9 26 (33.77%) Service Management
9 26 (33.77%) Storytelling
10 25 (32.47%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (29.87%) Data Modelling
12 17 (22.08%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 27 (35.06%) SQL
2 15 (19.48%) Python
3 6 (7.79%) Bash
3 6 (7.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (7.79%) Java
3 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.19%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.30%) C++
5 1 (1.30%) Go
5 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.30%) Scala
5 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (45.45%) Degree
2 9 (11.69%) AWS Certification
2 9 (11.69%) Azure Certification
2 9 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (11.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (44.16%) Data Quality
2 11 (14.29%) GDPR
3 9 (11.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 26 (33.77%) ServiceNow
3 9 (11.69%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Databricks
5 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.30%) SAP