Big Data Job Trends in the South West

Big Data
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 204 123 169
Rank change year-on-year -81 +46 -25
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 33 49 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.37% 1.40% 1.00%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.52% 10.14% 8.66%
Number of salaries quoted 18 6 49
10th Percentile £51,250 £60,965 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £94,430 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £98,420 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.65% +23.03% +14.29%
75th Percentile £137,875 £102,410 £87,500
90th Percentile £146,250 - £112,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -23.53% +21.43%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 730 483 924
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 8.16% 13.76% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 427 316 601
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,544 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,376 £66,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,738 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% -0.80% -3.85%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the South West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South West over the 6 months to 10 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 10 August 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
Bristol -24 16 £92,000 -6.52% 1
Gloucestershire -64 14 £103,000 - 4
Devon - 3 £55,000 -
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 20 (60.61%) Apache Spark
2 12 (36.36%) Apache
3 2 (6.06%) Jupyter
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 14 (42.42%) AWS
2 12 (36.36%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) GitHub
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (9.09%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (6.06%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 8 (24.24%) Data Lake
3 3 (9.09%) ClickHouse
3 3 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (9.09%) Redis
4 2 (6.06%) Cloudera CDH
4 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (6.06%) Delta Lake
4 2 (6.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 2 (6.06%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.03%) Flink
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) Cucumber
3 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.06%) MLflow
3 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
3 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (42.42%) Finance
2 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Aerospace
4 4 (12.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Data Engineer
2 7 (21.21%) Software Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Data Architect
3 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Big Data Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Kafka Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Principal Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.06%) Junior
5 2 (6.06%) Junior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.03%) Principal Data Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (18.18%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) PySpark
4 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (6.06%) gRPC
4 2 (6.06%) Material-UI
4 2 (6.06%) Node.js
4 2 (6.06%) OpenAPI
4 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (6.06%) React
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) Spring
4 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
4 2 (6.06%) Swagger
4 2 (6.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Cloud Native
1 7 (21.21%) IoT
2 6 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 4 (12.12%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (12.12%) Public Cloud
4 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) CentOS
1 2 (6.06%) Debian
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 18 (54.55%) Agile
2 18 (54.55%) AI
2 18 (54.55%) Data Science
3 15 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (45.45%) Software Engineering
4 13 (39.39%) DevOps
4 13 (39.39%) Machine Learning
5 12 (36.36%) Analytics
5 12 (36.36%) ETL
6 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (30.30%) Data Engineering
8 9 (27.27%) Data Modelling
8 9 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (21.21%) DevSecOps
10 6 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
10 6 (18.18%) Containerisation
10 6 (18.18%) Data Ingestion
10 6 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
11 5 (15.15%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) Python
2 16 (48.48%) SQL
3 13 (39.39%) Java
4 8 (24.24%) Scala
5 5 (15.15%) VBA
6 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
7 3 (9.09%) Kotlin
8 2 (6.06%) Bash
8 2 (6.06%) Bicep
8 2 (6.06%) C++
8 2 (6.06%) Rust
8 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 10 (30.30%) DV Cleared
3 8 (24.24%) Degree
4 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
5 4 (12.12%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) Accessibility
2 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) IFRS
3 2 (6.06%) IFRS 17
3 2 (6.06%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (24.24%) Kubernetes
1 8 (24.24%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Grafana
3 2 (6.06%) Kibana
3 2 (6.06%) logstash
3 2 (6.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
2 2 (6.06%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
2 2 (6.06%) SaltStack