Big Data Jobs in the South West

Big Data
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 189 136
Rank change year-on-year +69 -53 -4
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 63 107 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.74% 1.03% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 13.21% 7.71% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18 64 71
10th Percentile - £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £63,750 £59,965
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,625 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -67.97% +14.29% -
75th Percentile £84,933 £101,980 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £119,250 £117,236
England median annual salary £63,750 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and 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 477 1,387 1,227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.21% 13.39% 18.86%
Number of salaries quoted 302 952 796
10th Percentile £32,544 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,700
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.38% +5.40%
75th Percentile £68,525 £65,000 £70,250
90th Percentile £82,751 £76,250 £85,000
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the South West

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the South West over the 6 months to 9 June 2025.

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 9 June 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
Gloucestershire +85 40 - - 2
Bristol +16 20 £25,625 -67.97% 14
Dorset +36 3 - - 2
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (31.75%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 5 (7.94%) Azure
2 5 (7.94%) GCP
2 5 (7.94%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.17%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.94%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.94%) Data Hub
2 5 (7.94%) Looker
2 5 (7.94%) Power BI
2 5 (7.94%) Tableau
3 2 (3.17%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.17%) MySQL
3 2 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Cypress.io
1 2 (3.17%) Selenium
2 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.59%) Git
General
1 61 (96.83%) Finance
2 43 (68.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 21 (33.33%) Banking
4 3 (4.76%) Law
5 2 (3.17%) Marketing
6 1 (1.59%) Electronics
6 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (63.49%) Data Scientist
2 21 (33.33%) Senior
3 20 (31.75%) Senior Data Scientist
4 12 (19.05%) Analyst
4 12 (19.05%) Data Analyst
5 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.52%) Lead
5 6 (9.52%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (7.94%) Provisioning Engineer
7 4 (6.35%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Java Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (1.59%) Applications Developer
9 1 (1.59%) Applications Support
9 1 (1.59%) Developer
9 1 (1.59%) Graduate
9 1 (1.59%) Graduate Developer
9 1 (1.59%) Junior
9 1 (1.59%) Junior Applications Developer
9 1 (1.59%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) Kafka
2 2 (3.17%) AngularJS
2 2 (3.17%) CSS
2 2 (3.17%) gRPC
2 2 (3.17%) HTML
2 2 (3.17%) HTML5
2 2 (3.17%) React
2 2 (3.17%) Spring
2 2 (3.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.59%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 43 (68.25%) Algorithms
2 40 (63.49%) Cyberattack
3 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.17%) Replication
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) IoT
5 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (95.24%) Visualisation
2 53 (84.13%) Statistics
3 52 (82.54%) Mathematics
4 42 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 42 (66.67%) Machine Learning
5 41 (65.08%) Computer Science
5 41 (65.08%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (63.49%) Data Analysis
6 40 (63.49%) Data Science
6 40 (63.49%) Exploratory Data Analysis
6 40 (63.49%) OpenUP
7 36 (57.14%) Analytics
8 32 (50.79%) Predictive Modelling
9 25 (39.68%) DevOps
9 25 (39.68%) Mentoring
10 24 (38.10%) Software Engineering
11 22 (34.92%) Microservices
12 20 (31.75%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 20 (31.75%) Decision-Making
12 20 (31.75%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) Java
2 22 (34.92%) JavaScript
2 22 (34.92%) Python
3 20 (31.75%) SQL
4 2 (3.17%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.59%) Bash
5 1 (1.59%) C
5 1 (1.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (84.13%) Degree
2 40 (63.49%) DV Cleared
2 40 (63.49%) Security Cleared
3 20 (31.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (31.75%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Developer
System Software
1 27 (42.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (46.03%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Google
2 3 (4.76%) Databricks
3 2 (3.17%) Oracle
4 1 (1.59%) SAP