Big Data Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Big Data
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 142 225
Rank change year-on-year -30 +83 -102
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 5 38 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.087% 1.14% 0.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.11% 7.18% 1.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 13
10th Percentile - £41,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,188 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £43,750 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.43% -19.72% -22.14%
75th Percentile £58,750 £44,688 £57,500
90th Percentile - £44,875 £64,400
South East median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +19.27% -22.14%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 450 529 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.86% 15.83% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 298 279 769
10th Percentile £39,550 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,250
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Big Data

Big Data
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
Berkshire -22 4 - - 1
Oxfordshire -6 1 £57,500 +35.29%
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) OSS Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Agile
1 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow
1 1 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks