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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 168 137
Rank change year-on-year -16 -31 +23
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 9 28 52
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.24% 0.64% 1.52%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.55% 4.15% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 16 41
10th Percentile - £43,206 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,000 £43,911 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £54,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.43% -22.14% -
75th Percentile £69,000 £56,188 £80,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £73,250 £55,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +33.18% -21.43% -12.50%

All Database and 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 582 674 784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.21% 15.36% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 250 355 504
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,100
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £94,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £54,918 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.15% -0.15% -

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 22 October 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
Berkshire -9 8 £64,000 -14.67% 30
Oxfordshire +12 1 - - 7
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 7 (77.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) AWS
2 8 (88.89%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) Data Lake
1 7 (77.78%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (77.78%) Hadoop
1 7 (77.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 7 (77.78%) Law
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Data Analytics Director
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Cloud Native
1 7 (77.78%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 8 (88.89%) Data Governance
2 8 (88.89%) Decision-Making
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (88.89%) Machine Learning
3 7 (77.78%) AI
3 7 (77.78%) Analytics
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) Collaborative Culture
3 7 (77.78%) Data Acquisition
3 7 (77.78%) Data Analytics
3 7 (77.78%) Data Architecture
3 7 (77.78%) Data Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Data Ingestion
3 7 (77.78%) Data Science
3 7 (77.78%) DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) High Availability
3 7 (77.78%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (77.78%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) Degree
1 8 (88.89%) Master's Degree
2 7 (77.78%) AWS Certification
2 7 (77.78%) Azure Certification
2 7 (77.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 7 (77.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks