Big Data Jobs in the Thames Valley

Big Data
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 227 125
Rank change year-on-year +79 -102 +37
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 35 17 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 0.25% 2.27%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.12% 1.55% 12.47%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 59
10th Percentile £42,000 £42,500 £52,400
25th Percentile £43,125 £47,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £54,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.43% -22.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £57,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,000 £64,400 £85,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £54,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +19.27% -22.14% +7.69%

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 572 1,096 1,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.70% 16.38% 18.18%
Number of salaries quoted 319 771 656
10th Percentile £37,050 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,500 £44,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £76,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,500 £86,250 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -3.51% +3.64%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Big Data in the Thames Valley

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the Thames Valley

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 16 May 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 +62 32 £45,000 -28.57% 19
Oxfordshire +30 2 £76,250 +39.91% 6
Buckinghamshire +35 1 - - 2
Big Data
South East

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (74.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 28 (80.00%) Azure
2 27 (77.14%) Power Platform
3 26 (74.29%) Power Automate
3 26 (74.29%) PowerApps
4 4 (11.43%) AWS
5 2 (5.71%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.71%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (82.86%) Data Lake
2 27 (77.14%) Power BI
2 27 (77.14%) Tableau
3 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.86%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.86%) Impala
5 1 (2.86%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) ERwin
General
1 28 (80.00%) Law
2 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.43%) Advertising
4 4 (11.43%) Marketing
5 1 (2.86%) Banking
5 1 (2.86%) Electronics
5 1 (2.86%) Finance
5 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (77.14%) Lead
2 3 (8.57%) Account Manager
2 3 (8.57%) Senior
2 3 (8.57%) Senior Account Manager
2 3 (8.57%) Senior Manager
3 2 (5.71%) Data Analytics Director
4 1 (2.86%) Analyst
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) AWS Software Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Software Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Data Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Java Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Lead Java Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (2.86%) Report Analyst
4 1 (2.86%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.86%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.86%) RESTful
2 1 (2.86%) SOAP
2 1 (2.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Digital Media
1 3 (8.57%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (85.71%) Business Intelligence
1 30 (85.71%) Data Governance
2 29 (82.86%) Computer Science
2 29 (82.86%) Data Engineering
2 29 (82.86%) Data Science
2 29 (82.86%) Project Management
3 28 (80.00%) Analytics
3 28 (80.00%) Data Analytics
3 28 (80.00%) Data Integration
3 28 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (77.14%) Data Analysis
5 26 (74.29%) Business Strategy
5 26 (74.29%) Data Management
5 26 (74.29%) ITSM
5 26 (74.29%) Mentoring
5 26 (74.29%) Service Management
5 26 (74.29%) Storytelling
6 6 (17.14%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (11.43%) Data Modelling
7 4 (11.43%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) SQL
2 2 (5.71%) Java
2 2 (5.71%) Python
3 1 (2.86%) C++
3 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.86%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (82.86%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.57%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (77.14%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (5.71%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.86%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Argo
1 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (74.29%) Microsoft
1 26 (74.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.71%) Google
3 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.86%) Informatica
3 1 (2.86%) SAP