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 13 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 162 154
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 -14
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 24 27 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.64% 0.77% 1.86%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.26% 3.43% 9.01%
Number of salaries quoted 13 21 52
10th Percentile - - £40,371
25th Percentile £43,911 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £70,875 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.10% -8.55% +10.71%
75th Percentile £57,500 £80,000 £93,125
90th Percentile £84,140 £95,000 £102,500
South East median annual salary £56,250 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -22.41% -3.33% +9.89%

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 737 788 1,287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 19.56% 22.49% 20.64%
Number of salaries quoted 424 488 729
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,500 £38,302
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,723 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%

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 13 December 2024.

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 13 December 2024. 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 +14 12 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Oxfordshire -11 9 £44,982 -36.53% 2
Buckinghamshire -21 3 £55,000 -26.67% 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 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.33%) Kinematics
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) GitHub
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Modbus
1 5 (20.83%) SNMP
2 2 (8.33%) Internet
2 2 (8.33%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 5 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (20.83%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) GitLab
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Electronics
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Advertising
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Retail Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 5 (20.83%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Data Scientist
5 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) EDI
1 5 (20.83%) Kafka
2 2 (8.33%) WPF
3 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.17%) PySpark
3 1 (4.17%) RESTful
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.83%) Raspberry Pi
3 3 (12.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (8.33%) GNSS
4 2 (8.33%) IoT
5 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
5 1 (4.17%) Credit Risk
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (4.17%) Genomics
5 1 (4.17%) Life Science
5 1 (4.17%) Linked Data
5 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) CentOS
1 5 (20.83%) Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Data Integration
1 13 (54.17%) Data Modelling
2 12 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 11 (45.83%) Analytics
3 11 (45.83%) Data Engineering
3 11 (45.83%) Validation
4 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 10 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 10 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
4 10 (41.67%) Computer Science
4 10 (41.67%) Data Management
4 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
4 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (41.67%) Project Management
5 9 (37.50%) Roadmaps
6 8 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
6 8 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
6 8 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (33.33%) ETL
6 8 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 5 (20.83%) Perl
3 5 (20.83%) PHP
3 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.83%) Shell Script
4 2 (8.33%) C
4 2 (8.33%) C#
4 2 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (8.33%) XAML
5 1 (4.17%) Java
5 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.17%) R
5 1 (4.17%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 18 (75.00%) Degree
2 10 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 10 (41.67%) Master's Degree
3 9 (37.50%) AWS Certification
4 5 (20.83%) CTC Cleared
4 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
4 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (8.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Cacti
1 5 (20.83%) Grafana
1 5 (20.83%) Nagios
2 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Argo
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) MuleSoft
2 3 (12.50%) Foundry
2 3 (12.50%) Palantir
3 1 (4.17%) Databricks