Big Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

As of 15 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Big Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 583 401 734
Rank change year-on-year -182 +333 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 2 412 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.58% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.006% 0.61% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 0 22 8
10th Percentile - £70,125 £41,227
25th Percentile - £72,500 £44,994
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £80,000 £59,724
Median % change year-on-year - +33.95% -8.12%
75th Percentile - £87,500 £87,595
90th Percentile - - £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £87,500 £80,294
% change year-on-year -11.43% +8.98% +3.60%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,427 67,196 53,197
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.83% 89.21%
Number of salaries quoted 18,481 47,540 30,291
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,750 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 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
South East - 2 - -
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, Big Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) PyArrow
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hudi

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Hudi
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) PyArrow
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Science
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat