Big Data Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 507 235 226
Rank change year-on-year -272 -9 -92
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 64 293 856
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.10% 1.11% 1.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 6.93% 7.33%
Number of salaries quoted 35 146 232
10th Percentile £45,500 £25,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £25,313 £48,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.39% -14.81% -
75th Percentile £66,875 £76,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £83,600 £87,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -16.13% +3.33%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,861 4,231 11,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.80% 16.03% 17.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,744 2,980 8,301
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,544 £31,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £69,625 £70,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Big Data job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
North of England -82 20 £55,000 +22.22% 12
South East -108 13 £58,250 +1.30% 14
East of England -56 12 £59,450 -30.06% 6
South West -94 10 £77,000 +200.49% 7
North West -33 8 £30,000 -45.45% 7
North East - 7 £55,000 - 3
Yorkshire -78 5 £47,500 +85.37% 2
Midlands -70 4 £65,000 +5.69% 7
Scotland -44 3 £50,000 +33.33% 3
East Midlands -48 3 £65,000 -7.14% 1
Wales -29 2 £81,885 +2.36% 1
West Midlands -41 1 - - 6
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 15 (23.44%) Apache
3 9 (14.06%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (14.06%) SAS
4 5 (7.81%) IIS
5 1 (1.56%) Apache Synapse
5 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (59.38%) AWS
2 29 (45.31%) Azure
3 23 (35.94%) GCP
4 15 (23.44%) Serverless
5 8 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.38%) SaaS
8 5 (7.81%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (7.81%) GitHub
9 3 (4.69%) dbt
9 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.13%) Cloud Composer
10 2 (3.13%) Dataform
10 2 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.38%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) Hadoop
2 11 (17.19%) NoSQL
3 8 (12.50%) Tableau
4 6 (9.38%) Cloudera CDH
4 6 (9.38%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 4 (6.25%) Metadata
5 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.69%) Power BI
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.56%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.56%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.56%) Impala
8 1 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.69%) GitLab
2 3 (4.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.56%) MLflow
General
1 17 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.31%) Finance
3 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Aerospace
5 5 (7.81%) Marketing
5 5 (7.81%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
7 3 (4.69%) Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Games
9 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 18 (28.13%) Data Engineer
2 14 (21.88%) Senior
3 13 (20.31%) Software Engineer
4 10 (15.63%) Lead
5 8 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
5 8 (12.50%) Technical Leader
5 8 (12.50%) Technical Manager
6 6 (9.38%) Analyst
6 6 (9.38%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Accountant
7 5 (7.81%) Data Science Manager
7 5 (7.81%) Financial Accountant
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Manager
8 4 (6.25%) Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 4 (6.25%) Developer
8 4 (6.25%) OSS Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) AngularJS
1 7 (10.94%) React
2 6 (9.38%) gRPC
2 6 (9.38%) Material-UI
2 6 (9.38%) Node.js
2 6 (9.38%) OpenAPI
2 6 (9.38%) RabbitMQ
2 6 (9.38%) REST
2 6 (9.38%) Spring
2 6 (9.38%) Spring Boot
2 6 (9.38%) Swagger
3 5 (7.81%) Play Framework
4 4 (6.25%) Kafka
4 4 (6.25%) Vue
5 3 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.69%) Flask
5 3 (4.69%) NumPy
5 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.69%) scikit-learn
5 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (15.63%) Algorithms
3 6 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (7.81%) Social Network
5 4 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (6.25%) Life Science
6 3 (4.69%) Private Cloud
7 2 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.56%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.56%) Genomics
8 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.56%) NHS
8 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
1 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (9.38%) CentOS
2 6 (9.38%) Debian
2 6 (9.38%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (53.13%) Agile
2 22 (34.38%) DevOps
2 22 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (29.69%) AI
3 19 (29.69%) Computer Science
4 18 (28.13%) Analytics
4 18 (28.13%) Data Engineering
5 16 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 15 (23.44%) Data Pipeline
7 14 (21.88%) Collaborative Working
8 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
8 13 (20.31%) Data Integration
8 13 (20.31%) Machine Learning
9 12 (18.75%) Decision-Making
10 11 (17.19%) Containerisation
10 11 (17.19%) Data Science
11 10 (15.63%) Data Management
11 10 (15.63%) Scrum
12 9 (14.06%) Data Governance
12 9 (14.06%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 35 (54.69%) Python
2 24 (37.50%) SQL
3 17 (26.56%) Java
4 13 (20.31%) JavaScript
5 7 (10.94%) R
5 7 (10.94%) Scala
6 5 (7.81%) Bash
7 3 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.13%) C++
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.56%) Bicep
9 1 (1.56%) Go
9 1 (1.56%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (26.56%) Degree
2 14 (21.88%) Master's Degree
3 12 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 11 (17.19%) DV Cleared
5 8 (12.50%) DBS Check
6 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
7 5 (7.81%) ACCA
7 5 (7.81%) MBA
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (29.69%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.38%) IFRS
3 5 (7.81%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (7.81%) GAAP
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (7.81%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Terraform
2 10 (15.63%) Ansible
3 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.38%) Puppet
5 4 (6.25%) Grafana
6 3 (4.69%) Kibana
6 3 (4.69%) logstash
7 1 (1.56%) Podman
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Databricks
2 9 (14.06%) Google
3 6 (9.38%) Red Hat
3 6 (9.38%) SaltStack
4 5 (7.81%) BT
5 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.56%) ArcSight
6 1 (1.56%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.56%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.56%) Informatica
6 1 (1.56%) OpenAI