Big Data Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 272 155
Rank change year-on-year -36 -117 +35
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 325 742 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.82% 0.93% 2.29%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 7.12% 5.97% 11.82%
Number of salaries quoted 144 217 456
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £25,313 £49,575 £60,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £73,914 £85,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £101,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -28.13% +14.29% -9.68%

All Database and 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 4,563 12,438 10,695
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.51% 15.53% 19.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,816 8,145 6,498
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,840 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +8.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

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 13 June 2025.

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 13 June 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 +129 83 £65,000 +18.18% 136
South West +78 63 £25,625 -67.97% 36
North of England +71 57 £47,500 -13.64% 58
Scotland -72 46 £25,625 -63.69% 22
East of England +47 39 £85,000 +41.67% 51
Midlands +78 29 £62,500 +6.38% 43
North West +7 28 £53,750 -2.27% 30
Yorkshire +88 27 £25,625 -53.41% 21
West Midlands +60 19 £60,500 +5.22% 13
East Midlands +50 10 £67,500 +12.50% 28
Northern Ireland +45 5 - - 8
Wales +34 3 £42,500 -7.87% 8
North East +44 2 £47,500 +11.76% 7
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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 74 (22.77%) Apache Spark
2 27 (8.31%) Apache
3 26 (8.00%) SharePoint
4 23 (7.08%) Jupyter
5 11 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.62%) Confluence
6 2 (0.62%) SAS
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.92%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 84 (25.85%) AWS
2 78 (24.00%) Azure
3 63 (19.38%) Power Platform
4 34 (10.46%) GCP
5 27 (8.31%) PowerApps
5 27 (8.31%) SaaS
6 26 (8.00%) Power Automate
7 21 (6.46%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (6.46%) Serverless
8 16 (4.92%) Snowflake
9 15 (4.62%) Amazon S3
9 15 (4.62%) AWS CodePipeline
9 15 (4.62%) Boomi
10 14 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.31%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.31%) AWS CodeBuild
10 14 (4.31%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 14 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
11 8 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.23%) Internet
2 2 (0.62%) Firewall
2 2 (0.62%) NAS
2 2 (0.62%) PuTTY
2 2 (0.62%) SAN
2 2 (0.62%) VLAN
2 2 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (19.38%) Power BI
2 57 (17.54%) Data Lake
3 50 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (15.08%) Tableau
5 39 (12.00%) Hadoop
6 36 (11.08%) NoSQL
7 22 (6.77%) Apache Hive
8 21 (6.46%) SQL Server
9 13 (4.00%) MongoDB
10 12 (3.69%) Apache Iceberg
10 12 (3.69%) MySQL
11 10 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (3.08%) HBase
11 10 (3.08%) Impala
12 9 (2.77%) BigQuery
12 9 (2.77%) Looker
12 9 (2.77%) Parquet
12 9 (2.77%) Relational Database
13 7 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.38%) Git
2 5 (1.54%) Gradle
2 5 (1.54%) JUnit
2 5 (1.54%) Maven
3 4 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.92%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.92%) ERwin
4 3 (0.92%) JIRA
4 3 (0.92%) RStudio
5 2 (0.62%) Babel
5 2 (0.62%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.62%) Mocha
5 2 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.62%) rollup.js
5 2 (0.62%) Selenium
5 2 (0.62%) webpack
6 1 (0.31%) GitLab
General
1 146 (44.92%) Finance
2 85 (26.15%) Law
3 80 (24.62%) Banking
4 76 (23.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (21.23%) Social Skills
6 52 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
7 51 (15.69%) Marketing
8 36 (11.08%) Advertising
9 24 (7.38%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.08%) Retail
11 7 (2.15%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.23%) Electronics
12 4 (1.23%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.23%) Publishing
12 4 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.92%) Automotive
13 3 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.62%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (0.62%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 84 (25.85%) Senior
2 62 (19.08%) Lead
3 59 (18.15%) Analyst
4 57 (17.54%) Data Scientist
5 49 (15.08%) Data Analyst
6 40 (12.31%) Software Engineer
7 34 (10.46%) Data Engineer
8 30 (9.23%) Account Manager
8 30 (9.23%) Senior Account Manager
8 30 (9.23%) Senior Manager
9 27 (8.31%) Senior Data Scientist
10 16 (4.92%) Developer
11 14 (4.31%) Architect
11 14 (4.31%) Java Engineer
11 14 (4.31%) Python Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
12 13 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
13 12 (3.69%) Lead Software Engineer
14 11 (3.38%) Java Software Engineer
15 10 (3.08%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (15.69%) Kafka
2 24 (7.38%) RESTful
3 19 (5.85%) Spring
4 16 (4.92%) PySpark
5 14 (4.31%) JWT
5 14 (4.31%) OAuth
6 13 (4.00%) Pandas
7 10 (3.08%) gRPC
7 10 (3.08%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.77%) React
8 9 (2.77%) REST
9 6 (1.85%) CSS
9 6 (1.85%) HTML
10 5 (1.54%) JPA
11 4 (1.23%) AngularJS
11 4 (1.23%) Hibernate
11 4 (1.23%) J2EE
11 4 (1.23%) Java EE
11 4 (1.23%) Vue
11 4 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 61 (18.77%) Algorithms
2 46 (14.15%) Cyberattack
3 30 (9.23%) Digital Media
3 30 (9.23%) Marketing Technology
4 24 (7.38%) Cloud Native
5 18 (5.54%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.62%) Distributed Systems
7 14 (4.31%) Data Structures
7 14 (4.31%) Public Cloud
8 13 (4.00%) Product Ownership
9 11 (3.38%) Reference Data
10 10 (3.08%) Replication
11 6 (1.85%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.92%) Driving Licence
12 3 (0.92%) IoT
12 3 (0.92%) Mobile App
13 2 (0.62%) Cybercrime
13 2 (0.62%) Data Centre
13 2 (0.62%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.31%) Linux
2 10 (3.08%) Unix
3 2 (0.62%) CentOS
3 2 (0.62%) Debian
3 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.31%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (54.46%) Analytics
2 122 (37.54%) Visualisation
3 116 (35.69%) Artificial Intelligence
4 114 (35.08%) Data Analytics
4 114 (35.08%) Data Science
5 102 (31.38%) Machine Learning
6 100 (30.77%) Computer Science
7 94 (28.92%) Statistics
8 93 (28.62%) Mathematics
9 86 (26.46%) Business Intelligence
10 82 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
11 80 (24.62%) Data Analysis
12 74 (22.77%) Project Management
13 72 (22.15%) Software Engineering
14 70 (21.54%) Data Engineering
14 70 (21.54%) Storytelling
15 67 (20.62%) Agile
16 64 (19.69%) DevOps
16 64 (19.69%) Mentoring
17 62 (19.08%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 130 (40.00%) SQL
2 103 (31.69%) Python
3 97 (29.85%) Java
4 30 (9.23%) JavaScript
5 29 (8.92%) C#
6 11 (3.38%) Bash
7 9 (2.77%) PL/SQL
8 8 (2.46%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.85%) Scala
9 6 (1.85%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.92%) R
10 3 (0.92%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.62%) C++
11 2 (0.62%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.62%) Ruby
12 1 (0.31%) C
12 1 (0.31%) Go
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 141 (43.38%) Degree
2 66 (20.31%) Security Cleared
3 46 (14.15%) DV Cleared
4 38 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (7.08%) Numerate Degree
6 17 (5.23%) Master's Degree
7 14 (4.31%) AWS Certification
8 12 (3.69%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.54%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.54%) SC Cleared
10 3 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.31%) PhD
11 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (18.46%) Data Quality
2 12 (3.69%) GDPR
3 9 (2.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 7 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.62%) QA
6 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 40 (12.31%) Docker
2 13 (4.00%) HDFS
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (17.85%) Kubernetes
2 27 (8.31%) Terraform
3 2 (0.62%) Ansible
3 2 (0.62%) Grafana
3 2 (0.62%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (0.62%) Kibana
3 2 (0.62%) logstash
3 2 (0.62%) Oozie
3 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
3 2 (0.62%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 44 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.31%) ServiceNow
3 32 (9.85%) Databricks
4 21 (6.46%) Oracle
5 18 (5.54%) Google
5 18 (5.54%) Informatica
6 15 (4.62%) MuleSoft
7 14 (4.31%) Salesforce
8 8 (2.46%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.54%) SAP
10 4 (1.23%) Sybase
11 3 (0.92%) Talend
12 2 (0.62%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.62%) MapR
12 2 (0.62%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.62%) Red Hat
13 1 (0.31%) Alteryx
13 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.31%) IBM
13 1 (0.31%) Tagetik