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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 163 171
Rank change year-on-year -111 +8 -9
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 582 1,030 1,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 2.14% 2.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.19% 10.94% 9.84%
Number of salaries quoted 182 435 625
10th Percentile £43,054 £47,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £86,500 £90,700
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +14.29%

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 9,401 9,414 17,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.40% 19.55% 22.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,708 6,273 10,171
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,627 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Scotland +46 303 £75,000 +7.14% 5
South West -27 97 £80,000 +14.29% 14
South East -116 63 £54,500 -22.14% 18
North of England -183 62 £56,509 -19.27% 7
North West -134 50 £58,254 -16.78% 2
Midlands -110 32 £62,500 -3.85% 8
West Midlands -73 22 £62,500 -3.85% 7
East of England -33 17 £80,000 +22.14% 1
East Midlands -50 10 £52,000 -30.67% 1
North East -13 9 £42,500 -36.80% 3
Wales -2 8 £65,766 -6.05% 1
Yorkshire -56 3 £55,000 -21.43% 2
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
1 383 (65.81%) Apache Spark
2 127 (21.82%) Apache
3 75 (12.89%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (2.75%) Jupyter
4 16 (2.75%) nginx
5 8 (1.37%) SAS
6 7 (1.20%) Kinematics
7 5 (0.86%) Luigi
8 2 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.03%) Trello
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 313 (53.78%) AWS
2 144 (24.74%) Azure
3 75 (12.89%) GCP
3 75 (12.89%) Serverless
4 64 (11.00%) AWS Lambda
5 58 (9.97%) Amazon EKS
6 50 (8.59%) OpenShift
7 49 (8.42%) Power Platform
8 33 (5.67%) Amazon SQS
9 30 (5.15%) Amazon EMR
9 30 (5.15%) SaaS
10 29 (4.98%) Amazon EC2
10 29 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (4.98%) AWS CloudFormation
11 24 (4.12%) Amazon S3
12 19 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 19 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
13 17 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
14 16 (2.75%) MinIO
15 14 (2.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.98%) AMQP
2 16 (2.75%) Firewall
3 9 (1.55%) Internet
4 7 (1.20%) RFID
5 4 (0.69%) Modbus
5 4 (0.69%) SNMP
6 3 (0.52%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.34%) 4G
7 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.34%) Network Security
7 2 (0.34%) RS-232
8 1 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (34.19%) NoSQL
2 176 (30.24%) Hadoop
3 49 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (7.73%) Apache Hive
5 38 (6.53%) Power BI
6 34 (5.84%) Relational Database
7 33 (5.67%) Data Lake
8 31 (5.33%) HBase
9 29 (4.98%) Cloudera CDH
9 29 (4.98%) Electronic Patient Records
10 27 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (3.26%) MongoDB
11 19 (3.26%) SQL Server
11 19 (3.26%) Tableau
12 16 (2.75%) Presto
13 15 (2.58%) Impala
13 15 (2.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (2.41%) Metadata
15 12 (2.06%) Redis
Development Applications
1 63 (10.82%) Git
2 52 (8.93%) Jenkins
3 30 (5.15%) Bitbucket Server
4 16 (2.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (1.89%) JIRA
6 7 (1.20%) GitLab
7 5 (0.86%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.69%) MLflow
8 4 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.52%) Gatling
9 3 (0.52%) JUnit
9 3 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.52%) Selenium
9 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.34%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.34%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
10 2 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 304 (52.23%) Finance
2 297 (51.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 277 (47.59%) Law
4 146 (25.09%) Marketing
5 137 (23.54%) Legal
6 96 (16.49%) Social Skills
7 93 (15.98%) Influencing Skills
8 46 (7.90%) Aerospace
9 40 (6.87%) Analytical Skills
10 35 (6.01%) Financial Institution
11 19 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
13 14 (2.41%) Banking
14 12 (2.06%) Electronics
15 10 (1.72%) Retail
16 6 (1.03%) Public Sector
17 4 (0.69%) Automotive
17 4 (0.69%) Korean Language
18 3 (0.52%) Billing
18 3 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (49.83%) Software Engineer
2 262 (45.02%) Big Data Engineer
3 242 (41.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 187 (32.13%) Data Engineer
5 116 (19.93%) Scala Engineer
5 116 (19.93%) Scala Software Engineer
6 107 (18.38%) Lead
7 95 (16.32%) Lead Big Data Engineer
7 95 (16.32%) Lead Software Engineer
8 91 (15.64%) Senior
9 88 (15.12%) AWS Engineer
9 88 (15.12%) Java Engineer
10 86 (14.78%) AWS Software Engineer
11 85 (14.60%) Java Software Engineer
12 74 (12.71%) Python Engineer
13 73 (12.54%) Python Software Engineer
14 61 (10.48%) Java Scala Software Engineer
14 61 (10.48%) Lead Java Engineer
15 38 (6.53%) Lead Data Engineer
16 37 (6.36%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (14.60%) PySpark
2 59 (10.14%) Kafka
3 50 (8.59%) Spring
3 50 (8.59%) Spring Boot
4 45 (7.73%) RabbitMQ
5 43 (7.39%) Node.js
6 32 (5.50%) React
6 32 (5.50%) REST
7 30 (5.15%) AngularJS
8 29 (4.98%) gRPC
8 29 (4.98%) Material-UI
8 29 (4.98%) OpenAPI
8 29 (4.98%) Swagger
9 17 (2.92%) Apache NiFi
9 17 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
10 16 (2.75%) ActiveMQ
10 16 (2.75%) YAML
11 14 (2.41%) EDI
12 12 (2.06%) Pandas
13 10 (1.72%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 139 (23.88%) Cloud Native
2 108 (18.56%) Algorithms
3 21 (3.61%) Legacy Code
3 21 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 18 (3.09%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 14 (2.41%) Cyber Defence
7 13 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 13 (2.23%) IoT
8 12 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
9 11 (1.89%) NHS
9 11 (1.89%) Reinsurance
10 10 (1.72%) Data Centre
11 9 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
12 8 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
12 8 (1.37%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.20%) GNSS
14 6 (1.03%) PMI
15 5 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.60%) Linux
2 35 (6.01%) CentOS
2 35 (6.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 31 (5.33%) Debian
3 31 (5.33%) Ubuntu
4 30 (5.15%) Unix
5 12 (2.06%) Windows
6 6 (1.03%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.34%) Mesosphere
8 1 (0.17%) Android
8 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 398 (68.38%) Agile
2 339 (58.25%) Software Engineering
3 311 (53.44%) CI/CD
4 261 (44.85%) SDLC
5 222 (38.14%) Operational Stability
6 173 (29.73%) Machine Learning
7 154 (26.46%) Artificial Intelligence
8 151 (25.95%) Risk Management
9 129 (22.16%) Community of Practice
10 126 (21.65%) Performance Tuning
10 126 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
11 122 (20.96%) Visualisation
12 108 (18.56%) DevOps
13 104 (17.87%) Analytics
14 103 (17.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 84 (14.43%) Mentoring
16 75 (12.89%) Coaching
17 73 (12.54%) Data Science
18 72 (12.37%) Collaborative Working
18 72 (12.37%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 311 (53.44%) SQL
2 272 (46.74%) Python
3 244 (41.92%) Java
4 179 (30.76%) Scala
5 39 (6.70%) JavaScript
6 30 (5.15%) PL/SQL
7 25 (4.30%) Bash
8 23 (3.95%) C#
9 20 (3.44%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.92%) R
11 15 (2.58%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.89%) C
12 11 (1.89%) C++
13 9 (1.55%) Go
14 7 (1.20%) XAML
15 6 (1.03%) Ruby
16 5 (0.86%) PHP
17 4 (0.69%) Kotlin
17 4 (0.69%) Perl
17 4 (0.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 93 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 92 (15.81%) Degree
3 65 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 57 (9.79%) DV Cleared
5 44 (7.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (6.19%) Master's Degree
7 16 (2.75%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.89%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.55%) PhD
10 8 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
11 7 (1.20%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.03%) IIBA
13 5 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.52%) CCNA
14 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.52%) CISSP
14 3 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (7.56%) Data Quality
2 19 (3.26%) QA
3 15 (2.58%) GDPR
4 14 (2.41%) SLA
5 4 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (6.70%) Docker
2 31 (5.33%) HDFS
3 7 (1.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 115 (19.76%) Kubernetes
2 103 (17.70%) Terraform
3 67 (11.51%) Ansible
4 39 (6.70%) Puppet
5 20 (3.44%) Grafana
6 16 (2.75%) HAProxy
6 16 (2.75%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.69%) Cacti
7 4 (0.69%) Nagios
8 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.52%) Perfmon
8 3 (0.52%) Podman
9 2 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.17%) Kibana
10 1 (0.17%) logstash
10 1 (0.17%) Rancher
Vendors
1 96 (16.49%) Databricks
2 47 (8.08%) Google
2 47 (8.08%) Microsoft
3 32 (5.50%) Informatica
4 29 (4.98%) Red Hat
4 29 (4.98%) SaltStack
5 9 (1.55%) MuleSoft
6 7 (1.20%) SAP
7 5 (0.86%) webMethods
8 4 (0.69%) Dell
8 4 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.52%) Cisco
9 3 (0.52%) Citrix
9 3 (0.52%) Foundry
9 3 (0.52%) Oracle
9 3 (0.52%) Palantir
9 3 (0.52%) SnapLogic
9 3 (0.52%) Teradata
10 2 (0.34%) Thales
10 2 (0.34%) YouTube