Big Data Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 149 199
Rank change year-on-year -94 +50 -20
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 845 1,444 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.20% 2.35% 2.03%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.85% 12.05% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 221 491 553
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £87,500 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,335 11,988 16,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.56% 19.52% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8,208 6,968 10,461
10th Percentile £32,000 £33,996 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,313
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +78 565 £70,576 +0.82% 19
South West -45 100 £80,000 +14.29% 17
North of England -233 66 £55,000 -21.43% 26
North West -158 45 £55,000 -20.00% 17
East of England -58 37 £57,500 -11.54% 17
South East -186 37 £54,500 -22.14% 20
Midlands -120 24 £60,000 -11.11% 27
West Midlands -87 16 £62,500 - 21
North East -7 11 £42,500 -37.04%
Wales -9 10 £44,316 -36.69% 4
Yorkshire -109 10 £87,500 +25.00% 9
East Midlands -44 8 £60,000 -20.00% 6
Northern Ireland +30 6 £115,000 +31.43% 5
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
1 598 (70.77%) Apache Spark
2 172 (20.36%) Apache
3 89 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.13%) Jupyter
4 18 (2.13%) nginx
5 15 (1.78%) SAS
6 6 (0.71%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.24%) Kinematics
8 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.71%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.71%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 479 (56.69%) AWS
2 128 (15.15%) Azure
3 109 (12.90%) GCP
4 94 (11.12%) Serverless
5 84 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
6 75 (8.88%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (8.76%) Amazon SQS
8 63 (7.46%) SaaS
9 62 (7.34%) Amazon EMR
10 51 (6.04%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (6.04%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.80%) Power Platform
12 47 (5.56%) Amazon S3
12 47 (5.56%) OpenShift
13 30 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
14 25 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 23 (2.72%) Google Docs
15 23 (2.72%) Lucidchart
15 23 (2.72%) Miro
15 23 (2.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.84%) AMQP
2 18 (2.13%) DSL
3 14 (1.66%) Firewall
4 4 (0.47%) Internet
4 4 (0.47%) RS-232
4 4 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.36%) MQTT
5 3 (0.36%) Network Security
6 2 (0.24%) 4G
6 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.24%) RFID
6 2 (0.24%) Wireless
7 1 (0.12%) HTTP
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (39.76%) NoSQL
2 269 (31.83%) Hadoop
3 69 (8.17%) Apache Hive
4 60 (7.10%) Data Lake
5 58 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
6 51 (6.04%) Electronic Patient Records
7 39 (4.62%) HBase
7 39 (4.62%) Power BI
8 36 (4.26%) SQL Server
8 36 (4.26%) Tableau
9 33 (3.91%) Relational Database
10 30 (3.55%) MongoDB
11 26 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
12 24 (2.84%) Cloudera CDH
13 23 (2.72%) Redis
13 23 (2.72%) Scylla
14 19 (2.25%) Flink
15 18 (2.13%) DB2
15 18 (2.13%) Presto
16 17 (2.01%) Impala
Development Applications
1 84 (9.94%) Git
2 59 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 37 (4.38%) Bitbucket Server
4 18 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.66%) JIRA
6 7 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.71%) Jasmine
7 6 (0.71%) Karma Test Runner
7 6 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.47%) Subversion
8 4 (0.47%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) Maven
10 2 (0.24%) MLflow
10 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
General
1 558 (66.04%) Finance
2 543 (64.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 505 (59.76%) Law
4 265 (31.36%) Marketing
5 238 (28.17%) Legal
6 165 (19.53%) Influencing Skills
7 91 (10.77%) Banking
8 89 (10.53%) Social Skills
9 76 (8.99%) Financial Institution
10 54 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
11 37 (4.38%) Aerospace
12 30 (3.55%) Retail
13 27 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (2.84%) Investment Banking
15 19 (2.25%) Private Banking
16 10 (1.18%) Korean Language
17 8 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (0.95%) Public Sector
18 6 (0.71%) Electronics
18 6 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 482 (57.04%) Software Engineer
2 412 (48.76%) Big Data Engineer
3 390 (46.15%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 286 (33.85%) Data Engineer
5 209 (24.73%) Scala Engineer
5 209 (24.73%) Scala Software Engineer
6 181 (21.42%) Java Engineer
7 178 (21.07%) Java Software Engineer
8 162 (19.17%) Lead
9 149 (17.63%) Lead Software Engineer
10 148 (17.51%) Lead Big Data Engineer
11 145 (17.16%) AWS Engineer
12 144 (17.04%) AWS Software Engineer
13 119 (14.08%) Java Scala Software Engineer
14 116 (13.73%) Senior
15 104 (12.31%) Python Engineer
16 96 (11.36%) Lead Java Engineer
17 95 (11.24%) Python Software Engineer
18 58 (6.86%) Architect
19 57 (6.75%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (14.32%) Kafka
2 107 (12.66%) Spring
3 99 (11.72%) Spring Boot
4 93 (11.01%) PySpark
5 54 (6.39%) AngularJS
6 42 (4.97%) RabbitMQ
7 39 (4.62%) React
8 31 (3.67%) REST
9 30 (3.55%) Node.js
9 30 (3.55%) OpenAPI
9 30 (3.55%) Swagger
10 24 (2.84%) gRPC
10 24 (2.84%) Material-UI
11 23 (2.72%) GraphQL
12 22 (2.60%) .NET
13 20 (2.37%) Apache NiFi
14 18 (2.13%) ActiveMQ
14 18 (2.13%) Elastic Stack
14 18 (2.13%) YAML
15 16 (1.89%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 241 (28.52%) Cloud Native
2 198 (23.43%) Algorithms
3 53 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 53 (6.27%) Public Cloud
4 46 (5.44%) Management Information System
5 43 (5.09%) Legacy Code
6 29 (3.43%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.60%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (2.01%) Robotics
11 14 (1.66%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.54%) Cyber Defence
13 12 (1.42%) IoT
14 11 (1.30%) Low-Code
15 9 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
16 8 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
17 6 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
17 6 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.59%) Linux
2 37 (4.38%) Unix
3 25 (2.96%) CentOS
3 25 (2.96%) Debian
3 25 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (2.96%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.42%) Windows
5 6 (0.71%) Mesosphere
5 6 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
7 2 (0.24%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (73.96%) Agile
2 594 (70.30%) Software Engineering
3 496 (58.70%) CI/CD
4 461 (54.56%) SDLC
5 401 (47.46%) Operational Stability
6 272 (32.19%) Machine Learning
7 256 (30.30%) Artificial Intelligence
8 243 (28.76%) Risk Management
9 234 (27.69%) Performance Tuning
10 231 (27.34%) Community of Practice
11 192 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
11 192 (22.72%) Visualisation
12 175 (20.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 126 (14.91%) Mentoring
14 121 (14.32%) Decision-Making
15 116 (13.73%) Data Modelling
16 108 (12.78%) Analytics
17 107 (12.66%) Coaching
17 107 (12.66%) Microservices
18 99 (11.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 496 (58.70%) SQL
2 472 (55.86%) Java
3 362 (42.84%) Python
4 346 (40.95%) Scala
5 56 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 55 (6.51%) PL/SQL
7 42 (4.97%) Bash
8 35 (4.14%) Go
9 25 (2.96%) C#
10 22 (2.60%) R
11 18 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 18 (2.13%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.42%) C
13 8 (0.95%) Ruby
14 7 (0.83%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.71%) PHP
16 5 (0.59%) C++
17 4 (0.47%) Embedded C
18 3 (0.36%) Kotlin
19 2 (0.24%) Rust
Qualifications
1 89 (10.53%) Degree
2 74 (8.76%) Security Cleared
3 49 (5.80%) DV Cleared
4 45 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 23 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (2.49%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.42%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (0.95%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.71%) IIBA
11 5 (0.59%) CCNA
11 5 (0.59%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (0.59%) CISSP
12 4 (0.47%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.47%) PhD
13 3 (0.36%) CISM
13 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.02%) SLA
2 21 (2.49%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.25%) GDPR
4 11 (1.30%) QA
5 10 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.71%) SEPA
6 6 (0.71%) WAI
7 4 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) GMP
8 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (7.93%) Docker
2 38 (4.50%) HDFS
3 6 (0.71%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 188 (22.25%) Kubernetes
2 100 (11.83%) Terraform
3 64 (7.57%) Ansible
4 37 (4.38%) Puppet
5 19 (2.25%) Grafana
5 19 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.13%) HAProxy
7 7 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 6 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
10 3 (0.36%) Perfmon
11 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.12%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.12%) Podman
11 1 (0.12%) Rancher
Vendors
1 121 (14.32%) Databricks
2 62 (7.34%) Google
3 56 (6.63%) Microsoft
4 38 (4.50%) Informatica
5 27 (3.20%) Oracle
6 24 (2.84%) Dell
6 24 (2.84%) Red Hat
6 24 (2.84%) SaltStack
7 18 (2.13%) Alteryx
7 18 (2.13%) Cognos
7 18 (2.13%) Sybase
8 10 (1.18%) Salesforce
9 9 (1.07%) Teradata
10 8 (0.95%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.83%) YouTube
12 6 (0.71%) VMware
13 4 (0.47%) Cisco
14 3 (0.36%) Citrix
14 3 (0.36%) SAP
14 3 (0.36%) SnapLogic