Big Data Engineer
UK

The median Big Data Engineer salary in the UK is £87,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 498 895 988
Rank change year-on-year +397 +93 -233
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 444 75 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.45% 0.072% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.078% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 54 33 113
10th Percentile £70,375 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £80,294 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.98% +3.60% -3.13%
75th Percentile £118,750 £106,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £143,750 £109,250 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £80,000 £75,876 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.44% +16.73% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer.

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data Engineer in the UK

Big Data Engineer
Top 9 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
UK excluding London +360 411 £80,000 +5.44% 2
Scotland - 390 - - 1
England +92 54 £87,500 +8.98% 3
London +102 33 £112,500 +40.11% 2
Work from Home +115 32 £112,500 +87.50% 1
South West +8 17 £80,000 -21.38% 1
East of England - 3 £80,000 -
West Midlands +26 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Midlands +8 1 £72,500 +52.63%

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 444 (100.00%) Big Data
2 421 (94.82%) Finance
3 396 (89.19%) Apache Spark
4 391 (88.06%) Agile
4 391 (88.06%) Software Engineering
5 390 (87.84%) Law
5 390 (87.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 356 (80.18%) CI/CD
7 347 (78.15%) Operational Stability
7 347 (78.15%) SDLC
8 291 (65.54%) SQL
9 290 (65.32%) Java
10 282 (63.51%) AWS
11 248 (55.86%) NoSQL
12 228 (51.35%) Scala
13 227 (51.13%) Legal
13 227 (51.13%) Risk Management
14 186 (41.89%) Python
15 179 (40.32%) Hadoop
16 176 (39.64%) Community of Practice
17 163 (36.71%) Marketing
18 160 (36.04%) Performance Tuning
19 156 (35.14%) Cloud Native
20 137 (30.86%) Machine Learning
21 136 (30.63%) Artificial Intelligence
22 133 (29.95%) Visualisation
22 133 (29.95%) Continuous Improvement
22 133 (29.95%) Algorithms
23 119 (26.80%) Apache
24 111 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 396 (89.19%) Apache Spark
2 119 (26.80%) Apache
3 110 (24.77%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (3.83%) Jupyter
4 17 (3.83%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 282 (63.51%) AWS
2 52 (11.71%) Serverless
3 51 (11.49%) Amazon EC2
3 51 (11.49%) Amazon ECS
3 51 (11.49%) Amazon EKS
3 51 (11.49%) Amazon EMR
3 51 (11.49%) Amazon SQS
3 51 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
4 30 (6.76%) dbt
4 30 (6.76%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.83%) Amazon S3
5 17 (3.83%) MinIO
5 17 (3.83%) OpenShift
6 9 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.45%) Azure
8 1 (0.23%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (100.00%) Big Data
2 248 (55.86%) NoSQL
3 179 (40.32%) Hadoop
4 51 (11.49%) Electronic Patient Records
5 46 (10.36%) Apache Hive
6 32 (7.21%) Data Lake
7 31 (6.98%) HBase
8 30 (6.76%) Amazon Athena
8 30 (6.76%) Apache Arrow
8 30 (6.76%) Dremio
9 17 (3.83%) Presto
10 16 (3.60%) Impala
11 2 (0.45%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 48 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 30 (6.76%) Bitbucket Server
2 30 (6.76%) Git
3 17 (3.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 421 (94.82%) Finance
2 390 (87.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 390 (87.84%) Law
3 227 (51.13%) Legal
4 163 (36.71%) Marketing
5 108 (24.32%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.23%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (18.02%) PySpark
2 43 (9.68%) Spring
2 43 (9.68%) Spring Boot
3 42 (9.46%) Kafka
4 30 (6.76%) gRPC
4 30 (6.76%) Protocol Buffers
5 18 (4.05%) Apache NiFi
5 18 (4.05%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (3.83%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (3.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (35.14%) Cloud Native
2 133 (29.95%) Algorithms
3 43 (9.68%) Legacy Code
4 30 (6.76%) Clustering
4 30 (6.76%) Hedge funds
5 17 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 16 (3.60%) Public Cloud
7 9 (2.03%) Onboarding
8 4 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.76%) Unix
2 20 (4.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (88.06%) Agile
1 391 (88.06%) Software Engineering
2 356 (80.18%) CI/CD
3 347 (78.15%) Operational Stability
3 347 (78.15%) SDLC
4 227 (51.13%) Risk Management
5 176 (39.64%) Community of Practice
6 160 (36.04%) Performance Tuning
7 137 (30.86%) Machine Learning
8 136 (30.63%) Artificial Intelligence
9 133 (29.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (29.95%) Visualisation
10 111 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
11 90 (20.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 69 (15.54%) Decision-Making
13 57 (12.84%) Technical Leadership
14 51 (11.49%) Tech Ops
15 47 (10.59%) DevOps
16 43 (9.68%) Data Modelling
17 41 (9.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 291 (65.54%) SQL
2 290 (65.32%) Java
3 228 (51.35%) Scala
4 186 (41.89%) Python
5 30 (6.76%) Go
5 30 (6.76%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.76%) PL/SQL
6 17 (3.83%) Bash
6 17 (3.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (4.05%) DV Cleared
1 18 (4.05%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.23%) Degree
2 1 (0.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.60%) SLA
2 1 (0.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (6.76%) HDFS
2 21 (4.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 90 (20.27%) Kubernetes
2 77 (17.34%) Terraform
3 47 (10.59%) Prometheus
4 18 (4.05%) Ansible
5 17 (3.83%) Grafana
5 17 (3.83%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 53 (11.94%) Databricks
2 30 (6.76%) Informatica
3 1 (0.23%) Cloudera
3 1 (0.23%) Google