Big Data Jobs

Big Data
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 243 127
Rank change year-on-year -84 -116 -15
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 433 1,184 2,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 1.20% 2.72%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.82% 6.53% 12.62%
Number of salaries quoted 231 478 1,128
10th Percentile £25,313 £43,750 £50,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £87,500 £110,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £102,410 £120,750 £112,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,250 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -8.85% -7.14% +7.69%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,436 18,137 22,401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.26% 18.44% 21.54%
Number of salaries quoted 5,214 12,594 13,904
10th Percentile £37,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,725 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £95,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +59 387 £65,000 -18.75% 531
UK excluding London -49 303 £59,250 -8.85% 192
Work from Home +119 232 £57,500 -32.35% 264
London -49 112 £75,000 -22.08% 352
South East +160 84 £62,500 +14.68% 44
South West +76 60 £25,625 -67.97% 22
North of England +72 54 £52,500 -4.55% 56
East of England +66 45 £85,000 +47.83% 15
Midlands +65 28 £61,500 +2.50% 33
Yorkshire +87 27 £25,625 -70.71% 17
North West +15 27 £58,000 +5.45% 31
Scotland -82 24 £31,563 -55.28% 18
West Midlands +57 22 £60,250 -3.60% 23
East Midlands +47 6 £75,000 +25.00% 9
Northern Ireland +35 5 - - 2
Wales +34 4 £61,250 +38.21% 7

Big Data
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 92 (21.25%) Apache Spark
2 29 (6.70%) Apache
3 26 (6.00%) SharePoint
4 23 (5.31%) Jupyter
5 19 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (5.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.69%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.23%) Simulink
4 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.23%) SPSS
4 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (0.69%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 122 (28.18%) AWS
2 121 (27.94%) Azure
3 82 (18.94%) Power Platform
4 56 (12.93%) GCP
5 42 (9.70%) Snowflake
6 41 (9.47%) Serverless
7 40 (9.24%) SaaS
8 31 (7.16%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (6.24%) PowerApps
10 26 (6.00%) Power Automate
11 25 (5.77%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (5.08%) Amazon S3
14 19 (4.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 18 (4.16%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
16 16 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
17 15 (3.46%) Amazon EventBridge
17 15 (3.46%) Boomi
18 14 (3.23%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.92%) Internet
2 3 (0.69%) Firewall
2 3 (0.69%) Network Security
3 2 (0.46%) NAS
3 2 (0.46%) SAN
3 2 (0.46%) VLAN
3 2 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (18.94%) Power BI
2 81 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (17.32%) Data Lake
4 55 (12.70%) Hadoop
5 54 (12.47%) Tableau
6 42 (9.70%) NoSQL
7 22 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (4.62%) BigQuery
9 19 (4.39%) Relational Database
10 18 (4.16%) Apache Hive
10 18 (4.16%) SQL Server
11 17 (3.93%) GIS
11 17 (3.93%) MySQL
12 16 (3.70%) Metadata
12 16 (3.70%) MongoDB
13 11 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (2.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 9 (2.08%) Delta Lake
14 9 (2.08%) Looker
14 9 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (4.85%) Git
2 16 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.39%) JIRA
4 5 (1.15%) JMeter
4 5 (1.15%) Selenium
5 4 (0.92%) Locust
5 4 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.92%) Postman
5 4 (0.92%) Robot Framework
5 4 (0.92%) webpack
6 3 (0.69%) ERwin
6 3 (0.69%) GitLab
6 3 (0.69%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.46%) Babel
7 2 (0.46%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.46%) Mocha
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.46%) rollup.js
7 2 (0.46%) Sinon.JS
General
1 142 (32.79%) Finance
2 126 (29.10%) Social Skills
3 103 (23.79%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (19.17%) Banking
5 61 (14.09%) Law
6 57 (13.16%) Advertising
7 55 (12.70%) Marketing
8 51 (11.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (7.85%) Public Sector
10 17 (3.93%) Retail
11 7 (1.62%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.62%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.15%) Automotive
13 4 (0.92%) Front Office
13 4 (0.92%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.69%) Legal
14 3 (0.69%) Local Government
15 2 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.46%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 113 (26.10%) Senior
2 72 (16.63%) Lead
3 64 (14.78%) Data Engineer
4 61 (14.09%) Data Scientist
5 60 (13.86%) Analyst
6 51 (11.78%) Senior Manager
7 49 (11.32%) Account Manager
7 49 (11.32%) Senior Account Manager
8 47 (10.85%) Data Analyst
9 41 (9.47%) Architect
10 27 (6.24%) Senior Data Scientist
11 25 (5.77%) Software Engineer
12 21 (4.85%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (4.62%) Consultant
13 20 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
14 17 (3.93%) Analytics Consultant
15 15 (3.46%) Data Architect
16 14 (3.23%) Developer
16 14 (3.23%) GIS Consultant
16 14 (3.23%) Spatial Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (10.39%) Kafka
2 23 (5.31%) RESTful
3 18 (4.16%) Pandas
4 17 (3.93%) PySpark
5 16 (3.70%) Spring
5 16 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 15 (3.46%) JWT
6 15 (3.46%) OAuth
7 12 (2.77%) gRPC
7 12 (2.77%) REST
8 11 (2.54%) React
9 8 (1.85%) .NET
9 8 (1.85%) PyTorch
9 8 (1.85%) TensorFlow
10 7 (1.62%) pytest
10 7 (1.62%) scikit-learn
10 7 (1.62%) YAML
11 6 (1.39%) CSS
11 6 (1.39%) HTML
11 6 (1.39%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (13.86%) Algorithms
2 49 (11.32%) Digital Media
2 49 (11.32%) Marketing Technology
3 46 (10.62%) Cyberattack
4 26 (6.00%) Data Structures
5 19 (4.39%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.39%) Public Cloud
6 18 (4.16%) Cloud Native
7 16 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (3.00%) Management Information System
8 13 (3.00%) Reference Data
9 12 (2.77%) Replication
10 7 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.62%) Robotics
11 6 (1.39%) FMCG
12 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.92%) Onboarding
12 4 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 3 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
13 3 (0.69%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.70%) Linux
2 6 (1.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.46%) CentOS
3 2 (0.46%) Debian
3 2 (0.46%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.23%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (49.42%) Analytics
2 158 (36.49%) Visualisation
3 146 (33.72%) Artificial Intelligence
4 129 (29.79%) Data Science
5 119 (27.48%) Machine Learning
6 118 (27.25%) Computer Science
7 117 (27.02%) Data Analytics
8 108 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (24.48%) Project Management
10 105 (24.25%) Business Intelligence
11 99 (22.86%) ETL
12 93 (21.48%) Mathematics
13 90 (20.79%) Data Analysis
13 90 (20.79%) Statistics
14 88 (20.32%) DevOps
15 87 (20.09%) Data Engineering
16 82 (18.94%) Mentoring
17 78 (18.01%) CI/CD
17 78 (18.01%) Data Governance
17 78 (18.01%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 182 (42.03%) SQL
2 165 (38.11%) Python
3 114 (26.33%) Java
4 37 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 34 (7.85%) C#
6 22 (5.08%) Scala
7 12 (2.77%) Bash
7 12 (2.77%) PL/SQL
7 12 (2.77%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.85%) R
9 5 (1.15%) C++
9 5 (1.15%) Go
9 5 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.92%) PHP
11 2 (0.46%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) Rust
12 1 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 166 (38.34%) Degree
2 75 (17.32%) Security Cleared
3 48 (11.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 46 (10.62%) DV Cleared
5 23 (5.31%) Master's Degree
5 23 (5.31%) Numerate Degree
6 13 (3.00%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.54%) Azure Certification
8 9 (2.08%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.39%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.92%) PhD
11 3 (0.69%) APMG
11 3 (0.69%) CCIE
11 3 (0.69%) CCNP
11 3 (0.69%) CCSE
11 3 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.69%) CISM
11 3 (0.69%) CISSP
11 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.70%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.23%) GDPR
3 10 (2.31%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.92%) QA
5 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.46%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 55 (12.70%) Docker
2 10 (2.31%) HDFS
3 2 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (16.17%) Kubernetes
2 38 (8.78%) Terraform
3 4 (0.92%) Oozie
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Grafana
4 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.46%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.46%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.23%) Argo
6 1 (0.23%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 82 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 50 (11.55%) Databricks
3 41 (9.47%) ServiceNow
4 33 (7.62%) Google
5 24 (5.54%) Oracle
6 22 (5.08%) Informatica
7 15 (3.46%) Alteryx
7 15 (3.46%) MuleSoft
8 14 (3.23%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.62%) SAP
10 6 (1.39%) Teradata
11 5 (1.15%) Cloudera
11 5 (1.15%) Talend
12 4 (0.92%) Sybase
13 3 (0.69%) Adobe
13 3 (0.69%) CheckPoint
13 3 (0.69%) Cisco
13 3 (0.69%) F5
13 3 (0.69%) Fortinet
13 3 (0.69%) Palo Alto