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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 239 136
Rank change year-on-year -113 -103 -23
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 414 1,199 2,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 1.21% 2.59%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.34% 6.60% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 214 485 1,051
10th Percentile £25,313 £43,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £56,250 £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 £82,500 £110,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £122,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.77% -7.14% +3.70%

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 7,749 18,179 21,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.05% 18.36% 21.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,056 12,533 13,387
10th Percentile £36,875 £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 £96,539 £102,500
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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +11 369 £65,000 -18.75% 743
UK excluding London -82 299 £58,000 -10.77% 344
Work from Home +70 218 £51,250 -41.43% 368
London -65 98 £67,500 -28.95% 492
South East +131 81 £65,000 +19.27% 123
South West +73 60 £25,625 -67.97% 27
North of England +44 53 £50,000 -9.09% 83
East of England +53 47 £85,000 +47.83% 35
Yorkshire +83 27 £25,625 -70.71% 28
Midlands +63 26 £61,500 +2.50% 35
North West -20 26 £55,000 - 45
Scotland -94 23 £25,625 -63.69% 32
West Midlands +58 20 £60,250 +0.42% 23
East Midlands +33 6 £75,000 +25.00% 11
Northern Ireland +45 5 - - 9
Wales +34 4 £61,250 +38.21% 6

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 84 (20.29%) Apache Spark
2 26 (6.28%) Apache
2 26 (6.28%) SharePoint
3 23 (5.56%) Jupyter
4 16 (3.86%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.48%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.24%) Luigi
7 1 (0.24%) nginx
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 25 (6.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) Simulink
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.24%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.24%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 116 (28.02%) AWS
2 115 (27.78%) Azure
3 78 (18.84%) Power Platform
4 48 (11.59%) GCP
5 40 (9.66%) SaaS
5 40 (9.66%) Snowflake
6 38 (9.18%) Serverless
7 29 (7.00%) AWS Lambda
8 27 (6.52%) PowerApps
9 26 (6.28%) Power Automate
10 24 (5.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 21 (5.07%) Amazon S3
13 19 (4.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (4.11%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (3.86%) Amazon SQS
15 16 (3.86%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (3.62%) Amazon EventBridge
16 15 (3.62%) Boomi
17 14 (3.38%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.97%) Internet
2 3 (0.72%) Firewall
2 3 (0.72%) Network Security
3 2 (0.48%) NAS
3 2 (0.48%) SAN
3 2 (0.48%) VLAN
3 2 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (18.84%) Power BI
2 76 (18.36%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 54 (13.04%) Tableau
5 50 (12.08%) Hadoop
6 37 (8.94%) NoSQL
7 23 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 20 (4.83%) BigQuery
9 18 (4.35%) Apache Hive
10 16 (3.86%) GIS
10 16 (3.86%) Metadata
10 16 (3.86%) MongoDB
11 15 (3.62%) MySQL
11 15 (3.62%) SQL Server
12 13 (3.14%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
14 9 (2.17%) Delta Lake
14 9 (2.17%) Looker
14 9 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (1.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (4.35%) Git
2 15 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.21%) JIRA
3 5 (1.21%) JMeter
3 5 (1.21%) Selenium
4 4 (0.97%) Locust
4 4 (0.97%) Postman
4 4 (0.97%) Robot Framework
5 3 (0.72%) ERwin
5 3 (0.72%) GitLab
5 3 (0.72%) webpack
6 2 (0.48%) Babel
6 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.48%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.48%) Mocha
6 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.48%) rollup.js
7 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.24%) kappa
General
1 133 (32.13%) Finance
2 121 (29.23%) Social Skills
3 106 (25.60%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (19.08%) Banking
5 61 (14.73%) Law
6 57 (13.77%) Advertising
7 55 (13.29%) Marketing
8 51 (12.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (8.21%) Public Sector
10 17 (4.11%) Retail
11 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.69%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.21%) Automotive
13 5 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Electronics
14 2 (0.48%) Front Office
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
14 2 (0.48%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 107 (25.85%) Senior
2 70 (16.91%) Lead
3 61 (14.73%) Data Scientist
4 60 (14.49%) Analyst
5 58 (14.01%) Data Engineer
6 50 (12.08%) Senior Manager
7 49 (11.84%) Account Manager
7 49 (11.84%) Senior Account Manager
8 47 (11.35%) Data Analyst
9 36 (8.70%) Architect
10 27 (6.52%) Senior Data Scientist
11 22 (5.31%) Software Engineer
12 20 (4.83%) Consultant
13 18 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (4.11%) Analytics Consultant
14 17 (4.11%) Senior Data Engineer
15 14 (3.38%) Data Architect
15 14 (3.38%) GIS Consultant
15 14 (3.38%) Spatial Consultant
16 13 (3.14%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (10.14%) Kafka
2 22 (5.31%) RESTful
3 18 (4.35%) PySpark
4 15 (3.62%) JWT
4 15 (3.62%) OAuth
4 15 (3.62%) Spring
4 15 (3.62%) Spring Boot
5 14 (3.38%) Pandas
6 12 (2.90%) gRPC
7 9 (2.17%) React
7 9 (2.17%) REST
8 7 (1.69%) pytest
8 7 (1.69%) YAML
9 5 (1.21%) Akka
9 5 (1.21%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.21%) HTML
9 5 (1.21%) Node.js
9 5 (1.21%) scikit-learn
9 5 (1.21%) TensorFlow
9 5 (1.21%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 60 (14.49%) Algorithms
2 49 (11.84%) Digital Media
2 49 (11.84%) Marketing Technology
3 46 (11.11%) Cyberattack
4 23 (5.56%) Data Structures
5 19 (4.59%) Product Ownership
5 19 (4.59%) Public Cloud
6 14 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.14%) Reference Data
8 12 (2.90%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.90%) Replication
9 7 (1.69%) Robotics
10 6 (1.45%) FMCG
10 6 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 4 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.72%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.48%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.86%) Linux
2 6 (1.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.48%) CentOS
3 2 (0.48%) Debian
3 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.24%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (50.72%) Analytics
2 154 (37.20%) Visualisation
3 143 (34.54%) Artificial Intelligence
4 123 (29.71%) Data Science
5 115 (27.78%) Data Analytics
6 114 (27.54%) Computer Science
7 110 (26.57%) Machine Learning
8 105 (25.36%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (25.12%) Project Management
10 100 (24.15%) Business Intelligence
11 95 (22.95%) Mathematics
12 91 (21.98%) ETL
12 91 (21.98%) Statistics
13 90 (21.74%) Data Analysis
14 86 (20.77%) DevOps
15 80 (19.32%) Data Engineering
16 78 (18.84%) Mentoring
16 78 (18.84%) Predictive Modelling
17 77 (18.60%) Data Governance
18 73 (17.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 171 (41.30%) SQL
2 150 (36.23%) Python
3 106 (25.60%) Java
4 36 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 33 (7.97%) C#
6 18 (4.35%) Scala
7 12 (2.90%) Bash
8 11 (2.66%) PowerShell
9 10 (2.42%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.45%) R
12 5 (1.21%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.72%) C++
13 3 (0.72%) Go
13 3 (0.72%) PHP
14 2 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.48%) Ruby
15 1 (0.24%) C
15 1 (0.24%) Perl
15 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 162 (39.13%) Degree
2 74 (17.87%) Security Cleared
3 46 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 45 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 23 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
6 13 (3.14%) SC Cleared
7 12 (2.90%) Azure Certification
8 10 (2.42%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.45%) DBS Check
10 5 (1.21%) PhD
11 4 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.72%) APMG
12 3 (0.72%) CCIE
12 3 (0.72%) CCNP
12 3 (0.72%) CCSE
12 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.72%) CISM
12 3 (0.72%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.42%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.42%) GDPR
3 5 (1.21%) QA
4 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.48%) NIST
4 2 (0.48%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.24%) MiFID
System Software
1 52 (12.56%) Docker
2 10 (2.42%) HDFS
3 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 37 (8.94%) Terraform
3 4 (0.97%) Oozie
4 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 3 (0.72%) Grafana
4 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.48%) Hadoop YARN
5 2 (0.48%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.24%) Argo
6 1 (0.24%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 82 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 48 (11.59%) Databricks
3 41 (9.90%) ServiceNow
4 30 (7.25%) Google
5 21 (5.07%) Oracle
6 19 (4.59%) Informatica
7 15 (3.62%) Alteryx
7 15 (3.62%) MuleSoft
8 14 (3.38%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.69%) SAP
10 5 (1.21%) Cloudera
11 4 (0.97%) Sybase
11 4 (0.97%) Talend
11 4 (0.97%) Teradata
12 3 (0.72%) Adobe
12 3 (0.72%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.72%) Cisco
12 3 (0.72%) F5
12 3 (0.72%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.72%) Palo Alto