Data Mining Jobs

Data Mining
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 607 703 711
Rank change year-on-year +96 +8 -5
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 115 206 204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.45% 1.16% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 39 117 133
10th Percentile £40,750 £26,500 £34,778
25th Percentile £49,125 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -17.78% +8.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £66,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% -14.62% +13.54%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining 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 7,939 17,797 19,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.29% 16.75% 21.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,943 12,109 12,754
10th Percentile £35,050 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,182 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 6 months to 7 July 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 +71 111 £55,000 -3.08% 350
UK excluding London +140 81 £55,000 -0.90% 255
South East +109 47 £47,500 -17.39% 51
Work from Home +125 40 £55,000 -6.38% 33
London +43 32 £76,250 +31.47% 159
South West +104 21 £62,500 +13.64% 19
Midlands +71 7 £55,000 -4.35% 48
West Midlands +55 6 £55,000 -15.38% 31
North of England +18 4 £55,000 +7.32% 77
Yorkshire +43 2 £67,500 +170.00% 28
Wales +36 2 - - 15
North West -32 2 £55,000 +10.00% 40
East Midlands +46 1 £80,000 +39.13% 17

Data Mining
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 6 (5.22%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.48%) Apache
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Synapse
3 2 (1.74%) Jupyter
3 2 (1.74%) R Markdown
3 2 (1.74%) SAS
Applications
1 27 (23.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (18.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.74%) Maya
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.87%) Azure
2 41 (35.65%) Power Platform
3 30 (26.09%) Vertex AI
4 18 (15.65%) GCP
5 16 (13.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (13.04%) AWS
7 14 (12.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (7.83%) Snowflake
9 4 (3.48%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.48%) Stackdriver
10 3 (2.61%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.61%) Google Workspace
10 3 (2.61%) Matillion
10 3 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.61%) Serverless
11 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.74%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (35.65%) Power BI
2 18 (15.65%) BusinessObjects
3 14 (12.17%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (7.83%) Data Lake
5 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
6 7 (6.09%) Big Data
6 7 (6.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (6.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.48%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.48%) OLAP
7 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (2.61%) Metadata
9 2 (1.74%) Apache Ignite
9 2 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.74%) Tableau
10 1 (0.87%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.74%) Postman
2 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (74.78%) Analytical Skills
2 69 (60.00%) Retail
3 63 (54.78%) Social Skills
4 41 (35.65%) Law
5 18 (15.65%) Finance
6 5 (4.35%) Banking
6 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.48%) Front Office
7 4 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.74%) Marketing
9 2 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.74%) Publishing
10 1 (0.87%) Aviation
10 1 (0.87%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.87%) Local Government
10 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 48 (41.74%) Senior
2 45 (39.13%) Lead
3 21 (18.26%) Developer
4 20 (17.39%) Junior
4 20 (17.39%) Junior Developer
5 14 (12.17%) Analyst
6 9 (7.83%) Architect
7 7 (6.09%) Data Analyst
8 6 (5.22%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Consultant
9 5 (4.35%) Data Consultant
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (3.48%) Analytics Consultant
10 4 (3.48%) Data Analytics Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Data Analytics Consultant
10 4 (3.48%) Risk Manager
10 4 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.61%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 3 (2.61%) Data Model Consultant
11 3 (2.61%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) Kafka
2 4 (3.48%) Apache Beam
3 3 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.61%) Pandas
3 3 (2.61%) PySpark
3 3 (2.61%) scikit-learn
3 3 (2.61%) TensorFlow
4 2 (1.74%) .NET
4 2 (1.74%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.74%) GraphQL
4 2 (1.74%) pytest
4 2 (1.74%) WPF
4 2 (1.74%) XGBoost
5 1 (0.87%) CSS
5 1 (0.87%) HTML
5 1 (0.87%) NumPy
5 1 (0.87%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (36.52%) Algorithms
2 18 (15.65%) Data Structures
3 8 (6.96%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.09%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.48%) BBC
5 4 (3.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.61%) NHS
6 3 (2.61%) Reference Data
6 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.61%) Tandem
7 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.74%) Genomics
7 2 (1.74%) Molecular Biology
8 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (56.52%) Analytics
2 59 (51.30%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (49.57%) Visualisation
4 50 (43.48%) DevOps
5 48 (41.74%) Agile
5 48 (41.74%) Statistical Analysis
6 46 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 46 (40.00%) Roadmaps
7 45 (39.13%) Machine Learning
7 45 (39.13%) Strategic Thinking
8 44 (38.26%) Data Science
9 42 (36.52%) Artificial Intelligence
9 42 (36.52%) DataOps
10 41 (35.65%) MLOps
10 41 (35.65%) Product Management
10 41 (35.65%) Statistical Modelling
10 41 (35.65%) Technical Architecture
11 39 (33.91%) Natural Language Processing
11 39 (33.91%) Performance Monitoring
11 39 (33.91%) Time Series Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (45.22%) SQL
2 23 (20.00%) Python
3 20 (17.39%) VBA
4 3 (2.61%) C#
5 2 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.74%) R
5 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (16.52%) Degree
2 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
2 2 (1.74%) Postgraduate
3 1 (0.87%) CFA
3 1 (0.87%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (0.87%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (3.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 72 (62.61%) Microsoft
2 39 (33.91%) Google
3 30 (26.09%) OpenAI
4 23 (20.00%) Databricks
5 18 (15.65%) Facebook
6 4 (3.48%) Ahrefs
6 4 (3.48%) JD Edwards
6 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.61%) IFS
7 3 (2.61%) SAP
8 1 (0.87%) BiZZdesign