Data Mining
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Mining skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Mining over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 686 776 733
Rank change year-on-year +90 -43 -135
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 224 220 552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.24% 1.02% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 113 142 226
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £49,797
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.88% +27.50%
75th Percentile £66,000 £78,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £88,850 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% +36.84%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining 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 with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,050 21,669 43,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.34% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 12,498 13,515 21,192
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,725 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76,250 £83,750 £79,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

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 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Top 15 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 May 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
England +102 219 £56,250 -6.25% 68
London +156 130 £55,000 -20.08% 41
UK excluding London -40 90 £56,250 -6.25% 31
Work from Home 0 45 £60,000 +6.19% 21
North of England +20 32 £50,000 - 7
North West +35 24 £50,000 -24.53% 5
Midlands +13 24 £57,500 -28.13% 6
West Midlands +24 19 £65,000 -18.75% 5
South West -30 18 £55,000 -20.08% 5
South East +15 9 £57,500 -4.17% 3
East of England +14 6 £56,250 +25.00% 3
East Midlands -11 5 £57,500 +27.78% 1
Yorkshire +36 4 £38,223 -30.36% 1
North East -3 4 £64,000 +72.82% 1
Wales - 1 £42,500 - 3

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 50 (22.32%) Apache Spark
2 32 (14.29%) SAS
3 17 (7.59%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.57%) Apache
5 7 (3.13%) Confluence
6 6 (2.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (2.68%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.34%) Jupyter
Applications
1 33 (14.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (4.02%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.34%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.57%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.79%) Lawson
2 4 (1.79%) Primavera
3 2 (0.89%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 88 (39.29%) AWS
2 77 (34.38%) Azure
3 57 (25.45%) Power Platform
4 50 (22.32%) GCP
5 28 (12.50%) Snowflake
6 19 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (8.04%) SaaS
8 15 (6.70%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (6.70%) GitHub
9 11 (4.91%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (4.91%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.46%) dbt
11 8 (3.57%) Stackdriver
11 8 (3.57%) WhatsApp
12 7 (3.13%) Boomi
12 7 (3.13%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.13%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.68%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (2.68%) Fivetran
13 6 (2.68%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (31.25%) Tableau
2 57 (25.45%) Power BI
3 55 (24.55%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (18.75%) Big Data
5 36 (16.07%) Hadoop
6 35 (15.63%) Data Lake
7 30 (13.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 25 (11.16%) Amazon QuickSight
10 24 (10.71%) NoSQL
11 23 (10.27%) Apache Ignite
11 23 (10.27%) Elasticsearch
12 15 (6.70%) BigQuery
13 13 (5.80%) Text Mining
14 11 (4.91%) DynamoDB
14 11 (4.91%) Relational Database
15 10 (4.46%) BusinessObjects
16 7 (3.13%) Spark SQL
17 6 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
18 5 (2.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.46%) JIRA
2 8 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.68%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.68%) Toad
4 2 (0.89%) MLflow
4 2 (0.89%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.45%) Git
General
1 98 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
2 91 (40.63%) Social Skills
3 55 (24.55%) Finance
4 20 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.46%) Legal
6 10 (4.46%) Marketing
7 9 (4.02%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.02%) Retail
8 7 (3.13%) Games
8 7 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.68%) Automotive
10 3 (1.34%) Law
10 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.89%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (28.57%) Senior
2 56 (25.00%) Analyst
3 35 (15.63%) Data Engineer
4 28 (12.50%) Architect
4 28 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
5 27 (12.05%) Data Analyst
6 25 (11.16%) Data Scientist
7 23 (10.27%) IT Architect
8 21 (9.38%) Senior Architect
8 21 (9.38%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 20 (8.93%) Senior Analyst
10 18 (8.04%) Financial Analyst
10 18 (8.04%) Senior Financial Analyst
11 15 (6.70%) Lead
12 11 (4.91%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 9 (4.02%) Customer Analyst
14 7 (3.13%) Data Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.13%) Logistics Engineer
14 7 (3.13%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.63%) Kafka
2 8 (3.57%) Apache Beam
2 8 (3.57%) PyTorch
2 8 (3.57%) TensorFlow
3 7 (3.13%) GraphQL
3 7 (3.13%) Kedro
3 7 (3.13%) PySpark
3 7 (3.13%) RESTful
4 5 (2.23%) ATL
4 5 (2.23%) Shiny
4 5 (2.23%) Web Services
5 4 (1.79%) Flask
6 3 (1.34%) HTML
6 3 (1.34%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.89%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.89%) Gensim
7 2 (0.89%) ggplot
7 2 (0.89%) Keras
7 2 (0.89%) NLTK
7 2 (0.89%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.09%) Onboarding
2 23 (10.27%) Algorithms
3 16 (7.14%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.79%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.79%) IoT
7 4 (1.79%) Online Games
8 3 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.34%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.89%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.89%) Robotics
9 2 (0.89%) Social Network
9 2 (0.89%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.34%) Windows
2 2 (0.89%) Android
2 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (50.45%) Business Intelligence
2 105 (46.88%) Visualisation
3 98 (43.75%) Analytics
4 94 (41.96%) Data Visualisation
5 70 (31.25%) ETL
6 62 (27.68%) Data Modelling
6 62 (27.68%) Machine Learning
7 61 (27.23%) Data Science
8 54 (24.11%) Agile
9 53 (23.66%) Statistical Analysis
10 50 (22.32%) Data Analysis
11 49 (21.88%) Migration
12 46 (20.54%) Mathematics
13 43 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (19.20%) Project Management
14 42 (18.75%) Data Integration
15 38 (16.96%) Business Strategy
16 35 (15.63%) Mentoring
17 32 (14.29%) Data Governance
17 32 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 140 (62.50%) SQL
2 120 (53.57%) Python
3 43 (19.20%) R
4 27 (12.05%) Java
5 16 (7.14%) MATLAB
6 13 (5.80%) Scala
7 9 (4.02%) Bash
7 9 (4.02%) C
8 6 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.23%) C#
9 5 (2.23%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.34%) C++
11 3 (1.34%) Perl
12 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.89%) VBA
13 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 95 (42.41%) Degree
2 9 (4.02%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.13%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.68%) MBA
5 6 (2.68%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) CIMA
6 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.79%) PhD
7 2 (0.89%) SAS Certification
8 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.80%) QA
3 5 (2.23%) PMO
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 2 (0.89%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (3.57%) Terraform
2 3 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.89%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 61 (27.23%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.95%) Google
3 26 (11.61%) Oracle
4 17 (7.59%) Databricks
5 10 (4.46%) YouTube
6 9 (4.02%) F5
7 8 (3.57%) NEC
7 8 (3.57%) SAP
8 7 (3.13%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.68%) CA
9 6 (2.68%) Civica
9 6 (2.68%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.79%) Cognos
10 4 (1.79%) JD Edwards
11 3 (1.34%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.45%) Cadence
12 1 (0.45%) Snow