Big Data Jobs in Wales

Big Data
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 114 99
Rank change year-on-year +37 -15 +24
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 4 11 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.36% 0.53% 2.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.67% 3.67% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 22
10th Percentile - £37,042 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £46,131 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.77% -34.10% +5.66%
75th Percentile £82,500 £65,766 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £63,750 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -20.31% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 60 300 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 5.42% 14.45% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 57 164 183
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,625 £30,754
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,804 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.47% +3.76% +6.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £59,375 £68,263
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,875 £75,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in Wales over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Wales region over the 6 months to 22 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
South Wales +39 4 £61,250 -6.87% 26
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) NAS
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Head of Engineering
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Security
2 2 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (50.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Quality Management
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft