Big Data Jobs in the West Midlands

Big Data
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 136 201
Rank change year-on-year -96 +65 -37
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 16 149 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.22% 2.23% 1.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.38% 10.92% 5.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15 32 55
10th Percentile £47,450 £41,375 £49,250
25th Percentile £53,875 £49,063 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £75,625 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £79,750 -
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

Big Data 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,157 1,365 1,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.00% 20.43% 21.72%
Number of salaries quoted 963 832 1,139
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,876 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £74,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the West Midlands

Big Data
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Staffordshire -16 5 £62,500 +19.05% 1
Birmingham -32 5 £47,450 -32.21% 5
Warwickshire +29 4 £66,500 - 3
Coventry +12 1 £75,000 +27.66% 3
Worcestershire - 1 - - 1
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (18.75%) Apache
2 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 8 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (37.50%) AWS
3 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
4 5 (31.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (31.25%) GCP
4 5 (31.25%) SaaS
5 4 (25.00%) dbt
5 4 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (18.75%) GitHub
6 3 (18.75%) iPaaS
7 2 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) Internet
2 1 (6.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 8 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (37.50%) Power BI
3 5 (31.25%) Metadata
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 5 (31.25%) NoSQL
3 5 (31.25%) Relational Database
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (25.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
5 1 (6.25%) HBase
5 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Data Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Developer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Customer Executive
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Junior
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Optimisation Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) PySpark
2 4 (25.00%) Pandas
3 2 (12.50%) EDI
4 1 (6.25%) .NET
4 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
4 1 (6.25%) Blazor
4 1 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (6.25%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Algorithms
1 5 (31.25%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (31.25%) NHS
2 2 (12.50%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
1 9 (56.25%) CI/CD
1 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
1 9 (56.25%) DevOps
2 8 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (43.75%) ETL
3 7 (43.75%) Machine Learning
4 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
5 5 (31.25%) Data Acquisition
5 5 (31.25%) Data Privacy
5 5 (31.25%) Data Protection
5 5 (31.25%) Metadata Management
6 4 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (18.75%) Data Science
7 3 (18.75%) High Availability
7 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 7 (43.75%) Python
3 5 (31.25%) T-SQL
4 4 (25.00%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) DBS Check
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (31.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Databricks
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) SnapLogic
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) YouTube