Big Data Jobs in the West Midlands

Big Data
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 245 149
Rank change year-on-year +68 -96 +55
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 19 18 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.46% 0.21% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.98% 1.47% 8.77%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 33
10th Percentile £50,650 £47,450 £41,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -4.17% -18.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £75,750
90th Percentile £81,500 £79,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -21.88% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 477 1,222 1,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.62% 14.47% 21.30%
Number of salaries quoted 330 986 796
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £33,868
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,875 £73,750 £72,500
England 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 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 10 June 2025.

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 10 June 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
Birmingham +43 8 £62,500 +31.72% 7
Staffordshire +25 3 £80,000 +39.13% 2
Worcestershire +28 2 - -
Herefordshire - 2 - -
Shropshire - 2 £57,500 - 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £47,500 -
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 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
1 2 (10.53%) Jupyter
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (47.37%) AWS
1 9 (47.37%) Azure
2 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
3 5 (26.32%) GCP
4 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (10.53%) Amazon S3
5 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (10.53%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (10.53%) IaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Lucidchart
5 2 (10.53%) PaaS
5 2 (10.53%) SaaS
5 2 (10.53%) Serverless
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 4 (21.05%) Hadoop
2 4 (21.05%) MongoDB
2 4 (21.05%) Tableau
3 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.53%) Looker
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) ER Studio
1 2 (10.53%) ERwin
1 2 (10.53%) Git
1 2 (10.53%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) RStudio
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Banking
3 4 (21.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (10.53%) Advertising
4 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Data Scientist
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modeller
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Scientist
4 2 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Data Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Data Technician
5 1 (5.26%) Engagement Manager
5 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) CSS
2 2 (10.53%) gRPC
2 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) Kafka
2 2 (10.53%) Next.js
2 2 (10.53%) NumPy
2 2 (10.53%) Pandas
2 2 (10.53%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) RESTful
2 2 (10.53%) Vue
3 1 (5.26%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.26%) Ionic Framework
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Laravel
3 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.26%) Symfony
3 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Algorithms
1 4 (21.05%) Cyberattack
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.53%) Reference Data
2 2 (10.53%) Replication
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Analytics
2 9 (47.37%) Machine Learning
3 7 (36.84%) Data Science
3 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (36.84%) Visualisation
4 6 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
4 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
5 5 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (26.32%) Mathematics
5 5 (26.32%) Statistics
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Exploratory Data Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) OpenUP
6 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) Python
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) DV Cleared
2 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.53%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (5.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.26%) Google
3 1 (5.26%) SAP
3 1 (5.26%) Tagetik