Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 28 July 2021

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 July 2021 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Big Data
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
28 Jul 2021		 Same period 2020 Same period 2019
Rank 128 150 75
Rank change year-on-year +22 -75 +36
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 613 88 337
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.68% 1.63% 4.15%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.95% 5.50% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 498 80 306
10th Percentile £45,875 £41,125 £38,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £47,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -5.36% +16.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £91,250 £91,875
90th Percentile £93,750 £115,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +3.85%

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 6,846 1,600 2,451
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 29.98% 29.61% 30.16%
Number of salaries quoted 5,402 1,408 2,202
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £33,625
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £51,786
% change year-on-year - +6.21% +3.57%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 28 July 2021.

Big Data salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 28 July 2021, Big Data job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for Big Data.

1 311 (50.73%) AWS
2 273 (44.54%) Azure
3 258 (42.09%) Python
4 250 (40.78%) Artificial Intelligence
5 247 (40.29%) SQL
6 235 (38.34%) Agile Software Development
7 206 (33.61%) GCP
8 192 (31.32%) Software Engineering
9 191 (31.16%) ETL
10 189 (30.83%) Machine Learning
11 187 (30.51%) Docker
12 182 (29.69%) Kubernetes
12 182 (29.69%) Analytics
13 168 (27.41%) DevOps
14 159 (25.94%) Java
15 145 (23.65%) Business Intelligence
16 136 (22.19%) Finance
17 128 (20.88%) Data Pipeline
18 118 (19.25%) Data Modelling
19 117 (19.09%) Data Science
20 114 (18.60%) C#
21 112 (18.27%) Apache Spark
22 111 (18.11%) .NET
22 111 (18.11%) Data Warehouse
23 108 (17.62%) Visualisation
24 102 (16.64%) Social Skills
25 100 (16.31%) PostgreSQL
26 98 (15.99%) JavaScript
27 95 (15.50%) Microservices
28 89 (14.52%) Hadoop

Big Data
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 112 (18.27%) Apache Spark
2 34 (5.55%) Apache
2 34 (5.55%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (1.31%) Luigi
5 6 (0.98%) Apache Pig
6 4 (0.65%) Confluence
7 3 (0.49%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.33%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.33%) Moodle
8 2 (0.33%) WordPress
9 1 (0.16%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.16%) SAS
9 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (1.14%) Figma
1 7 (1.14%) Sketch
2 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 11 (1.79%) Sentinel
2 4 (0.65%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
3 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.33%) WebTrends
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.16%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.16%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 311 (50.73%) AWS
2 273 (44.54%) Azure
3 206 (33.61%) GCP
4 70 (11.42%) Power Platform
5 57 (9.30%) SaaS
6 50 (8.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 39 (6.36%) Serverless
8 29 (4.73%) PaaS
8 29 (4.73%) Snowflake
9 26 (4.24%) AWS Lambda
10 24 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 22 (3.59%) Amazon EMR
11 22 (3.59%) IaaS
12 21 (3.43%) Azure Sentinel
12 21 (3.43%) Cloud Computing
13 18 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
15 13 (2.12%) Azure Stack
15 13 (2.12%) CloudFront
16 11 (1.79%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.79%) Firewall
2 9 (1.47%) LAN
2 9 (1.47%) WAN
3 6 (0.98%) Internet
3 6 (0.98%) SMS
3 6 (0.98%) SSL
4 4 (0.65%) FTP
5 3 (0.49%) DNS
5 3 (0.49%) VLAN
6 2 (0.33%) 4G
6 2 (0.33%) AMQP
6 2 (0.33%) BGP
6 2 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.33%) OSPF
7 1 (0.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (18.11%) Data Warehouse
2 100 (16.31%) PostgreSQL
3 89 (14.52%) Hadoop
4 82 (13.38%) Data Lake
5 70 (11.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 69 (11.26%) Power BI
7 68 (11.09%) GIS
8 64 (10.44%) Redis
9 55 (8.97%) NoSQL
10 53 (8.65%) Tableau
11 48 (7.83%) BigQuery
12 42 (6.85%) Apache Hive
13 39 (6.36%) SQL Server
14 33 (5.38%) MySQL
14 33 (5.38%) Relational Database
15 28 (4.57%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 28 (4.57%) MongoDB
16 26 (4.24%) Amazon RDS
16 26 (4.24%) Looker
17 23 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 55 (8.97%) Git (software)
2 42 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 32 (5.22%) JIRA
4 18 (2.94%) webpack
5 15 (2.45%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (1.47%) gulp
8 8 (1.31%) Selenium
9 6 (0.98%) Gradle
9 6 (0.98%) Maven
9 6 (0.98%) Postman
9 6 (0.98%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.65%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.65%) Vagrant
12 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.49%) TestNG
12 3 (0.49%) WebDriver
13 2 (0.33%) GitLab
13 2 (0.33%) Mocha
General
1 136 (22.19%) Finance
2 102 (16.64%) Social Skills
3 74 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (11.75%) Retail
5 51 (8.32%) Banking
6 49 (7.99%) Telecoms
7 47 (7.67%) Marketing
8 21 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.77%) Games
10 14 (2.28%) Czech Language
11 12 (1.96%) Advertising
11 12 (1.96%) Electronics
12 10 (1.63%) Automotive
13 9 (1.47%) Financial Institution
13 9 (1.47%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.47%) Public Sector
14 7 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
15 6 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.65%) Legal
Job Titles
1 207 (33.77%) Developer
2 99 (16.15%) Data Engineer
3 91 (14.85%) Senior Developer
4 76 (12.40%) Architect
5 61 (9.95%) C# Developer
6 52 (8.48%) Java Developer
6 52 (8.48%) Software Engineer
7 46 (7.50%) Consultant
8 41 (6.69%) Data Architect
9 35 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
10 31 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
11 29 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (4.57%) Analyst
12 28 (4.57%) Python Engineer
13 26 (4.24%) Senior Architect
14 24 (3.92%) Senior C# Developer
14 24 (3.92%) Senior Java Developer
15 22 (3.59%) Big Data Engineer
15 22 (3.59%) Java Engineer
16 21 (3.43%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (18.11%) .NET
2 75 (12.23%) Kafka
3 73 (11.91%) React
4 60 (9.79%) Node.js
5 50 (8.16%) AngularJS
6 48 (7.83%) CSS
7 45 (7.34%) REST
8 44 (7.18%) Django
9 43 (7.01%) Vue.js
10 42 (6.85%) .NET Core
11 41 (6.69%) NumPy
12 37 (6.04%) HTML
13 31 (5.06%) Torch
14 28 (4.57%) Celery
15 27 (4.40%) Web Services
16 25 (4.08%) D3.js
17 23 (3.75%) GraphQL
18 22 (3.59%) Spring
18 22 (3.59%) Spring Boot
19 20 (3.26%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.95%) User Experience
2 59 (9.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (6.85%) Algorithms
4 41 (6.69%) Cloud Native
4 41 (6.69%) Hedge funds
5 12 (1.96%) Data Structures
6 11 (1.79%) Mobile App
6 11 (1.79%) Tandem
7 10 (1.63%) Reference Data
7 10 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.31%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.31%) Enterprise Cloud
9 7 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.14%) Private Cloud
10 5 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.82%) Internet of Things
10 5 (0.82%) NHS
10 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.65%) CMDB
11 4 (0.65%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 43 (7.01%) Linux
2 7 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.65%) Unix
4 3 (0.49%) Windows
5 2 (0.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (40.78%) Artificial Intelligence
2 235 (38.34%) Agile Software Development
3 192 (31.32%) Software Engineering
4 191 (31.16%) ETL
5 189 (30.83%) Machine Learning
6 182 (29.69%) Analytics
7 168 (27.41%) DevOps
8 145 (23.65%) Business Intelligence
9 128 (20.88%) Data Pipeline
10 118 (19.25%) Data Modelling
11 117 (19.09%) Data Science
12 108 (17.62%) Visualisation
13 95 (15.50%) Microservices
14 70 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
15 66 (10.77%) Data Analytics
16 64 (10.44%) Data Ingestion
17 61 (9.95%) Data Engineering
18 60 (9.79%) Full Stack Development
19 58 (9.46%) Fintech
20 55 (8.97%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 258 (42.09%) Python
2 247 (40.29%) SQL
3 159 (25.94%) Java
4 114 (18.60%) C#
5 98 (15.99%) JavaScript
6 69 (11.26%) TypeScript
7 44 (7.18%) Go
8 43 (7.01%) Scala
9 34 (5.55%) C
10 30 (4.89%) Cython
11 24 (3.92%) C++
12 21 (3.43%) Ruby
13 18 (2.94%) Java 8
13 18 (2.94%) PowerShell
14 17 (2.77%) R
15 16 (2.61%) Java 11
16 13 (2.12%) PHP
17 12 (1.96%) Bash Shell
18 10 (1.63%) Clojure
19 7 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions (DAX)
Qualifications
1 53 (8.65%) Degree
2 27 (4.40%) PhD
3 23 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (3.43%) Security Cleared
5 9 (1.47%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.49%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.33%) CCIE
8 2 (0.33%) CFA
8 2 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.33%) JNCIE
8 2 (0.33%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.33%) MCDBA
8 2 (0.33%) MCT
8 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.33%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.16%) OCP
9 1 (0.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.73%) Data Quality
2 21 (3.43%) QA
3 13 (2.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.33%) COBIT
5 2 (0.33%) GDPR
5 2 (0.33%) NIST
5 2 (0.33%) PMO
6 1 (0.16%) GxP
System Software
1 187 (30.51%) Docker
2 10 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.14%) HDFS
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Flume
5 4 (0.65%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 4 (0.65%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 182 (29.69%) Kubernetes
2 64 (10.44%) Ansible
3 38 (6.20%) Terraform
4 11 (1.79%) Hadoop YARN
4 11 (1.79%) Puppet
5 5 (0.82%) Docker Swarm
6 4 (0.65%) ITRS Geneos
6 4 (0.65%) Opscode Chef
7 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.16%) Control-M
8 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.16%) Grafana
8 1 (0.16%) Graphite
8 1 (0.16%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.16%) Istio
8 1 (0.16%) Oozie
8 1 (0.16%) Salt
8 1 (0.16%) SCCM
Vendors
1 72 (11.75%) Google
2 53 (8.65%) Databricks
3 51 (8.32%) Microsoft
4 38 (6.20%) Yahoo!
5 25 (4.08%) SAP
6 23 (3.75%) Oracle
7 17 (2.77%) Informatica
8 15 (2.45%) Cloudera
9 13 (2.12%) Qubit
10 10 (1.63%) Splunk
11 9 (1.47%) Adobe
11 9 (1.47%) Talend
12 8 (1.31%) MKS
12 8 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.14%) Teradata
14 6 (0.98%) Salesforce.com
14 6 (0.98%) StreamSets
15 5 (0.82%) Hyperion
16 4 (0.65%) Apple
16 4 (0.65%) IBM