Big Data Jobs in England

Big Data
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 133 110
Rank change year-on-year -251 -23 +18
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 591 2,375 4,390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.69% 2.68% 3.26%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.87% 12.47% 11.72%
Number of salaries quoted 422 934 1,751
10th Percentile £44,100 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +19.85%
75th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £110,000
UK 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
England

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 England with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 15,261 19,053 37,442
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.77% 21.47% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,419 11,983 18,896
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 £77,500 £84,056 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK 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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Big Data in England

Big Data
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in England

Big Data
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the England region over the 6 months to 15 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
London -140 309 £93,475 +16.42% 97
South West -41 106 £80,000 +14.29% 20
North of England -215 65 £55,000 -21.43% 21
North West -144 45 £55,000 -21.43% 9
South East -176 45 £54,500 -22.14% 10
East of England -49 35 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Midlands -123 29 £60,000 -8.05% 16
West Midlands -75 18 £60,000 - 13
North East -2 11 £42,500 -37.04% 4
East Midlands -47 11 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -111 9 £87,500 +25.00% 8
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 197 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 99 (16.75%) Apache
3 91 (15.40%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (6.26%) SAS
5 17 (2.88%) Jupyter
5 17 (2.88%) nginx
6 9 (1.52%) Apache Pig
7 5 (0.85%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.68%) Luigi
9 3 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.34%) Confluence
11 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 27 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.54%) SPSS
3 6 (1.02%) Trello
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.68%) Primavera
3 4 (0.68%) Relativity
4 3 (0.51%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.34%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.17%) Magento
6 1 (0.17%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 247 (41.79%) AWS
2 224 (37.90%) Azure
3 110 (18.61%) GCP
4 83 (14.04%) Snowflake
5 74 (12.52%) Serverless
6 69 (11.68%) Power Platform
7 53 (8.97%) dbt
8 52 (8.80%) OpenShift
9 44 (7.45%) SaaS
10 43 (7.28%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 32 (5.41%) Amazon S3
12 32 (5.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (5.25%) Amazon EKS
14 30 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
15 24 (4.06%) GitHub
16 22 (3.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (2.88%) MinIO
18 16 (2.71%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.57%) AMQP
2 21 (3.55%) Wireless
3 16 (2.71%) Firewall
4 10 (1.69%) Internet
5 5 (0.85%) RFID
6 4 (0.68%) RS-232
7 3 (0.51%) DNS
7 3 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.51%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.51%) LAN
7 3 (0.51%) MQTT
7 3 (0.51%) Network Security
7 3 (0.51%) SAN
7 3 (0.51%) VoIP
7 3 (0.51%) WAN
7 3 (0.51%) WebEx
8 2 (0.34%) 4G
8 2 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (25.04%) Data Lake
2 134 (22.67%) Hadoop
3 119 (20.14%) Data Warehouse
4 68 (11.51%) NoSQL
5 62 (10.49%) Amazon Athena
6 61 (10.32%) Power BI
7 49 (8.29%) Dremio
8 48 (8.12%) Apache Arrow
9 45 (7.61%) Relational Database
10 42 (7.11%) Data Mining
10 42 (7.11%) Tableau
11 39 (6.60%) SQL Server
12 27 (4.57%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (4.57%) Cloudera CDH
13 26 (4.40%) Apache Hive
14 25 (4.23%) BigQuery
15 22 (3.72%) Flink
16 20 (3.38%) MongoDB
17 19 (3.21%) Metadata
17 19 (3.21%) Presto
Development Applications
1 53 (8.97%) Git
2 45 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (2.71%) JIRA
5 10 (1.69%) JUnit
5 10 (1.69%) SonarQube
6 8 (1.35%) Checkstyle
6 8 (1.35%) CircleCI
6 8 (1.35%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.85%) MLflow
8 4 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.68%) GitLab
8 4 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.68%) Subversion
8 4 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.51%) Selenium
10 2 (0.34%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.34%) Maven
10 2 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 154 (26.06%) Finance
2 148 (25.04%) Social Skills
3 85 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (9.81%) Banking
5 44 (7.45%) Aerospace
6 34 (5.75%) Retail
7 31 (5.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (5.08%) Marketing
9 27 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
10 25 (4.23%) Legal
11 14 (2.37%) Retail Banking
12 13 (2.20%) Law
13 12 (2.03%) Electronics
13 12 (2.03%) Public Sector
14 11 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.69%) Games
15 10 (1.69%) Korean Language
16 6 (1.02%) Financial Institution
17 4 (0.68%) Automotive
17 4 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 135 (22.84%) Data Engineer
2 120 (20.30%) Senior
3 73 (12.35%) Architect
4 72 (12.18%) Big Data Engineer
5 52 (8.80%) AWS Engineer
6 51 (8.63%) Developer
6 51 (8.63%) Software Engineer
7 48 (8.12%) Site Engineer
7 48 (8.12%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 45 (7.61%) Lead
9 38 (6.43%) Analyst
10 37 (6.26%) Data Architect
11 33 (5.58%) Senior Data Engineer
12 30 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (4.91%) Data Scientist
13 29 (4.91%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
14 24 (4.06%) Data Manager
15 22 (3.72%) Consultant
16 17 (2.88%) Big Data Architect
17 16 (2.71%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (13.54%) gRPC
2 72 (12.18%) Kafka
3 49 (8.29%) Spring Boot
4 48 (8.12%) Protocol Buffers
5 47 (7.95%) PySpark
6 46 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
7 45 (7.61%) Spring
8 38 (6.43%) Node.js
9 36 (6.09%) React
9 36 (6.09%) REST
10 30 (5.08%) AngularJS
11 28 (4.74%) .NET
11 28 (4.74%) Apache Beam
12 27 (4.57%) Material-UI
12 27 (4.57%) OpenAPI
12 27 (4.57%) Swagger
13 25 (4.23%) Apache NiFi
14 20 (3.38%) ActiveMQ
15 19 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (3.05%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.97%) Cloud Native
2 52 (8.80%) Hedge funds
3 49 (8.29%) Clustering
4 44 (7.45%) Algorithms
5 36 (6.09%) Data Structures
6 34 (5.75%) Onboarding
7 33 (5.58%) Management Information System
8 29 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
9 24 (4.06%) Product Ownership
10 19 (3.21%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (3.05%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (2.71%) IoT
13 15 (2.54%) Cybercrime
14 13 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
15 12 (2.03%) Distributed Applications
15 12 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (1.86%) Distributed Computing
16 11 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
17 8 (1.35%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 91 (15.40%) Linux
2 29 (4.91%) CentOS
2 29 (4.91%) Debian
2 29 (4.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 29 (4.91%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.18%) Windows
3 7 (1.18%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.34%) Android
6 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (34.69%) Agile
2 178 (30.12%) DevOps
3 173 (29.27%) Analytics
4 147 (24.87%) Data Science
5 141 (23.86%) Machine Learning
6 126 (21.32%) Business Intelligence
7 123 (20.81%) Data Modelling
8 119 (20.14%) ETL
9 114 (19.29%) Data Engineering
10 108 (18.27%) CI/CD
11 107 (18.10%) Computer Science
12 101 (17.09%) Data Pipeline
13 99 (16.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 92 (15.57%) Software Engineering
15 86 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
16 83 (14.04%) Visualisation
17 81 (13.71%) Microservices
18 76 (12.86%) Containerisation
19 72 (12.18%) Asset Management
20 70 (11.84%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 337 (57.02%) Python
2 254 (42.98%) SQL
3 184 (31.13%) Java
4 104 (17.60%) JavaScript
5 68 (11.51%) Go
6 52 (8.80%) R
6 52 (8.80%) Scala
7 48 (8.12%) C#
8 19 (3.21%) Shell Script
9 17 (2.88%) Bash
10 16 (2.71%) C
11 14 (2.37%) T-SQL
12 12 (2.03%) C++
13 11 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.35%) Ruby
15 7 (1.18%) VB
16 6 (1.02%) PHP
17 5 (0.85%) TypeScript
17 5 (0.85%) XAML
18 4 (0.68%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 179 (30.29%) Degree
2 95 (16.07%) Security Cleared
3 63 (10.66%) SC Cleared
4 58 (9.81%) DV Cleared
5 52 (8.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (7.78%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (1.86%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.86%) PhD
9 8 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.02%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.02%) IIBA
11 4 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.68%) CIMA
11 4 (0.68%) CISSP
12 3 (0.51%) CISM
12 3 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.51%) MBA
13 2 (0.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (7.61%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.40%) GDPR
3 22 (3.72%) QA
4 10 (1.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) GMP
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 69 (11.68%) Docker
2 19 (3.21%) HDFS
3 6 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.85%) Firmware
5 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.51%) vSphere
6 2 (0.34%) IAG
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
7 1 (0.17%) KVM
7 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
7 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 150 (25.38%) Kubernetes
2 125 (21.15%) Terraform
3 69 (11.68%) Ansible
4 66 (11.17%) Prometheus
5 36 (6.09%) Puppet
6 17 (2.88%) Grafana
6 17 (2.88%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.51%) Podman
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.34%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 101 (17.09%) Databricks
2 98 (16.58%) Microsoft
3 46 (7.78%) Google
4 27 (4.57%) Red Hat
4 27 (4.57%) SaltStack
5 15 (2.54%) Cloudera
6 12 (2.03%) Oracle
7 11 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.86%) Teradata
8 8 (1.35%) SAP
8 8 (1.35%) YouTube
9 7 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 6 (1.02%) VMware
11 4 (0.68%) Citrix
11 4 (0.68%) Intapp
11 4 (0.68%) Splunk
12 3 (0.51%) CA
12 3 (0.51%) ShoreTel
12 3 (0.51%) SnapLogic
12 3 (0.51%) Sparx