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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 133 112
Rank change year-on-year -242 -21 +17
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 601 2,336 4,592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.68% 2.70% 3.28%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 12.47% 11.75%
Number of salaries quoted 433 921 1,755
10th Percentile £47,450 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +18.52%
75th Percentile £110,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £129,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% +19.23%

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 15,381 18,732 39,075
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.31% 21.64% 27.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,427 11,779 18,947
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 £84,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 28 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 28 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 -127 319 £95,000 +18.32% 117
South West -43 108 £80,000 +14.29% 16
North of England -207 64 £55,000 -21.43% 28
North West -141 46 £55,000 -21.43% 18
South East -186 45 £54,500 -22.14% 26
East of England -50 35 £60,000 -7.69% 10
Midlands -121 28 £58,750 -9.62% 17
West Midlands -84 18 £57,500 -4.17% 15
North East -5 11 £42,500 -37.04% 5
East Midlands -49 10 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -120 7 £92,778 +32.54% 5
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
1 198 (32.95%) Apache Spark
2 110 (18.30%) Apache
3 96 (15.97%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (6.16%) SAS
5 17 (2.83%) Jupyter
5 17 (2.83%) nginx
6 7 (1.16%) Apache Pig
7 6 (1.00%) Luigi
8 5 (0.83%) Kinematics
9 3 (0.50%) Confluence
9 3 (0.50%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.17%) CMS
Applications
1 30 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.50%) SPSS
4 6 (1.00%) Trello
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.67%) Primavera
3 4 (0.67%) Relativity
4 3 (0.50%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
6 1 (0.17%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.17%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 258 (42.93%) AWS
2 223 (37.10%) Azure
3 117 (19.47%) GCP
4 91 (15.14%) Snowflake
5 80 (13.31%) Power Platform
6 73 (12.15%) Serverless
7 66 (10.98%) dbt
8 53 (8.82%) OpenShift
9 44 (7.32%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (6.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 42 (6.99%) SaaS
11 34 (5.66%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (5.49%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (5.32%) Amazon EKS
13 32 (5.32%) Amazon S3
14 24 (3.99%) Amazon Kinesis
15 23 (3.83%) GitHub
16 22 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
17 18 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
18 17 (2.83%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.66%) AMQP
2 19 (3.16%) Wireless
3 16 (2.66%) Firewall
4 10 (1.66%) Internet
5 5 (0.83%) RFID
6 4 (0.67%) RS-232
7 3 (0.50%) DNS
7 3 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (0.50%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.50%) LAN
7 3 (0.50%) MQTT
7 3 (0.50%) Network Security
7 3 (0.50%) SAN
7 3 (0.50%) VoIP
7 3 (0.50%) WAN
7 3 (0.50%) WebEx
8 2 (0.33%) 4G
8 2 (0.33%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (26.46%) Data Lake
2 136 (22.63%) Hadoop
3 120 (19.97%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (11.98%) Power BI
5 70 (11.65%) Amazon Athena
6 66 (10.98%) NoSQL
7 63 (10.48%) Dremio
8 62 (10.32%) Apache Arrow
9 50 (8.32%) Tableau
10 49 (8.15%) Relational Database
11 43 (7.15%) SQL Server
12 41 (6.82%) Data Mining
13 28 (4.66%) Amazon Redshift
13 28 (4.66%) Cloudera CDH
14 27 (4.49%) BigQuery
15 23 (3.83%) Apache Hive
15 23 (3.83%) Metadata
16 21 (3.49%) MongoDB
17 20 (3.33%) Flink
18 19 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 56 (9.32%) Git
2 47 (7.82%) Jenkins
3 17 (2.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 16 (2.66%) JIRA
5 8 (1.33%) JUnit
5 8 (1.33%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (1.33%) SonarQube
6 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
7 6 (1.00%) Checkstyle
7 6 (1.00%) MLflow
8 4 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.67%) GitLab
8 4 (0.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.67%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.67%) Subversion
8 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.50%) Selenium
10 2 (0.33%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.33%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 161 (26.79%) Finance
2 147 (24.46%) Social Skills
3 84 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (10.82%) Banking
5 45 (7.49%) Aerospace
6 31 (5.16%) Retail
7 28 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 27 (4.49%) Marketing
8 27 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (4.16%) Legal
10 14 (2.33%) Law
11 13 (2.16%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.16%) Retail Banking
12 12 (2.00%) Electronics
12 12 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 12 (2.00%) Public Sector
13 10 (1.66%) Korean Language
14 9 (1.50%) Games
15 8 (1.33%) Front Office
16 6 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 133 (22.13%) Data Engineer
2 119 (19.80%) Senior
3 78 (12.98%) Big Data Engineer
4 73 (12.15%) Architect
5 58 (9.65%) AWS Engineer
6 54 (8.99%) Site Engineer
6 54 (8.99%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 50 (8.32%) Software Engineer
8 47 (7.82%) Developer
9 43 (7.15%) Analyst
10 42 (6.99%) Lead
11 39 (6.49%) Data Architect
12 30 (4.99%) Data Scientist
12 30 (4.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 30 (4.99%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
12 30 (4.99%) Senior Data Engineer
13 23 (3.83%) Consultant
13 23 (3.83%) Data Manager
14 16 (2.66%) Enterprise Architect
14 16 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (14.64%) gRPC
2 72 (11.98%) Kafka
3 54 (8.99%) Protocol Buffers
4 48 (7.99%) Spring Boot
5 47 (7.82%) PySpark
5 47 (7.82%) RabbitMQ
6 45 (7.49%) Spring
7 40 (6.66%) Node.js
8 38 (6.32%) REST
9 34 (5.66%) React
10 29 (4.83%) AngularJS
11 28 (4.66%) Material-UI
11 28 (4.66%) OpenAPI
11 28 (4.66%) Swagger
12 26 (4.33%) Apache Beam
13 25 (4.16%) Apache NiFi
14 24 (3.99%) .NET
15 20 (3.33%) ActiveMQ
16 19 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
17 17 (2.83%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.98%) Hedge funds
2 55 (9.15%) Clustering
3 54 (8.99%) Cloud Native
4 47 (7.82%) Algorithms
5 36 (5.99%) Data Structures
6 32 (5.32%) Management Information System
6 32 (5.32%) Onboarding
7 28 (4.66%) Product Ownership
8 27 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 16 (2.66%) IoT
11 15 (2.50%) Cybercrime
12 13 (2.16%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
13 12 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
14 11 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.50%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 88 (14.64%) Linux
2 30 (4.99%) CentOS
2 30 (4.99%) Debian
2 30 (4.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 30 (4.99%) Ubuntu
3 7 (1.16%) Windows
3 7 (1.16%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.67%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.17%) Android
6 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (35.44%) Agile
2 188 (31.28%) DevOps
3 186 (30.95%) Analytics
4 151 (25.12%) Data Science
5 150 (24.96%) Machine Learning
6 129 (21.46%) Business Intelligence
7 122 (20.30%) Data Modelling
8 121 (20.13%) Data Engineering
8 121 (20.13%) ETL
9 110 (18.30%) CI/CD
10 107 (17.80%) Computer Science
11 106 (17.64%) Artificial Intelligence
12 105 (17.47%) Data Pipeline
13 91 (15.14%) Software Engineering
14 86 (14.31%) Asset Management
14 86 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (13.81%) Visualisation
16 80 (13.31%) Microservices
17 74 (12.31%) Containerisation
18 71 (11.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 352 (58.57%) Python
2 256 (42.60%) SQL
3 190 (31.61%) Java
4 109 (18.14%) JavaScript
5 75 (12.48%) Go
6 53 (8.82%) R
7 52 (8.65%) Scala
8 45 (7.49%) C#
9 20 (3.33%) Shell Script
10 17 (2.83%) Bash
11 16 (2.66%) C
12 15 (2.50%) T-SQL
13 11 (1.83%) C++
13 11 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (1.33%) Ruby
15 6 (1.00%) PHP
16 5 (0.83%) XAML
17 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.67%) TypeScript
17 4 (0.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 181 (30.12%) Degree
2 96 (15.97%) Security Cleared
3 64 (10.65%) SC Cleared
4 59 (9.82%) DV Cleared
5 56 (9.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 48 (7.99%) Master's Degree
7 14 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (2.00%) PhD
9 11 (1.83%) DBS Check
10 8 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.00%) AWS Certification
11 6 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.00%) IIBA
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.67%) CIMA
13 3 (0.50%) CISSP
13 3 (0.50%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.50%) MBA
14 2 (0.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
14 2 (0.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 27 (4.49%) GDPR
3 20 (3.33%) QA
4 11 (1.83%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.17%) PMO
System Software
1 67 (11.15%) Docker
2 17 (2.83%) HDFS
3 5 (0.83%) Firmware
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.50%) vSphere
6 2 (0.33%) 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
1 157 (26.12%) Kubernetes
2 135 (22.46%) Terraform
3 73 (12.15%) Ansible
4 72 (11.98%) Prometheus
5 37 (6.16%) Puppet
6 17 (2.83%) Grafana
6 17 (2.83%) HAProxy
7 3 (0.50%) Podman
8 2 (0.33%) Kibana
8 2 (0.33%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.33%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.17%) Nagios
9 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 102 (16.97%) Databricks
2 99 (16.47%) Microsoft
3 52 (8.65%) Google
4 28 (4.66%) Red Hat
4 28 (4.66%) SaltStack
5 16 (2.66%) Cloudera
6 14 (2.33%) Oracle
7 11 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 11 (1.83%) Teradata
8 8 (1.33%) SAP
8 8 (1.33%) YouTube
9 4 (0.67%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.67%) Citrix
9 4 (0.67%) Hortonworks
9 4 (0.67%) Intapp
9 4 (0.67%) Sparx
9 4 (0.67%) Splunk
9 4 (0.67%) VMware
10 3 (0.50%) 3PAR
10 3 (0.50%) Facebook