Big Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Big Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 404 732 774
Rank change year-on-year +328 +42 -126
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 411 16 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.027% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.030% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 21 8 13
10th Percentile £71,250 £41,227 £54,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £44,994 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £59,724 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.95% -8.12% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,595 £75,000
90th Percentile - £117,236 -
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £77,500
% change year-on-year +8.98% +3.60% -3.13%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Big Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Scotland - 390 - - 1
South West -12 17 £80,000 +15.20% 1
East of England - 3 £80,000 -
West Midlands +15 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Midlands -6 1 £72,500 +52.63%
Big Data Engineer
UK

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, Big Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 411 (100.00%) Big Data
2 396 (96.35%) Apache Spark
3 391 (95.13%) Finance
4 390 (94.89%) Law
4 390 (94.89%) Agile
4 390 (94.89%) Software Engineering
4 390 (94.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 356 (86.62%) CI/CD
6 347 (84.43%) Operational Stability
6 347 (84.43%) SDLC
7 291 (70.80%) SQL
8 259 (63.02%) Java
9 252 (61.31%) AWS
10 248 (60.34%) NoSQL
11 228 (55.47%) Scala
12 227 (55.23%) Legal
12 227 (55.23%) Risk Management
13 178 (43.31%) Hadoop
14 176 (42.82%) Community of Practice
15 163 (39.66%) Marketing
16 160 (38.93%) Performance Tuning
17 156 (37.96%) Cloud Native
17 156 (37.96%) Python
18 137 (33.33%) Machine Learning
19 136 (33.09%) Artificial Intelligence
20 133 (32.36%) Visualisation
20 133 (32.36%) Continuous Improvement
20 133 (32.36%) Algorithms
21 118 (28.71%) Apache
22 111 (27.01%) Problem-Solving

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 396 (96.35%) Apache Spark
2 118 (28.71%) Apache
3 80 (19.46%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.14%) Jupyter
4 17 (4.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 252 (61.31%) AWS
2 51 (12.41%) Amazon EC2
2 51 (12.41%) Amazon ECS
2 51 (12.41%) Amazon EKS
2 51 (12.41%) Amazon EMR
2 51 (12.41%) Amazon SQS
2 51 (12.41%) AWS Lambda
2 51 (12.41%) Serverless
3 17 (4.14%) Amazon S3
3 17 (4.14%) MinIO
3 17 (4.14%) OpenShift
4 9 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.24%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (100.00%) Big Data
2 248 (60.34%) NoSQL
3 178 (43.31%) Hadoop
4 51 (12.41%) Electronic Patient Records
5 46 (11.19%) Apache Hive
6 31 (7.54%) HBase
7 17 (4.14%) Presto
8 16 (3.89%) Impala
Development Applications
1 47 (11.44%) Jenkins
2 30 (7.30%) Bitbucket Server
2 30 (7.30%) Git
3 17 (4.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 391 (95.13%) Finance
2 390 (94.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 390 (94.89%) Law
3 227 (55.23%) Legal
4 163 (39.66%) Marketing
5 108 (26.28%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.24%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (19.46%) PySpark
2 43 (10.46%) Spring
2 43 (10.46%) Spring Boot
3 41 (9.98%) Kafka
4 17 (4.14%) ActiveMQ
4 17 (4.14%) Apache NiFi
4 17 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
4 17 (4.14%) RabbitMQ
4 17 (4.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (37.96%) Cloud Native
2 133 (32.36%) Algorithms
3 43 (10.46%) Legacy Code
4 17 (4.14%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (3.89%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.30%) Unix
2 20 (4.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (94.89%) Agile
1 390 (94.89%) Software Engineering
2 356 (86.62%) CI/CD
3 347 (84.43%) Operational Stability
3 347 (84.43%) SDLC
4 227 (55.23%) Risk Management
5 176 (42.82%) Community of Practice
6 160 (38.93%) Performance Tuning
7 137 (33.33%) Machine Learning
8 136 (33.09%) Artificial Intelligence
9 133 (32.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (32.36%) Visualisation
10 111 (27.01%) Problem-Solving
11 69 (16.79%) Decision-Making
12 60 (14.60%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 57 (13.87%) Technical Leadership
14 51 (12.41%) Tech Ops
15 43 (10.46%) Data Modelling
16 40 (9.73%) Coaching
16 40 (9.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 291 (70.80%) SQL
2 259 (63.02%) Java
3 228 (55.47%) Scala
4 156 (37.96%) Python
5 30 (7.30%) PL/SQL
6 17 (4.14%) Bash
6 17 (4.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (4.14%) DV Cleared
1 17 (4.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.24%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.24%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.89%) SLA
2 1 (0.24%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (7.30%) HDFS
2 20 (4.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 60 (14.60%) Kubernetes
2 47 (11.44%) Terraform
3 17 (4.14%) Ansible
3 17 (4.14%) Grafana
3 17 (4.14%) HAProxy
3 17 (4.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 51 (12.41%) Databricks
2 30 (7.30%) Informatica
3 1 (0.24%) Google