Big Data Jobs in the UK excluding London

Big Data
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 160 198
Rank change year-on-year -89 +38 -19
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 829 1,296 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 2.23% 2.02%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.70% 11.49% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 221 446 540
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £49,575 £60,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £69,712
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +0.41% +26.75%
75th Percentile £87,500 £74,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £87,500 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £78,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% -10.54% +20.38%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 12,380 11,276 16,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.60% 19.44% 22.56%
Number of salaries quoted 8,108 6,590 10,162
10th Percentile £32,000 £34,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,850 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK excluding London

Big Data
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +66 535 £70,576 +0.82% 18
South West -35 108 £80,000 +14.29% 16
North of England -224 63 £55,000 -21.43% 29
North West -144 46 £55,000 -21.43% 19
South East -184 46 £54,750 -21.79% 24
East of England -44 35 £60,000 -8.40% 12
Midlands -136 28 £58,750 -9.62% 18
West Midlands -89 18 £57,500 -4.17% 16
North East -1 11 £42,500 -37.04% 5
Wales -19 11 £46,131 -34.10% 2
East Midlands -59 10 £60,000 -20.00% 2
Yorkshire -106 6 £90,139 +28.77% 5
Northern Ireland +12 3 £115,000 +31.43% 9
Big Data
UK

Big Data
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
1 584 (70.45%) Apache Spark
2 172 (20.75%) Apache
3 91 (10.98%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (1.93%) Jupyter
4 16 (1.93%) nginx
5 14 (1.69%) SAS
6 6 (0.72%) OpenStack
7 5 (0.60%) Kinematics
8 4 (0.48%) Luigi
9 1 (0.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (1.93%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.72%) Trello
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.36%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 466 (56.21%) AWS
2 138 (16.65%) Azure
3 102 (12.30%) GCP
4 97 (11.70%) Serverless
5 86 (10.37%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (7.96%) Amazon SQS
8 59 (7.12%) Amazon EMR
9 55 (6.63%) SaaS
10 50 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (6.03%) Amazon ECS
11 49 (5.91%) OpenShift
12 48 (5.79%) Power Platform
13 37 (4.46%) Amazon S3
14 28 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
15 23 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (1.93%) Lucidchart
16 16 (1.93%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.38%) AMQP
2 17 (2.05%) DSL
2 17 (2.05%) Firewall
3 7 (0.84%) Internet
4 5 (0.60%) RFID
5 4 (0.48%) RS-232
5 4 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.36%) MQTT
6 3 (0.36%) Network Security
7 2 (0.24%) 4G
7 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (0.24%) Wireless
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (39.20%) NoSQL
2 263 (31.72%) Hadoop
3 66 (7.96%) Apache Hive
4 61 (7.36%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (7.12%) Data Lake
6 50 (6.03%) Electronic Patient Records
7 38 (4.58%) Power BI
7 38 (4.58%) Relational Database
7 38 (4.58%) SQL Server
8 37 (4.46%) HBase
9 32 (3.86%) MongoDB
10 29 (3.50%) Tableau
11 28 (3.38%) Cloudera CDH
12 23 (2.77%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (2.41%) Redis
14 19 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (2.17%) Flink
16 17 (2.05%) DB2
16 17 (2.05%) Impala
17 16 (1.93%) Presto
Development Applications
1 87 (10.49%) Git
2 55 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.34%) Bitbucket Server
4 16 (1.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (1.33%) JIRA
6 7 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (0.72%) Jasmine
7 6 (0.72%) Karma Test Runner
7 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.48%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.48%) Subversion
8 4 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.36%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.24%) Apache Continuum
10 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.24%) GitLab
10 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.24%) SonarQube
General
1 530 (63.93%) Finance
2 518 (62.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 489 (58.99%) Law
4 255 (30.76%) Marketing
5 226 (27.26%) Legal
6 161 (19.42%) Influencing Skills
7 87 (10.49%) Social Skills
8 73 (8.81%) Financial Institution
9 70 (8.44%) Banking
10 53 (6.39%) Analytical Skills
11 45 (5.43%) Aerospace
12 25 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 22 (2.65%) Retail
14 20 (2.41%) Investment Banking
15 18 (2.17%) Private Banking
16 11 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
17 10 (1.21%) Korean Language
17 10 (1.21%) Public Sector
18 9 (1.09%) Electronics
19 6 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 464 (55.97%) Software Engineer
2 402 (48.49%) Big Data Engineer
3 382 (46.08%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 282 (34.02%) Data Engineer
5 205 (24.73%) Scala Engineer
5 205 (24.73%) Scala Software Engineer
6 179 (21.59%) Java Engineer
7 176 (21.23%) Java Software Engineer
8 159 (19.18%) Lead
9 146 (17.61%) Lead Big Data Engineer
9 146 (17.61%) Lead Software Engineer
10 141 (17.01%) AWS Engineer
11 140 (16.89%) AWS Software Engineer
12 119 (14.35%) Java Scala Software Engineer
13 118 (14.23%) Senior
14 102 (12.30%) Python Engineer
15 96 (11.58%) Lead Java Engineer
16 94 (11.34%) Python Software Engineer
17 55 (6.63%) Engineering Manager
17 55 (6.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (12.42%) Kafka
2 99 (11.94%) PySpark
2 99 (11.94%) Spring
3 90 (10.86%) Spring Boot
4 56 (6.76%) AngularJS
5 44 (5.31%) RabbitMQ
6 40 (4.83%) React
7 38 (4.58%) Node.js
8 35 (4.22%) REST
9 34 (4.10%) OpenAPI
9 34 (4.10%) Swagger
10 28 (3.38%) gRPC
10 28 (3.38%) Material-UI
11 21 (2.53%) .NET
12 17 (2.05%) Apache NiFi
13 16 (1.93%) ActiveMQ
13 16 (1.93%) CSS
13 16 (1.93%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (1.93%) GraphQL
13 16 (1.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 237 (28.59%) Cloud Native
2 189 (22.80%) Algorithms
3 51 (6.15%) Public Cloud
4 48 (5.79%) Data Structures
5 44 (5.31%) Management Information System
6 42 (5.07%) Legacy Code
7 23 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 19 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
10 16 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.81%) Cyber Defence
11 15 (1.81%) IoT
12 14 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.33%) NHS
14 9 (1.09%) Reinsurance
15 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
15 8 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
15 8 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
15 8 (0.97%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.97%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 87 (10.49%) Linux
2 36 (4.34%) Unix
3 30 (3.62%) CentOS
3 30 (3.62%) Debian
3 30 (3.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 30 (3.62%) Ubuntu
4 12 (1.45%) Windows
5 6 (0.72%) Mesosphere
5 6 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.12%) Android
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 609 (73.46%) Agile
2 571 (68.88%) Software Engineering
3 484 (58.38%) CI/CD
4 439 (52.96%) SDLC
5 390 (47.04%) Operational Stability
6 271 (32.69%) Machine Learning
7 253 (30.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 244 (29.43%) Risk Management
9 229 (27.62%) Performance Tuning
10 225 (27.14%) Community of Practice
11 186 (22.44%) Visualisation
12 184 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
13 170 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
14 121 (14.60%) Mentoring
15 119 (14.35%) Data Modelling
16 115 (13.87%) Decision-Making
17 111 (13.39%) Analytics
18 107 (12.91%) Coaching
19 100 (12.06%) DevOps
20 98 (11.82%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 492 (59.35%) SQL
2 448 (54.04%) Java
3 358 (43.18%) Python
4 329 (39.69%) Scala
5 56 (6.76%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.39%) PL/SQL
7 32 (3.86%) Bash
8 29 (3.50%) C#
9 27 (3.26%) Go
10 22 (2.65%) R
11 21 (2.53%) T-SQL
12 16 (1.93%) Shell Script
13 15 (1.81%) C
14 8 (0.97%) C++
14 8 (0.97%) Ruby
15 6 (0.72%) PHP
15 6 (0.72%) TypeScript
16 5 (0.60%) XAML
17 4 (0.48%) Embedded C
18 2 (0.24%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 99 (11.94%) Degree
2 82 (9.89%) Security Cleared
3 55 (6.63%) SC Cleared
4 51 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 31 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 12 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.33%) DBS Check
9 10 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 8 (0.97%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.84%) PhD
12 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.72%) IIBA
13 5 (0.60%) CCNA
13 5 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
14 4 (0.48%) CISSP
14 4 (0.48%) Network+ Certification
15 3 (0.36%) ISTQB
15 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (0.24%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (3.98%) SLA
2 31 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 22 (2.65%) GDPR
4 17 (2.05%) QA
5 9 (1.09%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.72%) WAI
7 4 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.24%) SEPA
9 1 (0.12%) PMO
System Software
1 53 (6.39%) Docker
2 37 (4.46%) HDFS
3 6 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.60%) Firmware
5 3 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 172 (20.75%) Kubernetes
2 102 (12.30%) Terraform
3 70 (8.44%) Ansible
4 42 (5.07%) Puppet
5 16 (1.93%) Grafana
5 16 (1.93%) HAProxy
5 16 (1.93%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
6 6 (0.72%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.36%) Perfmon
9 2 (0.24%) Kustomize
9 2 (0.24%) Podman
10 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 130 (15.68%) Databricks
2 59 (7.12%) Google
3 57 (6.88%) Microsoft
4 37 (4.46%) Informatica
5 28 (3.38%) Red Hat
5 28 (3.38%) SaltStack
6 26 (3.14%) Oracle
7 17 (2.05%) Alteryx
7 17 (2.05%) Cognos
7 17 (2.05%) Sybase
8 16 (1.93%) Dell
9 10 (1.21%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.09%) Teradata
11 7 (0.84%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.84%) YouTube
12 6 (0.72%) VMware
13 4 (0.48%) Cisco
14 3 (0.36%) Citrix
14 3 (0.36%) SAP
14 3 (0.36%) SnapLogic