Big Data
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 242 134 115
Rank change year-on-year -108 -19 +15
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 1,197 2,596 5,178
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.20% 2.62% 3.23%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 6.56% 12.19% 11.52%
Number of salaries quoted 485 1,039 1,873
10th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%
75th Percentile £110,000 £92,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +22.73%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

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 requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 18,256 21,304 44,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.29% 21.47% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 12,530 13,291 21,022
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 £76,250 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £103,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data in the UK

Big Data
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
UK excluding London -84 850 £65,000 -7.14% 100
England -239 594 £80,000 +14.29% 186
Scotland +73 558 £70,576 +0.82% 15
London -134 314 £93,475 +16.42% 106
Work from Home -193 297 £87,500 +25.00% 111
South West -38 106 £80,000 +14.29% 18
North of England -213 64 £55,000 -21.43% 20
South East -180 45 £54,500 -22.14% 14
North West -152 44 £55,000 -21.43% 10
East of England -39 35 £60,000 -7.69% 8
Midlands -128 28 £60,000 -7.69% 15
West Midlands -78 18 £60,000 - 12
North East -2 11 £42,500 -37.04% 4
Wales -9 10 £44,316 -36.69% 2
East Midlands -42 10 £60,000 -20.00% 3
Yorkshire -119 9 £87,500 +25.00% 6
Northern Ireland +14 4 £115,000 +31.43% 8

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 716 (59.82%) Apache Spark
2 225 (18.80%) Apache
3 172 (14.37%) Apache Airflow
4 42 (3.51%) SAS
5 19 (1.59%) Jupyter
6 18 (1.50%) nginx
7 9 (0.75%) Apache Pig
8 6 (0.50%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.42%) Kinematics
10 4 (0.33%) Luigi
11 3 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.17%) Confluence
13 1 (0.084%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.084%) CMS
Applications
1 31 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.25%) SPSS
4 6 (0.50%) Trello
5 5 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.33%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.50%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 4 (0.33%) Primavera
4 4 (0.33%) Relativity
5 3 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 1 (0.084%) Magento
7 1 (0.084%) Ringtail
Cloud Services
1 647 (54.05%) AWS
2 266 (22.22%) Azure
3 153 (12.78%) GCP
4 129 (10.78%) Serverless
5 95 (7.94%) AWS Lambda
6 86 (7.18%) Snowflake
7 84 (7.02%) Power Platform
8 82 (6.85%) Amazon EKS
8 82 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
9 76 (6.35%) SaaS
10 67 (5.60%) Amazon EMR
11 59 (4.93%) dbt
12 57 (4.76%) Amazon S3
13 53 (4.43%) Amazon EC2
14 52 (4.34%) Amazon ECS
15 51 (4.26%) OpenShift
16 46 (3.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 40 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
17 40 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
18 30 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.26%) AMQP
2 21 (1.75%) Wireless
3 20 (1.67%) Firewall
4 18 (1.50%) DSL
5 13 (1.09%) Internet
6 5 (0.42%) Network Security
6 5 (0.42%) RFID
7 4 (0.33%) RS-232
7 4 (0.33%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.25%) DNS
8 3 (0.25%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (0.25%) iSCSI
8 3 (0.25%) LAN
8 3 (0.25%) MQTT
8 3 (0.25%) SAN
8 3 (0.25%) VoIP
8 3 (0.25%) WAN
8 3 (0.25%) WebEx
9 2 (0.17%) 4G
9 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 383 (32.00%) NoSQL
2 331 (27.65%) Hadoop
3 185 (15.46%) Data Lake
4 126 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
5 94 (7.85%) Apache Hive
6 73 (6.10%) Power BI
7 67 (5.60%) Tableau
8 62 (5.18%) Amazon Athena
9 58 (4.85%) SQL Server
10 53 (4.43%) Dremio
11 52 (4.34%) Apache Arrow
11 52 (4.34%) Electronic Patient Records
12 49 (4.09%) Relational Database
13 42 (3.51%) Data Mining
14 41 (3.43%) MongoDB
15 39 (3.26%) HBase
16 34 (2.84%) Elasticsearch
17 33 (2.76%) Flink
18 29 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
19 27 (2.26%) Cloudera CDH
Development Applications
1 99 (8.27%) Git
2 82 (6.85%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 17 (1.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 17 (1.42%) JIRA
5 10 (0.84%) CircleCI
5 10 (0.84%) JUnit
5 10 (0.84%) SonarQube
6 8 (0.67%) Checkstyle
6 8 (0.67%) Oracle Forms
7 7 (0.58%) GitLab
8 6 (0.50%) Jasmine
8 6 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
8 6 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (0.42%) MLflow
10 4 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.33%) Subversion
10 4 (0.33%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.25%) Selenium
General
1 672 (56.14%) Finance
2 566 (47.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 514 (42.94%) Law
4 287 (23.98%) Marketing
5 259 (21.64%) Legal
6 188 (15.71%) Social Skills
7 165 (13.78%) Influencing Skills
8 117 (9.77%) Banking
9 109 (9.11%) Analytical Skills
10 78 (6.52%) Financial Institution
11 44 (3.68%) Aerospace
12 41 (3.43%) Retail
13 31 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.34%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.59%) Private Banking
16 17 (1.42%) Public Sector
17 15 (1.25%) Games
18 14 (1.17%) Retail Banking
19 12 (1.00%) Electronics
19 12 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 494 (41.27%) Software Engineer
2 462 (38.60%) Big Data Engineer
3 390 (32.58%) Big Data Software Engineer
4 352 (29.41%) Data Engineer
5 209 (17.46%) Scala Engineer
5 209 (17.46%) Scala Software Engineer
6 196 (16.37%) AWS Engineer
7 194 (16.21%) Lead
8 192 (16.04%) Senior
9 181 (15.12%) Java Engineer
10 178 (14.87%) Java Software Engineer
11 150 (12.53%) Lead Big Data Engineer
12 149 (12.45%) Lead Software Engineer
13 144 (12.03%) AWS Software Engineer
14 119 (9.94%) Java Scala Software Engineer
15 109 (9.11%) Python Engineer
16 100 (8.35%) Architect
17 96 (8.02%) Lead Java Engineer
18 95 (7.94%) Python Software Engineer
19 72 (6.02%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (13.45%) Kafka
2 134 (11.19%) PySpark
3 117 (9.77%) Spring
4 108 (9.02%) Spring Boot
5 80 (6.68%) gRPC
6 58 (4.85%) AngularJS
7 48 (4.01%) Protocol Buffers
8 47 (3.93%) React
9 46 (3.84%) RabbitMQ
10 39 (3.26%) Node.js
11 36 (3.01%) REST
12 35 (2.92%) .NET
13 33 (2.76%) OpenAPI
13 33 (2.76%) Swagger
14 27 (2.26%) Apache Beam
14 27 (2.26%) Material-UI
15 25 (2.09%) Apache NiFi
16 23 (1.92%) GraphQL
17 20 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
18 19 (1.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 259 (21.64%) Cloud Native
2 224 (18.71%) Algorithms
3 72 (6.02%) Data Structures
4 62 (5.18%) Management Information System
5 57 (4.76%) Product Ownership
6 56 (4.68%) Hedge funds
7 54 (4.51%) Public Cloud
8 49 (4.09%) Clustering
9 46 (3.84%) Onboarding
10 43 (3.59%) Legacy Code
11 31 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.84%) IoT
13 21 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
14 19 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
15 15 (1.25%) Cybercrime
16 13 (1.09%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 102 (8.52%) Linux
2 37 (3.09%) Unix
3 29 (2.42%) CentOS
3 29 (2.42%) Debian
3 29 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 29 (2.42%) Ubuntu
4 22 (1.84%) Windows
5 13 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.50%) Mesosphere
7 4 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.17%) Android
9 2 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 728 (60.82%) Agile
2 626 (52.30%) Software Engineering
3 549 (45.86%) CI/CD
4 503 (42.02%) SDLC
5 403 (33.67%) Operational Stability
6 357 (29.82%) Machine Learning
7 309 (25.81%) Artificial Intelligence
8 253 (21.14%) Risk Management
9 244 (20.38%) Visualisation
10 241 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
11 237 (19.80%) Performance Tuning
12 231 (19.30%) Community of Practice
13 222 (18.55%) Analytics
14 207 (17.29%) DevOps
15 202 (16.88%) Data Modelling
16 199 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
17 194 (16.21%) Data Science
18 156 (13.03%) Business Intelligence
18 156 (13.03%) Mentoring
19 143 (11.95%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 664 (55.47%) SQL
2 578 (48.29%) Java
3 574 (47.95%) Python
4 374 (31.24%) Scala
5 115 (9.61%) JavaScript
6 95 (7.94%) Go
7 59 (4.93%) R
8 56 (4.68%) C#
9 55 (4.59%) PL/SQL
10 41 (3.43%) Bash
11 20 (1.67%) T-SQL
12 19 (1.59%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.34%) C
14 14 (1.17%) C++
15 11 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.92%) TypeScript
16 8 (0.67%) Ruby
17 7 (0.58%) PHP
18 6 (0.50%) VB
19 5 (0.42%) XAML
Qualifications
1 207 (17.29%) Degree
2 99 (8.27%) Security Cleared
3 67 (5.60%) SC Cleared
4 58 (4.85%) DV Cleared
5 53 (4.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (4.18%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.42%) PhD
8 16 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (1.25%) AWS Certification
10 14 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.92%) DBS Check
12 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 6 (0.50%) IIBA
15 5 (0.42%) CCNA
15 5 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.42%) CISSP
16 4 (0.33%) CIMA
16 4 (0.33%) Network+ Certification
17 3 (0.25%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.84%) SLA
3 28 (2.34%) QA
4 26 (2.17%) GDPR
5 16 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.50%) WAI
7 4 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.33%) SEPA
8 1 (0.084%) PMO
System Software
1 85 (7.10%) Docker
2 56 (4.68%) HDFS
3 9 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.42%) Firmware
6 3 (0.25%) Active Directory
6 3 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.25%) vSphere
7 2 (0.17%) IAG
8 1 (0.084%) Apache Flume
8 1 (0.084%) KVM
8 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 253 (21.14%) Kubernetes
2 169 (14.12%) Terraform
3 75 (6.27%) Ansible
4 67 (5.60%) Prometheus
5 42 (3.51%) Puppet
6 18 (1.50%) Grafana
7 17 (1.42%) HAProxy
8 8 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.25%) Perfmon
11 3 (0.25%) Podman
12 2 (0.17%) Argo
12 2 (0.17%) Kibana
12 2 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 2 (0.17%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.084%) HP ALM
13 1 (0.084%) Nagios
13 1 (0.084%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.084%) vRealize
Vendors
1 203 (16.96%) Databricks
2 115 (9.61%) Microsoft
3 75 (6.27%) Google
4 38 (3.17%) Informatica
5 33 (2.76%) Oracle
6 27 (2.26%) Red Hat
6 27 (2.26%) SaltStack
7 23 (1.92%) Dell
8 22 (1.84%) Alteryx
8 22 (1.84%) Cloudera
9 20 (1.67%) Cognos
10 18 (1.50%) Sybase
11 15 (1.25%) VMware
12 12 (1.00%) Teradata
13 11 (0.92%) Salesforce
13 11 (0.92%) SAP
14 8 (0.67%) YouTube
15 7 (0.58%) Citrix
15 7 (0.58%) Sparx
16 6 (0.50%) Atlassian