Big Data Jobs in Wales

Big Data
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 111 113
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -33
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 3 16 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.21% 1.26% 1.38%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.64% 5.37% 6.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 18
10th Percentile - - £39,250
25th Percentile £59,098 £42,069 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,199 £58,605 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.96% -6.23% +47.06%
75th Percentile £73,299 £73,750 £74,375
90th Percentile - £75,625 £91,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,527 £80,000
% change year-on-year +4.54% -4.34% +6.67%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Wales

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 183 298 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 12.95% 23.43% 22.34%
Number of salaries quoted 107 157 275
10th Percentile £23,750 £23,750 £31,642
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,000 £39,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,299 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.93% +6.40%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Big Data in Wales

Big Data
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
West Wales +9 2 £66,199 +48.06%
South Wales +23 1 £65,766 -9.29%
Big Data
UK

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Programme Delivery
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Genomics
1 1 (33.33%) Life Science
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Predictive Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft