Big Data Engineer Jobs in London

Big Data Engineer
England > London

The median Big Data Engineer salary in London is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 452 552 776
Rank change year-on-year +100 +224 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 57 51 150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.17% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 57 22 87
10th Percentile - £66,698 £54,250
25th Percentile £81,250 £70,735 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £80,294 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.11% +0.37% -5.88%
75th Percentile £143,750 £106,250 £88,750
90th Percentile - - £104,000
England median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.98% +0.37% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Big Data Engineer in London

Big Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Big Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Big Data Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (100.00%) Big Data
2 56 (98.25%) Data Lake
3 55 (96.49%) Java
4 54 (94.74%) JavaScript
4 54 (94.74%) Finance
4 54 (94.74%) Python
4 54 (94.74%) Clustering
4 54 (94.74%) Asset Management
4 54 (94.74%) Investment Management
4 54 (94.74%) Hedge funds
4 54 (94.74%) AWS
4 54 (94.74%) Protocol Buffers
4 54 (94.74%) Go
4 54 (94.74%) DevOps
4 54 (94.74%) gRPC
4 54 (94.74%) Apache Airflow
4 54 (94.74%) Kubernetes
4 54 (94.74%) Terraform
4 54 (94.74%) Prometheus
4 54 (94.74%) Amazon Athena
4 54 (94.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 54 (94.74%) Dremio
4 54 (94.74%) dbt
4 54 (94.74%) Snowflake
4 54 (94.74%) Apache Arrow
5 2 (3.51%) Databricks
5 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.51%) Azure
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.75%) Scrum

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 54 (94.74%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 54 (94.74%) AWS
1 54 (94.74%) dbt
1 54 (94.74%) Snowflake
2 2 (3.51%) Azure
3 1 (1.75%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (100.00%) Big Data
2 56 (98.25%) Data Lake
3 54 (94.74%) Amazon Athena
3 54 (94.74%) Apache Arrow
3 54 (94.74%) Dremio
4 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 54 (94.74%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (94.74%) gRPC
1 54 (94.74%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (1.75%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (1.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 54 (94.74%) Clustering
1 54 (94.74%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (94.74%) Asset Management
1 54 (94.74%) DevOps
1 54 (94.74%) Investment Management
1 54 (94.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (1.75%) Agile
2 1 (1.75%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (1.75%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (1.75%) DevSecOps
2 1 (1.75%) Microservices
2 1 (1.75%) Scrum
2 1 (1.75%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (96.49%) Java
2 54 (94.74%) Go
2 54 (94.74%) JavaScript
2 54 (94.74%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
1 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 54 (94.74%) Kubernetes
1 54 (94.74%) Prometheus
1 54 (94.74%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (3.51%) Databricks
2 1 (1.75%) Cloudera