Big Data Jobs in the North West

Big Data
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 106 165
Rank change year-on-year -158 +59 +19
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 49 245 199
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.43% 3.38% 2.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.62% 17.23% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 25 65 78
10th Percentile £25,000 £62,500 £46,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £65,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +21.74%
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £78,267 £99,275
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +18.52%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 1,869 1,422 2,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 16.39% 19.59% 21.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 864 1,222
10th Percentile £33,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £84,964 £80,000 £79,500
England 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 North West

Job postings citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Big Data in the North West

Big Data
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Big Data within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Manchester -84 41 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Cheshire -22 5 £55,000 - 1
Merseyside -34 3 £25,000 -64.29% 3
Big Data
England

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 23 (46.94%) Apache Spark
2 13 (26.53%) Apache
3 3 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) Azure
1 26 (53.06%) GCP
2 19 (38.78%) AWS
3 13 (26.53%) Power Platform
4 11 (22.45%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (22.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 11 (22.45%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (22.45%) OpenShift
4 11 (22.45%) Serverless
5 7 (14.29%) SaaS
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.45%) AMQP
2 4 (8.16%) RS-232
3 3 (6.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Hadoop
2 11 (22.45%) Cloudera CDH
3 8 (16.33%) Power BI
4 6 (12.24%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.16%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (6.12%) BigQuery
6 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.08%) Flink
7 2 (4.08%) MySQL
7 2 (4.08%) Redis
8 1 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.04%) LogicBlox
8 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (8.16%) Subversion
3 2 (4.08%) Gatling
4 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Aerospace
3 8 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.24%) Electronics
4 6 (12.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) Retail
7 2 (4.08%) Billing
8 1 (2.04%) Finance
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (40.82%) Software Engineer
2 18 (36.73%) Senior
3 11 (22.45%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
4 10 (20.41%) Data Engineer
5 7 (14.29%) Data Scientist
5 7 (14.29%) Senior Data Scientist
6 5 (10.20%) Junior
6 5 (10.20%) Junior Data Engineer
6 5 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Embedded Engineer
7 4 (8.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (6.12%) Platform Manager
8 3 (6.12%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.08%) Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Automation Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Data Analyst
9 2 (4.08%) Robotic Process Automation Consultant
9 2 (4.08%) Senior Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) REST
2 11 (22.45%) AngularJS
2 11 (22.45%) gRPC
2 11 (22.45%) Material-UI
2 11 (22.45%) Node.js
2 11 (22.45%) OpenAPI
2 11 (22.45%) RabbitMQ
2 11 (22.45%) React
2 11 (22.45%) Spring
2 11 (22.45%) Spring Boot
2 11 (22.45%) Swagger
3 3 (6.12%) PySpark
4 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.08%) Lambda Expressions
4 2 (4.08%) Web Services
5 1 (2.04%) EDI
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Low-Code
3 4 (8.16%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Smart Energy
4 3 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.08%) Blog
5 2 (4.08%) EPoS
5 2 (4.08%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 18 (36.73%) Linux
2 11 (22.45%) CentOS
2 11 (22.45%) Debian
2 11 (22.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 11 (22.45%) Ubuntu
3 4 (8.16%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) Agile
2 28 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 20 (40.82%) Data Science
4 18 (36.73%) Visualisation
5 17 (34.69%) Analytics
6 14 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
7 13 (26.53%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (26.53%) DevOps
7 13 (26.53%) Machine Learning
7 13 (26.53%) Microservices
7 13 (26.53%) Open Source
8 12 (24.49%) Data Pipeline
8 12 (24.49%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (24.49%) Scrum
9 11 (22.45%) Actionable Insight
9 11 (22.45%) API Development
9 11 (22.45%) Collaborative Working
9 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
9 11 (22.45%) Kanban
9 11 (22.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 34 (69.39%) Python
2 16 (32.65%) Java
3 15 (30.61%) SQL
4 11 (22.45%) JavaScript
5 5 (10.20%) Scala
6 4 (8.16%) C
6 4 (8.16%) Embedded C
6 4 (8.16%) R
7 3 (6.12%) Go
8 2 (4.08%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) DV Cleared
1 12 (24.49%) SC Cleared
1 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.41%) Degree
3 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.16%) Master's Degree
5 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.08%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.04%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) QA
Systems Management
1 16 (32.65%) Terraform
2 14 (28.57%) Ansible
2 14 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 14 (28.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) Google
1 11 (22.45%) Red Hat
1 11 (22.45%) SaltStack
2 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.20%) Databricks
3 5 (10.20%) YouTube