Data Mining
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Data Mining skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Mining over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 752 732
Rank change year-on-year +75 -20 -132
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 229 222 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.35%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.26% 1.03% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 115 144 225
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £49,797
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £80,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £92,125 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.69% +36.84%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining 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 18,170 21,615 43,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 21.33% 27.94%
Number of salaries quoted 12,550 13,499 21,044
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 £83,750 £79,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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
England +115 224 £56,250 -6.25% 61
London +142 135 £55,000 -20.76% 34
UK excluding London -26 90 £56,250 -6.25% 30
Work from Home -5 45 £60,000 +6.19% 20
North of England +30 32 £50,000 - 8
North West +35 24 £50,000 -24.53% 6
Midlands +1 24 £57,500 -28.13% 5
West Midlands +19 19 £65,000 -18.75% 4
South West -21 18 £55,000 -20.08% 6
South East -6 9 £57,500 -4.17% 2
East of England +18 6 £56,250 +25.00% 2
East Midlands -12 5 £57,500 +27.78% 1
Yorkshire +45 4 £38,223 -30.36% 1
North East -4 4 £64,000 +72.82% 1
Wales - 1 £42,500 - 3

Data Mining
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 50 (21.83%) Apache Spark
2 33 (14.41%) SAS
3 18 (7.86%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.93%) Apache
5 7 (3.06%) Confluence
6 6 (2.62%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (2.62%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.31%) Jupyter
Applications
1 35 (15.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (3.93%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.49%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.75%) Lawson
2 4 (1.75%) Primavera
3 2 (0.87%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 91 (39.74%) AWS
2 78 (34.06%) Azure
3 60 (26.20%) Power Platform
4 50 (21.83%) GCP
5 29 (12.66%) Snowflake
6 19 (8.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 18 (7.86%) SaaS
8 15 (6.55%) Amazon Kinesis
8 15 (6.55%) GitHub
9 13 (5.68%) Amazon EC2
9 13 (5.68%) Amazon S3
10 10 (4.37%) dbt
11 8 (3.49%) Stackdriver
11 8 (3.49%) WhatsApp
12 7 (3.06%) Boomi
12 7 (3.06%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.06%) PowerApps
13 6 (2.62%) Azure Machine Learning
13 6 (2.62%) Fivetran
13 6 (2.62%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (32.31%) Tableau
2 60 (26.20%) Power BI
3 58 (25.33%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (18.34%) Big Data
5 36 (15.72%) Hadoop
6 35 (15.28%) Data Lake
7 32 (13.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 28 (12.23%) SQL Server
9 26 (11.35%) Amazon QuickSight
9 26 (11.35%) NoSQL
10 23 (10.04%) Apache Ignite
10 23 (10.04%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (6.55%) BigQuery
12 13 (5.68%) DynamoDB
12 13 (5.68%) Text Mining
13 11 (4.80%) Relational Database
14 10 (4.37%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (3.06%) Spark SQL
16 6 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
17 5 (2.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.37%) JIRA
2 8 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.62%) Toad
4 2 (0.87%) Git
4 2 (0.87%) MLflow
4 2 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 100 (43.67%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (40.17%) Social Skills
3 56 (24.45%) Finance
4 20 (8.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.37%) Legal
6 10 (4.37%) Marketing
7 9 (3.93%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.93%) Retail
8 7 (3.06%) Games
8 7 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.62%) Automotive
10 3 (1.31%) Law
10 3 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.87%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.87%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 66 (28.82%) Senior
2 59 (25.76%) Analyst
3 36 (15.72%) Data Engineer
4 28 (12.23%) Architect
4 28 (12.23%) Cloud Architect
5 27 (11.79%) Data Analyst
6 25 (10.92%) Data Scientist
7 23 (10.04%) IT Architect
8 22 (9.61%) Senior Analyst
9 21 (9.17%) Senior Architect
9 21 (9.17%) Senior Cloud Architect
10 18 (7.86%) Financial Analyst
10 18 (7.86%) Senior Financial Analyst
11 15 (6.55%) Lead
12 12 (5.24%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 9 (3.93%) Customer Analyst
13 9 (3.93%) Logistics Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Data Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.06%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.28%) Kafka
2 8 (3.49%) Apache Beam
2 8 (3.49%) PyTorch
2 8 (3.49%) TensorFlow
3 7 (3.06%) GraphQL
3 7 (3.06%) Kedro
3 7 (3.06%) PySpark
3 7 (3.06%) RESTful
4 5 (2.18%) ATL
4 5 (2.18%) Shiny
4 5 (2.18%) Web Services
5 4 (1.75%) Flask
6 3 (1.31%) HTML
6 3 (1.31%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.87%) FastAPI
7 2 (0.87%) Gensim
7 2 (0.87%) ggplot
7 2 (0.87%) Keras
7 2 (0.87%) NLTK
7 2 (0.87%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 48 (20.96%) Onboarding
2 23 (10.04%) Algorithms
3 16 (6.99%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.11%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.62%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.75%) IoT
7 4 (1.75%) Online Games
8 3 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.31%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.31%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.87%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.87%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.87%) Robotics
9 2 (0.87%) Social Network
9 2 (0.87%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.44%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.31%) Windows
2 2 (0.87%) Android
2 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (51.09%) Business Intelligence
2 107 (46.72%) Visualisation
3 100 (43.67%) Analytics
4 96 (41.92%) Data Visualisation
5 72 (31.44%) ETL
6 65 (28.38%) Data Modelling
7 62 (27.07%) Machine Learning
8 61 (26.64%) Data Science
9 54 (23.58%) Agile
9 54 (23.58%) Statistical Analysis
10 51 (22.27%) Data Analysis
11 49 (21.40%) Migration
12 48 (20.96%) Mathematics
13 46 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (18.78%) Data Integration
15 42 (18.34%) Project Management
16 40 (17.47%) Business Strategy
17 35 (15.28%) Mentoring
18 32 (13.97%) Data Governance
18 32 (13.97%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 144 (62.88%) SQL
2 124 (54.15%) Python
3 44 (19.21%) R
4 27 (11.79%) Java
5 17 (7.42%) MATLAB
6 13 (5.68%) Scala
7 9 (3.93%) Bash
7 9 (3.93%) C
8 6 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.18%) C#
9 5 (2.18%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.75%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.31%) C++
11 3 (1.31%) Perl
12 2 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.87%) VBA
13 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 98 (42.79%) Degree
2 9 (3.93%) Numerate Degree
3 8 (3.49%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.06%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.62%) MBA
5 6 (2.62%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) CIMA
6 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.75%) PhD
7 2 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.87%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.61%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.68%) QA
3 4 (1.75%) PMO
4 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (0.87%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (3.49%) Terraform
2 3 (1.31%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.87%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 61 (26.64%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.66%) Google
3 28 (12.23%) Oracle
4 17 (7.42%) Databricks
5 10 (4.37%) YouTube
6 9 (3.93%) F5
7 8 (3.49%) NEC
7 8 (3.49%) SAP
8 7 (3.06%) MuleSoft
9 6 (2.62%) CA
9 6 (2.62%) Civica
9 6 (2.62%) Dataiku
10 4 (1.75%) Cognos
10 4 (1.75%) JD Edwards
11 3 (1.31%) Alteryx
11 3 (1.31%) Cadence
12 1 (0.44%) Snow