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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 671 760 717
Rank change year-on-year +89 -43 -124
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 221 217 600
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.22% 0.37%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.21% 1.02% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 113 140 227
10th Percentile £26,500 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,875 £49,797
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +30.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% -14.29% +47.37%

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 18,257 21,342 45,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.27% 21.52% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 12,529 13,306 21,042
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 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £103,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

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 18 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 18 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 +99 216 £55,000 -12.00% 56
London +134 126 £55,000 -21.43% 33
UK excluding London -50 91 £56,250 -6.25% 28
Work from Home -1 46 £60,000 +9.09% 23
North of England +31 33 £50,000 -4.65% 5
North West +28 25 £50,000 -24.53% 4
Midlands +3 24 £57,500 -28.13% 3
West Midlands +20 19 £65,000 -18.75% 3
South West -24 18 £55,000 -22.70% 7
South East -1 9 £57,500 -4.17% 5
East of England +2 6 £56,250 +25.00% 4
East Midlands -4 5 £57,500 +27.78%
Yorkshire +39 4 £38,223 -30.36%
North East -6 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 47 (21.27%) Apache Spark
2 31 (14.03%) SAS
3 18 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (4.07%) Apache
5 7 (3.17%) Confluence
6 6 (2.71%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (2.71%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.36%) Jupyter
Applications
1 36 (16.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (4.07%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.36%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (3.62%) NEC Housing
2 4 (1.81%) Lawson
2 4 (1.81%) Primavera
3 2 (0.90%) MIS ActiveH
Cloud Services
1 87 (39.37%) AWS
2 71 (32.13%) Azure
3 59 (26.70%) Power Platform
4 47 (21.27%) GCP
5 29 (13.12%) Snowflake
6 18 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 18 (8.14%) SaaS
7 15 (6.79%) Amazon Kinesis
7 15 (6.79%) GitHub
8 14 (6.33%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (6.33%) Amazon S3
9 10 (4.52%) dbt
10 8 (3.62%) Stackdriver
10 8 (3.62%) WhatsApp
11 7 (3.17%) Boomi
11 7 (3.17%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.17%) PowerApps
12 6 (2.71%) Azure Machine Learning
12 6 (2.71%) Fivetran
12 6 (2.71%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (33.03%) Tableau
2 59 (26.70%) Power BI
3 58 (26.24%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (19.00%) Big Data
5 33 (14.93%) Amazon Redshift
5 33 (14.93%) Data Lake
5 33 (14.93%) Hadoop
6 28 (12.67%) SQL Server
7 27 (12.22%) NoSQL
8 22 (9.95%) Amazon QuickSight
9 20 (9.05%) Apache Ignite
9 20 (9.05%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (6.79%) BigQuery
11 14 (6.33%) DynamoDB
12 13 (5.88%) Text Mining
13 11 (4.98%) Relational Database
14 10 (4.52%) BusinessObjects
15 7 (3.17%) Spark SQL
16 6 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
17 5 (2.26%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.52%) JIRA
2 8 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (2.71%) Toad
4 2 (0.90%) Git
4 2 (0.90%) MLflow
4 2 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (42.08%) Analytical Skills
2 91 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 53 (23.98%) Finance
4 20 (9.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (4.52%) Legal
6 10 (4.52%) Marketing
7 9 (4.07%) Public Sector
7 9 (4.07%) Retail
8 7 (3.17%) Games
8 7 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.71%) Automotive
10 3 (1.36%) Law
10 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.90%) Local Government
12 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (28.05%) Analyst
2 61 (27.60%) Senior
3 36 (16.29%) Data Engineer
4 27 (12.22%) Data Analyst
5 25 (11.31%) Architect
5 25 (11.31%) Cloud Architect
6 24 (10.86%) Senior Analyst
7 23 (10.41%) Data Scientist
8 20 (9.05%) IT Architect
9 19 (8.60%) Financial Analyst
9 19 (8.60%) Senior Architect
9 19 (8.60%) Senior Cloud Architect
9 19 (8.60%) Senior Financial Analyst
10 15 (6.79%) Lead
11 13 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 10 (4.52%) Logistics Engineer
13 9 (4.07%) Customer Analyst
14 7 (3.17%) Data Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.17%) Integration Engineer
14 7 (3.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.48%) Kafka
2 8 (3.62%) Apache Beam
2 8 (3.62%) PyTorch
2 8 (3.62%) TensorFlow
3 7 (3.17%) GraphQL
3 7 (3.17%) Kedro
3 7 (3.17%) PySpark
3 7 (3.17%) RESTful
4 5 (2.26%) ATL
4 5 (2.26%) Shiny
4 5 (2.26%) Web Services
5 4 (1.81%) Flask
6 3 (1.36%) HTML
6 3 (1.36%) scikit-learn
7 2 (0.90%) Django
7 2 (0.90%) ggplot
7 2 (0.90%) Keras
7 2 (0.90%) Matplotlib
7 2 (0.90%) REST
7 2 (0.90%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 46 (20.81%) Onboarding
2 23 (10.41%) Algorithms
3 16 (7.24%) Data Structures
4 14 (6.33%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.71%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.81%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.81%) IoT
7 4 (1.81%) Online Games
8 3 (1.36%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.36%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.90%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.90%) Robotics
9 2 (0.90%) Social Network
9 2 (0.90%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.45%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.36%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Android
2 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (51.13%) Business Intelligence
2 100 (45.25%) Visualisation
3 93 (42.08%) Analytics
4 90 (40.72%) Data Visualisation
5 71 (32.13%) ETL
6 64 (28.96%) Data Modelling
7 57 (25.79%) Machine Learning
8 52 (23.53%) Data Science
9 51 (23.08%) Statistical Analysis
10 50 (22.62%) Agile
11 49 (22.17%) Data Analysis
12 47 (21.27%) Mathematics
13 46 (20.81%) Migration
13 46 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
14 40 (18.10%) Data Integration
15 39 (17.65%) Business Strategy
16 37 (16.74%) Project Management
17 32 (14.48%) Mentoring
17 32 (14.48%) Statistics
18 31 (14.03%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 142 (64.25%) SQL
2 120 (54.30%) Python
3 42 (19.00%) R
4 27 (12.22%) Java
5 15 (6.79%) MATLAB
6 13 (5.88%) Scala
7 9 (4.07%) Bash
7 9 (4.07%) C
8 6 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (2.26%) C#
9 5 (2.26%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.81%) JavaScript
11 3 (1.36%) C++
11 3 (1.36%) Perl
12 2 (0.90%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.90%) VBA
13 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 97 (43.89%) Degree
2 9 (4.07%) Master's Degree
2 9 (4.07%) Numerate Degree
3 7 (3.17%) MBA
3 7 (3.17%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.71%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.81%) CIMA
5 4 (1.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.81%) PhD
6 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.90%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.95%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.88%) QA
3 3 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
5 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (0.90%) IAG
Systems Management
1 8 (3.62%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.90%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 58 (26.24%) Microsoft
2 29 (13.12%) Oracle
3 26 (11.76%) Google
4 17 (7.69%) Databricks
5 9 (4.07%) F5
6 8 (3.62%) NEC
6 8 (3.62%) SAP
6 8 (3.62%) YouTube
7 7 (3.17%) CA
7 7 (3.17%) MuleSoft
8 6 (2.71%) Civica
8 6 (2.71%) Dataiku
9 4 (1.81%) Cadence
9 4 (1.81%) Cognos
9 4 (1.81%) JD Edwards
10 3 (1.36%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.45%) Snow