Big Data Jobs with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data 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 328 140 136
Rank change year-on-year -188 -4 +7
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 296 1,043 1,986
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 2.51% 2.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.82% 10.16% 9.82%
Number of salaries quoted 236 592 1,020
10th Percentile £43,000 £55,000 £46,174
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,250 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.21% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £110,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £100,000 £105,575
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Big Data 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 WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,756 10,266 20,218
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.97% 24.75% 29.54%
Number of salaries quoted 6,207 7,033 10,984
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £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 £75,000 £82,500 £78,318
90th Percentile £95,280 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Big Data salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 104 (35.14%) Apache Spark
2 58 (19.59%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.42%) Apache
4 13 (4.39%) SAS
5 3 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.03%) SPSS
4 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.35%) Primavera
3 3 (1.01%) Relativity
3 3 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.34%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.34%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 126 (42.57%) AWS
2 100 (33.78%) Azure
3 65 (21.96%) GCP
4 62 (20.95%) Snowflake
5 51 (17.23%) SaaS
6 49 (16.55%) dbt
7 28 (9.46%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.78%) Lucidchart
8 26 (8.78%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.45%) Serverless
10 23 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (7.77%) Google Docs
10 23 (7.77%) Miro
10 23 (7.77%) Slack
11 14 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (4.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.70%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.76%) Wireless
2 6 (2.03%) Internet
3 4 (1.35%) RS-232
4 3 (1.01%) DNS
4 3 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (1.01%) Firewall
4 3 (1.01%) iSCSI
4 3 (1.01%) LAN
4 3 (1.01%) SAN
4 3 (1.01%) VoIP
4 3 (1.01%) WAN
4 3 (1.01%) WebEx
5 2 (0.68%) 4G
5 2 (0.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (39.19%) Data Lake
2 77 (26.01%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (17.23%) Amazon Athena
3 51 (17.23%) Hadoop
4 42 (14.19%) Apache Arrow
4 42 (14.19%) Dremio
5 29 (9.80%) NoSQL
6 25 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
6 25 (8.45%) Redis
7 23 (7.77%) Scylla
8 21 (7.09%) Relational Database
9 17 (5.74%) Power BI
10 16 (5.41%) SQL Server
11 13 (4.39%) BigQuery
11 13 (4.39%) Data Mining
11 13 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
12 12 (4.05%) Flink
12 12 (4.05%) Metadata
13 10 (3.38%) Tableau
14 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (7.77%) Git
2 6 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.69%) GitLab
3 5 (1.69%) JIRA
4 4 (1.35%) Subversion
5 3 (1.01%) Deequ
5 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.01%) JUnit
5 3 (1.01%) MLflow
5 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.68%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 94 (31.76%) Finance
2 90 (30.41%) Social Skills
3 53 (17.91%) Banking
4 37 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 34 (11.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (8.78%) Retail
7 20 (6.76%) Legal
7 20 (6.76%) Marketing
8 18 (6.08%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.04%) Games
10 6 (2.03%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.69%) Law
11 5 (1.69%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.35%) Electronics
12 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.68%) Advertising
14 2 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (17.23%) Architect
2 46 (15.54%) Data Engineer
3 45 (15.20%) Senior
4 44 (14.86%) AWS Engineer
4 44 (14.86%) Big Data Engineer
5 42 (14.19%) Site Engineer
5 42 (14.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 36 (12.16%) Software Engineer
7 28 (9.46%) Principal Engineer
8 25 (8.45%) Data Architect
8 25 (8.45%) Principal Software Engineer
9 23 (7.77%) Data Manager
10 20 (6.76%) Solutions Architect
11 17 (5.74%) Big Data Architect
12 16 (5.41%) Lead
13 14 (4.73%) Analyst
14 13 (4.39%) Developer
14 13 (4.39%) Engineering Manager
14 13 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
15 11 (3.72%) Big Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (18.92%) Kafka
2 42 (14.19%) gRPC
2 42 (14.19%) Protocol Buffers
3 23 (7.77%) GraphQL
4 22 (7.43%) PySpark
5 19 (6.42%) Spring Boot
6 14 (4.73%) Spring
7 10 (3.38%) Apache Beam
8 9 (3.04%) .NET
8 9 (3.04%) Web Services
9 8 (2.70%) Pandas
10 7 (2.36%) Node.js
11 6 (2.03%) CSS
11 6 (2.03%) HTML
11 6 (2.03%) jQuery
11 6 (2.03%) LAMP
11 6 (2.03%) Laravel
11 6 (2.03%) Symfony
12 5 (1.69%) React
13 4 (1.35%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.22%) Data Structures
2 44 (14.86%) Algorithms
3 42 (14.19%) Clustering
3 42 (14.19%) Hedge funds
4 28 (9.46%) Cloud Native
5 23 (7.77%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.38%) Blockchain
6 10 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
6 10 (3.38%) Low-Code
6 10 (3.38%) Robotics
7 8 (2.70%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.03%) Cybercrime
8 6 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.35%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.05%) Linux
2 6 (2.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (34.12%) DevOps
2 86 (29.05%) Data Science
3 79 (26.69%) Agile
4 67 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
5 65 (21.96%) Analytics
6 60 (20.27%) Software Engineering
7 53 (17.91%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (17.23%) Data Modelling
9 50 (16.89%) Machine Learning
10 49 (16.55%) Data Engineering
11 48 (16.22%) Asset Management
12 42 (14.19%) Investment Management
12 42 (14.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 41 (13.85%) Computer Science
14 38 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
14 38 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (12.50%) ETL
15 37 (12.50%) High Availability
15 37 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
16 34 (11.49%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 184 (62.16%) Python
2 116 (39.19%) Java
3 107 (36.15%) SQL
4 79 (26.69%) Go
5 61 (20.61%) JavaScript
6 46 (15.54%) Scala
7 26 (8.78%) Bash
8 20 (6.76%) C#
9 18 (6.08%) R
10 10 (3.38%) C
11 8 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.36%) PHP
13 4 (1.35%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.35%) Ruby
14 3 (1.01%) Rust
15 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
15 2 (0.68%) VBA
16 1 (0.34%) C++
16 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
16 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 70 (23.65%) Degree
2 20 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.08%) Master's Degree
4 16 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.36%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.69%) PhD
8 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.35%) CIMA
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.70%) GDPR
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.35%) SEPA
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) QA
6 1 (0.34%) GMP
System Software
1 36 (12.16%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 105 (35.47%) Kubernetes
2 55 (18.58%) Terraform
3 42 (14.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.69%) Ansible
5 2 (0.68%) Argo
5 2 (0.68%) Podman
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.68%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 63 (21.28%) Databricks
2 46 (15.54%) Microsoft
3 40 (13.51%) Google
4 24 (8.11%) Dell
5 9 (3.04%) Oracle
6 8 (2.70%) SAP
6 8 (2.70%) Teradata
7 7 (2.36%) VMware
8 4 (1.35%) Sparx
9 3 (1.01%) 3PAR
9 3 (1.01%) Mitel
9 3 (1.01%) ShoreTel
9 3 (1.01%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.68%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) Thales
11 1 (0.34%) Recommind
11 1 (0.34%) StreamSets