Big Data Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Big Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Big Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 554 662
Rank change year-on-year +160 +108 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 3 38 11
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.11% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.12% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 1 38 7
10th Percentile - - £44,991
25th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £112,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.11% +87.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £143,750 £97,475
90th Percentile - - £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £87,500 £77,924
% change year-on-year -11.43% +12.29% +2.19%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Big Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Big Data Engineer.

Big Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (66.67%) PyArrow
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (66.67%) HDFS
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Unix
2 2 (66.67%) Apache

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Hudi
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (66.67%) Delta Lake
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
General
1 2 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Kafka
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) PyArrow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks