Big Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Big Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Big Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £112,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 676 754
Rank change year-on-year +112 +78 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 28 7 70
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.083% 0.016% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.016% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 26 5 52
10th Percentile - - £47,675
25th Percentile £81,250 £47,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £60,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -25.00% -
75th Percentile £143,750 £117,236 £95,000
90th Percentile - - £120,000
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £80,000
% change year-on-year +8.98% +0.37% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,510 42,792 64,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 96.02% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 25,025 30,264 41,888
10th Percentile £32,750 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £53,308 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.15% - +9.09%

Big Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer
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 Engineer.

Big Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data Engineer over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Big Data Engineer salary histogram 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 16 April 2024, 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 remote work options featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Big Data
2 26 (92.86%) Finance
2 26 (92.86%) Python
2 26 (92.86%) Data Lake
3 24 (85.71%) gRPC
3 24 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (85.71%) Protocol Buffers
3 24 (85.71%) Terraform
3 24 (85.71%) Prometheus
3 24 (85.71%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 24 (85.71%) Dremio
3 24 (85.71%) dbt
3 24 (85.71%) Snowflake
3 24 (85.71%) Apache Arrow
3 24 (85.71%) Investment Management
3 24 (85.71%) Clustering
3 24 (85.71%) Asset Management
3 24 (85.71%) Hedge funds
3 24 (85.71%) Java
3 24 (85.71%) JavaScript
3 24 (85.71%) AWS
3 24 (85.71%) Go
3 24 (85.71%) DevOps
3 24 (85.71%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (7.14%) Tradecraft
4 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
4 2 (7.14%) Data Science

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 24 (85.71%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (85.71%) AWS
1 24 (85.71%) dbt
1 24 (85.71%) Snowflake
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (100.00%) Big Data
2 26 (92.86%) Data Lake
3 24 (85.71%) Amazon Athena
3 24 (85.71%) Apache Arrow
3 24 (85.71%) Dremio
4 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
General
1 26 (92.86%) Finance
2 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (85.71%) gRPC
1 24 (85.71%) Protocol Buffers
2 2 (7.14%) HTML
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
2 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
2 2 (7.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 24 (85.71%) Clustering
1 24 (85.71%) Hedge funds
2 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 2 (7.14%) Cyberattack
2 2 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Asset Management
1 24 (85.71%) DevOps
1 24 (85.71%) Investment Management
1 24 (85.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (7.14%) Analytics
2 2 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science
2 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis
2 2 (7.14%) Data Science
2 2 (7.14%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 2 (7.14%) Machine Learning
2 2 (7.14%) Mathematics
2 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (7.14%) Statistics
2 2 (7.14%) Tradecraft
2 2 (7.14%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) Python
2 24 (85.71%) Go
2 24 (85.71%) Java
2 24 (85.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
1 2 (7.14%) DV Cleared
1 2 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Kubernetes
1 24 (85.71%) Prometheus
1 24 (85.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Databricks