Hybrid/Remote Big Data Engineer Job Trends

Big Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Big Data Engineer salary for remote/hybrid work is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 445 452
Rank change year-on-year +86 +7 +255
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 3 1 5
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.006% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.006% 0.026%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile - - £79,875
25th Percentile - - £81,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 - £86,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +40.98%
75th Percentile - - £89,063
90th Percentile - - £89,625
UK median annual salary £90,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.13% +3.33% +4.11%

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 remote/hybrid work 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 14,322 16,626 19,144
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 96.21% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 9,294 10,280 15,537
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Big Data Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Big Data Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for remote Big Data Engineer job vacancies.

Salary distribution trend for remote Big Data Engineer job vacancies

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 25 December 2025, Big Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) FinOps
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) SLA

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Big Data
1 3 (100.00%) Power BI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 3 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) FinOps
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 3 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks