Hybrid/Remote Big Data Job Trends

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Big Data skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 276 212
Rank change year-on-year -38 -64 -62
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 61 177 392
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.39% 1.09% 1.50%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 4.29% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 45 132 255
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £44,750
25th Percentile £56,875 £28,266 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £80,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +0.46% +1.91%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £105,750
90th Percentile - £120,000 £111,250
UK median annual salary £71,000 £72,750 £79,632
% change year-on-year -2.41% -8.64% +1.91%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Big Data falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,127 4,122 6,450
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.47% 25.39% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,555 2,451 5,423
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +16.38% -7.20%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £92,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -8.00%

Big Data
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Big Data job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Big Data
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Big Data

Big Data
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Big Data over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Big Data salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Big Data
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (14.75%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.56%) Apache
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.64%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (24.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) Cloud Computing
3 11 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.39%) AWS
4 10 (16.39%) GCP
5 9 (14.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.92%) Google Workspace
7 3 (4.92%) SaaS
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.28%) Serverless
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Broadband
2 3 (4.92%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.64%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.03%) Hadoop
1 11 (18.03%) Power BI
2 8 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.56%) Apache Hive
4 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.92%) Neo4j
6 2 (3.28%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.28%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.64%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.64%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Impala
7 1 (1.64%) Metadata
7 1 (1.64%) MySQL
7 1 (1.64%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.64%) Git
1 1 (1.64%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.64%) JMeter
1 1 (1.64%) JUnit
1 1 (1.64%) Selenium
1 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (45.90%) Finance
2 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (9.84%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Avionics
3 3 (4.92%) Electronics
3 3 (4.92%) Marketing
3 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Law
5 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.64%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (34.43%) Accountant
1 21 (34.43%) Financial Accountant
2 16 (26.23%) Data Engineer
3 13 (21.31%) Lead
4 9 (14.75%) Big Data Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) DataOps Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) DataOps Leader
4 9 (14.75%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 9 (14.75%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.92%) Principal Data Scientist
7 3 (4.92%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (3.28%) Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.28%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) Kafka
2 3 (4.92%) LDAP
2 3 (4.92%) OAuth
2 3 (4.92%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.92%) TensorFlow
3 2 (3.28%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.28%) React
3 2 (3.28%) REST
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (1.64%) gRPC
4 1 (1.64%) JDBC
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.64%) Node.js
4 1 (1.64%) ODBC
4 1 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.64%) Spring
4 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 21 (34.43%) Social Network
2 6 (9.84%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.92%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.28%) IoT
5 2 (3.28%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.64%) Genomics
6 1 (1.64%) Life Science
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.64%) NHS
6 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.84%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) CentOS
3 1 (1.64%) Debian
3 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (60.66%) AI
2 15 (24.59%) Analytics
3 14 (22.95%) CI/CD
3 14 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (19.67%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (16.39%) Data Science
5 10 (16.39%) Observability
5 10 (16.39%) Roadmaps
6 9 (14.75%) Cost Management
6 9 (14.75%) Cost Optimisation
6 9 (14.75%) DataOps
6 9 (14.75%) FinOps
6 9 (14.75%) Incident Management
6 9 (14.75%) Incident Response
6 9 (14.75%) Machine Learning
7 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
7 8 (13.11%) Data Engineering
7 8 (13.11%) ETL
8 7 (11.48%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 19 (31.15%) Python
2 15 (24.59%) SQL
3 6 (9.84%) Java
4 3 (4.92%) C
4 3 (4.92%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (4.92%) MATLAB
4 3 (4.92%) Scala
4 3 (4.92%) Tcl
5 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.64%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (34.43%) ACCA
2 8 (13.11%) Degree
3 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (34.43%) IFRS
2 15 (24.59%) GAAP
3 9 (14.75%) SLA
4 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.92%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.92%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Firmware
3 1 (1.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Ansible
1 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.28%) Terraform
3 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Databricks
2 7 (11.48%) Google
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.92%) Dell
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.64%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.64%) SaltStack