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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 374 276
Rank change year-on-year +1 -98 -99
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 90 47 208
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.29% 1.01%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.82% 1.81% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 57 34 164
10th Percentile £46,500 £52,725 £56,400
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £68,750 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -21.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,875 £140,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -12.50% +8.47%

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 3,197 2,592 4,698
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.70% 15.78% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,419 1,779 2,897
10th Percentile £37,700 £35,833 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +14.75%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £132,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 16 October 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 27 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.67%) Jupyter
3 4 (4.44%) Apache
4 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Trello
3 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 25 (27.78%) AWS
2 17 (18.89%) Azure
3 15 (16.67%) SaaS
4 13 (14.44%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.00%) n8n
5 9 (10.00%) Power Automate
5 9 (10.00%) Zapier
6 7 (7.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (7.78%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (5.56%) Vertex AI
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.44%) GCP
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.22%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) 5G
1 1 (1.11%) HTTP
1 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.89%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (14.44%) Data Lake
2 13 (14.44%) Power BI
3 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 6 (6.67%) Tableau
5 4 (4.44%) Metadata
5 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.22%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.22%) MySQL
7 2 (2.22%) Spark SQL
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Hudi
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Zeppelin
8 1 (1.11%) DuckDB
8 1 (1.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) GitLab
2 5 (5.56%) Git
3 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (2.22%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.11%) git-flow
5 1 (1.11%) JIRA
5 1 (1.11%) MLflow
5 1 (1.11%) PyCharm
General
1 31 (34.44%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.11%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (28.89%) Finance
4 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (8.89%) Financial Institution
7 8 (8.89%) Marketing
8 6 (6.67%) Aerospace
8 6 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Banking
9 2 (2.22%) Legal
9 2 (2.22%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.11%) Danish Language
10 1 (1.11%) Front Office
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Military
10 1 (1.11%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Retail
10 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 11 (12.22%) Data Scientist
4 9 (10.00%) Systems Support
5 8 (8.89%) Lead
6 6 (6.67%) Big Data Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Data Manager
6 6 (6.67%) Senior Manager
7 5 (5.56%) Accountant
7 5 (5.56%) Financial Accountant
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Analytics Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Consultant
8 4 (4.44%) Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Analyst
9 3 (3.33%) Architect
9 3 (3.33%) Data Consultant
9 3 (3.33%) Head of Engineering
9 3 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) PySpark
1 12 (13.33%) Terraform
2 8 (8.89%) Kafka
3 4 (4.44%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.22%) Laravel
4 2 (2.22%) REST
4 2 (2.22%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.11%) HTML
5 1 (1.11%) Pandas
5 1 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.56%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.56%) Social Network
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.22%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.22%) PMI
6 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Life Science
7 1 (1.11%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
1 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.22%) Rocky
1 2 (2.22%) Windows
1 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (63.33%) AI
2 42 (46.67%) Analytics
2 42 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (38.89%) Machine Learning
4 31 (34.44%) Data Engineering
5 30 (33.33%) Agile
6 29 (32.22%) Data Pipeline
7 27 (30.00%) Data Science
8 20 (22.22%) CI/CD
9 19 (21.11%) Data Modelling
10 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (20.00%) ETL
11 16 (17.78%) Decision-Making
11 16 (17.78%) Mentoring
11 16 (17.78%) Workflow
12 15 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (15.56%) Computer Science
13 14 (15.56%) DevOps
13 14 (15.56%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 52 (57.78%) Python
2 41 (45.56%) SQL
3 9 (10.00%) R
4 6 (6.67%) Bash
4 6 (6.67%) VBA
5 4 (4.44%) Scala
6 3 (3.33%) Java
6 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.22%) Ruby
7 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) ACCA
5 5 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (4.44%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.11%) CCNP
9 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.11%) HND
9 1 (1.11%) MCITP
9 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.44%) Accessibility
3 11 (12.22%) GDPR
4 8 (8.89%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (6.67%) IFRS
6 3 (3.33%) QA
7 2 (2.22%) SLA
8 1 (1.11%) GxP
8 1 (1.11%) IFRS 17
8 1 (1.11%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.22%) vSphere
3 1 (1.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Databricks
2 7 (7.78%) Informatica
3 4 (4.44%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.22%) Talend
4 2 (2.22%) Thales
4 2 (2.22%) VMware