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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 184 243
Rank change year-on-year -134 +59 -83
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 70 260 367
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.93% 1.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.25% 7.07% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 61 126 236
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £43,610
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -9.68% +3.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £99,375 £110,000
90th Percentile - £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% -0.73%

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 2,152 3,676 7,077
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.76% 27.25% 23.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,562 2,439 6,054
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,425 £65,769 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +14.38% -8.49%
75th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,125 £118,750 £92,850
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,779 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.43% +9.18% -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 18 March 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 (12.86%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.71%) Apache
3 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) Azure
2 25 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 24 (34.29%) Cloud Computing
4 21 (30.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (15.71%) AWS
6 8 (11.43%) GCP
7 6 (8.57%) SaaS
8 4 (5.71%) OpenShift
9 3 (4.29%) GitHub
10 2 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (1.43%) dbt
11 1 (1.43%) Fivetran
11 1 (1.43%) Serverless
11 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Broadband
2 3 (4.29%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.43%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (35.71%) Power BI
2 7 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 5 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.71%) Apache Hive
4 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.86%) MySQL
6 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.43%) Impala
7 1 (1.43%) Metadata
7 1 (1.43%) Parquet
7 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Git
General
1 30 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Marketing
4 2 (2.86%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Accountant
1 24 (34.29%) Financial Accountant
1 24 (34.29%) Lead
2 21 (30.00%) Big Data Engineer
2 21 (30.00%) DataOps Engineer
2 21 (30.00%) DataOps Leader
2 21 (30.00%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 19 (27.14%) Data Engineer
4 12 (17.14%) Senior
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 7 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.71%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Analytics Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Lead Consultant
8 3 (4.29%) Principal Data Scientist
8 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Kafka
2 3 (4.29%) Flask
2 3 (4.29%) LDAP
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.29%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.43%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.43%) gRPC
3 1 (1.43%) JDBC
3 1 (1.43%) Material-UI
3 1 (1.43%) Node.js
3 1 (1.43%) ODBC
3 1 (1.43%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) Spring
3 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.29%) Social Network
2 4 (5.71%) Life Science
3 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.29%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.43%) Genomics
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) NHS
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.14%) Linux
2 3 (4.29%) Unix
3 1 (1.43%) CentOS
3 1 (1.43%) Debian
3 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) AI
2 27 (38.57%) CI/CD
3 26 (37.14%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (31.43%) Observability
5 21 (30.00%) Cost Management
5 21 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 21 (30.00%) DataOps
5 21 (30.00%) FinOps
5 21 (30.00%) Incident Management
5 21 (30.00%) Incident Response
6 14 (20.00%) Budgeting
7 10 (14.29%) Analytics
7 10 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 8 (11.43%) Data Science
8 8 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (11.43%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (8.57%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
10 6 (8.57%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.86%) Python
2 11 (15.71%) SQL
3 5 (7.14%) Java
4 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) R
5 1 (1.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) ACCA
2 5 (7.14%) Degree
3 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (34.29%) IFRS
2 21 (30.00%) SLA
3 10 (14.29%) GAAP
4 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Ansible
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (38.57%) Databricks
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.29%) Dell
4 2 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.43%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.43%) Foundry
5 1 (1.43%) Informatica
5 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.43%) Palantir
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.43%) SaltStack