Big Data Jobs with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 137 134
Rank change year-on-year -185 -3 +15
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 301 1,088 1,874
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 2.49% 2.81%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.89% 10.16% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 233 599 1,017
10th Percentile £43,000 £55,200 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £63,750 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £110,000 £87,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £107,100 £108,750
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,730 10,708 19,586
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.87% 24.54% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 6,232 7,342 11,128
10th Percentile £37,004 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,548 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
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.

Big Data salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Big Data salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
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
1 117 (38.87%) Apache Spark
2 44 (14.62%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (9.97%) Apache
4 13 (4.32%) SAS
5 3 (1.00%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.66%) Jupyter
Applications
1 13 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.99%) SPSS
4 2 (0.66%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (1.99%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.33%) Primavera
3 3 (1.00%) Relativity
4 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.33%) Ringtail
5 1 (0.33%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 115 (38.21%) AWS
2 105 (34.88%) Azure
3 79 (26.25%) GCP
4 55 (18.27%) SaaS
5 48 (15.95%) Snowflake
6 39 (12.96%) Power Platform
7 37 (12.29%) dbt
8 28 (9.30%) Amazon S3
9 25 (8.31%) Lucidchart
10 23 (7.64%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (7.64%) Google Docs
10 23 (7.64%) Miro
10 23 (7.64%) Serverless
10 23 (7.64%) Slack
11 20 (6.64%) GitHub
12 14 (4.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.32%) Vertex AI
14 12 (3.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (7.97%) Wireless
2 5 (1.66%) Internet
3 4 (1.33%) RS-232
4 3 (1.00%) DNS
4 3 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (1.00%) Firewall
4 3 (1.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (1.00%) LAN
4 3 (1.00%) SAN
4 3 (1.00%) VoIP
4 3 (1.00%) WAN
4 3 (1.00%) WebEx
5 2 (0.66%) 4G
5 2 (0.66%) Network Security
6 1 (0.33%) HTTP
6 1 (0.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (39.20%) Data Lake
2 77 (25.58%) Data Warehouse
3 50 (16.61%) Hadoop
4 40 (13.29%) NoSQL
5 39 (12.96%) Amazon Athena
6 31 (10.30%) Relational Database
7 30 (9.97%) Apache Arrow
7 30 (9.97%) Dremio
7 30 (9.97%) Power BI
8 26 (8.64%) BigQuery
9 23 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
9 23 (7.64%) Redis
9 23 (7.64%) Scylla
10 21 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
10 21 (6.98%) Tableau
11 16 (5.32%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.65%) Looker
12 14 (4.65%) MySQL
13 13 (4.32%) Data Mining
14 12 (3.99%) Flink
Development Applications
1 21 (6.98%) Git
2 15 (4.98%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.99%) JIRA
3 6 (1.99%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.33%) GitLab
4 4 (1.33%) Maven
4 4 (1.33%) Subversion
5 3 (1.00%) Deequ
5 3 (1.00%) MLflow
5 3 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.66%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.66%) JUnit
6 2 (0.66%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.66%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.33%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 100 (33.22%) Finance
2 86 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 71 (23.59%) Banking
4 41 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (12.62%) Retail
6 34 (11.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (8.64%) Legal
8 20 (6.64%) Marketing
9 18 (5.98%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.99%) Games
12 6 (1.99%) Law
12 6 (1.99%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.33%) Electronics
14 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
14 3 (1.00%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.66%) Advertising
15 2 (0.66%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 57 (18.94%) Architect
2 47 (15.61%) Senior
3 44 (14.62%) Data Engineer
4 39 (12.96%) Software Engineer
5 32 (10.63%) AWS Engineer
5 32 (10.63%) Big Data Engineer
6 30 (9.97%) Site Engineer
6 30 (9.97%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 28 (9.30%) Principal Engineer
8 27 (8.97%) Data Architect
9 25 (8.31%) Data Manager
9 25 (8.31%) Principal Software Engineer
9 25 (8.31%) Solutions Architect
10 23 (7.64%) Lead
11 19 (6.31%) Big Data Architect
12 14 (4.65%) Developer
12 14 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 13 (4.32%) Analyst
13 13 (4.32%) Big Data Manager
13 13 (4.32%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (24.58%) Kafka
2 30 (9.97%) gRPC
2 30 (9.97%) Protocol Buffers
3 24 (7.97%) Spring Boot
4 23 (7.64%) GraphQL
5 20 (6.64%) PySpark
6 19 (6.31%) Spring
7 10 (3.32%) Apache Beam
8 9 (2.99%) .NET
8 9 (2.99%) Web Services
9 6 (1.99%) CSS
9 6 (1.99%) HTML
9 6 (1.99%) jQuery
9 6 (1.99%) LAMP
9 6 (1.99%) Laravel
9 6 (1.99%) Pandas
9 6 (1.99%) Symfony
10 5 (1.66%) Node.js
10 5 (1.66%) React
10 5 (1.66%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.62%) Algorithms
1 44 (14.62%) Data Structures
2 30 (9.97%) Clustering
2 30 (9.97%) Hedge funds
3 27 (8.97%) Cloud Native
3 27 (8.97%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.98%) Blockchain
4 15 (4.98%) Robotics
5 11 (3.65%) Low-Code
6 10 (3.32%) Greenfield Project
7 8 (2.66%) Credit Risk
8 7 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (1.99%) Cybercrime
9 6 (1.99%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.99%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.66%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.66%) IoT
10 5 (1.66%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.32%) Linux
2 5 (1.66%) Windows
3 4 (1.33%) Android
3 4 (1.33%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.33%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (31.89%) Agile
2 90 (29.90%) DevOps
3 84 (27.91%) Data Science
4 71 (23.59%) Analytics
5 65 (21.59%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (20.93%) Software Engineering
7 62 (20.60%) Data Pipeline
8 59 (19.60%) Data Engineering
8 59 (19.60%) Machine Learning
9 50 (16.61%) ETL
10 48 (15.95%) Business Intelligence
11 47 (15.61%) Data Modelling
12 46 (15.28%) Artificial Intelligence
12 46 (15.28%) CI/CD
12 46 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
13 41 (13.62%) Stakeholder Management
14 37 (12.29%) Computer Science
15 36 (11.96%) High Availability
16 34 (11.30%) Asset Management
16 34 (11.30%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 169 (56.15%) Python
2 112 (37.21%) Java
3 100 (33.22%) SQL
4 69 (22.92%) Go
5 49 (16.28%) JavaScript
6 47 (15.61%) Scala
7 28 (9.30%) Bash
8 21 (6.98%) C#
9 19 (6.31%) R
10 10 (3.32%) C
11 8 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.33%) PHP
13 5 (1.66%) Rust
14 4 (1.33%) Embedded C
14 4 (1.33%) Kotlin
14 4 (1.33%) Ruby
15 1 (0.33%) C++
15 1 (0.33%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 64 (21.26%) Degree
2 16 (5.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (5.32%) Master's Degree
3 13 (4.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.32%) Security Cleared
4 6 (1.99%) AWS Certification
4 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.33%) CIMA
6 3 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.00%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.00%) ISTQB
6 3 (1.00%) PhD
7 1 (0.33%) CCNA
7 1 (0.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.33%) CISM
7 1 (0.33%) CISSP
7 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.65%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.66%) GDPR
3 7 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.33%) SEPA
4 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.66%) QA
6 1 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 42 (13.95%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 101 (33.55%) Kubernetes
2 54 (17.94%) Terraform
3 30 (9.97%) Prometheus
4 6 (1.99%) Ansible
5 2 (0.66%) Argo
5 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Podman
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 62 (20.60%) Databricks
2 50 (16.61%) Google
3 45 (14.95%) Microsoft
4 24 (7.97%) Dell
5 9 (2.99%) Oracle
6 8 (2.66%) Teradata
6 8 (2.66%) VMware
7 7 (2.33%) SAP
8 3 (1.00%) 3PAR
8 3 (1.00%) Mitel
8 3 (1.00%) ShoreTel
8 3 (1.00%) SnapLogic
8 3 (1.00%) Sparx
9 2 (0.66%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.66%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.66%) Hortonworks
9 2 (0.66%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.66%) Thales
10 1 (0.33%) Nuix
10 1 (0.33%) Recommind