Big Data Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 338 163
Rank change year-on-year +51 -175 -21
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 195 279 783
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.96% 0.81% 2.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.50% 3.64% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 81 236 521
10th Percentile £25,000 £43,470 £55,000
25th Percentile £25,313 £59,011 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £80,000 £115,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £135,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -24.38% +14.29% -12.50%

All Database and 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 3,548 7,656 8,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 17.49% 22.18% 24.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,196 6,047 6,455
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £63,678
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -5.78% +6.13%
75th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £112,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -8.73% +5.00%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Big Data
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Big Data over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 29 (14.87%) Apache Spark
2 23 (11.79%) Jupyter
3 8 (4.10%) Apache
4 6 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.51%) nginx
5 1 (0.51%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.51%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.41%) Azure
2 27 (13.85%) Power Platform
3 25 (12.82%) AWS
4 13 (6.67%) GCP
4 13 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.56%) Serverless
8 4 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.54%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (1.54%) dbt
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.03%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (1.03%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.03%) Matillion
10 2 (1.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.03%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (13.85%) Power BI
3 16 (8.21%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.21%) Tableau
4 14 (7.18%) Data Lake
4 14 (7.18%) Hadoop
5 10 (5.13%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (4.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.08%) Apache Hive
8 5 (2.56%) Data Hub
8 5 (2.56%) Looker
9 4 (2.05%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.05%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.05%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 4 (2.05%) Metadata
9 4 (2.05%) MySQL
9 4 (2.05%) SAP BW
10 3 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 7 (3.59%) Git
2 3 (1.54%) RStudio
3 2 (1.03%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.03%) JMeter
3 2 (1.03%) Selenium
4 1 (0.51%) JIRA
4 1 (0.51%) JUnit
4 1 (0.51%) Locust
4 1 (0.51%) Postman
4 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 100 (51.28%) Finance
2 62 (31.79%) Social Skills
3 60 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (25.64%) Advertising
4 50 (25.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (25.64%) Marketing
5 43 (22.05%) Banking
6 8 (4.10%) Law
7 4 (2.05%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.54%) Electronics
8 3 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.03%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Legal
10 1 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (44.10%) Senior
2 51 (26.15%) Senior Manager
3 49 (25.13%) Account Manager
3 49 (25.13%) Senior Account Manager
4 47 (24.10%) Data Scientist
5 42 (21.54%) Analyst
6 33 (16.92%) Data Analyst
7 24 (12.31%) Data Engineer
8 23 (11.79%) Senior Data Scientist
9 17 (8.72%) Architect
10 9 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 9 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (4.10%) Data Architect
11 8 (4.10%) Lead
12 7 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
13 5 (2.56%) Business Analyst
13 5 (2.56%) Provisioning Engineer
14 4 (2.05%) Cloud Architect
14 4 (2.05%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.10%) Kafka
1 8 (4.10%) Pandas
2 4 (2.05%) PySpark
2 4 (2.05%) React
2 4 (2.05%) RESTful
3 3 (1.54%) Dask
3 3 (1.54%) JSON
4 2 (1.03%) CSS
4 2 (1.03%) HTML
4 2 (1.03%) Next.js
4 2 (1.03%) Node.js
4 2 (1.03%) Polars
4 2 (1.03%) PyArrow
4 2 (1.03%) Vue
5 1 (0.51%) .NET
5 1 (0.51%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.51%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.51%) Laravel
5 1 (0.51%) REST
5 1 (0.51%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.13%) Digital Media
1 49 (25.13%) Marketing Technology
2 48 (24.62%) Algorithms
3 46 (23.59%) Cyberattack
4 9 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.05%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.54%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.54%) Social Network
8 2 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.51%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.51%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.51%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.05%) Linux
2 3 (1.54%) Unix
3 1 (0.51%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (54.87%) Artificial Intelligence
2 95 (48.72%) Visualisation
3 79 (40.51%) Mathematics
3 79 (40.51%) Statistics
4 75 (38.46%) Analytics
5 66 (33.85%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (29.23%) Data Science
7 56 (28.72%) Machine Learning
8 53 (27.18%) Analytical Thinking
9 52 (26.67%) Computer Science
9 52 (26.67%) Predictive Modelling
10 51 (26.15%) Collaborative Working
10 51 (26.15%) Project Management
11 50 (25.64%) Digital Marketing
11 50 (25.64%) Process Improvement
12 49 (25.13%) Customer Retention
12 49 (25.13%) Epics
12 49 (25.13%) Marketing Strategy
12 49 (25.13%) Strategic Thinking
12 49 (25.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (38.97%) SQL
2 57 (29.23%) Python
3 46 (23.59%) Java
4 28 (14.36%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.10%) Bash
5 8 (4.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (4.10%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.10%) Scala
6 4 (2.05%) C#
6 4 (2.05%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.54%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.03%) PHP
8 2 (1.03%) R
9 1 (0.51%) C++
9 1 (0.51%) Go
9 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.51%) Perl
9 1 (0.51%) Rust
9 1 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 82 (42.05%) Degree
2 49 (25.13%) Security Cleared
3 46 (23.59%) DV Cleared
4 29 (14.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (11.79%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.54%) ACCA
7 3 (1.54%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.51%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.64%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.56%) GDPR
3 3 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.54%) GAAP
4 2 (1.03%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 36 (18.46%) Docker
2 7 (3.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 36 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (9.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.69%) Databricks
3 12 (6.15%) Google
4 7 (3.59%) Oracle
5 6 (3.08%) SAP
6 4 (2.05%) Teradata
7 2 (1.03%) Informatica
7 2 (1.03%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.03%) Talend
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.51%) IBM
8 1 (0.51%) Tagetik
8 1 (0.51%) Vertica
8 1 (0.51%) Workday