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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 228 315
Rank change year-on-year -95 +87 -184
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 79 219 297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.51% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.28% 6.34% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 72 101 238
10th Percentile £52,625 £25,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £59,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,250 £50,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.50% -42.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £105,000 £131,500
UK median annual salary £80,000 £63,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +25.49% -20.31% +14.29%

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 2,405 3,454 7,277
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.11% 23.76% 22.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,827 2,331 6,203
10th Percentile £37,950 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £96,539
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 13 May 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 14 (17.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.59%) Apache
3 2 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.27%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.27%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 46 (58.23%) Azure
2 34 (43.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 33 (41.77%) Power Platform
4 21 (26.58%) Cloud Computing
5 15 (18.99%) AWS
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.59%) GCP
7 5 (6.33%) GitHub
7 5 (6.33%) SaaS
8 3 (3.80%) dbt
9 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.53%) Serverless
9 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.27%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Broadband
2 1 (1.27%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (41.77%) Power BI
2 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.33%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.06%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.06%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.80%) Delta Lake
5 3 (3.80%) Metadata
5 3 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.53%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.53%) MySQL
6 2 (2.53%) Parquet
6 2 (2.53%) QlikView
6 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.53%) Tableau
7 1 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.27%) Presto
7 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Git
2 5 (6.33%) JIRA
3 2 (2.53%) GitLab
3 2 (2.53%) MLflow
4 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (31.65%) Finance
2 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.80%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.53%) Legal
5 2 (2.53%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.27%) Billing
6 1 (1.27%) Danish Language
6 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.27%) Marketing
6 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Lead
2 30 (37.97%) Big Data Engineer
2 30 (37.97%) DataOps Engineer
2 30 (37.97%) DataOps Leader
2 30 (37.97%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 21 (26.58%) Data Engineer
4 20 (25.32%) Accountant
4 20 (25.32%) Financial Accountant
5 13 (16.46%) Lead Data Engineer
6 12 (15.19%) Operations Engineer
7 8 (10.13%) Senior
8 5 (6.33%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Data Architect
9 4 (5.06%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Data Scientist
11 2 (2.53%) Analytics Consultant
11 2 (2.53%) Senior Data Engineer
11 2 (2.53%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) Kafka
2 3 (3.80%) Flask
3 2 (2.53%) PySpark
3 2 (2.53%) REST
3 2 (2.53%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.27%) gRPC
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.27%) Node.js
4 1 (1.27%) NumPy
4 1 (1.27%) Pandas
4 1 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.27%) React
4 1 (1.27%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.27%) Spring
4 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (25.32%) Social Network
2 6 (7.59%) Life Science
3 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.06%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.80%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.27%) Genomics
6 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (1.27%) Pharmacovigilance
6 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.53%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) CentOS
2 1 (1.27%) Debian
2 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) CI/CD
2 34 (43.04%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (40.51%) Observability
4 31 (39.24%) Cost Optimisation
4 31 (39.24%) FinOps
4 31 (39.24%) Incident Management
4 31 (39.24%) Incident Response
5 30 (37.97%) AI
5 30 (37.97%) Cost Management
5 30 (37.97%) DataOps
6 16 (20.25%) Analytics
6 16 (20.25%) Budgeting
7 11 (13.92%) Agile
7 11 (13.92%) Data Engineering
7 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
7 11 (13.92%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (12.66%) Data Science
8 10 (12.66%) ETL
8 10 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.13%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.58%) Python
2 13 (16.46%) SQL
3 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.80%) Scala
4 3 (3.80%) VBA
5 2 (2.53%) Bicep
5 2 (2.53%) Java
6 1 (1.27%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) ACCA
2 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (37.97%) SLA
2 22 (27.85%) IFRS
3 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.06%) GAAP
5 3 (3.80%) GDPR
6 2 (2.53%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.53%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.27%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.59%) Terraform
2 1 (1.27%) Ansible
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (49.37%) Databricks
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.80%) Google
4 2 (2.53%) Oracle
5 1 (1.27%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.27%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.27%) Foundry
5 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.27%) Palantir
5 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.27%) SaltStack