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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 189 264
Rank change year-on-year -129 +75 -96
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 71 241 354
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.88% 1.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.16% 7.04% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 63 116 229
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £43,376
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,770 £61,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% -18.00% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £110,000
90th Percentile - £115,000 £113,000
UK median annual salary £76,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.92% -13.33% -

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 2,245 3,424 7,161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.45% 26.69% 23.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,649 2,421 6,126
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £91,202 £73,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,175 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.03% +9.87% -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 31 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 8 (11.27%) Apache Spark
2 4 (5.63%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.41%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) Azure
2 28 (39.44%) Power Platform
3 25 (35.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (30.99%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (14.08%) AWS
6 7 (9.86%) GCP
7 6 (8.45%) SaaS
8 3 (4.23%) GitHub
8 3 (4.23%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.82%) dbt
10 1 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.41%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.41%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.41%) Serverless
10 1 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.63%) Broadband
2 2 (2.82%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.41%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (39.44%) Power BI
2 7 (9.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (8.45%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.63%) Hadoop
4 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.23%) Apache Hive
5 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.82%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.82%) MySQL
6 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.41%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.41%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (1.41%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.41%) Impala
7 1 (1.41%) Metadata
7 1 (1.41%) Parquet
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.23%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 27 (38.03%) Finance
2 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.23%) Marketing
4 2 (2.82%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (38.03%) Lead
2 25 (35.21%) Big Data Engineer
2 25 (35.21%) DataOps Engineer
2 25 (35.21%) DataOps Leader
2 25 (35.21%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 22 (30.99%) Accountant
3 22 (30.99%) Financial Accountant
4 21 (29.58%) Data Engineer
5 11 (15.49%) Senior
6 9 (12.68%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (12.68%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Data Scientist
9 3 (4.23%) Principal Data Scientist
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Analytics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) Kafka
2 3 (4.23%) Flask
2 3 (4.23%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.82%) LDAP
3 2 (2.82%) OAuth
3 2 (2.82%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.41%) gRPC
4 1 (1.41%) JDBC
4 1 (1.41%) Material-UI
4 1 (1.41%) Node.js
4 1 (1.41%) ODBC
4 1 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) Spring
4 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.41%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.99%) Social Network
2 4 (5.63%) Life Science
3 3 (4.23%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.23%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.41%) Genomics
5 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.41%) NHS
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) CentOS
3 1 (1.41%) Debian
3 1 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.07%) AI
2 31 (43.66%) CI/CD
3 29 (40.85%) Business Intelligence
4 26 (36.62%) Observability
5 25 (35.21%) Cost Management
5 25 (35.21%) Cost Optimisation
5 25 (35.21%) DataOps
5 25 (35.21%) FinOps
5 25 (35.21%) Incident Management
5 25 (35.21%) Incident Response
6 14 (19.72%) Budgeting
7 10 (14.08%) Analytics
8 8 (11.27%) Machine Learning
9 7 (9.86%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (9.86%) Data Science
9 7 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (9.86%) Roadmaps
10 6 (8.45%) Data Engineering
10 6 (8.45%) ETL
11 5 (7.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.13%) Python
2 11 (15.49%) SQL
3 4 (5.63%) Java
3 4 (5.63%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.41%) Bash
4 1 (1.41%) R
4 1 (1.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (30.99%) ACCA
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 3 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (35.21%) SLA
2 22 (30.99%) IFRS
3 8 (11.27%) GAAP
4 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.23%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Ansible
1 3 (4.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.82%) Terraform
3 1 (1.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (43.66%) Databricks
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.82%) Dell
3 2 (2.82%) Google
3 2 (2.82%) Oracle
4 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.41%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.41%) Foundry
4 1 (1.41%) Informatica
4 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.41%) Palantir
4 1 (1.41%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.41%) SaltStack