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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 228 228
Rank change year-on-year -88 0 -72
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 70 222 384
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.43% 1.39%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.24% 5.49% 5.70%
Number of salaries quoted 55 129 249
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -12.10% +1.91%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £107,500
90th Percentile - £120,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £78,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% -0.18%

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 2,159 4,042 6,735
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.16% 26.07% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,552 2,425 5,766
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,104 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +17.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £93,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 20 February 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 3 (4.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.43%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.29%) Azure
2 24 (34.29%) Cloud Computing
3 18 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 15 (21.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (15.71%) AWS
6 10 (14.29%) GCP
7 4 (5.71%) OpenShift
7 4 (5.71%) SaaS
8 3 (4.29%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.43%) dbt
10 1 (1.43%) Fivetran
10 1 (1.43%) GitHub
10 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.43%) Serverless
10 1 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.14%) Broadband
2 3 (4.29%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.43%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.71%) Power BI
2 10 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 8 (11.43%) NoSQL
4 7 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 5 (7.14%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.71%) Apache Hive
7 3 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.29%) Neo4j
8 2 (2.86%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.86%) MySQL
9 1 (1.43%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.43%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (1.43%) Cloudera CDH
9 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.43%) Metadata
9 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
1 1 (1.43%) Git
1 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
1 1 (1.43%) JMeter
1 1 (1.43%) JUnit
1 1 (1.43%) Selenium
1 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (42.86%) Finance
2 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (4.29%) Avionics
3 3 (4.29%) Electronics
3 3 (4.29%) Marketing
3 3 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Law
5 1 (1.43%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.43%) Retail
5 1 (1.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (34.29%) Accountant
1 24 (34.29%) Financial Accountant
2 19 (27.14%) Data Engineer
2 19 (27.14%) Lead
3 15 (21.43%) Big Data Engineer
3 15 (21.43%) DataOps Engineer
3 15 (21.43%) DataOps Leader
3 15 (21.43%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Senior
5 8 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (5.71%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Data Scientist
7 3 (4.29%) Principal Data Scientist
7 3 (4.29%) Senior Data Scientist
8 2 (2.86%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) Kafka
2 3 (4.29%) LDAP
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth
2 3 (4.29%) OAuth2
2 3 (4.29%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.86%) React
3 2 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (1.43%) .NET
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.43%) Apache Thrift
4 1 (1.43%) gRPC
4 1 (1.43%) JDBC
4 1 (1.43%) JSON
4 1 (1.43%) Node.js
4 1 (1.43%) ODBC
4 1 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.43%) Spring
4 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 24 (34.29%) Social Network
2 6 (8.57%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.86%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.86%) Life Science
6 1 (1.43%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.43%) Genomics
6 1 (1.43%) IoT
6 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.43%) NHS
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.43%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) 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 41 (58.57%) AI
2 20 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 19 (27.14%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (22.86%) Observability
5 15 (21.43%) Cost Management
5 15 (21.43%) Cost Optimisation
5 15 (21.43%) DataOps
5 15 (21.43%) FinOps
5 15 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 15 (21.43%) Incident Response
6 13 (18.57%) Analytics
7 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.71%) Data Pipeline
8 11 (15.71%) Roadmaps
9 10 (14.29%) Budgeting
9 10 (14.29%) Data Science
10 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
11 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
11 8 (11.43%) Data Engineering
11 8 (11.43%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.57%) Python
2 13 (18.57%) SQL
3 6 (8.57%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) C
4 3 (4.29%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.29%) MATLAB
4 3 (4.29%) Tcl
5 2 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (34.29%) ACCA
2 8 (11.43%) Degree
3 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.14%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (34.29%) IFRS
2 15 (21.43%) SLA
3 14 (20.00%) GAAP
4 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Docker
2 3 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.43%) Firmware
3 1 (1.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (5.71%) Ansible
1 4 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (28.57%) Databricks
2 6 (8.57%) Google
3 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) Oracle
4 3 (4.29%) Dell
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