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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 235 318
Rank change year-on-year -86 +83 -180
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 83 218 297
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 1.47% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.43% 6.36% 4.06%
Number of salaries quoted 73 100 237
10th Percentile £52,750 £25,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £51,250 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +63.90% -41.43% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £102,975 £132,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £62,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +28.00% -21.88% +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 2,423 3,426 7,313
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.02% 23.13% 22.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,846 2,305 6,215
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £122,500 £97,500
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 16 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 (16.87%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.20%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.41%) Trello
3 1 (1.20%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 47 (56.63%) Azure
2 35 (42.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 33 (39.76%) Power Platform
4 21 (25.30%) Cloud Computing
5 17 (20.48%) AWS
6 7 (8.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (7.23%) GCP
7 6 (7.23%) GitHub
8 5 (6.02%) SaaS
9 3 (3.61%) dbt
10 2 (2.41%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.41%) Serverless
10 2 (2.41%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.20%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (1.20%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.20%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (39.76%) Power BI
2 8 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
3 5 (6.02%) Data Lake
3 5 (6.02%) Hadoop
4 4 (4.82%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.61%) Delta Lake
5 3 (3.61%) Metadata
5 3 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.41%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (2.41%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.41%) Parquet
6 2 (2.41%) QlikView
6 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.41%) Tableau
7 1 (1.20%) Cloudera CDH
7 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.20%) Presto
7 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) Git
2 5 (6.02%) JIRA
3 3 (3.61%) GitLab
4 2 (2.41%) MLflow
5 1 (1.20%) Claude Code
5 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (31.33%) Finance
2 9 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.02%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.41%) Legal
5 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.20%) Billing
6 1 (1.20%) Danish Language
6 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.20%) Marketing
6 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (39.76%) Lead
2 30 (36.14%) Big Data Engineer
2 30 (36.14%) DataOps Engineer
2 30 (36.14%) DataOps Leader
2 30 (36.14%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 22 (26.51%) Data Engineer
4 20 (24.10%) Accountant
4 20 (24.10%) Financial Accountant
5 13 (15.66%) Lead Data Engineer
6 12 (14.46%) Operations Engineer
7 9 (10.84%) Senior
8 5 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Architect
9 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.82%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.82%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.61%) Analytics Consultant
10 3 (3.61%) Consultant
10 3 (3.61%) Data Scientist
11 2 (2.41%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.23%) Kafka
2 3 (3.61%) Flask
2 3 (3.61%) PySpark
3 2 (2.41%) REST
3 2 (2.41%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.20%) gRPC
4 1 (1.20%) JSON
4 1 (1.20%) Node.js
4 1 (1.20%) NumPy
4 1 (1.20%) Pandas
4 1 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.20%) React
4 1 (1.20%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (1.20%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.20%) Spring
4 1 (1.20%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.20%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (24.10%) Social Network
2 6 (7.23%) Life Science
3 5 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.82%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.61%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.20%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.20%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
7 1 (1.20%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) CentOS
2 1 (1.20%) Debian
2 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (51.81%) CI/CD
2 34 (40.96%) AI
2 34 (40.96%) Business Intelligence
3 33 (39.76%) Incident Response
3 33 (39.76%) Observability
4 32 (38.55%) Incident Management
5 31 (37.35%) Cost Optimisation
5 31 (37.35%) FinOps
6 30 (36.14%) Cost Management
6 30 (36.14%) DataOps
7 19 (22.89%) Analytics
8 16 (19.28%) Budgeting
9 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (15.66%) Agile
10 13 (15.66%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (14.46%) Data Engineering
12 11 (13.25%) Data Modelling
12 11 (13.25%) ETL
13 10 (12.05%) Data Science
13 10 (12.05%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) Python
2 14 (16.87%) SQL
3 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.61%) Scala
4 3 (3.61%) VBA
5 2 (2.41%) Bicep
5 2 (2.41%) Java
6 1 (1.20%) Bash
6 1 (1.20%) R
6 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (24.10%) ACCA
2 7 (8.43%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.02%) Degree
4 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (36.14%) SLA
2 22 (26.51%) IFRS
3 7 (8.43%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.82%) GAAP
5 3 (3.61%) GDPR
6 2 (2.41%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.41%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.20%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.43%) Terraform
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (48.19%) Databricks
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.82%) Google
4 2 (2.41%) Oracle
5 1 (1.20%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.20%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.20%) Foundry
5 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.20%) Palantir
5 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) SaltStack