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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 297 172
Rank change year-on-year -69 -125 -12
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 55 212 507
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.90% 2.06%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.00% 4.35% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 40 177 436
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,750 £53,625
25th Percentile £57,188 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £87,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +25.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,125 £143,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,500 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -17.06% +21.43% -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 2,748 4,878 6,119
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.86% 20.81% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,917 3,294 5,119
10th Percentile £35,500 £39,075 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,750 £49,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,751 £95,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £114,250 £140,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% +4.17%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Big Data.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Big Data

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 18 September 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 17 (30.91%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.73%) Apache
3 4 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) Power Platform
4 12 (21.82%) Cloud Computing
4 12 (21.82%) Snowflake
5 9 (16.36%) GCP
6 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (7.27%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (7.27%) dbt
7 4 (7.27%) Serverless
8 3 (5.45%) Google Workspace
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.64%) Matillion
10 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.82%) Datadog
10 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.45%) Hadoop
2 13 (23.64%) Power BI
3 12 (21.82%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (14.55%) NoSQL
4 8 (14.55%) Tableau
5 5 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (9.09%) Apache Hive
6 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (7.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.27%) BigQuery
6 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
6 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 4 (7.27%) Metadata
6 4 (7.27%) SAP BW
7 3 (5.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (5.45%) Neo4j
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (3.64%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Jenkins
1 3 (5.45%) JMeter
1 3 (5.45%) RStudio
1 3 (5.45%) Selenium
2 2 (3.64%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) JUnit
2 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (1.82%) Locust
3 1 (1.82%) Postman
3 1 (1.82%) Robot Framework
General
1 19 (34.55%) Finance
2 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Law
5 6 (10.91%) Electronics
6 3 (5.45%) Avionics
6 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.45%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.64%) Retail
8 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Data Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Accountant
2 12 (21.82%) Financial Accountant
3 8 (14.55%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Data Architect
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Cloud Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.27%) Lead
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.45%) Data Technician
7 3 (5.45%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) Kafka
2 3 (5.45%) JSON
2 3 (5.45%) Pandas
3 2 (3.64%) Apache Thrift
3 2 (3.64%) REST
4 1 (1.82%) .NET
4 1 (1.82%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.82%) Dask
4 1 (1.82%) pytest
4 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.82%) React
4 1 (1.82%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.82%) Social Network
2 5 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.45%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.64%) IoT
4 2 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.64%) Smart Home
5 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (45.45%) Artificial Intelligence
2 23 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (38.18%) Analytics
4 20 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (32.73%) Data Modelling
6 17 (30.91%) ETL
7 16 (29.09%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (23.64%) Data Governance
9 11 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 11 (20.00%) Data Science
10 10 (18.18%) Data Architecture
10 10 (18.18%) Data Engineering
11 9 (16.36%) Data Analytics
11 9 (16.36%) DevOps
11 9 (16.36%) Visualisation
12 8 (14.55%) Agile
12 8 (14.55%) Data Integration
12 8 (14.55%) Data Strategy
13 7 (12.73%) Computer Science
13 7 (12.73%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) SQL
2 30 (54.55%) Python
3 13 (23.64%) Java
4 8 (14.55%) Scala
5 4 (7.27%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) PL/SQL
6 3 (5.45%) Bash
6 3 (5.45%) C
6 3 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (5.45%) Google Apps Script
6 3 (5.45%) MATLAB
6 3 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.45%) Tcl
7 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.64%) R
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) LookML
8 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) ACCA
2 8 (14.55%) Degree
3 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.82%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.82%) GAAP
2 9 (16.36%) IFRS
3 7 (12.73%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.45%) GDPR
5 1 (1.82%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.36%) Docker
2 6 (10.91%) HDFS
3 2 (3.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) Terraform
2 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (18.18%) Google
2 9 (16.36%) Databricks
3 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
4 7 (12.73%) Oracle
5 5 (9.09%) SAP
6 4 (7.27%) Teradata
7 1 (1.82%) Informatica
7 1 (1.82%) Talend