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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 272 297
Rank change year-on-year -101 +25 -133
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 94 165 225
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.00% 0.89%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.01% 5.24% 4.37%
Number of salaries quoted 75 55 187
10th Percentile £46,500 £27,688 £52,500
25th Percentile £55,500 £49,625 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £81,875 £118,750
90th Percentile - £102,410 £136,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -18.75% +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 3,124 3,151 5,143
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.86% 19.12% 20.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,519 2,111 4,018
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £37,940
25th Percentile £45,309 £46,250 £46,990
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £91,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.00%

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 6 August 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 26 (27.66%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.38%) Apache
3 4 (4.26%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.19%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.19%) Trello
3 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 42 (44.68%) Azure
2 28 (29.79%) AWS
3 25 (26.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 23 (24.47%) Power Platform
5 15 (15.96%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (9.57%) GitHub
7 6 (6.38%) SaaS
8 4 (4.26%) GCP
8 4 (4.26%) Vertex AI
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (3.19%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.19%) dbt
9 3 (3.19%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (2.13%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (24.47%) Power BI
2 15 (15.96%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (11.70%) NoSQL
4 9 (9.57%) Data Lake
5 7 (7.45%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.32%) Metadata
6 5 (5.32%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.26%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.26%) Tableau
8 3 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.19%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.19%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.19%) MySQL
9 2 (2.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.13%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.13%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.13%) QlikView
10 1 (1.06%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Git
2 5 (5.32%) GitLab
2 5 (5.32%) JIRA
3 2 (2.13%) Claude Code
3 2 (2.13%) MLflow
3 2 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
General
1 29 (30.85%) Finance
2 20 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
5 10 (10.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (6.38%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.26%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
8 2 (2.13%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Billing
9 1 (1.06%) Danish Language
9 1 (1.06%) Front Office
9 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (40.43%) Data Engineer
2 24 (25.53%) Lead
3 19 (20.21%) Big Data Engineer
3 19 (20.21%) DataOps Engineer
3 19 (20.21%) DataOps Leader
3 19 (20.21%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 15 (15.96%) Senior
5 13 (13.83%) Accountant
5 13 (13.83%) Financial Accountant
6 11 (11.70%) Lead Data Engineer
7 10 (10.64%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Data Scientist
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.26%) Analytics Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Consultant
9 4 (4.26%) Developer
9 4 (4.26%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.70%) PySpark
2 9 (9.57%) Kafka
3 5 (5.32%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (3.19%) Flask
5 2 (2.13%) Laravel
5 2 (2.13%) Pandas
5 2 (2.13%) REST
5 2 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.06%) JSON
6 1 (1.06%) NumPy
6 1 (1.06%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.06%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Algorithms
1 13 (13.83%) Social Network
2 7 (7.45%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.32%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (5.32%) Life Science
4 4 (4.26%) Credit Risk
4 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.26%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.19%) AI Agents
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.19%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) PMI
7 1 (1.06%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) AI
2 38 (40.43%) CI/CD
3 34 (36.17%) Analytics
4 30 (31.91%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (26.60%) Agile
5 25 (26.60%) Data Engineering
5 25 (26.60%) Machine Learning
6 24 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (24.47%) Incident Management
7 23 (24.47%) Incident Response
8 22 (23.40%) Data Modelling
9 21 (22.34%) Observability
10 20 (21.28%) Cost Optimisation
10 20 (21.28%) ETL
10 20 (21.28%) FinOps
11 19 (20.21%) Cost Management
11 19 (20.21%) Data Science
11 19 (20.21%) DataOps
12 16 (17.02%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.06%) Python
2 37 (39.36%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) VBA
4 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.19%) Scala
6 2 (2.13%) Bash
6 2 (2.13%) Bicep
6 2 (2.13%) Java
6 2 (2.13%) R
6 2 (2.13%) Ruby
7 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (28.72%) Security Cleared
2 21 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.83%) ACCA
4 10 (10.64%) Degree
5 6 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.26%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (3.19%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.21%) SLA
2 15 (15.96%) IFRS
3 13 (13.83%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.19%) GDPR
6 2 (2.13%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.13%) QA
6 2 (2.13%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.06%) GxP
System Software
1 7 (7.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Terraform
2 3 (3.19%) Ansible
2 3 (3.19%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (34.04%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Informatica
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (2.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.06%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.06%) Foundry
5 1 (1.06%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle
5 1 (1.06%) Palantir
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.06%) Talend