Big Data Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Big Data skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Big Data over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 323 184
Rank change year-on-year +12 -139 -32
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 176 259 645
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.83% 0.82% 1.87%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 5.00% 3.80% 7.89%
Number of salaries quoted 64 215 508
10th Percentile £25,094 £51,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £45,938 £62,375 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £87,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +25.00% -15.15%
75th Percentile £80,000 £118,750 £80,313
90th Percentile £102,410 £131,500 £92,040
UK median annual salary £65,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -18.75% +14.29% -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 3,523 6,815 8,177
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.71% 21.49% 23.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,173 5,313 6,310
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £84,964 £80,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £118,750 £97,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -6.40% +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 a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Big Data.

Big Data salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 17 July 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 27 (15.34%) Apache Spark
2 23 (13.07%) Jupyter
3 8 (4.55%) Apache
4 5 (2.84%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.57%) nginx
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (9.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.57%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.18%) Azure
2 27 (15.34%) Power Platform
3 25 (14.20%) AWS
4 13 (7.39%) GCP
4 13 (7.39%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.98%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (3.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (2.84%) Serverless
9 4 (2.27%) dbt
10 3 (1.70%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.14%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.14%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (1.14%) Matillion
11 2 (1.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (15.34%) Power BI
3 16 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 16 (9.09%) Tableau
4 15 (8.52%) Hadoop
5 14 (7.95%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.68%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.41%) Apache Hive
9 5 (2.84%) Data Hub
9 5 (2.84%) Looker
10 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 4 (2.27%) Metadata
10 4 (2.27%) MySQL
10 4 (2.27%) SAP BW
11 3 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 7 (3.98%) Git
2 3 (1.70%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.70%) JMeter
2 3 (1.70%) RStudio
2 3 (1.70%) Selenium
3 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.14%) JUnit
3 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.57%) JIRA
4 1 (0.57%) Locust
4 1 (0.57%) Postman
4 1 (0.57%) Robot Framework
General
1 83 (47.16%) Finance
2 61 (34.66%) Social Skills
3 60 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (28.41%) Advertising
4 50 (28.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 50 (28.41%) Marketing
5 25 (14.20%) Banking
6 8 (4.55%) Law
7 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.70%) Electronics
8 3 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.14%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.57%) Billing
10 1 (0.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 84 (47.73%) Senior
2 51 (28.98%) Senior Manager
3 49 (27.84%) Account Manager
3 49 (27.84%) Senior Account Manager
4 47 (26.70%) Data Scientist
5 23 (13.07%) Analyst
5 23 (13.07%) Data Engineer
5 23 (13.07%) Senior Data Scientist
6 16 (9.09%) Architect
7 14 (7.95%) Data Analyst
8 9 (5.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 9 (5.11%) Lead
9 8 (4.55%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.98%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Accountant
11 6 (3.41%) Financial Accountant
12 5 (2.84%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.84%) Provisioning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.68%) Kafka
2 8 (4.55%) Pandas
3 4 (2.27%) JSON
3 4 (2.27%) PySpark
3 4 (2.27%) React
3 4 (2.27%) RESTful
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Thrift
4 2 (1.14%) CSS
4 2 (1.14%) HTML
4 2 (1.14%) Next.js
4 2 (1.14%) Node.js
4 2 (1.14%) PyArrow
4 2 (1.14%) REST
4 2 (1.14%) Vue
5 1 (0.57%) .NET
5 1 (0.57%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.57%) Ionic Framework
5 1 (0.57%) pytest
5 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 49 (27.84%) Digital Media
1 49 (27.84%) Marketing Technology
2 48 (27.27%) Algorithms
3 46 (26.14%) Cyberattack
4 9 (5.11%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.55%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.41%) Social Network
7 4 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.70%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.14%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 1 (0.57%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.57%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.70%) Unix
2 2 (1.14%) Linux
3 1 (0.57%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (62.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 77 (43.75%) Visualisation
3 65 (36.93%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (34.09%) Mathematics
4 60 (34.09%) Statistics
5 57 (32.39%) Data Science
6 56 (31.82%) Analytics
6 56 (31.82%) Machine Learning
7 53 (30.11%) Analytical Thinking
8 51 (28.98%) Collaborative Working
8 51 (28.98%) Computer Science
8 51 (28.98%) Project Management
9 50 (28.41%) Digital Marketing
10 49 (27.84%) Customer Retention
10 49 (27.84%) Epics
10 49 (27.84%) Marketing Strategy
10 49 (27.84%) Process Improvement
10 49 (27.84%) Strategic Thinking
10 49 (27.84%) Time Management
11 48 (27.27%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (31.25%) Python
1 55 (31.25%) SQL
2 47 (26.70%) Java
3 28 (15.91%) JavaScript
4 8 (4.55%) Bash
4 8 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (4.55%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.55%) Scala
5 4 (2.27%) C#
5 4 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.14%) PHP
7 2 (1.14%) R
8 1 (0.57%) C++
8 1 (0.57%) Go
8 1 (0.57%) LookML
8 1 (0.57%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.57%) Perl
8 1 (0.57%) Rust
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 62 (35.23%) Degree
2 49 (27.84%) Security Cleared
3 46 (26.14%) DV Cleared
4 28 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (13.07%) Numerate Degree
6 6 (3.41%) ACCA
7 4 (2.27%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.70%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.57%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.57%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.41%) GAAP
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
4 3 (1.70%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.70%) IFRS
5 2 (1.14%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (21.02%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 37 (21.02%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (10.23%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.39%) Databricks
3 12 (6.82%) Google
4 7 (3.98%) Oracle
5 6 (3.41%) SAP
6 4 (2.27%) Teradata
7 2 (1.14%) Informatica
7 2 (1.14%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.14%) Talend
8 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.57%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.57%) IBM
8 1 (0.57%) Tagetik
8 1 (0.57%) Vertica