Big Data Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 181 152
Rank change year-on-year -138 -29 -14
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 230 625 2,154
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 1.90% 2.74%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.91% 8.01% 9.31%
Number of salaries quoted 193 493 1,056
10th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £47,238
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -15.15% +10.00%
75th Percentile £118,750 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £134,500 £91,250 £109,220
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +14.29%

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 5,877 7,799 23,130
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 21.04% 23.76% 29.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,479 6,085 11,274
10th Percentile £38,084 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 70 (30.43%) Apache Airflow
2 46 (20.00%) Apache
3 43 (18.70%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.74%) Luigi
5 3 (1.30%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.30%) nginx
5 3 (1.30%) SAS
6 2 (0.87%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.43%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.87%) Primavera
3 1 (0.43%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 136 (59.13%) AWS
2 87 (37.83%) dbt
3 73 (31.74%) Snowflake
4 66 (28.70%) Azure
5 53 (23.04%) Power Platform
6 36 (15.65%) GCP
7 18 (7.83%) Serverless
8 17 (7.39%) SaaS
9 16 (6.96%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (3.91%) Amazon S3
11 7 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (3.04%) Lucidchart
12 6 (2.61%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.61%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (2.17%) GitHub
13 5 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.30%) Internet
1 3 (1.30%) Wireless
2 2 (0.87%) 4G
2 2 (0.87%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (47.39%) Data Lake
2 82 (35.65%) Apache Arrow
2 82 (35.65%) Dremio
3 58 (25.22%) Amazon Athena
4 42 (18.26%) Power BI
5 35 (15.22%) Tableau
6 32 (13.91%) Data Warehouse
7 23 (10.00%) Hadoop
8 22 (9.57%) NoSQL
9 20 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (6.52%) MongoDB
10 15 (6.52%) Relational Database
11 9 (3.91%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.91%) Redis
12 8 (3.48%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (3.48%) Metadata
13 7 (3.04%) Data Mining
14 6 (2.61%) Apache Hive
15 5 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (2.17%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (9.13%) Git
2 5 (2.17%) GitLab
2 5 (2.17%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.17%) MLflow
3 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.30%) JIRA
3 3 (1.30%) JUnit
3 3 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Continuum
4 2 (0.87%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.87%) Deequ
4 2 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (0.87%) Subversion
5 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 102 (44.35%) Finance
2 73 (31.74%) Social Skills
3 43 (18.70%) Banking
4 34 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (12.61%) Front Office
6 28 (12.17%) Investment Banking
7 12 (5.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.22%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.04%) Legal
8 7 (3.04%) Public Sector
9 6 (2.61%) Marketing
10 4 (1.74%) Retail
11 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.87%) Electronics
12 2 (0.87%) Games
12 2 (0.87%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.43%) Automotive
13 1 (0.43%) Law
13 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (24.78%) Big Data Engineer
2 56 (24.35%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (23.48%) Site Engineer
3 54 (23.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 33 (14.35%) Senior
5 29 (12.61%) Data Engineer
6 27 (11.74%) Analyst
7 26 (11.30%) Architect
8 18 (7.83%) Data Architect
9 15 (6.52%) Business Analyst
9 15 (6.52%) Product Manager
10 14 (6.09%) Banking Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) Banking Business Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) Big Data Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) Big Data Manager
10 14 (6.09%) Data Business Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.09%) Finance Business Analyst
10 14 (6.09%) Finance Manager
10 14 (6.09%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (23.48%) gRPC
1 54 (23.48%) Protocol Buffers
2 22 (9.57%) Kafka
3 20 (8.70%) PySpark
4 13 (5.65%) Pandas
5 11 (4.78%) Node.js
6 6 (2.61%) .NET
7 5 (2.17%) GraphQL
8 4 (1.74%) Keras
8 4 (1.74%) PyTorch
8 4 (1.74%) SQLAlchemy
8 4 (1.74%) TensorFlow
9 3 (1.30%) jQuery
9 3 (1.30%) Keycloak
9 3 (1.30%) NumPy
9 3 (1.30%) React
9 3 (1.30%) RESTful
10 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
10 2 (0.87%) Great Expectations
11 1 (0.43%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 83 (36.09%) Hedge funds
2 54 (23.48%) Clustering
3 38 (16.52%) Product Ownership
4 29 (12.61%) Equities
4 29 (12.61%) Fixed Income
5 28 (12.17%) Derivative
5 28 (12.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 20 (8.70%) Algorithms
6 20 (8.70%) Data Structures
7 14 (6.09%) Cloud Native
8 11 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (3.91%) Reinsurance
10 8 (3.48%) Low-Code
11 6 (2.61%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.61%) PMI
12 4 (1.74%) Credit Risk
12 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 4 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.91%) Linux
2 3 (1.30%) Windows
3 2 (0.87%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (46.09%) DevOps
2 90 (39.13%) Asset Management
3 82 (35.65%) Investment Management
4 76 (33.04%) Analytics
5 73 (31.74%) Agile
6 56 (24.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 54 (23.48%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (20.43%) Data Science
8 47 (20.43%) Machine Learning
9 34 (14.78%) Computer Science
10 30 (13.04%) Business Analysis
10 30 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
11 29 (12.61%) Data Engineering
11 29 (12.61%) Data Management
12 28 (12.17%) Cybersecurity
13 25 (10.87%) Data Governance
14 24 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
14 24 (10.43%) CI/CD
14 24 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 22 (9.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 159 (69.13%) Python
2 99 (43.04%) SQL
3 79 (34.35%) Java
4 64 (27.83%) Go
5 60 (26.09%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.78%) C#
6 11 (4.78%) Scala
7 7 (3.04%) R
8 4 (1.74%) Bash
8 4 (1.74%) C++
9 3 (1.30%) C
9 3 (1.30%) Ruby
9 3 (1.30%) Rust
10 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.87%) Embedded C
10 2 (0.87%) VBA
11 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 54 (23.48%) Degree
2 24 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.83%) Security Cleared
4 17 (7.39%) SC Cleared
5 16 (6.96%) Master's Degree
6 7 (3.04%) DBS Check
6 7 (3.04%) PhD
7 6 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 5 (2.17%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.87%) CIMA
10 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.87%) SAP Certification
10 2 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.48%) QA
3 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) SEPA
System Software
1 13 (5.65%) Docker
2 3 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (32.17%) Kubernetes
2 66 (28.70%) Terraform
3 54 (23.48%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.74%) Ansible
5 3 (1.30%) Podman
5 3 (1.30%) Puppet
6 2 (0.87%) Argo
6 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (18.26%) Databricks
2 39 (16.96%) Microsoft
3 26 (11.30%) Google
4 12 (5.22%) SAP
5 4 (1.74%) Dell
5 4 (1.74%) Sparx
6 3 (1.30%) SnapLogic
6 3 (1.30%) VMware
7 2 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (0.87%) Sage
7 2 (0.87%) Thales
8 1 (0.43%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.43%) Hortonworks
8 1 (0.43%) Informatica
8 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) webMethods
8 1 (0.43%) YouTube