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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 184 268
Rank change year-on-year -144 +84 -101
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 74 244 352
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.89% 1.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.22% 7.14% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 66 119 230
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £43,470
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £60,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,135 £65,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -17.46% +8.62%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,125 £110,000
90th Percentile - £115,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% -

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 2,300 3,416 7,212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.39% 26.48% 22.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,707 2,448 6,166
10th Percentile £37,500 £38,175 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £81,750 £90,822 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.57% -10.20%

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 7 April 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 8 (10.81%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.76%) Apache
3 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.35%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (55.41%) Azure
2 30 (40.54%) Power Platform
3 27 (36.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 22 (29.73%) Cloud Computing
5 10 (13.51%) AWS
6 6 (8.11%) GCP
6 6 (8.11%) SaaS
7 3 (4.05%) dbt
7 3 (4.05%) GitHub
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.70%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.70%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (1.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.35%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.35%) AMQP
2 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (40.54%) Power BI
2 7 (9.46%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.46%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.41%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.41%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.05%) Apache Hive
4 3 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.70%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.70%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.70%) MySQL
5 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.35%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.35%) Cloudera CDH
6 1 (1.35%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.35%) Metadata
6 1 (1.35%) Parquet
6 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Git
General
1 27 (36.49%) Finance
2 9 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.05%) Marketing
4 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.35%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Lead
2 27 (36.49%) Big Data Engineer
2 27 (36.49%) DataOps Engineer
2 27 (36.49%) DataOps Leader
2 27 (36.49%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 22 (29.73%) Accountant
3 22 (29.73%) Data Engineer
3 22 (29.73%) Financial Accountant
4 11 (14.86%) Lead Data Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Operations Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Senior
6 6 (8.11%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.41%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.05%) Data Scientist
8 3 (4.05%) Principal Data Scientist
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (2.70%) Analytics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) Kafka
2 3 (4.05%) Flask
2 3 (4.05%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.35%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.35%) gRPC
3 1 (1.35%) LDAP
3 1 (1.35%) Material-UI
3 1 (1.35%) Node.js
3 1 (1.35%) OAuth
3 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.35%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.35%) PySpark
3 1 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.35%) React
3 1 (1.35%) REST
3 1 (1.35%) Spring
3 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (29.73%) Social Network
2 4 (5.41%) Life Science
3 3 (4.05%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (4.05%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.35%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.35%) Genomics
5 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.35%) NHS
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) CentOS
2 1 (1.35%) Debian
2 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) CI/CD
2 31 (41.89%) AI
2 31 (41.89%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (37.84%) Observability
4 27 (36.49%) Cost Management
4 27 (36.49%) Cost Optimisation
4 27 (36.49%) DataOps
4 27 (36.49%) FinOps
4 27 (36.49%) Incident Management
4 27 (36.49%) Incident Response
5 14 (18.92%) Budgeting
6 11 (14.86%) Analytics
7 8 (10.81%) Data Engineering
7 8 (10.81%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (9.46%) ETL
8 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
8 7 (9.46%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.11%) Data Governance
9 6 (8.11%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.27%) Python
2 12 (16.22%) SQL
3 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.05%) Java
5 1 (1.35%) Bash
5 1 (1.35%) R
5 1 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) ACCA
2 3 (4.05%) Degree
3 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.70%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (36.49%) SLA
2 22 (29.73%) IFRS
3 8 (10.81%) GAAP
4 4 (5.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Ansible
1 2 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 2 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (45.95%) Databricks
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.70%) Google
3 2 (2.70%) Oracle
4 1 (1.35%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.35%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.35%) Dell
4 1 (1.35%) Foundry
4 1 (1.35%) Informatica
4 1 (1.35%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.35%) Palantir
4 1 (1.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.35%) SaltStack