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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 189 313
Rank change year-on-year -132 +124 -178
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 81 233 296
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 1.73% 0.91%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.54% 7.15% 4.11%
Number of salaries quoted 73 112 233
10th Percentile £52,750 £25,000 £43,000
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,000 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -32.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,105 £110,000
90th Percentile - £109,500 £118,750
UK median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -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 2,290 3,257 7,205
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.63% 24.18% 22.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,734 2,395 6,195
10th Percentile £36,325 £37,500 £37,042
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 £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 29 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 12 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.64%) Apache
3 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.23%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 46 (56.79%) Azure
2 32 (39.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 32 (39.51%) Power Platform
3 23 (28.40%) Cloud Computing
4 14 (17.28%) AWS
5 7 (8.64%) GCP
6 6 (7.41%) SaaS
7 5 (6.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.17%) GitHub
8 3 (3.70%) dbt
9 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.47%) Serverless
9 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.23%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.23%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Broadband
2 1 (1.23%) AMQP
2 1 (1.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (39.51%) Power BI
2 8 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.64%) NoSQL
4 5 (6.17%) Hadoop
5 4 (4.94%) Data Lake
5 4 (4.94%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.70%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.70%) Metadata
7 2 (2.47%) Apache Hive
7 2 (2.47%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.47%) MySQL
7 2 (2.47%) Parquet
7 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) JIRA
2 3 (3.70%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) GitLab
3 2 (2.47%) MLflow
General
1 29 (35.80%) Finance
2 9 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Social Skills
4 3 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.47%) Marketing
6 1 (1.23%) Billing
6 1 (1.23%) Danish Language
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (39.51%) Lead
2 30 (37.04%) Big Data Engineer
2 30 (37.04%) DataOps Engineer
2 30 (37.04%) DataOps Leader
2 30 (37.04%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 23 (28.40%) Accountant
3 23 (28.40%) Data Engineer
3 23 (28.40%) Financial Accountant
4 13 (16.05%) Lead Data Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Operations Engineer
6 10 (12.35%) Senior
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Data Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
9 3 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Kafka
2 3 (3.70%) Flask
2 3 (3.70%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.23%) gRPC
3 1 (1.23%) Node.js
3 1 (1.23%) NumPy
3 1 (1.23%) OAuth
3 1 (1.23%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.23%) Pandas
3 1 (1.23%) PySpark
3 1 (1.23%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.23%) React
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Social Network
2 6 (7.41%) Life Science
3 3 (3.70%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.70%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Genomics
5 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) CentOS
2 1 (1.23%) Debian
2 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (49.38%) CI/CD
2 34 (41.98%) AI
3 33 (40.74%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (39.51%) Observability
5 31 (38.27%) Cost Optimisation
5 31 (38.27%) FinOps
5 31 (38.27%) Incident Management
5 31 (38.27%) Incident Response
6 30 (37.04%) Cost Management
6 30 (37.04%) DataOps
7 15 (18.52%) Budgeting
8 12 (14.81%) Analytics
9 11 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
10 10 (12.35%) Data Engineering
10 10 (12.35%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (11.11%) Agile
11 9 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 9 (11.11%) Data Science
11 9 (11.11%) ETL
11 9 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.99%) Python
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.70%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) Bicep
5 2 (2.47%) Scala
6 1 (1.23%) Bash
6 1 (1.23%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (28.40%) ACCA
2 4 (4.94%) Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.23%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (37.04%) SLA
2 25 (30.86%) IFRS
3 8 (9.88%) GAAP
4 7 (8.64%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.70%) GDPR
6 2 (2.47%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.47%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.23%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (6.17%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) Ansible
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (46.91%) Databricks
2 5 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (2.47%) Oracle
5 1 (1.23%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.23%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.23%) Dell
5 1 (1.23%) Foundry
5 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.23%) Palantir
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) SaltStack