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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 230 323
Rank change year-on-year -91 +93 -189
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 85 211 294
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 1.45% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.46% 6.48% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 73 94 240
10th Percentile £54,000 £25,000 £43,470
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £84,000 £50,250 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +67.16% -42.57% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £79,688 £110,000
90th Percentile - £102,410 £135,875
UK median annual salary £80,000 £61,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year +30.08% -23.13% +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 2,455 3,257 7,344
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.98% 22.32% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,865 2,155 6,240
10th Percentile £38,500 £36,250 £37,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £49,184 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%
75th Percentile £80,242 £87,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £122,500 £100,000
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 24 May 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 15 (17.65%) Apache Spark
2 7 (8.24%) Apache
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.35%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.53%) Trello
3 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) Azure
2 35 (41.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 33 (38.82%) Power Platform
4 20 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (22.35%) AWS
6 7 (8.24%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (8.24%) GCP
6 7 (8.24%) GitHub
7 5 (5.88%) SaaS
8 3 (3.53%) dbt
9 2 (2.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.35%) Serverless
9 2 (2.35%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) Broadband
2 1 (1.18%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (38.82%) Power BI
2 9 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.06%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.88%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.53%) Delta Lake
7 3 (3.53%) Metadata
7 3 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.35%) Apache Iceberg
8 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.35%) MySQL
8 2 (2.35%) Parquet
8 2 (2.35%) QlikView
8 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.35%) Tableau
9 1 (1.18%) Presto
9 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Git
2 5 (5.88%) JIRA
3 4 (4.71%) GitLab
4 2 (2.35%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.35%) MLflow
5 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (29.41%) Finance
2 11 (12.94%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Social Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Legal
6 2 (2.35%) Tech for Good
6 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.18%) Billing
7 1 (1.18%) Danish Language
7 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.18%) Marketing
7 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.00%) Lead
2 30 (35.29%) Big Data Engineer
2 30 (35.29%) DataOps Engineer
2 30 (35.29%) DataOps Leader
2 30 (35.29%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 23 (27.06%) Data Engineer
4 19 (22.35%) Accountant
4 19 (22.35%) Financial Accountant
5 13 (15.29%) Lead Data Engineer
6 12 (14.12%) Operations Engineer
7 10 (11.76%) Senior
8 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Architect
9 4 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.71%) Data Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
10 3 (3.53%) Analytics Consultant
10 3 (3.53%) Consultant
10 3 (3.53%) Data Scientist
11 2 (2.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.06%) Kafka
2 4 (4.71%) PySpark
3 3 (3.53%) Flask
4 2 (2.35%) REST
4 2 (2.35%) Ruby on Rails
4 2 (2.35%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.18%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.18%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.18%) gRPC
5 1 (1.18%) JSON
5 1 (1.18%) Node.js
5 1 (1.18%) NumPy
5 1 (1.18%) Pandas
5 1 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.18%) React
5 1 (1.18%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.18%) Spring
5 1 (1.18%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.18%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Social Network
2 6 (7.06%) Life Science
3 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.53%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.35%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.18%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Genomics
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) NHS
7 1 (1.18%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Linux
2 1 (1.18%) CentOS
2 1 (1.18%) Debian
2 1 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.76%) CI/CD
2 35 (41.18%) AI
3 34 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 34 (40.00%) Incident Response
4 33 (38.82%) Observability
5 32 (37.65%) Incident Management
6 31 (36.47%) Cost Optimisation
6 31 (36.47%) FinOps
7 30 (35.29%) Cost Management
7 30 (35.29%) DataOps
8 21 (24.71%) Analytics
9 17 (20.00%) Budgeting
9 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (18.82%) Agile
10 16 (18.82%) Data Pipeline
11 13 (15.29%) Data Engineering
11 13 (15.29%) Data Modelling
12 11 (12.94%) ETL
12 11 (12.94%) Machine Learning
13 10 (11.76%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 27 (31.76%) Python
2 16 (18.82%) SQL
3 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.53%) Java
4 3 (3.53%) Scala
4 3 (3.53%) VBA
5 2 (2.35%) Bash
5 2 (2.35%) Bicep
5 2 (2.35%) Ruby
6 1 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 19 (22.35%) ACCA
2 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.88%) Degree
3 5 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (35.29%) SLA
2 21 (24.71%) IFRS
3 8 (9.41%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.53%) GDPR
5 2 (2.35%) GAAP
5 2 (2.35%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.35%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.18%) GxP
6 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (9.41%) Terraform
2 1 (1.18%) Ansible
2 1 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (47.06%) Databricks
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.71%) Google
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.18%) Foundry
5 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.18%) Palantir
5 1 (1.18%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) SaltStack