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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 312 297
Rank change year-on-year -58 -15 -130
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 92 108 221
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.40% 0.65% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.93% 3.55% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 72 46 186
10th Percentile £46,500 £45,625 £53,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,805 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £118,750
90th Percentile - £102,410 £141,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £66,250 £80,000
% change year-on-year +9.43% -17.19% +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 3,142 3,038 5,006
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.77% 18.29% 20.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,527 2,065 3,869
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,854 £38,000
25th Percentile £45,624 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,091 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.90% -2.94% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £122,861
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%

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 17 August 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 27 (29.35%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.61%) Apache
3 5 (5.43%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.26%) Trello
3 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 38 (41.30%) Azure
2 28 (30.43%) AWS
3 23 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 20 (21.74%) Power Platform
5 13 (14.13%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (9.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (8.70%) GitHub
8 5 (5.43%) SaaS
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.35%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.35%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (3.26%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.26%) GCP
11 2 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (2.17%) dbt
11 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.17%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.74%) Power BI
2 16 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (11.96%) Data Lake
4 9 (9.78%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.61%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.43%) Metadata
6 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.35%) DynamoDB
7 4 (4.35%) Tableau
8 3 (3.26%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.26%) MySQL
9 2 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.17%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.17%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.17%) QlikView
10 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.09%) Presto
10 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (7.61%) Git
2 6 (6.52%) GitLab
3 4 (4.35%) JIRA
4 2 (2.17%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.17%) MLflow
4 2 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
General
1 28 (30.43%) Finance
2 21 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (20.65%) Social Skills
4 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.61%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.43%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.35%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.26%) Marketing
10 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.17%) Legal
10 2 (2.17%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.09%) Banking
11 1 (1.09%) Billing
11 1 (1.09%) Front Office
11 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.09%) Military
11 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.09%) Retail
11 1 (1.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (40.22%) Data Engineer
2 24 (26.09%) Lead
3 17 (18.48%) Big Data Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) DataOps Engineer
3 17 (18.48%) DataOps Leader
3 17 (18.48%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 15 (16.30%) Senior
5 11 (11.96%) Accountant
5 11 (11.96%) Financial Accountant
6 10 (10.87%) Lead Data Engineer
7 9 (9.78%) Operations Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Data Scientist
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Analytics Consultant
9 4 (4.35%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.35%) Principal Data Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) PySpark
2 9 (9.78%) Kafka
3 5 (5.43%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.17%) Flask
4 2 (2.17%) Laravel
4 2 (2.17%) Pandas
4 2 (2.17%) REST
4 2 (2.17%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.09%) JSON
5 1 (1.09%) NumPy
5 1 (1.09%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.09%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.13%) Algorithms
2 11 (11.96%) Social Network
3 9 (9.78%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.43%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.35%) AI Agents
5 4 (4.35%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.35%) Life Science
5 4 (4.35%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.26%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.17%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) PMI
8 1 (1.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (46.74%) AI
2 36 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 34 (36.96%) Analytics
4 32 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (33.70%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (29.35%) Agile
7 26 (28.26%) Data Engineering
8 25 (27.17%) Machine Learning
9 22 (23.91%) Data Modelling
9 22 (23.91%) Incident Management
10 21 (22.83%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (22.83%) Incident Response
11 20 (21.74%) ETL
12 19 (20.65%) Data Science
12 19 (20.65%) Observability
13 18 (19.57%) Cost Optimisation
13 18 (19.57%) FinOps
14 17 (18.48%) Cost Management
14 17 (18.48%) DataOps
14 17 (18.48%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.09%) Python
2 38 (41.30%) SQL
3 6 (6.52%) VBA
4 3 (3.26%) Bash
4 3 (3.26%) Java
4 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.26%) Scala
5 2 (2.17%) Bicep
5 2 (2.17%) Ruby
6 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.09%) R
6 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.91%) SC Cleared
3 11 (11.96%) ACCA
4 10 (10.87%) Degree
5 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.43%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.35%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (3.26%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.09%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.48%) SLA
2 13 (14.13%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.13%) IFRS
3 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.26%) GDPR
4 3 (3.26%) QA
5 2 (2.17%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.17%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.09%) GxP
System Software
1 7 (7.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (13.04%) Terraform
2 3 (3.26%) Ansible
2 3 (3.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 30 (32.61%) Databricks
2 6 (6.52%) Informatica
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.09%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.09%) Foundry
5 1 (1.09%) Palantir
5 1 (1.09%) Talend