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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 358 298
Rank change year-on-year -13 -60 -131
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 89 62 218
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.38% 0.38% 0.90%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.84% 2.14% 4.33%
Number of salaries quoted 69 50 187
10th Percentile £46,500 £47,825 £53,700
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 £93,000 £102,410 £141,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +7.41% -20.59% +21.43%

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 3,139 2,898 5,033
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.45% 17.55% 20.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,503 2,056 3,663
10th Percentile £36,500 £35,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £135,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -

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 31 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 26 (29.21%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.74%) Apache
3 5 (5.62%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.37%) Trello
3 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 34 (38.20%) Azure
2 27 (30.34%) AWS
3 19 (21.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 17 (19.10%) Power Platform
5 11 (12.36%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (10.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (8.99%) GitHub
8 6 (6.74%) SaaS
9 5 (5.62%) Vertex AI
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (3.37%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (3.37%) GCP
12 2 (2.25%) dbt
12 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
12 2 (2.25%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.22%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (19.10%) Power BI
3 13 (14.61%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.99%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.87%) Hadoop
6 5 (5.62%) Metadata
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.49%) DynamoDB
7 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.49%) Tableau
8 3 (3.37%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.25%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.25%) MySQL
9 2 (2.25%) QlikView
10 1 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.12%) Presto
10 1 (1.12%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Git
2 6 (6.74%) GitLab
3 4 (4.49%) JIRA
4 2 (2.25%) Claude Code
4 2 (2.25%) MLflow
4 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (30.34%) Finance
2 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (8.99%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.74%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.62%) Marketing
8 4 (4.49%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Legal
9 2 (2.25%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.12%) Banking
10 1 (1.12%) Billing
10 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Front Office
10 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.12%) Military
10 1 (1.12%) Retail
10 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Data Engineer
2 20 (22.47%) Lead
3 17 (19.10%) Senior
4 13 (14.61%) Big Data Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) DataOps Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) DataOps Leader
4 13 (14.61%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Accountant
5 9 (10.11%) Financial Accountant
6 8 (8.99%) Lead Data Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (6.74%) Data Manager
8 6 (6.74%) Senior Manager
9 5 (5.62%) Analytics Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Big Data Manager
9 5 (5.62%) Consultant
9 5 (5.62%) Data Scientist
9 5 (5.62%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.48%) PySpark
1 12 (13.48%) Terraform
2 8 (8.99%) Kafka
3 4 (4.49%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.25%) Flask
4 2 (2.25%) Laravel
4 2 (2.25%) Pandas
4 2 (2.25%) REST
4 2 (2.25%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.12%) JSON
5 1 (1.12%) NumPy
5 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.73%) Algorithms
2 9 (10.11%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.11%) Social Network
3 5 (5.62%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.49%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.49%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (4.49%) Life Science
4 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.37%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (3.37%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.25%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.25%) PMI
7 1 (1.12%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (47.19%) AI
2 34 (38.20%) Analytics
2 34 (38.20%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (35.96%) CI/CD
4 30 (33.71%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (32.58%) Agile
6 28 (31.46%) Data Engineering
7 26 (29.21%) Machine Learning
8 22 (24.72%) Data Modelling
9 19 (21.35%) Data Science
9 19 (21.35%) ETL
10 18 (20.22%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (20.22%) Incident Management
11 17 (19.10%) Decision-Making
11 17 (19.10%) Incident Response
11 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
12 15 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (16.85%) Observability
12 15 (16.85%) Technical Leadership
13 14 (15.73%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.81%) Python
2 39 (43.82%) SQL
3 6 (6.74%) VBA
4 3 (3.37%) Bash
4 3 (3.37%) Java
4 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.37%) Scala
5 2 (2.25%) Bicep
5 2 (2.25%) Ruby
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) R
6 1 (1.12%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (31.46%) Security Cleared
2 22 (24.72%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.36%) Degree
4 9 (10.11%) ACCA
5 6 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (5.62%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.37%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.73%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.61%) SLA
3 11 (12.36%) IFRS
4 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.49%) GDPR
5 3 (3.37%) QA
6 2 (2.25%) IFRS 17
6 2 (2.25%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.12%) GxP
System Software
1 7 (7.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Ansible
1 3 (3.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Databricks
2 6 (6.74%) Informatica
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.49%) Google
4 2 (2.25%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.12%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.12%) Talend