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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 191 310
Rank change year-on-year -121 +119 -171
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 80 239 306
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.45% 1.79% 0.94%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.43% 7.16% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 72 117 237
10th Percentile £52,500 £25,000 £43,282
25th Percentile £56,875 £25,313 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,500 £57,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.30% -32.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £110,000
90th Percentile - £113,692 £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 2,329 3,336 7,239
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.01% 24.93% 22.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,738 2,427 6,246
10th Percentile £37,425 £37,500 £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 £81,250 £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 23 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 10 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 46 (57.50%) Azure
2 32 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 31 (38.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 23 (28.75%) Cloud Computing
5 12 (15.00%) AWS
6 7 (8.75%) GCP
6 7 (8.75%) SaaS
7 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (5.00%) GitHub
8 3 (3.75%) dbt
9 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.50%) Serverless
9 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (1.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Broadband
2 1 (1.25%) AMQP
2 1 (1.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (40.00%) Power BI
2 7 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (8.75%) NoSQL
3 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (5.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.75%) Apache Hive
4 3 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.75%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.50%) Metadata
5 2 (2.50%) MySQL
5 2 (2.50%) Parquet
5 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.25%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (3.75%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) MLflow
General
1 28 (35.00%) Finance
2 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.50%) Marketing
5 1 (1.25%) Billing
5 1 (1.25%) Danish Language
5 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (40.00%) Lead
2 30 (37.50%) Big Data Engineer
2 30 (37.50%) DataOps Engineer
2 30 (37.50%) DataOps Leader
2 30 (37.50%) Lead Big Data Engineer
3 25 (31.25%) Data Engineer
4 23 (28.75%) Accountant
4 23 (28.75%) Financial Accountant
5 13 (16.25%) Lead Data Engineer
6 12 (15.00%) Operations Engineer
7 11 (13.75%) Senior
8 6 (7.50%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Data Architect
10 3 (3.75%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) Kafka
2 3 (3.75%) Flask
2 3 (3.75%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Beam
3 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (1.25%) gRPC
3 1 (1.25%) Node.js
3 1 (1.25%) NumPy
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.25%) Pandas
3 1 (1.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.25%) React
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.75%) Social Network
2 6 (7.50%) Life Science
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Genomics
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) NHS
5 1 (1.25%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) CentOS
2 1 (1.25%) Debian
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) CI/CD
2 33 (41.25%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (40.00%) AI
4 31 (38.75%) Cost Optimisation
4 31 (38.75%) FinOps
4 31 (38.75%) Observability
5 30 (37.50%) Cost Management
5 30 (37.50%) DataOps
5 30 (37.50%) Incident Management
5 30 (37.50%) Incident Response
6 15 (18.75%) Budgeting
7 11 (13.75%) Analytics
8 9 (11.25%) Data Engineering
8 9 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.00%) Data Modelling
9 8 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (10.00%) Data Science
9 8 (10.00%) ETL
10 7 (8.75%) Agile
10 7 (8.75%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) Python
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.75%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) Bash
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (28.75%) ACCA
2 4 (5.00%) Degree
3 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (37.50%) SLA
2 24 (30.00%) IFRS
3 8 (10.00%) GAAP
4 5 (6.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.50%) GDPR
6 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.25%) GxP
6 1 (1.25%) IFRS 17
6 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Terraform
2 2 (2.50%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (47.50%) Databricks
2 4 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.75%) Google
4 2 (2.50%) Oracle
5 1 (1.25%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.25%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.25%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.25%) Dell
5 1 (1.25%) Foundry
5 1 (1.25%) Informatica
5 1 (1.25%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.25%) Palantir
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.25%) SaltStack