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 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 296 201
Rank change year-on-year -24 -95 -24
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 53 184 358
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.93% 1.69%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.30% 4.01% 6.83%
Number of salaries quoted 41 139 228
10th Percentile £52,500 £54,900 £50,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £67,000 £64,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £85,000 £75,554
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +12.50% -8.42%
75th Percentile £72,500 £112,375 £90,484
90th Percentile £87,500 £124,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £79,632
% change year-on-year -12.50% +0.46% -0.46%

All Database and 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 2,302 4,590 5,241
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 15.15% 23.08% 24.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,766 2,821 4,194
10th Percentile £35,625 £40,000 £39,800
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -0.41%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £77,542
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 25 November 2025.

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 5 (9.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.77%) Apache
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (45.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (39.62%) Cloud Computing
2 13 (24.53%) Azure
3 9 (16.98%) AWS
4 6 (11.32%) GCP
4 6 (11.32%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.66%) Google Workspace
5 3 (5.66%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.66%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) dbt
6 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.89%) Datadog
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Broadband
2 3 (5.66%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Hadoop
2 7 (13.21%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (11.32%) Power BI
4 4 (7.55%) Apache Hive
5 3 (5.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (5.66%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.66%) Neo4j
5 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.66%) SQL Server
6 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.77%) Tableau
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.89%) Impala
7 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (5.66%) RStudio
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) JMeter
2 2 (3.77%) JUnit
2 2 (3.77%) Selenium
2 2 (3.77%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.89%) Cucumber
General
1 27 (50.94%) Finance
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.55%) Electronics
4 3 (5.66%) Avionics
4 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.89%) Banking
6 1 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (39.62%) Accountant
1 21 (39.62%) Financial Accountant
2 15 (28.30%) Data Engineer
3 8 (15.09%) Senior
4 7 (13.21%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Lead
6 4 (7.55%) Analyst
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Data Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Data Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.66%) Data Technician
7 3 (5.66%) Trainer
8 2 (3.77%) Analytics Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Data Analytics Consultant
8 2 (3.77%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.77%) Gen AI Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Principal Data Scientist
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) Kafka
1 3 (5.66%) LDAP
1 3 (5.66%) OAuth
1 3 (5.66%) OAuth2
2 2 (3.77%) Apache Thrift
2 2 (3.77%) JSON
2 2 (3.77%) REST
2 2 (3.77%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.89%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.89%) JDBC
3 1 (1.89%) ODBC
3 1 (1.89%) React
Miscellaneous
1 21 (39.62%) Social Network
2 5 (9.43%) Algorithms
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.66%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.77%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.77%) IoT
5 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.77%) Smart Home
6 1 (1.89%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.89%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
2 3 (5.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (66.04%) AI
2 15 (28.30%) Analytics
3 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.64%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (20.75%) Data Science
5 11 (20.75%) Machine Learning
6 8 (15.09%) Data Engineering
7 7 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (13.21%) ETL
7 7 (13.21%) Roadmaps
8 6 (11.32%) Agile
8 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
8 6 (11.32%) Containerisation
8 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
8 6 (11.32%) Statistics
9 5 (9.43%) Data Analytics
9 5 (9.43%) Data Modelling
9 5 (9.43%) Generative AI
9 5 (9.43%) Natural Language Processing
10 4 (7.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 17 (32.08%) SQL
3 6 (11.32%) Java
4 3 (5.66%) C
4 3 (5.66%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (5.66%) MATLAB
4 3 (5.66%) Tcl
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.77%) Scala
6 1 (1.89%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) LookML
6 1 (1.89%) R
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (39.62%) ACCA
2 6 (11.32%) Degree
3 5 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (39.62%) GAAP
2 18 (33.96%) IFRS
3 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.77%) Firmware
4 1 (1.89%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.66%) Ansible
2 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (9.43%) Google
2 4 (7.55%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Dell
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.89%) Informatica