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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 369 273
Rank change year-on-year +2 -96 -112
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 90 51 214
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.31% 0.99%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.87% 1.95% 4.49%
Number of salaries quoted 60 37 171
10th Percentile £46,500 £53,700 £56,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,500 £140,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -17.65% +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 3,132 2,612 4,768
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.59% 15.72% 22.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,394 1,788 2,954
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,854 £39,325
25th Percentile £46,000 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.32%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £112,500 £138,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +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 11 October 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 (30.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (5.56%) Apache
2 5 (5.56%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.11%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.22%) Trello
3 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.67%) AWS
2 20 (22.22%) Azure
3 15 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 15 (16.67%) SaaS
4 9 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (10.00%) n8n
4 9 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 9 (10.00%) Zapier
5 8 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (7.78%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (7.78%) GitHub
7 5 (5.56%) Vertex AI
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (3.33%) GCP
9 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) 5G
1 1 (1.11%) HTTP
1 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (16.67%) Power BI
3 14 (15.56%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.78%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.67%) Hadoop
5 6 (6.67%) Tableau
6 5 (5.56%) Metadata
7 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.33%) Delta Lake
8 3 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.22%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.22%) MySQL
9 2 (2.22%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.11%) Apache Hudi
10 1 (1.11%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.11%) DuckDB
10 1 (1.11%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Git
1 5 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (2.22%) Claude Code
2 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.22%) MLflow
2 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.89%) Finance
3 25 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 12 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (8.89%) Financial Institution
8 7 (7.78%) Marketing
9 6 (6.67%) Aerospace
9 6 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.22%) Banking
10 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.22%) Legal
10 2 (2.22%) Tech for Good
11 1 (1.11%) Danish Language
11 1 (1.11%) Front Office
11 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.11%) Military
11 1 (1.11%) Private Banking
11 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (30.00%) Data Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) Lead
4 9 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 9 (10.00%) Systems Support
5 6 (6.67%) Big Data Manager
5 6 (6.67%) Data Manager
5 6 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Accountant
6 5 (5.56%) Financial Accountant
6 5 (5.56%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Analytics Consultant
7 4 (4.44%) Architect
7 4 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Consultant
7 4 (4.44%) Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Data Consultant
8 3 (3.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.44%) Terraform
2 11 (12.22%) PySpark
3 8 (8.89%) Kafka
4 4 (4.44%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.22%) Laravel
5 2 (2.22%) REST
5 2 (2.22%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.11%) HTML
6 1 (1.11%) Pandas
6 1 (1.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.56%) Algorithms
2 8 (8.89%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.56%) Credit Risk
3 5 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.56%) Social Network
4 4 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.22%) Educational Technology
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.22%) PMI
6 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.11%) IoT
7 1 (1.11%) Life Science
7 1 (1.11%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (1.11%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.22%) Linux
1 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (2.22%) Rocky
1 2 (2.22%) Windows
1 2 (2.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (61.11%) AI
2 42 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (44.44%) Analytics
4 33 (36.67%) Machine Learning
5 29 (32.22%) Agile
5 29 (32.22%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (31.11%) Data Engineering
7 25 (27.78%) Data Science
8 23 (25.56%) CI/CD
9 20 (22.22%) Data Modelling
10 19 (21.11%) ETL
11 17 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 16 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (17.78%) Mentoring
12 16 (17.78%) Workflow
13 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
13 15 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (15.56%) DevOps
14 14 (15.56%) Migration
15 13 (14.44%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 49 (54.44%) Python
2 40 (44.44%) SQL
3 7 (7.78%) R
4 6 (6.67%) VBA
5 5 (5.56%) Bash
6 4 (4.44%) Scala
7 3 (3.33%) Java
7 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.22%) Bicep
8 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.22%) Ruby
8 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (35.56%) Security Cleared
2 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 14 (15.56%) Degree
4 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.67%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.56%) ACCA
5 5 (5.56%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.33%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.11%) CCNP
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.11%) HND
8 1 (1.11%) MCITP
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (13.33%) GDPR
3 10 (11.11%) Accessibility
4 7 (7.78%) IFRS
5 6 (6.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (4.44%) SLA
7 3 (3.33%) QA
8 2 (2.22%) IFRS 17
8 2 (2.22%) Solvency II
9 1 (1.11%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (6.67%) Ansible
2 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (18.89%) Databricks
2 7 (7.78%) Informatica
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.22%) Talend
5 2 (2.22%) Thales
5 2 (2.22%) VMware