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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 363 289
Rank change year-on-year -12 -74 -124
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 88 54 216
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.33% 0.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 2.77% 1.99% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 62 39 179
10th Percentile £46,500 £51,250 £56,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £56,875 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £118,750
90th Percentile £97,250 £103,000 £142,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +2.84% -17.06% +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 3,174 2,717 4,852
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.00% 16.76% 20.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2,478 1,893 3,240
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,500 £39,500
25th Percentile £46,217 £46,250 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -5.54% +8.40%
75th Percentile £78,750 £82,751 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £140,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +0.80%

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 21 September 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 29 (32.95%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.82%) Apache
3 5 (5.68%) Jupyter
4 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.14%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.41%) Trello
3 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.55%) AWS
1 26 (29.55%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) Power Platform
3 13 (14.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 11 (12.50%) SaaS
5 9 (10.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (7.95%) GitHub
8 5 (5.68%) n8n
8 5 (5.68%) Power Automate
8 5 (5.68%) Vertex AI
8 5 (5.68%) Zapier
9 4 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 4 (4.55%) GCP
9 4 (4.55%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.41%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.41%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (2.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.14%) 5G
1 1 (1.14%) HTTP
1 1 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.59%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (17.05%) Power BI
3 14 (15.91%) Data Lake
4 7 (7.95%) Hadoop
4 7 (7.95%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.82%) Tableau
6 5 (5.68%) Metadata
6 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.55%) DynamoDB
8 3 (3.41%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (2.27%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.27%) MySQL
9 2 (2.27%) Spark SQL
10 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.14%) Parquet
10 1 (1.14%) Presto
10 1 (1.14%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Git
2 6 (6.82%) GitLab
3 2 (2.27%) Claude Code
3 2 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) MLflow
3 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 27 (30.68%) Finance
2 24 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Public Sector
4 12 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.09%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.82%) Marketing
6 6 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Aerospace
7 5 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Legal
8 2 (2.27%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.14%) Banking
9 1 (1.14%) Billing
9 1 (1.14%) Front Office
9 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.14%) Military
9 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 16 (18.18%) Senior
3 14 (15.91%) Lead
4 7 (7.95%) Big Data Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Data Manager
4 7 (7.95%) DataOps Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) DataOps Leader
4 7 (7.95%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 7 (7.95%) Senior Manager
5 6 (6.82%) Accountant
5 6 (6.82%) Big Data Manager
5 6 (6.82%) Financial Accountant
6 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Data Scientist
6 5 (5.68%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Systems Support
7 4 (4.55%) Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Developer
7 4 (4.55%) Principal Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (14.77%) Terraform
2 12 (13.64%) PySpark
3 9 (10.23%) Kafka
4 4 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.27%) Laravel
5 2 (2.27%) Pandas
5 2 (2.27%) REST
5 2 (2.27%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.14%) HTML
6 1 (1.14%) JSON
6 1 (1.14%) NumPy
6 1 (1.14%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.14%) RESTful
6 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.91%) Algorithms
2 9 (10.23%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.82%) Social Network
4 5 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.68%) Credit Risk
4 5 (5.68%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.41%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.27%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) Life Science
7 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.27%) PMI
8 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (53.41%) AI
2 38 (43.18%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (42.05%) Analytics
4 31 (35.23%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (32.95%) Agile
5 29 (32.95%) Machine Learning
6 28 (31.82%) Data Engineering
7 25 (28.41%) CI/CD
8 22 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 20 (22.73%) Data Science
9 20 (22.73%) ETL
10 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (20.45%) Mentoring
11 17 (19.32%) Decision-Making
12 16 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
14 13 (14.77%) Use Case
15 12 (13.64%) Incident Management
15 12 (13.64%) Visualisation
15 12 (13.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (53.41%) Python
2 41 (46.59%) SQL
3 6 (6.82%) VBA
4 4 (4.55%) Scala
5 3 (3.41%) Bash
5 3 (3.41%) Java
5 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.41%) R
6 2 (2.27%) Bicep
6 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.27%) Ruby
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (32.95%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) Degree
4 6 (6.82%) ACCA
4 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.68%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.41%) DBS Check
7 3 (3.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.14%) CCNP
8 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.14%) HND
8 1 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.14%) MCITP
8 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.59%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.09%) GDPR
2 8 (9.09%) IFRS
2 8 (9.09%) SLA
3 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.41%) QA
5 2 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (2.27%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.27%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.14%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (5.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.55%) Ansible
1 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Databricks
2 7 (7.95%) Informatica
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (2.27%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.27%) Talend
6 1 (1.14%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.14%) Thales