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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 265 317
Rank change year-on-year -93 +52 -141
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 93 175 259
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.43% 1.06% 0.84%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.12% 5.41% 4.00%
Number of salaries quoted 83 63 215
10th Percentile £46,500 £25,063 £51,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £45,625 £62,375
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 £80,000 £118,750
90th Percentile - £102,410 £131,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -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 2,977 3,234 6,481
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 13.90% 19.61% 21.06%
Number of salaries quoted 2,383 2,171 5,313
10th Percentile £37,250 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,309 £46,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £78,125 £83,750 £84,964
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £61,091 £58,500
% change year-on-year -1.79% +4.43% -6.40%

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 17 July 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 21 (22.58%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.53%) Apache
3 4 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (4.30%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.23%) Trello
3 1 (1.08%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 47 (50.54%) Azure
2 30 (32.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 28 (30.11%) Power Platform
4 26 (27.96%) AWS
5 18 (19.35%) Cloud Computing
6 9 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (8.60%) GitHub
8 5 (5.38%) GCP
8 5 (5.38%) SaaS
9 4 (4.30%) Vertex AI
10 3 (3.23%) dbt
11 2 (2.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.15%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (2.15%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (2.15%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.15%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.08%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (30.11%) Power BI
2 16 (17.20%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.68%) Data Lake
4 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
6 3 (3.23%) MySQL
6 3 (3.23%) Tableau
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.15%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.15%) MariaDB
7 2 (2.15%) Metadata
7 2 (2.15%) QlikView
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.08%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.08%) Trino
Development Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Git
2 5 (5.38%) GitLab
2 5 (5.38%) JIRA
3 2 (2.15%) Claude Code
3 2 (2.15%) MLflow
3 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (25.81%) Finance
2 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.90%) Public Sector
3 12 (12.90%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.30%) Financial Institution
4 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (2.15%) Legal
5 2 (2.15%) Marketing
5 2 (2.15%) Tech for Good
5 2 (2.15%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.08%) Billing
6 1 (1.08%) Danish Language
6 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Data Engineer
2 29 (31.18%) Lead
3 24 (25.81%) Big Data Engineer
3 24 (25.81%) DataOps Engineer
3 24 (25.81%) DataOps Leader
3 24 (25.81%) Lead Big Data Engineer
4 16 (17.20%) Accountant
4 16 (17.20%) Financial Accountant
5 15 (16.13%) Senior
6 13 (13.98%) Lead Data Engineer
7 12 (12.90%) Operations Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Data Scientist
10 4 (4.30%) Analytics Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Consultant
10 4 (4.30%) Developer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.83%) PySpark
2 10 (10.75%) Kafka
3 3 (3.23%) Flask
4 2 (2.15%) Laravel
4 2 (2.15%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.08%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.08%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.08%) JSON
5 1 (1.08%) NumPy
5 1 (1.08%) Pandas
5 1 (1.08%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.08%) REST
5 1 (1.08%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.20%) Social Network
2 8 (8.60%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.45%) Life Science
4 5 (5.38%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (4.30%) Credit Risk
5 4 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.23%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (2.15%) Educational Technology
7 2 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.15%) PMI
8 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.08%) NHS
8 1 (1.08%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (1.08%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.01%) AI
2 39 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 35 (37.63%) Analytics
4 28 (30.11%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (30.11%) Data Pipeline
4 28 (30.11%) Incident Response
4 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (27.96%) Incident Management
5 26 (27.96%) Observability
6 25 (26.88%) Cost Optimisation
6 25 (26.88%) FinOps
7 24 (25.81%) Cost Management
7 24 (25.81%) DataOps
8 21 (22.58%) Agile
9 20 (21.51%) Data Engineering
9 20 (21.51%) Data Modelling
10 19 (20.43%) Machine Learning
11 16 (17.20%) Budgeting
12 15 (16.13%) ETL
13 14 (15.05%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 41 (44.09%) Python
2 33 (35.48%) SQL
3 5 (5.38%) VBA
4 4 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.23%) Bash
5 3 (3.23%) Scala
6 2 (2.15%) Bicep
6 2 (2.15%) Java
6 2 (2.15%) Ruby
7 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.28%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.20%) ACCA
4 7 (7.53%) Degree
5 4 (4.30%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (3.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.81%) SLA
2 18 (19.35%) IFRS
3 14 (15.05%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.23%) GDPR
5 2 (2.15%) IFRS 17
5 2 (2.15%) QA
5 2 (2.15%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.08%) GxP
System Software
1 5 (5.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (9.68%) Terraform
2 1 (1.08%) Ansible
2 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (38.71%) Databricks
2 6 (6.45%) Informatica
2 6 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.30%) Google
4 2 (2.15%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.08%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.08%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.08%) Foundry
5 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) Palantir
5 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.08%) Talend