Big Data Jobs with Work from Home Options

Big Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Big Data skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Big Data over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 142 136
Rank change year-on-year -185 -6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 297 994 2,051
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.88% 2.44% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.80% 9.86% 9.89%
Number of salaries quoted 237 569 1,018
10th Percentile £43,000 £55,000 £46,338
25th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £87,500 £70,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £110,000 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £132,000 £100,000 £105,725
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +23.08%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Big Data is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,824 10,077 20,730
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.19% 24.76% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,215 6,895 10,991
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £93,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +9.09%

Big Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Big Data.

Big Data salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Big Data salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 102 (34.34%) Apache Spark
2 64 (21.55%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (6.40%) Apache
4 13 (4.38%) SAS
5 3 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.67%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.02%) SPSS
3 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.35%) Primavera
3 3 (1.01%) Relativity
3 3 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.34%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.34%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 132 (44.44%) AWS
2 98 (33.00%) Azure
3 68 (22.90%) Snowflake
4 66 (22.22%) GCP
5 55 (18.52%) dbt
6 50 (16.84%) SaaS
7 28 (9.43%) Amazon S3
8 26 (8.75%) Lucidchart
9 25 (8.42%) Power Platform
9 25 (8.42%) Serverless
10 23 (7.74%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (7.74%) Google Docs
10 23 (7.74%) Miro
10 23 (7.74%) Slack
11 14 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (4.38%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.69%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.06%) Wireless
2 6 (2.02%) Internet
3 4 (1.35%) RS-232
4 3 (1.01%) DNS
4 3 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (1.01%) Firewall
4 3 (1.01%) iSCSI
4 3 (1.01%) LAN
4 3 (1.01%) SAN
4 3 (1.01%) VoIP
4 3 (1.01%) WAN
4 3 (1.01%) WebEx
5 2 (0.67%) 4G
5 2 (0.67%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (40.40%) Data Lake
2 75 (25.25%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (19.19%) Amazon Athena
4 51 (17.17%) Hadoop
5 48 (16.16%) Apache Arrow
5 48 (16.16%) Dremio
6 29 (9.76%) NoSQL
7 25 (8.42%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (8.42%) Redis
8 23 (7.74%) Scylla
9 21 (7.07%) Relational Database
10 16 (5.39%) Power BI
10 16 (5.39%) SQL Server
11 14 (4.71%) BigQuery
12 13 (4.38%) Data Mining
12 13 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
13 12 (4.04%) Flink
13 12 (4.04%) Metadata
14 9 (3.03%) MongoDB
14 9 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (8.08%) Git
2 6 (2.02%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.68%) GitLab
4 4 (1.35%) JIRA
4 4 (1.35%) Subversion
5 3 (1.01%) Deequ
5 3 (1.01%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.01%) JUnit
5 3 (1.01%) MLflow
5 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.67%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.67%) Maven
6 2 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.67%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.67%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 98 (33.00%) Finance
2 90 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 50 (16.84%) Banking
4 36 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (8.42%) Retail
7 20 (6.73%) Marketing
8 19 (6.40%) Legal
9 17 (5.72%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (3.03%) Games
11 6 (2.02%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.68%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.35%) Electronics
13 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.35%) Law
14 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.67%) Advertising
15 2 (0.67%) Aerospace
15 2 (0.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 50 (16.84%) AWS Engineer
1 50 (16.84%) Big Data Engineer
2 48 (16.16%) Architect
2 48 (16.16%) Site Engineer
2 48 (16.16%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 46 (15.49%) Data Engineer
4 44 (14.81%) Senior
5 36 (12.12%) Software Engineer
6 28 (9.43%) Principal Engineer
7 25 (8.42%) Principal Software Engineer
8 24 (8.08%) Data Architect
9 22 (7.41%) Data Manager
10 18 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (5.39%) Big Data Architect
11 16 (5.39%) Lead
12 14 (4.71%) Developer
13 13 (4.38%) Analyst
13 13 (4.38%) Engineering Manager
13 13 (4.38%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (3.37%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (17.85%) Kafka
2 48 (16.16%) gRPC
2 48 (16.16%) Protocol Buffers
3 23 (7.74%) GraphQL
4 22 (7.41%) PySpark
5 17 (5.72%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.38%) Spring
7 10 (3.37%) Apache Beam
8 9 (3.03%) .NET
8 9 (3.03%) Web Services
9 8 (2.69%) Pandas
10 7 (2.36%) jQuery
10 7 (2.36%) Node.js
11 6 (2.02%) CSS
11 6 (2.02%) HTML
11 6 (2.02%) LAMP
11 6 (2.02%) Laravel
11 6 (2.02%) Symfony
12 5 (1.68%) React
13 4 (1.35%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 48 (16.16%) Clustering
1 48 (16.16%) Data Structures
1 48 (16.16%) Hedge funds
2 44 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 28 (9.43%) Cloud Native
4 22 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (3.03%) Low-Code
7 8 (2.69%) Blockchain
7 8 (2.69%) Credit Risk
7 8 (2.69%) Robotics
8 7 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.02%) Cybercrime
9 6 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.68%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (1.68%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.38%) Linux
2 6 (2.02%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.67%) Android
5 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (35.69%) DevOps
2 86 (28.96%) Data Science
3 76 (25.59%) Agile
4 65 (21.89%) Analytics
4 65 (21.89%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (19.87%) Software Engineering
6 54 (18.18%) Asset Management
7 53 (17.85%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (17.17%) Data Modelling
9 50 (16.84%) Machine Learning
10 49 (16.50%) Data Engineering
11 48 (16.16%) Investment Management
11 48 (16.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 42 (14.14%) Computer Science
13 38 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (12.46%) High Availability
15 36 (12.12%) ETL
15 36 (12.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 34 (11.45%) Artificial Intelligence
17 33 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 188 (63.30%) Python
2 119 (40.07%) Java
3 107 (36.03%) SQL
4 86 (28.96%) Go
5 68 (22.90%) JavaScript
6 46 (15.49%) Scala
7 25 (8.42%) Bash
8 20 (6.73%) C#
9 18 (6.06%) R
10 10 (3.37%) C
11 8 (2.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (2.36%) PHP
13 4 (1.35%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.35%) Ruby
13 4 (1.35%) Rust
14 2 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.67%) VBA
15 1 (0.34%) C++
15 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (23.23%) Degree
2 20 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 16 (5.39%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.39%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.36%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.02%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.68%) PhD
8 4 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.35%) CIMA
9 3 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.34%) CCNA
10 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.34%) CISM
10 1 (0.34%) CISSP
10 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.08%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.69%) GDPR
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.35%) SEPA
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) QA
6 1 (0.34%) GMP
System Software
1 34 (11.45%) Docker
2 6 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 108 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 61 (20.54%) Terraform
3 48 (16.16%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.67%) Argo
5 2 (0.67%) Podman
5 2 (0.67%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.67%) Puppet
6 1 (0.34%) Rancher
Vendors
1 61 (20.54%) Databricks
2 46 (15.49%) Microsoft
3 41 (13.80%) Google
4 24 (8.08%) Dell
5 9 (3.03%) Oracle
6 8 (2.69%) SAP
6 8 (2.69%) Teradata
7 6 (2.02%) VMware
8 4 (1.35%) Sparx
9 3 (1.01%) 3PAR
9 3 (1.01%) Mitel
9 3 (1.01%) ShoreTel
9 3 (1.01%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.67%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.67%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.67%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.67%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.67%) Thales
11 1 (0.34%) Nuix
11 1 (0.34%) StreamSets