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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 152 136
Rank change year-on-year -181 -16 +13
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 288 931 2,146
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.84% 2.35% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.65% 9.49% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 237 543 1,011
10th Percentile £43,470 £55,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £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 £111,250 £85,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £138,500 £100,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £78,250
% change year-on-year +14.29% -10.54% +20.38%

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 7,883 9,811 21,926
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 22.89% 24.75% 29.99%
Number of salaries quoted 6,249 6,719 11,061
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,000 £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 £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £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 29 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 90 (31.25%) Apache Spark
2 70 (24.31%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (9.72%) Apache
4 13 (4.51%) SAS
5 4 (1.39%) Luigi
6 3 (1.04%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.69%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.08%) SPSS
4 3 (1.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (1.39%) Primavera
3 3 (1.04%) Relativity
3 3 (1.04%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.35%) Ringtail
4 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 135 (46.88%) AWS
2 91 (31.60%) Azure
3 74 (25.69%) Snowflake
4 68 (23.61%) dbt
5 55 (19.10%) GCP
6 39 (13.54%) SaaS
7 31 (10.76%) Power Platform
8 24 (8.33%) Serverless
9 21 (7.29%) Amazon S3
10 19 (6.60%) Lucidchart
11 16 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
11 16 (5.56%) Google Docs
11 16 (5.56%) Miro
11 16 (5.56%) Slack
12 13 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (4.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (4.51%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.78%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.86%) Wireless
2 6 (2.08%) Internet
3 4 (1.39%) RS-232
4 3 (1.04%) DNS
4 3 (1.04%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (1.04%) Firewall
4 3 (1.04%) iSCSI
4 3 (1.04%) LAN
4 3 (1.04%) SAN
4 3 (1.04%) VoIP
4 3 (1.04%) WAN
4 3 (1.04%) WebEx
5 2 (0.69%) 4G
5 2 (0.69%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (44.44%) Data Lake
2 68 (23.61%) Data Warehouse
3 63 (21.88%) Amazon Athena
4 62 (21.53%) Apache Arrow
4 62 (21.53%) Dremio
5 44 (15.28%) Hadoop
6 23 (7.99%) NoSQL
7 22 (7.64%) Power BI
8 21 (7.29%) Relational Database
9 20 (6.94%) Elasticsearch
9 20 (6.94%) Redis
10 16 (5.56%) Scylla
10 16 (5.56%) SQL Server
11 15 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
11 15 (5.21%) Tableau
12 14 (4.86%) BigQuery
13 13 (4.51%) Data Mining
14 11 (3.82%) Flink
14 11 (3.82%) Metadata
15 10 (3.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (9.38%) Git
2 6 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
3 4 (1.39%) GitLab
3 4 (1.39%) Subversion
4 3 (1.04%) Deequ
4 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.04%) JIRA
4 3 (1.04%) MLflow
4 3 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.69%) Apache Continuum
5 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.69%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.69%) JUnit
5 2 (0.69%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (0.69%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.69%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 105 (36.46%) Finance
2 82 (28.47%) Social Skills
3 49 (17.01%) Banking
4 35 (12.15%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (6.60%) Retail
7 17 (5.90%) Marketing
8 16 (5.56%) Legal
8 16 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.78%) Front Office
9 8 (2.78%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.43%) Games
11 6 (2.08%) Public Sector
11 6 (2.08%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.39%) Electronics
12 4 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.04%) Law
13 3 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.69%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 56 (19.44%) AWS Engineer
1 56 (19.44%) Big Data Engineer
2 54 (18.75%) Site Engineer
2 54 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 46 (15.97%) Senior
4 44 (15.28%) Data Engineer
5 40 (13.89%) Architect
6 25 (8.68%) Software Engineer
7 22 (7.64%) Data Architect
8 20 (6.94%) Data Manager
8 20 (6.94%) Principal Engineer
9 17 (5.90%) Principal Software Engineer
10 16 (5.56%) Analyst
11 15 (5.21%) Lead
12 14 (4.86%) Big Data Architect
12 14 (4.86%) Data Scientist
13 13 (4.51%) Engineering Manager
13 13 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (4.17%) Big Data Manager
14 12 (4.17%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (18.75%) gRPC
1 54 (18.75%) Protocol Buffers
2 42 (14.58%) Kafka
3 26 (9.03%) PySpark
4 16 (5.56%) GraphQL
5 11 (3.82%) Pandas
5 11 (3.82%) Spring Boot
6 9 (3.13%) Apache Beam
7 8 (2.78%) .NET
7 8 (2.78%) Spring
8 7 (2.43%) jQuery
8 7 (2.43%) Node.js
8 7 (2.43%) Web Services
9 6 (2.08%) CSS
9 6 (2.08%) HTML
9 6 (2.08%) LAMP
9 6 (2.08%) Laravel
9 6 (2.08%) Symfony
10 4 (1.39%) Keras
10 4 (1.39%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 62 (21.53%) Hedge funds
2 54 (18.75%) Clustering
3 41 (14.24%) Data Structures
4 38 (13.19%) Algorithms
5 27 (9.38%) Product Ownership
6 24 (8.33%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.47%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (2.78%) Credit Risk
8 8 (2.78%) Derivative
8 8 (2.78%) Equities
8 8 (2.78%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (2.78%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.43%) Reinsurance
10 6 (2.08%) Cybercrime
10 6 (2.08%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.13%) Linux
2 6 (2.08%) Windows
3 4 (1.39%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (37.85%) DevOps
2 82 (28.47%) Data Science
3 77 (26.74%) Agile
4 71 (24.65%) Analytics
5 70 (24.31%) Asset Management
6 62 (21.53%) Investment Management
7 57 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
8 54 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
8 54 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 51 (17.71%) Machine Learning
10 49 (17.01%) Data Modelling
11 48 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 48 (16.67%) Data Engineering
11 48 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 36 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
12 36 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
13 34 (11.81%) ETL
14 33 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (10.76%) Data Analysis
16 30 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 189 (65.63%) Python
2 110 (38.19%) SQL
3 109 (37.85%) Java
4 84 (29.17%) Go
5 68 (23.61%) JavaScript
6 37 (12.85%) Scala
7 19 (6.60%) C#
8 18 (6.25%) R
9 16 (5.56%) Bash
10 10 (3.47%) C
11 8 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (2.08%) PHP
13 4 (1.39%) Embedded C
13 4 (1.39%) Ruby
14 2 (0.69%) VBA
15 1 (0.35%) C++
15 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.35%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (25.69%) Degree
2 26 (9.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (6.60%) Master's Degree
4 17 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.90%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.43%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (2.08%) PhD
7 5 (1.74%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.39%) CIMA
9 3 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.04%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.38%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.78%) GDPR
3 7 (2.43%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.04%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) SEPA
System Software
1 29 (10.07%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (34.72%) Kubernetes
2 65 (22.57%) Terraform
3 54 (18.75%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.39%) Ansible
5 2 (0.69%) Argo
5 2 (0.69%) Podman
5 2 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (20.83%) Databricks
2 46 (15.97%) Microsoft
3 34 (11.81%) Google
4 16 (5.56%) Dell
5 9 (3.13%) Oracle
6 8 (2.78%) SAP
6 8 (2.78%) Teradata
7 6 (2.08%) VMware
8 4 (1.39%) Sparx
9 3 (1.04%) 3PAR
9 3 (1.04%) Mitel
9 3 (1.04%) ShoreTel
9 3 (1.04%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.69%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.69%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Thales
11 1 (0.35%) Nuix
11 1 (0.35%) Recommind