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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 143 137
Rank change year-on-year -188 -6 +13
Permanent jobs citing Big Data 296 985 2,066
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.87% 2.43% 2.93%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.77% 9.78% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 237 573 1,019
10th Percentile £43,000 £55,000 £46,250
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 £106,500
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 7,844 10,069 20,934
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.18% 24.82% 29.69%
Number of salaries quoted 6,224 6,918 11,006
10th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £49,750 £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 19 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
1 101 (34.12%) Apache Spark
2 62 (20.95%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (7.43%) Apache
4 13 (4.39%) SAS
5 3 (1.01%) Exchange Server 2013
5 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.68%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.68%) Luigi
7 1 (0.34%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.34%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.03%) SPSS
3 3 (1.01%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) 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
1 134 (45.27%) AWS
2 98 (33.11%) Azure
3 68 (22.97%) Snowflake
4 65 (21.96%) GCP
5 58 (19.59%) dbt
6 49 (16.55%) SaaS
7 28 (9.46%) Amazon S3
7 28 (9.46%) Power Platform
8 26 (8.78%) Lucidchart
9 25 (8.45%) Serverless
10 23 (7.77%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (7.77%) Google Docs
10 23 (7.77%) Miro
10 23 (7.77%) Slack
11 14 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (4.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (3.38%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.70%) Power Automate
14 8 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.08%) Wireless
2 6 (2.03%) 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 (0.68%) 4G
5 2 (0.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) HTTP
6 1 (0.34%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (41.55%) Data Lake
2 73 (24.66%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (19.26%) Amazon Athena
4 52 (17.57%) Apache Arrow
4 52 (17.57%) Dremio
5 50 (16.89%) Hadoop
6 28 (9.46%) NoSQL
7 25 (8.45%) Elasticsearch
7 25 (8.45%) Redis
8 23 (7.77%) Scylla
9 21 (7.09%) Relational Database
10 19 (6.42%) Power BI
11 16 (5.41%) SQL Server
12 14 (4.73%) BigQuery
13 13 (4.39%) Data Mining
13 13 (4.39%) PostgreSQL
14 12 (4.05%) Metadata
14 12 (4.05%) Tableau
15 11 (3.72%) Flink
16 9 (3.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (8.11%) Git
2 6 (2.03%) Oracle Forms
3 5 (1.69%) 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%) MLflow
5 3 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Continuum
6 2 (0.68%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.68%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.68%) JUnit
6 2 (0.68%) Maven
6 2 (0.68%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.68%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 101 (34.12%) Finance
2 88 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 53 (17.91%) Banking
4 34 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 24 (8.11%) Retail
7 19 (6.42%) Legal
7 19 (6.42%) Marketing
8 16 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (3.04%) Games
10 6 (2.03%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.69%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.69%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.35%) Electronics
12 4 (1.35%) Front Office
12 4 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.35%) Law
13 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.01%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.68%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 50 (16.89%) AWS Engineer
1 50 (16.89%) Big Data Engineer
2 48 (16.22%) Site Engineer
2 48 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 47 (15.88%) Architect
4 44 (14.86%) Data Engineer
4 44 (14.86%) Senior
5 35 (11.82%) Software Engineer
6 27 (9.12%) Principal Engineer
7 24 (8.11%) Data Architect
7 24 (8.11%) Principal Software Engineer
8 22 (7.43%) Data Manager
9 17 (5.74%) Solutions Architect
10 16 (5.41%) Big Data Architect
10 16 (5.41%) Lead
11 15 (5.07%) Analyst
12 14 (4.73%) Developer
13 13 (4.39%) Engineering Manager
13 13 (4.39%) Senior Data Engineer
14 12 (4.05%) Big Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (17.23%) Kafka
2 48 (16.22%) gRPC
2 48 (16.22%) Protocol Buffers
3 23 (7.77%) GraphQL
4 22 (7.43%) PySpark
5 16 (5.41%) Spring Boot
6 13 (4.39%) Spring
7 9 (3.04%) .NET
7 9 (3.04%) Apache Beam
8 8 (2.70%) Pandas
8 8 (2.70%) Web Services
9 7 (2.36%) jQuery
9 7 (2.36%) Node.js
10 6 (2.03%) CSS
10 6 (2.03%) HTML
10 6 (2.03%) LAMP
10 6 (2.03%) Laravel
10 6 (2.03%) Symfony
11 5 (1.69%) React
12 4 (1.35%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 52 (17.57%) Hedge funds
2 48 (16.22%) Clustering
2 48 (16.22%) Data Structures
3 44 (14.86%) Algorithms
4 27 (9.12%) Cloud Native
5 26 (8.78%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (3.04%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.70%) Credit Risk
9 7 (2.36%) Blockchain
9 7 (2.36%) Robotics
10 6 (2.03%) Cybercrime
10 6 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
11 5 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
11 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.35%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.05%) Linux
2 6 (2.03%) Windows
3 4 (1.35%) FreeRTOS
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.68%) Android
5 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (35.47%) DevOps
2 85 (28.72%) Data Science
3 78 (26.35%) Agile
4 67 (22.64%) Analytics
5 64 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (19.59%) Asset Management
7 57 (19.26%) Software Engineering
8 52 (17.57%) Data Pipeline
8 52 (17.57%) Investment Management
9 50 (16.89%) Data Modelling
10 49 (16.55%) Machine Learning
11 48 (16.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 47 (15.88%) Data Engineering
13 42 (14.19%) Computer Science
14 37 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
14 37 (12.50%) High Availability
15 36 (12.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 35 (11.82%) ETL
17 34 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
18 32 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 189 (63.85%) Python
2 116 (39.19%) Java
3 109 (36.82%) SQL
4 85 (28.72%) Go
5 68 (22.97%) JavaScript
6 44 (14.86%) Scala
7 24 (8.11%) Bash
8 20 (6.76%) C#
9 18 (6.08%) R
10 10 (3.38%) C
11 8 (2.70%) 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 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.68%) VBA
15 1 (0.34%) C++
15 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
15 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (23.31%) Degree
2 20 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (6.08%) Master's Degree
4 16 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 16 (5.41%) Security Cleared
5 7 (2.36%) DBS Check
6 6 (2.03%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.69%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.70%) GDPR
3 7 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.35%) SEPA
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.01%) QA
System Software
1 32 (10.81%) Docker
2 6 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 106 (35.81%) Kubernetes
2 60 (20.27%) Terraform
3 48 (16.22%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.35%) Ansible
5 2 (0.68%) Argo
5 2 (0.68%) Podman
5 2 (0.68%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (20.61%) Databricks
2 46 (15.54%) Microsoft
3 39 (13.18%) Google
4 23 (7.77%) Dell
5 9 (3.04%) Oracle
6 8 (2.70%) SAP
6 8 (2.70%) Teradata
7 6 (2.03%) 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 (0.68%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.68%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.68%) Hortonworks
10 2 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.68%) Thales
11 1 (0.34%) Nuix
11 1 (0.34%) Recommind