Big Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Big Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Big Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £112,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 622 815
Rank change year-on-year +76 +193 -292
Permanent jobs requiring a Big Data Engineer 56 11 86
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.029% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.031% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 56 8 60
10th Percentile - £41,227 £45,491
25th Percentile £81,250 £45,932 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £112,500 £59,724 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +88.37% -20.37% -6.25%
75th Percentile £143,750 £87,595 £88,750
90th Percentile - £117,236 £120,250
UK median annual salary £87,500 £80,294 £78,750
% change year-on-year +8.98% +1.96% -1.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Big Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Big Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Big Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer
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 Engineer.

Big Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Big Data Engineer over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Big Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Big Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 56 (100.00%) Big Data
2 54 (96.43%) Protocol Buffers
2 54 (96.43%) Hedge funds
2 54 (96.43%) gRPC
2 54 (96.43%) Apache Airflow
2 54 (96.43%) Prometheus
2 54 (96.43%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (96.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 54 (96.43%) Dremio
2 54 (96.43%) dbt
2 54 (96.43%) Snowflake
2 54 (96.43%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (96.43%) Java
2 54 (96.43%) JavaScript
2 54 (96.43%) Python
2 54 (96.43%) Finance
2 54 (96.43%) Clustering
2 54 (96.43%) Asset Management
2 54 (96.43%) Investment Management
2 54 (96.43%) AWS
2 54 (96.43%) Go
2 54 (96.43%) DevOps
2 54 (96.43%) Kubernetes
2 54 (96.43%) Terraform
3 2 (3.57%) Azure
3 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.57%) Databricks
3 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project

Big Data Engineer Skill Set
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 54 (96.43%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 54 (96.43%) AWS
1 54 (96.43%) dbt
1 54 (96.43%) Snowflake
2 2 (3.57%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (100.00%) Big Data
1 56 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 54 (96.43%) Amazon Athena
2 54 (96.43%) Apache Arrow
2 54 (96.43%) Dremio
3 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
General
1 54 (96.43%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (96.43%) gRPC
1 54 (96.43%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 54 (96.43%) Clustering
1 54 (96.43%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (96.43%) Asset Management
1 54 (96.43%) DevOps
1 54 (96.43%) Investment Management
1 54 (96.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (96.43%) Go
1 54 (96.43%) Java
1 54 (96.43%) JavaScript
1 54 (96.43%) Python
Systems Management
1 54 (96.43%) Kubernetes
1 54 (96.43%) Prometheus
1 54 (96.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (3.57%) Databricks