Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 117 154
Rank change year-on-year -58 +37 +43
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 628 1,212 1,727
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.86% 2.83% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 2.95% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 560 840 946
10th Percentile £37,433 £45,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,039 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £130,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.71% +14.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 32,478 41,078 65,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.07% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 24,956 29,206 41,947
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Data Engineer.

Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 408 (64.97%) Python
2 398 (63.38%) SQL
3 314 (50.00%) Azure
4 306 (48.73%) ETL
5 279 (44.43%) Data Engineering
6 215 (34.24%) Data Warehouse
7 210 (33.44%) Data Pipeline
8 206 (32.80%) Analytics
9 198 (31.53%) Data Modelling
9 198 (31.53%) AWS
10 156 (24.84%) Data Lake
11 151 (24.04%) Social Skills
12 150 (23.89%) Databricks
13 148 (23.57%) Data Science
14 139 (22.13%) Business Intelligence
15 135 (21.50%) CI/CD
16 131 (20.86%) Agile
17 126 (20.06%) Power Platform
17 126 (20.06%) Power BI
18 124 (19.75%) GCP
18 124 (19.75%) SQL Server
19 121 (19.27%) Data Quality
20 119 (18.95%) Data Integration
21 113 (17.99%) Machine Learning
22 110 (17.52%) Finance
23 104 (16.56%) Snowflake
24 103 (16.40%) DevOps
25 97 (15.45%) Azure Data Factory
26 84 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
27 79 (12.58%) Terraform

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 62 (9.87%) Apache Airflow
2 58 (9.24%) Apache Spark
3 45 (7.17%) Apache
4 11 (1.75%) Confluence
5 3 (0.48%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) Luigi
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.48%) AutoCAD
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 314 (50.00%) Azure
2 198 (31.53%) AWS
3 126 (20.06%) Power Platform
4 124 (19.75%) GCP
5 104 (16.56%) Snowflake
6 97 (15.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 75 (11.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 70 (11.15%) dbt
9 53 (8.44%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 41 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
12 39 (6.21%) Serverless
13 33 (5.25%) SaaS
14 32 (5.10%) Matillion
15 24 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (3.50%) GitHub
17 19 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
18 9 (1.43%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
18 9 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
19 8 (1.27%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.43%) Network Security
2 4 (0.64%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (34.24%) Data Warehouse
2 156 (24.84%) Data Lake
3 126 (20.06%) Power BI
4 124 (19.75%) SQL Server
5 70 (11.15%) BigQuery
6 59 (9.39%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (7.32%) Tableau
8 44 (7.01%) Big Data
8 44 (7.01%) NoSQL
9 43 (6.85%) PostgreSQL
10 39 (6.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 36 (5.73%) Star Schema
12 32 (5.10%) Hadoop
13 31 (4.94%) Elasticsearch
14 29 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (3.66%) Relational Database
16 22 (3.50%) Data Mining
17 21 (3.34%) MySQL
18 18 (2.87%) Delta Lake
18 18 (2.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 39 (6.21%) Git
2 37 (5.89%) GitLab
3 27 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.07%) JIRA
5 10 (1.59%) MLflow
6 7 (1.11%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.64%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.64%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.48%) Deequ
8 3 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.48%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.32%) JUnit
9 2 (0.32%) MSTest
9 2 (0.32%) NUnit
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
General
1 151 (24.04%) Social Skills
2 110 (17.52%) Finance
3 47 (7.48%) Banking
4 45 (7.17%) Retail
5 34 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.46%) Games
7 23 (3.66%) Legal
7 23 (3.66%) Public Sector
8 22 (3.50%) Marketing
9 21 (3.34%) Law
10 17 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.80%) Health Technology
13 4 (0.64%) Agriculture
13 4 (0.64%) Aviation
13 4 (0.64%) Electronics
13 4 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.64%) Music Industry
14 3 (0.48%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (9.87%) PySpark
2 36 (5.73%) Kafka
3 15 (2.39%) Pandas
4 14 (2.23%) Apache Beam
5 11 (1.75%) RESTful
6 8 (1.27%) GraphQL
6 8 (1.27%) JSON
7 6 (0.96%) Great Expectations
7 6 (0.96%) HTML
8 5 (0.80%) NumPy
8 5 (0.80%) REST
8 5 (0.80%) SciPy
9 4 (0.64%) .NET
9 4 (0.64%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.64%) Flask
10 3 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.48%) gRPC
10 3 (0.48%) Protocol Buffers
11 2 (0.32%) pytest
11 2 (0.32%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.39%) Data Structures
2 37 (5.89%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (4.94%) Product Ownership
4 27 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.50%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.34%) Client/Server
7 17 (2.71%) SCADA
8 16 (2.55%) Operational Technology
9 15 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (2.39%) Management Information System
10 13 (2.07%) Online Games
11 12 (1.91%) IoT
12 9 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (1.11%) NHS
13 7 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 6 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
15 5 (0.80%) Blog
15 5 (0.80%) Data Centre
15 5 (0.80%) Mainframe
15 5 (0.80%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (4.46%) Windows
2 21 (3.34%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.87%) Linux
4 13 (2.07%) Unix
5 4 (0.64%) CentOS
5 4 (0.64%) Solaris
5 4 (0.64%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.64%) zOS
6 3 (0.48%) Android
6 3 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (48.73%) ETL
2 279 (44.43%) Data Engineering
3 210 (33.44%) Data Pipeline
4 206 (32.80%) Analytics
5 198 (31.53%) Data Modelling
6 148 (23.57%) Data Science
7 139 (22.13%) Business Intelligence
8 135 (21.50%) CI/CD
9 131 (20.86%) Agile
10 119 (18.95%) Data Integration
11 113 (17.99%) Machine Learning
12 103 (16.40%) DevOps
13 84 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (12.42%) Artificial Intelligence
15 77 (12.26%) Data Governance
16 73 (11.62%) Mentoring
17 72 (11.46%) Data Transformation
18 67 (10.67%) Data Analytics
19 65 (10.35%) Visualisation
20 54 (8.60%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 408 (64.97%) Python
2 398 (63.38%) SQL
3 49 (7.80%) Java
4 36 (5.73%) T-SQL
5 26 (4.14%) C#
6 25 (3.98%) Scala
7 23 (3.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.39%) R
9 12 (1.91%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.43%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.11%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.96%) C
13 4 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.64%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.64%) Ruby
14 3 (0.48%) Go
14 3 (0.48%) PHP
14 3 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.32%) VBA
16 1 (0.16%) Bash
Qualifications
1 75 (11.94%) Degree
2 19 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.23%) Security Cleared
4 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.96%) DV Cleared
7 4 (0.64%) Azure Certification
7 4 (0.64%) CISM
7 4 (0.64%) CISSP
8 3 (0.48%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.32%) HNC
9 2 (0.32%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.16%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (19.27%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.59%) QA
3 6 (0.96%) GDPR
4 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.64%) NIST
4 4 (0.64%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.16%) GMP
6 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (5.41%) Docker
2 16 (2.55%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 79 (12.58%) Terraform
2 60 (9.55%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.80%) Ansible
3 5 (0.80%) logstash
4 2 (0.32%) Marathon
4 2 (0.32%) Mesos
Vendors
1 150 (23.89%) Databricks
2 79 (12.58%) Microsoft
3 53 (8.44%) Google
4 16 (2.55%) VMware
5 15 (2.39%) Oracle
6 10 (1.59%) Informatica
7 8 (1.27%) YouTube
8 7 (1.11%) MuleSoft
8 7 (1.11%) SAP
8 7 (1.11%) Teradata
9 5 (0.80%) Talend
10 4 (0.64%) Qualys
10 4 (0.64%) Splunk
11 3 (0.48%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.48%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.32%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.32%) ESRI
12 2 (0.32%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.32%) NEC
12 2 (0.32%) Snowplow