Data Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineering
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 Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 107 161
Rank change year-on-year -87 +54 +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 568 1,262 1,700
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.68% 3.07% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 3.19% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 485 657 780
10th Percentile £40,988 £43,162 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £142,500 £101,375
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,884 39,545 66,696
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 96.99%
Number of salaries quoted 23,455 27,516 41,159
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 Engineering.

Data Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Data Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 (10.92%) Apache Spark
2 58 (10.21%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.75%) Apache
4 19 (3.35%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 281 (49.47%) Azure
2 159 (27.99%) AWS
3 134 (23.59%) GCP
4 112 (19.72%) Power Platform
5 98 (17.25%) Snowflake
6 91 (16.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (11.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 59 (10.39%) dbt
9 46 (8.10%) Amazon S3
9 46 (8.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 33 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.63%) Matillion
12 27 (4.75%) Serverless
13 21 (3.70%) GitHub
13 21 (3.70%) SaaS
14 20 (3.52%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.11%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.06%) Network Security
2 4 (0.70%) Firewall
3 3 (0.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (35.39%) Data Warehouse
2 127 (22.36%) Data Lake
3 112 (19.72%) Power BI
4 86 (15.14%) SQL Server
5 55 (9.68%) BigQuery
6 49 (8.63%) Big Data
7 41 (7.22%) Tableau
8 38 (6.69%) Star Schema
9 37 (6.51%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (5.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (5.28%) Elasticsearch
12 28 (4.93%) Hadoop
13 27 (4.75%) Relational Database
14 26 (4.58%) NoSQL
15 24 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
15 24 (4.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 22 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (3.52%) Looker
17 20 (3.52%) Metadata
18 19 (3.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (8.10%) GitLab
2 32 (5.63%) Git
3 28 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.05%) JIRA
5 13 (2.29%) MLflow
6 7 (1.23%) Spinnaker
7 6 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.70%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.70%) Snakemake
9 3 (0.53%) Deequ
9 3 (0.53%) ERwin
9 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.18%) JUnit
11 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 133 (23.42%) Finance
2 123 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 58 (10.21%) Banking
4 57 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.81%) Games
5 33 (5.81%) Retail
6 24 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (3.87%) Law
8 20 (3.52%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.82%) Legal
10 12 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.58%) Front Office
12 9 (1.58%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.41%) Marketing
14 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.70%) Advertising
15 4 (0.70%) Electronics
15 4 (0.70%) Music Industry
15 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 290 (51.06%) Data Engineer
2 117 (20.60%) Senior
3 86 (15.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 85 (14.96%) Lead
5 75 (13.20%) Data Manager
6 61 (10.74%) Lead Data Engineer
7 53 (9.33%) Engineering Manager
8 40 (7.04%) Python Engineer
9 39 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.46%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (5.28%) Python Data Engineer
12 28 (4.93%) Developer
13 25 (4.40%) Architect
14 24 (4.23%) AWS Engineer
15 22 (3.87%) Data Architect
16 19 (3.35%) Head of Engineering
17 18 (3.17%) AWS Data Engineer
17 18 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Manager
18 17 (2.99%) Senior Manager
19 16 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.56%) PySpark
2 24 (4.23%) Kafka
3 20 (3.52%) Apache Beam
4 11 (1.94%) Pandas
4 11 (1.94%) React
5 9 (1.58%) Django
6 8 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.23%) JSON
7 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.06%) Great Expectations
8 6 (1.06%) gRPC
8 6 (1.06%) NumPy
8 6 (1.06%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.06%) RESTful
8 6 (1.06%) SciPy
8 6 (1.06%) Web Services
9 5 (0.88%) XML
10 4 (0.70%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.56%) Data Structures
2 44 (7.75%) Cloud Native
3 32 (5.63%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (4.40%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.64%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.64%) Client/Server
7 10 (1.76%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.58%) Online Games
9 8 (1.41%) IoT
9 8 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.23%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (0.88%) Blog
12 5 (0.88%) Life Science
12 5 (0.88%) PMI
13 4 (0.70%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.11%) Linux
2 4 (0.70%) Windows
2 4 (0.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (48.42%) Analytics
2 209 (36.80%) ETL
3 194 (34.15%) Data Modelling
4 192 (33.80%) Data Pipeline
5 180 (31.69%) Agile
6 168 (29.58%) Data Science
7 135 (23.77%) Business Intelligence
8 133 (23.42%) Machine Learning
9 120 (21.13%) CI/CD
10 103 (18.13%) Mentoring
10 103 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (17.96%) Visualisation
12 97 (17.08%) Data Integration
12 97 (17.08%) DevOps
13 96 (16.90%) Data Governance
14 87 (15.32%) Data Management
15 83 (14.61%) Data Strategy
16 81 (14.26%) Artificial Intelligence
17 79 (13.91%) Coaching
18 75 (13.20%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 322 (56.69%) SQL
2 313 (55.11%) Python
3 45 (7.92%) Java
4 26 (4.58%) Scala
5 25 (4.40%) T-SQL
6 16 (2.82%) C#
7 14 (2.46%) Go
7 14 (2.46%) R
8 12 (2.11%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.23%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.06%) VBA
12 5 (0.88%) Bash
12 5 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.70%) C
14 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
15 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (10.74%) Degree
2 28 (4.93%) DBS Check
3 22 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (2.64%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (1.06%) OCP
10 6 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
11 5 (0.88%) PhD
11 5 (0.88%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.70%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (18.84%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.94%) GDPR
3 5 (0.88%) QA
4 4 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.70%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.35%) COBIT
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 20 (3.52%) Docker
2 11 (1.94%) IAG
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 51 (8.98%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.69%) Terraform
3 7 (1.23%) Ansible
3 7 (1.23%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.88%) logstash
5 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 134 (23.59%) Databricks
2 86 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 60 (10.56%) Google
4 18 (3.17%) Teradata
5 14 (2.46%) Oracle
6 7 (1.23%) Informatica
6 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.23%) Snow
7 6 (1.06%) SAP
8 5 (0.88%) Dell
9 4 (0.70%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.70%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.70%) Talend
10 3 (0.53%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.35%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.35%) ESRI
11 2 (0.35%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.35%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.18%) IBM
12 1 (0.18%) Marketo