Data Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Science
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 Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 81 76
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 +54
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 887 1,643 3,139
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.63% 3.96% 4.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 4.12% 4.73%
Number of salaries quoted 634 853 1,116
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,570 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,941 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,852 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 30,857 39,858 66,375
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.38% 96.10% 96.97%
Number of salaries quoted 23,439 27,686 41,025
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 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 Science.

Data Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Science over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.93%) SAS
3 20 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.58%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.68%) nginx
7 5 (0.56%) Confluence
8 3 (0.34%) IIS
8 3 (0.34%) Luigi
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 14 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.23%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) SPSS
3 2 (0.23%) Stata
4 1 (0.11%) Blender
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (2.03%) Endur
2 3 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 311 (35.06%) Azure
2 225 (25.37%) Power Platform
3 149 (16.80%) AWS
4 119 (13.42%) GCP
5 88 (9.92%) Snowflake
6 67 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 66 (7.44%) Matillion
8 47 (5.30%) SaaS
9 43 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 39 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (3.95%) Serverless
12 32 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 30 (3.38%) Amazon S3
14 25 (2.82%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (2.59%) Google Docs
15 23 (2.59%) Lucidchart
15 23 (2.59%) Miro
15 23 (2.59%) Slack
16 22 (2.48%) GitHub
17 18 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.14%) HTTP
2 18 (2.03%) DNS
3 17 (1.92%) Network Security
4 5 (0.56%) MQTT
4 5 (0.56%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.56%) VPN
5 4 (0.45%) Intranet
6 3 (0.34%) Firewall
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 219 (24.69%) Data Warehouse
2 213 (24.01%) Power BI
3 201 (22.66%) SQL Server
4 111 (12.51%) Data Lake
5 103 (11.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 92 (10.37%) Tableau
7 86 (9.70%) Big Data
8 59 (6.65%) Elasticsearch
9 42 (4.74%) Hadoop
9 42 (4.74%) NoSQL
9 42 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
10 41 (4.62%) Relational Database
11 36 (4.06%) Star Schema
12 30 (3.38%) Metadata
13 28 (3.16%) Redis
14 27 (3.04%) BigQuery
14 27 (3.04%) MongoDB
15 23 (2.59%) Scylla
16 22 (2.48%) RDBMS
17 20 (2.25%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 82 (9.24%) Git
2 43 (4.85%) GitLab
3 25 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.24%) JIRA
5 6 (0.68%) MLflow
5 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.45%) JUnit
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.34%) GoCD
7 3 (0.34%) Maven
8 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) ERwin
8 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.11%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 375 (42.28%) Social Skills
2 289 (32.58%) Finance
3 158 (17.81%) Retail
4 124 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (12.18%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 64 (7.22%) Banking
8 55 (6.20%) Marketing
9 42 (4.74%) Law
10 32 (3.61%) Legal
11 26 (2.93%) Games
12 23 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 23 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.69%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.01%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.79%) Police
17 6 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 197 (22.21%) Senior
2 149 (16.80%) Data Engineer
3 142 (16.01%) Data Scientist
4 101 (11.39%) Consultant
5 84 (9.47%) Senior Data Scientist
6 78 (8.79%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 66 (7.44%) Developer
7 66 (7.44%) Lead
8 60 (6.76%) Architect
9 56 (6.31%) Analyst
10 48 (5.41%) Software Engineer
11 46 (5.19%) Data Manager
12 37 (4.17%) Data Analyst
12 37 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
13 35 (3.95%) Senior Data Engineer
14 34 (3.83%) Principal Software Engineer
15 30 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (3.38%) Python Engineer
16 29 (3.27%) Data Architect
17 23 (2.59%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (8.34%) Pandas
2 61 (6.88%) PySpark
3 53 (5.98%) TensorFlow
4 47 (5.30%) Kafka
4 47 (5.30%) scikit-learn
5 32 (3.61%) RESTful
6 29 (3.27%) GraphQL
7 24 (2.71%) CSS
8 21 (2.37%) React
9 19 (2.14%) PyTorch
10 18 (2.03%) HTML
11 17 (1.92%) Node.js
12 16 (1.80%) Django
12 16 (1.80%) JWT
13 15 (1.69%) XGBoost
14 11 (1.24%) .NET
15 10 (1.13%) NumPy
15 10 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
15 10 (1.13%) Web Services
16 8 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 150 (16.91%) Algorithms
2 110 (12.40%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.95%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (3.49%) Virtual Team
6 24 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 22 (2.48%) Life Science
7 22 (2.48%) Management Information System
8 19 (2.14%) Credit Risk
9 18 (2.03%) Swaptions
10 16 (1.80%) Blockchain
11 15 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.47%) PMI
13 12 (1.35%) Client/Server
13 12 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 11 (1.24%) NHS
15 10 (1.13%) Blog
15 10 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
15 10 (1.13%) Taxonomies
16 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.52%) Linux
2 30 (3.38%) Windows
3 16 (1.80%) Unix
4 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Android
5 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (46.79%) Machine Learning
2 330 (37.20%) Artificial Intelligence
3 303 (34.16%) Analytics
4 254 (28.64%) ETL
5 234 (26.38%) Business Intelligence
6 207 (23.34%) Data Modelling
7 188 (21.20%) Visualisation
8 181 (20.41%) Agile
9 176 (19.84%) Roadmaps
10 171 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
11 169 (19.05%) Data Engineering
12 155 (17.47%) Software Engineering
13 137 (15.45%) Data Pipeline
14 128 (14.43%) Data Analytics
15 119 (13.42%) CI/CD
16 113 (12.74%) DevOps
17 108 (12.18%) Migration
17 108 (12.18%) Statistics
18 107 (12.06%) Decision-Making
19 98 (11.05%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 488 (55.02%) SQL
2 439 (49.49%) Python
3 91 (10.26%) Java
4 73 (8.23%) R
5 48 (5.41%) T-SQL
6 41 (4.62%) Scala
7 32 (3.61%) C#
8 31 (3.49%) Go
8 31 (3.49%) JavaScript
9 28 (3.16%) Bash
10 22 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.37%) TypeScript
12 20 (2.25%) C
13 18 (2.03%) VB
14 10 (1.13%) U-SQL
15 6 (0.68%) Ruby
16 5 (0.56%) JSX
17 4 (0.45%) PHP
18 3 (0.34%) C++
18 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 214 (24.13%) Degree
2 100 (11.27%) Master's Degree
3 48 (5.41%) DBS Check
4 38 (4.28%) PhD
5 31 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 29 (3.27%) Security Cleared
7 19 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.01%) SC Cleared
11 8 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.68%) OCP
12 6 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.45%) PMP
14 3 (0.34%) MBA
15 2 (0.23%) CISA
15 2 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.49%) GDPR
3 20 (2.25%) QA
4 16 (1.80%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.68%) IFRS
5 6 (0.68%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.23%) CDISC
7 2 (0.23%) COBIT
7 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.23%) GLBA
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 45 (5.07%) Docker
2 16 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (9.13%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.30%) Terraform
3 7 (0.79%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.56%) logstash
5 3 (0.34%) Ansible
5 3 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 193 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 133 (14.99%) Databricks
3 68 (7.67%) Google
4 40 (4.51%) Oracle
5 37 (4.17%) Dell
6 18 (2.03%) OpenLink
6 18 (2.03%) Sybase
6 18 (2.03%) TIBCO
7 10 (1.13%) Alteryx
8 8 (0.90%) Adobe
8 8 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.79%) SAP
9 7 (0.79%) Snow
10 6 (0.68%) Teradata
11 4 (0.45%) FIS
11 4 (0.45%) Talend
12 3 (0.34%) VMware
13 2 (0.23%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.23%) Remedy
13 2 (0.23%) Salesforce