Senior Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £72,950 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 422 427 480
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 166 255 420
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.62% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.65% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 154 221 211
10th Percentile £53,400 £55,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,950 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £86,250 £105,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,000 £130,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%

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 32,437 39,504 66,963
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.97% 95.98% 97.38%
Number of salaries quoted 24,910 28,114 41,797
10th Percentile £33,116 £36,750 £36,152
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 £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer.

Senior Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 125 (75.30%) Python
2 116 (69.88%) SQL
3 93 (56.02%) Azure
4 86 (51.81%) Data Engineering
5 72 (43.37%) Data Pipeline
6 71 (42.77%) AWS
7 62 (37.35%) Databricks
8 56 (33.73%) ETL
9 50 (30.12%) Data Warehouse
10 49 (29.52%) Analytics
11 46 (27.71%) Data Lake
12 45 (27.11%) Data Modelling
13 40 (24.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (24.10%) Kubernetes
14 38 (22.89%) Business Intelligence
15 36 (21.69%) DevOps
15 36 (21.69%) Power BI
15 36 (21.69%) Data Science
15 36 (21.69%) Power Platform
16 35 (21.08%) Agile
17 34 (20.48%) PySpark
17 34 (20.48%) Mentoring
18 33 (19.88%) GCP
18 33 (19.88%) Social Skills
18 33 (19.88%) CI/CD
19 32 (19.28%) Terraform
20 30 (18.07%) Data Governance
21 28 (16.87%) Finance
21 28 (16.87%) NoSQL
21 28 (16.87%) Snowflake

Senior 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 24 (14.46%) Apache Airflow
1 24 (14.46%) Apache Spark
2 22 (13.25%) Apache
3 2 (1.20%) Luigi
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 93 (56.02%) Azure
2 71 (42.77%) AWS
3 40 (24.10%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (21.69%) Power Platform
5 33 (19.88%) GCP
6 28 (16.87%) Snowflake
7 27 (16.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (13.25%) Amazon S3
9 19 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (11.45%) dbt
10 15 (9.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (6.02%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 9 (5.42%) GitHub
12 9 (5.42%) Serverless
13 8 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.61%) Azure AKS
14 6 (3.61%) Azure Machine Learning
14 6 (3.61%) SaaS
15 5 (3.01%) Cloud Composer
16 4 (2.41%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.02%) Network Security
2 1 (0.60%) LAN
2 1 (0.60%) VPN
2 1 (0.60%) WAN
2 1 (0.60%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (30.12%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (27.71%) Data Lake
3 36 (21.69%) Power BI
4 28 (16.87%) NoSQL
5 24 (14.46%) Azure SQL Database
6 23 (13.86%) Tableau
7 19 (11.45%) BigQuery
8 17 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (9.04%) Hadoop
10 14 (8.43%) SQL Server
11 13 (7.83%) Big Data
11 13 (7.83%) MongoDB
12 12 (7.23%) Delta Lake
13 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 10 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (5.42%) Data Vault
15 7 (4.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 5 (3.01%) DynamoDB
16 5 (3.01%) Looker
16 5 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Git
2 10 (6.02%) MLflow
3 6 (3.61%) GitLab
4 4 (2.41%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.41%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.81%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.20%) JIRA
General
1 33 (19.88%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.87%) Finance
3 15 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.83%) Retail
5 9 (5.42%) Law
6 7 (4.22%) Games
6 7 (4.22%) Legal
7 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.41%) Music Industry
9 3 (1.81%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.20%) Publishing
11 1 (0.60%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.60%) Automotive
11 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (20.48%) PySpark
2 8 (4.82%) Kafka
3 6 (3.61%) JSON
3 6 (3.61%) Pandas
4 5 (3.01%) Apache Beam
5 3 (1.81%) .NET
5 3 (1.81%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.81%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.20%) Dropwizard
6 2 (1.20%) pytest
7 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.60%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.60%) Node.js
7 1 (0.60%) RESTful
7 1 (0.60%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.02%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.01%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.41%) NHS
5 3 (1.81%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.20%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.60%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.60%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.60%) Genomics
7 1 (0.60%) IoT
7 1 (0.60%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.43%) Linux
2 11 (6.63%) Unix
3 1 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (51.81%) Data Engineering
2 72 (43.37%) Data Pipeline
3 56 (33.73%) ETL
4 49 (29.52%) Analytics
5 45 (27.11%) Data Modelling
6 38 (22.89%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (21.69%) Data Science
7 36 (21.69%) DevOps
8 35 (21.08%) Agile
9 34 (20.48%) Mentoring
10 33 (19.88%) CI/CD
11 30 (18.07%) Data Governance
12 25 (15.06%) Machine Learning
13 24 (14.46%) Visualisation
14 22 (13.25%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (12.05%) Data Visualisation
16 18 (10.84%) Data Analytics
17 17 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
18 16 (9.64%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (75.30%) Python
2 116 (69.88%) SQL
3 15 (9.04%) Java
4 13 (7.83%) T-SQL
5 12 (7.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (6.02%) U-SQL
7 6 (3.61%) C#
8 3 (1.81%) C
8 3 (1.81%) Scala
9 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.60%) Bash
10 1 (0.60%) Korn
10 1 (0.60%) PHP
10 1 (0.60%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (7.83%) Degree
2 10 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.01%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.60%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.41%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.20%) QA
4 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (7.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (24.10%) Kubernetes
2 32 (19.28%) Terraform
3 3 (1.81%) Ansible
4 2 (1.20%) Marathon
4 2 (1.20%) Mesos
Vendors
1 62 (37.35%) Databricks
2 18 (10.84%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.63%) Google
3 11 (6.63%) Oracle
4 4 (2.41%) YouTube
5 3 (1.81%) Informatica
5 3 (1.81%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.20%) Ab Initio
7 1 (0.60%) Apple
7 1 (0.60%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.60%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.60%) TIBCO