Senior Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £72,900 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 393 457
Rank change year-on-year -42 +64 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 171 248 537
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.48% 0.66% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.69% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 157 221 259
10th Percentile £50,000 £55,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,900 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -6.25% +14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +6.67%

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%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 (73.10%) Python
2 122 (71.35%) SQL
3 102 (59.65%) Azure
4 94 (54.97%) Data Engineering
5 76 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
6 75 (43.86%) Databricks
7 66 (38.60%) AWS
8 56 (32.75%) Analytics
9 55 (32.16%) Data Lake
9 55 (32.16%) Data Warehouse
10 54 (31.58%) ETL
11 45 (26.32%) Data Modelling
12 44 (25.73%) Azure Data Factory
13 41 (23.98%) PySpark
13 41 (23.98%) Data Governance
13 41 (23.98%) Kubernetes
14 40 (23.39%) Mentoring
14 40 (23.39%) DevOps
15 38 (22.22%) Agile
16 36 (21.05%) Social Skills
16 36 (21.05%) CI/CD
17 35 (20.47%) Data Science
17 35 (20.47%) Power Platform
17 35 (20.47%) Power BI
18 34 (19.88%) Machine Learning
18 34 (19.88%) Business Intelligence
18 34 (19.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 32 (18.71%) GCP
20 31 (18.13%) Terraform
21 28 (16.37%) Apache Spark

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 28 (16.37%) Apache Spark
2 25 (14.62%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (13.45%) Apache
4 4 (2.34%) Confluence
5 2 (1.17%) Luigi
6 1 (0.58%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 102 (59.65%) Azure
2 66 (38.60%) AWS
3 44 (25.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (20.47%) Power Platform
5 34 (19.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 32 (18.71%) GCP
7 28 (16.37%) Snowflake
8 23 (13.45%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (12.28%) dbt
10 19 (11.11%) Amazon S3
11 17 (9.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 13 (7.60%) GitHub
13 11 (6.43%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 8 (4.68%) Azure AKS
14 8 (4.68%) Azure Machine Learning
15 7 (4.09%) Serverless
16 6 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
16 6 (3.51%) SaaS
17 5 (2.92%) Cloud Composer
18 4 (2.34%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.43%) Network Security
2 1 (0.58%) LAN
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
2 1 (0.58%) WAN
2 1 (0.58%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (32.16%) Data Lake
1 55 (32.16%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (20.47%) Power BI
3 28 (16.37%) Azure SQL Database
3 28 (16.37%) NoSQL
4 19 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 19 (11.11%) Tableau
5 16 (9.36%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (8.77%) SQL Server
7 14 (8.19%) Big Data
7 14 (8.19%) Hadoop
8 12 (7.02%) Data Vault
8 12 (7.02%) Delta Lake
8 12 (7.02%) MongoDB
9 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 11 (6.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (4.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (4.09%) Data Mining
11 6 (3.51%) Metadata
11 6 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (7.60%) MLflow
2 12 (7.02%) Git
3 6 (3.51%) GitLab
3 6 (3.51%) JIRA
4 4 (2.34%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.34%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 36 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.37%) Finance
3 13 (7.60%) Retail
4 12 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.43%) Legal
6 8 (4.68%) Law
7 6 (3.51%) Games
7 6 (3.51%) Publishing
8 5 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.34%) Music Industry
10 3 (1.75%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.58%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (23.98%) PySpark
2 8 (4.68%) JSON
3 7 (4.09%) Kafka
4 6 (3.51%) Pandas
5 5 (2.92%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.75%) AWS CDK
6 3 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.17%) Dropwizard
7 2 (1.17%) pytest
8 1 (0.58%) .NET
8 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.58%) Azure Blueprints
8 1 (0.58%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.58%) Node.js
8 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.58%) RESTful
8 1 (0.58%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.43%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.85%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.34%) NHS
5 3 (1.75%) Client/Server
5 3 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.17%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.58%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.58%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.58%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Genomics
7 1 (0.58%) IoT
7 1 (0.58%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.77%) Linux
2 10 (5.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (54.97%) Data Engineering
2 76 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 56 (32.75%) Analytics
4 54 (31.58%) ETL
5 45 (26.32%) Data Modelling
6 41 (23.98%) Data Governance
7 40 (23.39%) DevOps
7 40 (23.39%) Mentoring
8 38 (22.22%) Agile
9 36 (21.05%) CI/CD
10 35 (20.47%) Data Science
11 34 (19.88%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (19.88%) Machine Learning
12 24 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (14.04%) Visualisation
13 23 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (12.87%) Master Data Management
14 22 (12.87%) Platform Engineering
15 21 (12.28%) Data Visualisation
16 19 (11.11%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 125 (73.10%) Python
2 122 (71.35%) SQL
3 15 (8.77%) Java
3 15 (8.77%) T-SQL
4 12 (7.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 11 (6.43%) U-SQL
6 4 (2.34%) C#
7 3 (1.75%) C
7 3 (1.75%) Scala
8 1 (0.58%) Bash
8 1 (0.58%) Korn
8 1 (0.58%) PHP
8 1 (0.58%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.02%) Degree
2 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (2.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.92%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.75%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.58%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.34%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.17%) QA
4 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.58%) GDPR
4 1 (0.58%) HIPAA
System Software
1 14 (8.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (23.98%) Kubernetes
2 31 (18.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.17%) Marathon
4 2 (1.17%) Mesos
Vendors
1 75 (43.86%) Databricks
2 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.43%) Google
3 11 (6.43%) Oracle
4 6 (3.51%) Informatica
5 3 (1.75%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.75%) YouTube
6 2 (1.17%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.17%) SAP
7 1 (0.58%) Apple
7 1 (0.58%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.58%) Sage
7 1 (0.58%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.58%) TIBCO