Data Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 175 117
Rank change year-on-year +27 -58 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 319 628 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.13% 1.86% 2.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 1.93% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 273 560 840
10th Percentile £51,250 £37,433 £45,000
25th Percentile £58,000 £48,000 £56,039
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -6.40% -0.79%
75th Percentile £115,000 £82,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £138,000 £97,500 £130,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% +1.71%

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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 241 (75.55%) Python
2 193 (60.50%) Data Engineering
3 187 (58.62%) SQL
4 163 (51.10%) AWS
5 145 (45.45%) Finance
6 122 (38.24%) Azure
6 122 (38.24%) DevOps
7 120 (37.62%) ETL
8 119 (37.30%) Agile
9 118 (36.99%) CI/CD
10 117 (36.68%) PySpark
11 112 (35.11%) Apache Spark
12 105 (32.92%) Serverless
13 103 (32.29%) Kubernetes
13 103 (32.29%) Kafka
14 101 (31.66%) Apache Airflow
15 100 (31.35%) Java
16 99 (31.03%) Software Engineering
16 99 (31.03%) AWS Lambda
17 96 (30.09%) Apache
18 95 (29.78%) Docker
18 95 (29.78%) Data Pipeline
19 94 (29.47%) dbt
19 94 (29.47%) Analytics
20 93 (29.15%) Terraform
21 88 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
22 87 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
23 85 (26.65%) Apache Iceberg
24 84 (26.33%) Data Modelling
25 80 (25.08%) OpenShift

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
1 112 (35.11%) Apache Spark
2 101 (31.66%) Apache Airflow
3 96 (30.09%) Apache
4 6 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 10 (3.13%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 163 (51.10%) AWS
2 122 (38.24%) Azure
3 105 (32.92%) Serverless
4 99 (31.03%) AWS Lambda
5 94 (29.47%) dbt
6 80 (25.08%) OpenShift
7 71 (22.26%) Amazon ECS
8 56 (17.55%) Power Platform
9 39 (12.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 30 (9.40%) GCP
10 30 (9.40%) Snowflake
11 28 (8.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 26 (8.15%) Amazon S3
13 18 (5.64%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (4.70%) GitHub
15 13 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
17 7 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
18 6 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
18 6 (1.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.63%) Network Security
2 1 (0.31%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (27.59%) Data Warehouse
2 87 (27.27%) Amazon Athena
3 85 (26.65%) Apache Iceberg
4 76 (23.82%) Dremio
5 71 (22.26%) Apache Arrow
5 71 (22.26%) Apache Ignite
6 62 (19.44%) Data Lake
7 55 (17.24%) Power BI
8 46 (14.42%) SQL Server
9 31 (9.72%) Big Data
10 29 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (7.84%) Tableau
12 22 (6.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (6.58%) Hadoop
14 19 (5.96%) BigQuery
15 18 (5.64%) Azure SQL Database
16 16 (5.02%) NoSQL
16 16 (5.02%) Relational Database
17 12 (3.76%) Amazon RDS
17 12 (3.76%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 71 (22.26%) Artifactory
2 9 (2.82%) Bitbucket
3 6 (1.88%) Git
4 5 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.63%) JIRA
7 1 (0.31%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.31%) GitLab
7 1 (0.31%) kappa
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 145 (45.45%) Finance
2 80 (25.08%) Social Skills
3 76 (23.82%) Front Office
4 55 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.90%) Banking
6 14 (4.39%) Law
7 7 (2.19%) Automotive
7 7 (2.19%) Retail
8 6 (1.88%) Advertising
9 4 (1.25%) Legal
9 4 (1.25%) Marketing
9 4 (1.25%) Public Sector
10 3 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.94%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.63%) Aviation
11 2 (0.63%) Billing
11 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.31%) Local Government
12 1 (0.31%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (36.68%) PySpark
2 103 (32.29%) Kafka
3 71 (22.26%) J2EE
4 9 (2.82%) PyArrow
5 8 (2.51%) NumPy
5 8 (2.51%) Pandas
6 6 (1.88%) HTML
7 5 (1.57%) Dask
7 5 (1.57%) SciPy
8 4 (1.25%) FastAPI
8 4 (1.25%) Flask
8 4 (1.25%) Polars
9 3 (0.94%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.94%) JSON
9 3 (0.94%) RESTful
9 3 (0.94%) SQLAlchemy
10 2 (0.63%) .NET
10 2 (0.63%) Apache Jena
10 2 (0.63%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.70%) Product Ownership
2 6 (1.88%) Data Structures
2 6 (1.88%) Management Information System
3 5 (1.57%) Cloud Native
4 3 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (0.94%) Data Fabric
4 3 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (0.94%) Life Science
4 3 (0.94%) NHS
5 2 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (0.63%) Replication
5 2 (0.63%) Social Media
6 1 (0.31%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.31%) IoT
6 1 (0.31%) Online Games
6 1 (0.31%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.39%) Unix
2 12 (3.76%) Linux
3 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (60.50%) Data Engineering
2 122 (38.24%) DevOps
3 120 (37.62%) ETL
4 119 (37.30%) Agile
5 118 (36.99%) CI/CD
6 99 (31.03%) Software Engineering
7 95 (29.78%) Data Pipeline
8 94 (29.47%) Analytics
9 84 (26.33%) Data Modelling
10 77 (24.14%) Asset Management
10 77 (24.14%) Business Intelligence
11 72 (22.57%) Open Source
12 71 (22.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 67 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
14 55 (17.24%) Mentoring
15 42 (13.17%) Data Science
16 40 (12.54%) Visualisation
17 35 (10.97%) Data Architecture
17 35 (10.97%) Data Governance
18 34 (10.66%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 241 (75.55%) Python
2 187 (58.62%) SQL
3 100 (31.35%) Java
4 75 (23.51%) Go
5 30 (9.40%) C#
6 24 (7.52%) T-SQL
7 21 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 16 (5.02%) R
9 14 (4.39%) Scala
10 11 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (2.19%) C++
11 7 (2.19%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.94%) SPARQL
12 3 (0.94%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.31%) Bash
14 1 (0.31%) JCL
14 1 (0.31%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.31%) Perl
14 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 44 (13.79%) Degree
2 13 (4.08%) Security Cleared
3 11 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 11 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 10 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 9 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 9 (2.82%) DBS Check
6 4 (1.25%) SnowPro
7 3 (0.94%) PhD
8 2 (0.63%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (21.94%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.64%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.94%) GDPR
3 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.94%) QA
3 3 (0.94%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.63%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 95 (29.78%) Docker
2 9 (2.82%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 103 (32.29%) Kubernetes
2 93 (29.15%) Terraform
3 4 (1.25%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Grafana
4 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (21.63%) Databricks
2 48 (15.05%) Microsoft
3 13 (4.08%) Google
4 12 (3.76%) Red Hat
5 9 (2.82%) PayPal
6 8 (2.51%) Oracle
7 6 (1.88%) SAP
8 5 (1.57%) Cognos
8 5 (1.57%) Foundry
8 5 (1.57%) Informatica
8 5 (1.57%) Palantir
9 3 (0.94%) Teradata
10 2 (0.63%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.63%) Splunk
10 2 (0.63%) Talend
11 1 (0.31%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.31%) Facebook
11 1 (0.31%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.31%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.31%) Vertica