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 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 254 176 140
Rank change year-on-year -78 -36 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 249 620 862
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 1.89% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.97% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 227 544 762
10th Percentile £50,000 £44,738 £45,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +0.80% -4.21%
75th Percentile £98,125 £85,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £115,000 £110,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

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 19,299 31,488 33,304
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 96.18% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,671 23,546 25,041
10th Percentile £25,267 £32,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £46,786
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,023 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -8.76% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 16 July 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 16 July 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.

1 171 (68.67%) Python
2 157 (63.05%) SQL
3 122 (49.00%) Data Engineering
4 114 (45.78%) AWS
5 113 (45.38%) ETL
6 102 (40.96%) Azure
7 94 (37.75%) Finance
8 86 (34.54%) Data Modelling
9 85 (34.14%) Data Warehouse
10 81 (32.53%) Data Pipeline
11 74 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
12 70 (28.11%) Agile
12 70 (28.11%) Analytics
12 70 (28.11%) DevOps
13 63 (25.30%) PySpark
13 63 (25.30%) CI/CD
14 61 (24.50%) Serverless
15 60 (24.10%) Terraform
15 60 (24.10%) Social Skills
16 58 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
16 58 (23.29%) AWS Lambda
17 57 (22.89%) Apache
18 55 (22.09%) Power Platform
19 54 (21.69%) Power BI
20 52 (20.88%) Apache Spark
21 51 (20.48%) Docker
21 51 (20.48%) Data Quality
22 50 (20.08%) Kubernetes
23 48 (19.28%) Java
23 48 (19.28%) Data Lake

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 57 (22.89%) Apache
2 52 (20.88%) Apache Spark
3 48 (19.28%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.01%) Confluence
5 1 (0.40%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.40%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 114 (45.78%) AWS
2 102 (40.96%) Azure
3 61 (24.50%) Serverless
4 58 (23.29%) AWS Lambda
5 55 (22.09%) Power Platform
6 47 (18.88%) dbt
7 41 (16.47%) Snowflake
8 39 (15.66%) Azure Data Factory
9 34 (13.65%) OpenShift
10 30 (12.05%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (8.43%) Amazon S3
12 19 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (7.23%) GCP
14 15 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
15 13 (5.22%) SaaS
16 12 (4.82%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (3.21%) Azure Logic Apps
18 6 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
19 5 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
19 5 (2.01%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Internet
1 2 (0.80%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (34.14%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (21.69%) Power BI
3 48 (19.28%) Data Lake
4 36 (14.46%) Amazon Athena
5 34 (13.65%) Apache Iceberg
6 30 (12.05%) Apache Arrow
6 30 (12.05%) Apache Ignite
6 30 (12.05%) Dremio
7 24 (9.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (9.24%) Big Data
8 23 (9.24%) SQL Server
8 23 (9.24%) Tableau
9 13 (5.22%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (5.22%) Relational Database
10 12 (4.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 11 (4.42%) BigQuery
11 11 (4.42%) NoSQL
12 10 (4.02%) Looker
12 10 (4.02%) MySQL
13 9 (3.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 30 (12.05%) Artifactory
2 7 (2.81%) Git
3 6 (2.41%) JIRA
4 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.40%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (37.75%) Finance
2 60 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 40 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (12.05%) Front Office
5 13 (5.22%) Law
6 10 (4.02%) Banking
7 8 (3.21%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.21%) Retail
8 7 (2.81%) Advertising
9 6 (2.41%) Marketing
10 5 (2.01%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.61%) Electronics
11 4 (1.61%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.80%) Games
14 1 (0.40%) Billing
14 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.40%) Local Government
14 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (25.30%) PySpark
2 45 (18.07%) Kafka
3 30 (12.05%) J2EE
4 6 (2.41%) HTML
5 4 (1.61%) JSON
5 4 (1.61%) PyArrow
6 3 (1.20%) .NET
6 3 (1.20%) REST
6 3 (1.20%) RESTful
6 3 (1.20%) XML
7 2 (0.80%) Apache Jena
7 2 (0.80%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.80%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.80%) SOAP
7 2 (0.80%) Spring
7 2 (0.80%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.40%) Dask
8 1 (0.40%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.61%) Data Structures
2 4 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (1.61%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.20%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
3 3 (1.20%) Replication
4 2 (0.80%) Data Fabric
4 2 (0.80%) IoT
4 2 (0.80%) Online Games
4 2 (0.80%) Social Media
5 1 (0.40%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.40%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (0.40%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.40%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.01%) Unix
2 1 (0.40%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (49.00%) Data Engineering
2 113 (45.38%) ETL
3 86 (34.54%) Data Modelling
4 81 (32.53%) Data Pipeline
5 74 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
6 70 (28.11%) Agile
6 70 (28.11%) Analytics
6 70 (28.11%) DevOps
7 63 (25.30%) CI/CD
8 58 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (17.27%) Mentoring
10 42 (16.87%) Visualisation
11 41 (16.47%) Software Engineering
12 38 (15.26%) Data Science
13 32 (12.85%) Data Visualisation
14 31 (12.45%) Asset Management
14 31 (12.45%) Open Source
15 30 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 29 (11.65%) Data Governance
17 28 (11.24%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 171 (68.67%) Python
2 157 (63.05%) SQL
3 48 (19.28%) Java
4 32 (12.85%) Go
5 17 (6.83%) C#
6 14 (5.62%) R
7 11 (4.42%) Scala
8 9 (3.61%) T-SQL
9 7 (2.81%) C++
10 6 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 6 (2.41%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.20%) SPARQL
13 2 (0.80%) Bicep
13 2 (0.80%) Fortran
13 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.40%) LookML
14 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 31 (12.45%) Degree
2 12 (4.82%) Security Cleared
3 10 (4.02%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.21%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.81%) SnowPro
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.80%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.80%) PhD
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (20.48%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
3 3 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.20%) QA
3 3 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.80%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 51 (20.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 60 (24.10%) Terraform
2 50 (20.08%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (0.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.40%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 47 (18.88%) Databricks
2 35 (14.06%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.62%) Google
4 9 (3.61%) SAP
5 8 (3.21%) Cognos
5 8 (3.21%) PayPal
6 7 (2.81%) Oracle
7 6 (2.41%) Informatica
8 4 (1.61%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.61%) Talend
9 3 (1.20%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.80%) Facebook
10 2 (0.80%) IBM
11 1 (0.40%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.40%) Charles River
11 1 (0.40%) DataCore
11 1 (0.40%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.40%) Palantir
11 1 (0.40%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.40%) Vertica