Data Engineering Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 204 150
Rank change year-on-year +42 -54 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 428 556 834
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.07% 1.64% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.83% 2.41%
Number of salaries quoted 207 468 589
10th Percentile £51,250 £42,482 £43,162
25th Percentile £65,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £106,250
90th Percentile £138,000 £112,500 £142,500
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -2.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 19,219 30,330 34,595
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.09% 89.25% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 10,253 22,426 25,175
10th Percentile £25,313 £33,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Data Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Engineering.

Data Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Data Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 58 (13.55%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (12.38%) Apache
2 53 (12.38%) Apache Spark
3 4 (0.93%) Confluence
4 3 (0.70%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.47%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.47%) Trello
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 293 (68.46%) AWS
2 270 (63.08%) Azure
3 216 (50.47%) GCP
4 52 (12.15%) Serverless
5 51 (11.92%) AWS Lambda
5 51 (11.92%) dbt
6 43 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
6 43 (10.05%) OpenShift
7 39 (9.11%) Power Platform
8 30 (7.01%) Snowflake
9 22 (5.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 16 (3.74%) GitHub
11 14 (3.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (2.80%) SaaS
13 11 (2.57%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (2.34%) Cloud Composer
15 9 (2.10%) Amazon S3
15 9 (2.10%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.93%) 5G
1 4 (0.93%) Broadband
2 3 (0.70%) Internet
3 1 (0.23%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.85%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (10.28%) Amazon Athena
3 43 (10.05%) Apache Iceberg
4 39 (9.11%) Apache Arrow
4 39 (9.11%) Apache Ignite
4 39 (9.11%) Dremio
5 38 (8.88%) Power BI
6 28 (6.54%) Data Lake
7 19 (4.44%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.21%) Big Data
8 18 (4.21%) Tableau
9 17 (3.97%) BigQuery
10 14 (3.27%) NoSQL
11 13 (3.04%) Hadoop
11 13 (3.04%) Metadata
12 11 (2.57%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.87%) Looker
14 8 (1.87%) Relational Database
15 7 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (9.81%) Artifactory
2 13 (3.04%) JIRA
3 8 (1.87%) Git
4 5 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.23%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.23%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.23%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.23%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) Vite
General
1 185 (43.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 108 (25.23%) Finance
3 66 (15.42%) Social Skills
4 40 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (9.11%) Front Office
6 22 (5.14%) Banking
7 19 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.80%) Retail
9 9 (2.10%) Law
9 9 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (1.64%) Back Office
11 5 (1.17%) Public Sector
12 4 (0.93%) Advertising
12 4 (0.93%) Marketing
12 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.70%) Electronics
13 3 (0.70%) Games
13 3 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.47%) Automotive
14 2 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 227 (53.04%) Senior
2 185 (43.22%) Software Engineer
3 180 (42.06%) Senior Software Engineer
4 132 (30.84%) Data Engineer
5 46 (10.75%) Python Engineer
6 44 (10.28%) AWS Engineer
7 40 (9.35%) AWS DevOps
7 40 (9.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 40 (9.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (7.48%) Lead
8 32 (7.48%) Senior Data Engineer
9 22 (5.14%) Data Manager
10 15 (3.50%) Lead Data Engineer
11 11 (2.57%) Developer
11 11 (2.57%) Head of Engineering
12 10 (2.34%) Consultant
13 9 (2.10%) Architect
13 9 (2.10%) Data Consultant
14 8 (1.87%) Analyst
14 8 (1.87%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (42.52%) .NET
2 180 (42.06%) Node.js
3 61 (14.25%) PySpark
4 50 (11.68%) Kafka
5 39 (9.11%) J2EE
6 11 (2.57%) PyTorch
6 11 (2.57%) scikit-learn
6 11 (2.57%) TensorFlow
7 10 (2.34%) NumPy
8 9 (2.10%) Keras
9 4 (0.93%) Middleware
9 4 (0.93%) PyArrow
9 4 (0.93%) React
9 4 (0.93%) REST
10 3 (0.70%) AWS CDK
10 3 (0.70%) Pandas
10 3 (0.70%) Plotly
11 2 (0.47%) AngularJS
11 2 (0.47%) Apache Jena
11 2 (0.47%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 180 (42.06%) Linux Command Line
2 178 (41.59%) Cyberattack
2 178 (41.59%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.27%) Algorithms
4 12 (2.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.40%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 4 (0.93%) Clustering
6 4 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 3 (0.70%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.70%) Reinsurance
7 3 (0.70%) Replication
8 2 (0.47%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.47%) IoT
8 2 (0.47%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 181 (42.29%) Linux
2 4 (0.93%) Unix
3 2 (0.47%) VMS
3 2 (0.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (63.79%) Agile
2 257 (60.05%) Software Engineering
3 235 (54.91%) Mentoring
4 217 (50.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 215 (50.23%) Machine Learning
6 187 (43.69%) Scrum
6 187 (43.69%) User Experience
7 184 (42.99%) Microservices
8 178 (41.59%) Cloud Security
9 81 (18.93%) CI/CD
10 79 (18.46%) Analytics
11 78 (18.22%) DevOps
12 71 (16.59%) ETL
13 66 (15.42%) Data Modelling
14 60 (14.02%) Business Intelligence
15 59 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
16 52 (12.15%) Data Science
17 51 (11.92%) Data Governance
18 46 (10.75%) Problem-Solving
19 43 (10.05%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 325 (75.93%) Python
2 232 (54.21%) Java
3 219 (51.17%) Go
4 182 (42.52%) JavaScript
5 178 (41.59%) C++
5 178 (41.59%) Rust
6 113 (26.40%) SQL
7 15 (3.50%) C#
8 8 (1.87%) PowerShell
8 8 (1.87%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.64%) R
10 6 (1.40%) Bash
11 5 (1.17%) Scala
12 4 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (0.70%) PHP
14 2 (0.47%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.47%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.23%) Groovy
15 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 192 (44.86%) Security Cleared
2 182 (42.52%) AWS Certification
3 178 (41.59%) AWS Certified Developer
3 178 (41.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 178 (41.59%) DV Cleared
4 36 (8.41%) Degree
5 15 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (3.27%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.57%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.10%) PhD
9 5 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.93%) DBS Check
10 4 (0.93%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.93%) PMP
10 4 (0.93%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.47%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.23%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (14.49%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.34%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.64%) QA
4 6 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (0.47%) Dublin Core
5 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.23%) PMO
System Software
1 61 (14.25%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) HDFS
3 2 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 65 (15.19%) Terraform
2 60 (14.02%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.47%) Packer
Vendors
1 42 (9.81%) Databricks
2 39 (9.11%) Microsoft
3 23 (5.37%) Google
4 12 (2.80%) Informatica
5 9 (2.10%) Oracle
6 7 (1.64%) SAP
7 5 (1.17%) Talend
8 4 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 4 (0.93%) Teradata
9 3 (0.70%) IBM
9 3 (0.70%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.47%) Facebook
10 2 (0.47%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.47%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.23%) Charles River
11 1 (0.23%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.23%) DataCore
11 1 (0.23%) JD Edwards
11 1 (0.23%) RedGate
11 1 (0.23%) SimCorp