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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 191 107
Rank change year-on-year +62 -84 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 353 565 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.36% 1.67% 3.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.53% 1.82% 3.13%
Number of salaries quoted 285 484 676
10th Percentile £45,000 £40,988 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £108,491
90th Percentile £138,750 £110,875 £141,250
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -

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 13,930 31,014 41,082
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.15% 91.65% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,709 23,583 28,561
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,930 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 1 May 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
1 105 (29.75%) Apache Airflow
2 100 (28.33%) Apache Spark
3 88 (24.93%) Apache
4 8 (2.27%) SharePoint
5 7 (1.98%) Confluence
6 2 (0.57%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
Applications
1 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.57%) Trello
4 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 171 (48.44%) AWS
2 118 (33.43%) Azure
3 91 (25.78%) dbt
4 80 (22.66%) OpenShift
5 78 (22.10%) AWS Lambda
5 78 (22.10%) Serverless
6 71 (20.11%) Amazon ECS
7 52 (14.73%) GCP
7 52 (14.73%) Power Platform
8 27 (7.65%) Snowflake
9 19 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (5.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 18 (5.10%) Azure Data Factory
10 18 (5.10%) GitHub
11 11 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
11 11 (3.12%) PowerApps
12 10 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (2.55%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (2.55%) Cloud Composer
14 7 (1.98%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.53%) Firewall
2 5 (1.42%) Internet
3 4 (1.13%) 5G
3 4 (1.13%) Broadband
4 2 (0.57%) ADSL
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (24.65%) Apache Iceberg
2 84 (23.80%) Amazon Athena
3 78 (22.10%) Dremio
4 71 (20.11%) Apache Arrow
4 71 (20.11%) Apache Ignite
4 71 (20.11%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (14.16%) Power BI
6 47 (13.31%) Data Lake
7 35 (9.92%) SQL Server
8 27 (7.65%) Big Data
9 25 (7.08%) Tableau
10 23 (6.52%) BigQuery
11 21 (5.95%) Hadoop
12 20 (5.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (4.53%) Azure SQL Database
14 15 (4.25%) NoSQL
15 14 (3.97%) Metadata
16 11 (3.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 10 (2.83%) Amazon Redshift
18 9 (2.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 73 (20.68%) Artifactory
2 13 (3.68%) JIRA
3 9 (2.55%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.98%) Git
5 4 (1.13%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.85%) GitLab
7 2 (0.57%) MLflow
8 1 (0.28%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) JUnit
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.28%) TestNG
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 171 (48.44%) Finance
2 93 (26.35%) Social Skills
3 78 (22.10%) Front Office
4 67 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (15.01%) Banking
6 29 (8.22%) Law
7 19 (5.38%) Legal
8 12 (3.40%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.83%) Marketing
11 9 (2.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.98%) Retail
13 6 (1.70%) Advertising
13 6 (1.70%) Automotive
14 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.13%) Back Office
16 3 (0.85%) Telecoms
17 2 (0.57%) Games
17 2 (0.57%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 193 (54.67%) Data Engineer
2 91 (25.78%) AWS Engineer
3 84 (23.80%) Python Engineer
4 75 (21.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 73 (20.68%) AWS DevOps
5 73 (20.68%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 54 (15.30%) Senior
7 45 (12.75%) Lead
8 39 (11.05%) Senior Data Engineer
9 27 (7.65%) Lead Data Engineer
10 23 (6.52%) Data Manager
11 16 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (4.53%) Data Science Graduate
11 16 (4.53%) Graduate
11 16 (4.53%) Security Engineer
12 15 (4.25%) Architect
13 14 (3.97%) Cloud Security Engineer
14 13 (3.68%) Python Data Engineer
15 10 (2.83%) Developer
16 9 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (30.59%) PySpark
2 96 (27.20%) Kafka
3 71 (20.11%) J2EE
4 19 (5.38%) NumPy
5 15 (4.25%) PyTorch
5 15 (4.25%) TensorFlow
6 13 (3.68%) Pandas
6 13 (3.68%) scikit-learn
7 9 (2.55%) Keras
7 9 (2.55%) PyArrow
8 5 (1.42%) Dask
8 5 (1.42%) SciPy
9 4 (1.13%) FastAPI
9 4 (1.13%) Flask
9 4 (1.13%) Polars
9 4 (1.13%) React
9 4 (1.13%) REST
10 3 (0.85%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.85%) Plotly
10 3 (0.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.50%) Algorithms
2 19 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 18 (5.10%) Credit Risk
4 16 (4.53%) Cloud Security Posture
4 16 (4.53%) Learning Management System
4 16 (4.53%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.12%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.70%) Cloud Native
6 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.70%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.85%) Clustering
7 3 (0.85%) Data Fabric
7 3 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (0.85%) Life Science
7 3 (0.85%) NHS
7 3 (0.85%) Replication
8 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.57%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.55%) Linux
1 9 (2.55%) Unix
2 5 (1.42%) Windows
3 3 (0.85%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (41.93%) Agile
2 144 (40.79%) DevOps
3 127 (35.98%) Software Engineering
4 123 (34.84%) Analytics
4 123 (34.84%) CI/CD
5 92 (26.06%) Business Intelligence
6 85 (24.08%) Data Pipeline
7 79 (22.38%) Asset Management
7 79 (22.38%) Data Science
8 77 (21.81%) Data Modelling
9 72 (20.40%) Open Source
10 71 (20.11%) ETL
10 71 (20.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 65 (18.41%) Mentoring
12 64 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
13 63 (17.85%) Artificial Intelligence
14 62 (17.56%) Visualisation
15 57 (16.15%) Machine Learning
16 55 (15.58%) Data Visualisation
17 49 (13.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 220 (62.32%) Python
2 152 (43.06%) SQL
3 97 (27.48%) Java
4 74 (20.96%) Go
5 25 (7.08%) C#
6 24 (6.80%) T-SQL
7 23 (6.52%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.25%) R
9 8 (2.27%) Bash
9 8 (2.27%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.27%) Scala
10 7 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.57%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.28%) JCL
13 1 (0.28%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.28%) Perl
13 1 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 64 (18.13%) Degree
2 31 (8.78%) Master's Degree
3 25 (7.08%) PhD
4 22 (6.23%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 20 (5.67%) AWS Certification
7 17 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (4.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 13 (3.68%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.70%) DBS Check
11 5 (1.42%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.42%) PMP
12 4 (1.13%) SAP Certification
13 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (21.81%) Data Quality
2 23 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.27%) GDPR
4 6 (1.70%) QA
5 2 (0.57%) Dublin Core
6 1 (0.28%) Basel III
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS
6 1 (0.28%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 98 (27.76%) Docker
2 9 (2.55%) HDFS
3 4 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 106 (30.03%) Kubernetes
2 92 (26.06%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Packer
4 1 (0.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 57 (16.15%) Databricks
3 24 (6.80%) Google
4 12 (3.40%) Red Hat
5 8 (2.27%) Informatica
5 8 (2.27%) SAP
6 6 (1.70%) Teradata
7 5 (1.42%) Foundry
7 5 (1.42%) Palantir
8 4 (1.13%) Oracle
9 2 (0.57%) Apple
9 2 (0.57%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.57%) Cribl.io
9 2 (0.57%) IBM
9 2 (0.57%) Splunk
9 2 (0.57%) Talend
10 1 (0.28%) Confluent
10 1 (0.28%) Facebook
10 1 (0.28%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.28%) Vertica