Data Engineering Jobs with Work from Home 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 142 160
Rank change year-on-year -64 +18 +85
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 441 766 2,062
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 2.33% 2.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.43% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 366 546 829
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,162 £49,950
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -14.71% +21.43%
75th Percentile £91,875 £104,688 £95,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £142,500 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £78,250
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.15% +15.93%

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 24,720 31,469 76,283
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.48% 95.89% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,624 23,346 43,834
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 73 (16.55%) Apache Airflow
2 39 (8.84%) Apache Spark
3 24 (5.44%) Apache
4 14 (3.17%) Confluence
5 9 (2.04%) SAS
6 1 (0.23%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.23%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) SystmOne
2 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 243 (55.10%) Azure
2 146 (33.11%) AWS
3 110 (24.94%) GCP
4 100 (22.68%) Power Platform
5 89 (20.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 74 (16.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 74 (16.78%) dbt
7 47 (10.66%) Snowflake
8 33 (7.48%) Amazon S3
8 33 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (7.26%) Dagster
10 27 (6.12%) GitHub
11 21 (4.76%) Serverless
12 18 (4.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 12 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
14 10 (2.27%) Azure Machine Learning
14 10 (2.27%) Cloud Composer
14 10 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.36%) Firewall
2 3 (0.68%) VoIP
2 3 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (30.84%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (26.30%) Data Lake
3 99 (22.45%) Power BI
4 41 (9.30%) Amazon Athena
5 38 (8.62%) Dremio
6 33 (7.48%) BigQuery
7 30 (6.80%) SQL Server
8 29 (6.58%) Big Data
9 28 (6.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (6.12%) Tableau
11 24 (5.44%) NoSQL
12 20 (4.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (4.31%) Relational Database
14 18 (4.08%) Looker
14 18 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 17 (3.85%) Metadata
16 15 (3.40%) Delta Lake
16 15 (3.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
17 12 (2.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (5.22%) Git
2 18 (4.08%) JIRA
3 15 (3.40%) GitLab
3 15 (3.40%) MLflow
4 9 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.81%) RStudio
6 5 (1.13%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.68%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.45%) Deequ
9 2 (0.45%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.45%) ERwin
10 1 (0.23%) Mockito
10 1 (0.23%) Spinnaker
General
1 125 (28.34%) Finance
2 90 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 52 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (11.79%) Banking
4 40 (9.07%) Front Office
5 24 (5.44%) Retail
6 22 (4.99%) Legal
7 18 (4.08%) Law
8 14 (3.17%) Games
9 13 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.72%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.04%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.04%) Publishing
12 6 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.91%) Electronics
13 4 (0.91%) Music Industry
13 4 (0.91%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 242 (54.88%) Data Engineer
2 103 (23.36%) Senior
3 84 (19.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 46 (10.43%) Data Manager
5 43 (9.75%) Lead
5 43 (9.75%) Python Engineer
6 37 (8.39%) Azure Engineer
7 36 (8.16%) Engineering Manager
7 36 (8.16%) Python Data Engineer
8 29 (6.58%) Azure Data Engineer
9 26 (5.90%) Developer
9 26 (5.90%) Lead Data Engineer
10 18 (4.08%) Architect
11 16 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.40%) Business Intelligence Manager
12 15 (3.40%) Head of Engineering
13 14 (3.17%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.17%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (2.49%) Senior Manager
14 11 (2.49%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (22.45%) PySpark
2 44 (9.98%) Pandas
3 38 (8.62%) NumPy
3 38 (8.62%) SciPy
4 15 (3.40%) Kafka
5 10 (2.27%) JSON
6 8 (1.81%) .NET
7 7 (1.59%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.36%) GraphQL
8 6 (1.36%) gRPC
8 6 (1.36%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.36%) React
9 5 (1.13%) Apache Beam
9 5 (1.13%) Django
9 5 (1.13%) Web Services
9 5 (1.13%) XML
10 4 (0.91%) YAML
11 3 (0.68%) RESTful
12 2 (0.45%) jQuery
12 2 (0.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.80%) Data Structures
2 26 (5.90%) Cloud Native
3 24 (5.44%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.27%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.04%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.59%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.36%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.13%) Blog
10 5 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.91%) Client/Server
11 4 (0.91%) NHS
11 4 (0.91%) PropTech
11 4 (0.91%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (0.68%) Handset
12 3 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.59%) Linux
2 6 (1.36%) Windows
2 6 (1.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (51.02%) Analytics
2 149 (33.79%) ETL
3 133 (30.16%) Agile
4 117 (26.53%) Data Modelling
5 115 (26.08%) Data Pipeline
6 101 (22.90%) Business Intelligence
7 100 (22.68%) Mentoring
8 99 (22.45%) Data Governance
9 95 (21.54%) Data Science
10 84 (19.05%) Visualisation
11 78 (17.69%) Machine Learning
12 75 (17.01%) CI/CD
13 73 (16.55%) DevOps
14 71 (16.10%) Software Engineering
15 68 (15.42%) Data Management
16 64 (14.51%) Coaching
17 63 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
18 62 (14.06%) Data Analysis
19 60 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
20 57 (12.93%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 244 (55.33%) Python
2 243 (55.10%) SQL
3 60 (13.61%) Java
4 29 (6.58%) T-SQL
5 19 (4.31%) R
6 17 (3.85%) C#
7 13 (2.95%) Scala
8 12 (2.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.81%) Bash
9 8 (1.81%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (1.36%) TypeScript
11 5 (1.13%) C++
11 5 (1.13%) Go
11 5 (1.13%) Perl
11 5 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.68%) Rust
12 3 (0.68%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.68%) VBA
13 2 (0.45%) JavaScript
13 2 (0.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 45 (10.20%) Degree
2 27 (6.12%) DBS Check
3 24 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 23 (5.22%) Security Cleared
5 14 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.04%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.59%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.36%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.68%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.68%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.45%) MCP
11 2 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (17.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.49%) GDPR
3 5 (1.13%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.13%) QA
4 4 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.45%) COBIT
6 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (2.49%) IAG
2 7 (1.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (7.26%) Terraform
2 29 (6.58%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.59%) SysTrack
4 5 (1.13%) logstash
5 4 (0.91%) Ansible
Vendors
1 127 (28.80%) Databricks
2 71 (16.10%) Microsoft
3 45 (10.20%) Google
4 16 (3.63%) Informatica
5 9 (2.04%) Oracle
6 7 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.59%) Snow
6 7 (1.59%) Teradata
7 5 (1.13%) SAP
8 4 (0.91%) Dell
8 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.91%) SnapLogic
9 3 (0.68%) Talend
10 2 (0.45%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.45%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.45%) Cloudera
11 1 (0.23%) ESRI
11 1 (0.23%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.23%) Marketo
11 1 (0.23%) OpenAI