Hybrid/Remote Data Engineering Job Trends

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 115 162
Rank change year-on-year +17 +47 -38
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 438 379 631
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.53% 2.91% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 3.07% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 307 301 479
10th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £40,988
25th Percentile £61,375 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +21.43% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £130,500 £138,750 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.50% -6.67%

All Process & 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 14,440 12,333 28,995
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 83.32% 94.79% 91.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10,085 8,884 23,507
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,500 £33,761
25th Percentile £44,972 £46,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Engineering
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

Data Engineering salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 69 (15.75%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (7.53%) Apache Spark
3 19 (4.34%) Apache
4 6 (1.37%) SAS
5 5 (1.14%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.68%) Confluence
7 2 (0.46%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Notion
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 264 (60.27%) Azure
2 132 (30.14%) Snowflake
3 111 (25.34%) AWS
4 91 (20.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 73 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 72 (16.44%) Azure Machine Learning
7 66 (15.07%) Power Platform
8 62 (14.16%) GCP
9 58 (13.24%) Azure AI
10 35 (7.99%) dbt
11 27 (6.16%) Amazon S3
12 25 (5.71%) GitHub
13 23 (5.25%) Dagster
14 20 (4.57%) SaaS
15 17 (3.88%) Amazon SageMaker
15 17 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
16 16 (3.65%) Vertex AI
17 14 (3.20%) Amazon Kinesis
17 14 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (2.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.42%) Broadband
2 1 (0.23%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (25.34%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (21.69%) SQL Server
3 63 (14.38%) Power BI
4 57 (13.01%) Data Lake
5 42 (9.59%) Metadata
6 33 (7.53%) BigQuery
6 33 (7.53%) Tableau
7 31 (7.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 29 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (5.48%) Relational Database
10 20 (4.57%) Apache Iceberg
11 19 (4.34%) Delta Lake
12 18 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (3.42%) Semantic Layer
13 15 (3.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (2.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 12 (2.74%) MongoDB
16 11 (2.51%) Amazon QuickSight
16 11 (2.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.48%) Git
2 14 (3.20%) MLflow
3 4 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.68%) GitLab
4 3 (0.68%) JIRA
5 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.23%) Selenium
6 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 135 (30.82%) Finance
2 63 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 42 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (4.79%) Banking
4 21 (4.79%) Retail
5 20 (4.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (4.57%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.88%) Law
7 8 (1.83%) Games
8 7 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.37%) Automotive
9 6 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.37%) Legal
9 6 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (0.91%) Front Office
12 3 (0.68%) Marketing
13 2 (0.46%) Advertising
13 2 (0.46%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 171 (39.04%) Data Engineer
2 76 (17.35%) Lead
3 74 (16.89%) Senior
4 63 (14.38%) Data Manager
5 60 (13.70%) Architect
6 54 (12.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 51 (11.64%) Data Architect
8 46 (10.50%) Engineering Manager
9 41 (9.36%) Lead Data Engineer
10 33 (7.53%) Finance Manager
11 20 (4.57%) Consultant
12 16 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.97%) Azure Architect
13 13 (2.97%) Developer
14 12 (2.74%) Azure Data Architect
14 12 (2.74%) Data Consultant
15 11 (2.51%) Senior Consultant
16 10 (2.28%) Data Integration Manager
16 10 (2.28%) Head of Finance
16 10 (2.28%) Integration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (9.82%) Kafka
2 41 (9.36%) PySpark
3 10 (2.28%) PyTorch
3 10 (2.28%) REST
3 10 (2.28%) TensorFlow
4 9 (2.05%) Faiss
4 9 (2.05%) React
4 9 (2.05%) vLLM
5 6 (1.37%) .NET
5 6 (1.37%) JSON
5 6 (1.37%) Node.js
6 5 (1.14%) LangChain
7 4 (0.91%) CSS
7 4 (0.91%) HTML
8 3 (0.68%) Apache NiFi
9 2 (0.46%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.46%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.46%) Pandas
9 2 (0.46%) Vue
9 2 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (7.53%) Cloud Native
2 27 (6.16%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.97%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.05%) AI Agents
6 9 (2.05%) Low-Code
7 8 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 8 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (1.60%) Video\Live Streaming
9 6 (1.37%) Anti-Piracy
9 6 (1.37%) Social Media
10 5 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.68%) e-Learning
11 3 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.68%) Online Gambling
11 3 (0.68%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (46.80%) Analytics
2 189 (43.15%) Data Modelling
3 171 (39.04%) Data Pipeline
4 162 (36.99%) Data Architecture
5 155 (35.39%) AI
5 155 (35.39%) ETL
6 147 (33.56%) Data Governance
7 139 (31.74%) Agile
8 116 (26.48%) Machine Learning
9 103 (23.52%) Business Intelligence
10 96 (21.92%) CI/CD
11 93 (21.23%) Roadmaps
12 92 (21.00%) Data Integration
13 75 (17.12%) Migration
14 73 (16.67%) Decision-Making
14 73 (16.67%) DevOps
15 71 (16.21%) Regulatory Compliance
16 62 (14.16%) Data Science
17 60 (13.70%) Line Management
17 60 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 247 (56.39%) SQL
2 198 (45.21%) Python
3 32 (7.31%) Java
4 31 (7.08%) Scala
5 22 (5.02%) Bash
6 20 (4.57%) Go
7 16 (3.65%) T-SQL
8 7 (1.60%) C#
8 7 (1.60%) C++
8 7 (1.60%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 6 (1.37%) JavaScript
9 6 (1.37%) R
10 3 (0.68%) Groovy
11 2 (0.46%) Bicep
11 2 (0.46%) PHP
11 2 (0.46%) Ruby
12 1 (0.23%) ABAP
12 1 (0.23%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (7.53%) Degree
2 26 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 19 (4.34%) SC Cleared
4 17 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.28%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.68%) DBS Check
6 3 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.23%) PhD
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Certification
7 1 (0.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (22.60%) Data Quality
2 33 (7.53%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.79%) GDPR
4 10 (2.28%) QA
5 6 (1.37%) GRC
6 2 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.23%) PMO
7 1 (0.23%) Solvency II
System Software
1 55 (12.56%) Virtual Machines
2 28 (6.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 28 (6.39%) Terraform
2 13 (2.97%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.37%) Argo
4 4 (0.91%) Grafana
4 4 (0.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.68%) Control-M
6 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 177 (40.41%) Databricks
2 151 (34.47%) Microsoft
3 16 (3.65%) Oracle
4 13 (2.97%) Google
5 12 (2.74%) Informatica
6 11 (2.51%) Palantir
7 10 (2.28%) OpenAI
8 7 (1.60%) Talend
9 3 (0.68%) BMC
9 3 (0.68%) IBM
9 3 (0.68%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.46%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.46%) Foundry
10 2 (0.46%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.46%) SAP
11 1 (0.23%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.23%) Apple
11 1 (0.23%) Confluent
11 1 (0.23%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.23%) Spotify