Data Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 108 164
Rank change year-on-year -85 +56 +56
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 566 1,287 1,659
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.67% 3.04% 2.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 3.16% 2.50%
Number of salaries quoted 486 677 785
10th Percentile £40,988 £44,186 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,219 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £108,491 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,625 £141,000 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,014 40,730 66,290
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.60% 96.10% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23,557 28,305 41,490
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 6 May 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 62 (10.95%) Apache Spark
2 56 (9.89%) Apache Airflow
3 45 (7.95%) Apache
4 19 (3.36%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 279 (49.29%) Azure
2 157 (27.74%) AWS
3 134 (23.67%) GCP
4 112 (19.79%) Power Platform
5 97 (17.14%) Snowflake
6 89 (15.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (11.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 57 (10.07%) dbt
9 44 (7.77%) Amazon S3
9 44 (7.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 33 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.65%) Matillion
12 27 (4.77%) Serverless
13 21 (3.71%) GitHub
13 21 (3.71%) SaaS
14 20 (3.53%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.12%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.06%) Network Security
2 4 (0.71%) Firewall
3 3 (0.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (34.98%) Data Warehouse
2 126 (22.26%) Data Lake
3 112 (19.79%) Power BI
4 87 (15.37%) SQL Server
5 55 (9.72%) BigQuery
6 49 (8.66%) Big Data
7 41 (7.24%) Tableau
8 38 (6.71%) Star Schema
9 37 (6.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (5.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
12 29 (5.12%) Hadoop
13 26 (4.59%) Relational Database
14 25 (4.42%) NoSQL
14 25 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 24 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (3.53%) Looker
18 19 (3.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
18 19 (3.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (8.13%) GitLab
2 32 (5.65%) Git
3 28 (4.95%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.06%) JIRA
5 12 (2.12%) MLflow
6 7 (1.24%) Spinnaker
7 6 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.71%) ERwin
8 4 (0.71%) Snakemake
9 3 (0.53%) Deequ
9 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.18%) JUnit
11 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 133 (23.50%) Finance
2 122 (21.55%) Social Skills
3 60 (10.60%) Banking
4 56 (9.89%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.83%) Games
5 33 (5.83%) Retail
6 24 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (3.71%) Public Sector
8 19 (3.36%) Law
9 15 (2.65%) Legal
10 10 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.59%) Front Office
11 9 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.41%) Marketing
13 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.71%) Advertising
14 4 (0.71%) Electronics
14 4 (0.71%) Music Industry
14 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 284 (50.18%) Data Engineer
2 109 (19.26%) Senior
3 89 (15.72%) Lead
4 79 (13.96%) Senior Data Engineer
5 75 (13.25%) Data Manager
6 63 (11.13%) Lead Data Engineer
7 53 (9.36%) Engineering Manager
8 40 (7.07%) Python Engineer
9 36 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
10 30 (5.30%) Python Data Engineer
11 29 (5.12%) Developer
12 28 (4.95%) Azure Data Engineer
13 27 (4.77%) Architect
14 24 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
14 24 (4.24%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.36%) Head of Engineering
16 18 (3.18%) AWS Data Engineer
16 18 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Manager
17 17 (3.00%) Senior Manager
18 15 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (9.89%) PySpark
2 26 (4.59%) Kafka
3 20 (3.53%) Apache Beam
4 11 (1.94%) Pandas
4 11 (1.94%) React
5 9 (1.59%) Django
6 8 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.06%) Great Expectations
8 6 (1.06%) gRPC
8 6 (1.06%) JSON
8 6 (1.06%) NumPy
8 6 (1.06%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.06%) RESTful
8 6 (1.06%) SciPy
8 6 (1.06%) Web Services
9 5 (0.88%) XML
10 4 (0.71%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.25%) Data Structures
2 44 (7.77%) Cloud Native
3 34 (6.01%) Product Ownership
4 31 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (4.42%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.65%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.65%) Client/Server
7 10 (1.77%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.59%) Online Games
9 8 (1.41%) IoT
9 8 (1.41%) Onboarding
10 7 (1.24%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
10 7 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
11 6 (1.06%) Public Cloud
11 6 (1.06%) Renewable Energy
12 5 (0.88%) Blog
12 5 (0.88%) Life Science
12 5 (0.88%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.77%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
2 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (48.06%) Analytics
2 211 (37.28%) ETL
3 192 (33.92%) Data Modelling
3 192 (33.92%) Data Pipeline
4 181 (31.98%) Agile
5 171 (30.21%) Data Science
6 134 (23.67%) Business Intelligence
6 134 (23.67%) Machine Learning
7 119 (21.02%) CI/CD
8 103 (18.20%) Mentoring
8 103 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
9 101 (17.84%) Visualisation
10 100 (17.67%) DevOps
11 97 (17.14%) Data Integration
12 91 (16.08%) Data Governance
13 85 (15.02%) Data Management
14 84 (14.84%) Data Strategy
15 82 (14.49%) Artificial Intelligence
16 81 (14.31%) Coaching
17 73 (12.90%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 316 (55.83%) SQL
2 308 (54.42%) Python
3 43 (7.60%) Java
4 27 (4.77%) Scala
5 24 (4.24%) T-SQL
6 17 (3.00%) C#
7 15 (2.65%) R
8 13 (2.30%) Go
9 12 (2.12%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.24%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.06%) VBA
13 5 (0.88%) Bash
13 5 (0.88%) Perl
13 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.71%) C
15 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 61 (10.78%) Degree
2 26 (4.59%) DBS Check
3 22 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 16 (2.83%) Security Cleared
5 15 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.77%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.24%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.06%) OCP
9 6 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (0.88%) PhD
10 5 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.71%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.35%) MCP
14 1 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (18.37%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.94%) GDPR
3 5 (0.88%) QA
4 4 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.71%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.35%) COBIT
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 20 (3.53%) Docker
2 11 (1.94%) IAG
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 50 (8.83%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.71%) Terraform
3 7 (1.24%) Ansible
3 7 (1.24%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.88%) logstash
5 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 129 (22.79%) Databricks
2 85 (15.02%) Microsoft
3 60 (10.60%) Google
4 18 (3.18%) Teradata
5 14 (2.47%) Oracle
6 7 (1.24%) Informatica
6 7 (1.24%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.24%) Snow
7 6 (1.06%) SAP
8 5 (0.88%) Alteryx
8 5 (0.88%) Dell
8 5 (0.88%) Talend
9 4 (0.71%) IBM
10 3 (0.53%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.53%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.35%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.35%) Confluent
11 2 (0.35%) ESRI
11 2 (0.35%) Hortonworks
12 1 (0.18%) StreamSets