Data Science Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 115 80
Rank change year-on-year -20 -35 -1
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 386 884 1,683
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.50% 2.62% 3.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.86% 4.13%
Number of salaries quoted 224 637 884
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £46,570
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £85,063 £85,000 £89,852
90th Percentile £98,474 £107,500 £105,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 14,384 30,949 40,734
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 93.29% 91.59% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 9,737 23,494 28,287
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £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 Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Science over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Data Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 36 (9.33%) Apache Spark
2 27 (6.99%) Jupyter
3 24 (6.22%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (4.92%) Apache
5 11 (2.85%) SAS
6 3 (0.78%) nginx
6 3 (0.78%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 26 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.89%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.26%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 91 (23.58%) AWS
2 76 (19.69%) Azure
3 61 (15.80%) Power Platform
4 43 (11.14%) GCP
5 23 (5.96%) Serverless
6 22 (5.70%) AWS Lambda
7 21 (5.44%) Snowflake
8 16 (4.15%) Amazon S3
9 15 (3.89%) GitHub
10 14 (3.63%) Amazon SageMaker
11 13 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (2.33%) Azure Machine Learning
12 9 (2.33%) OpenShift
13 8 (2.07%) dbt
14 7 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (1.55%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
15 6 (1.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.30%) 5G
2 4 (1.04%) 4G
2 4 (1.04%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.04%) WAN
3 3 (0.78%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (15.80%) Big Data
1 61 (15.80%) Power BI
2 54 (13.99%) Tableau
3 52 (13.47%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (6.74%) NoSQL
5 24 (6.22%) Relational Database
6 23 (5.96%) Hadoop
7 19 (4.92%) SQL Server
8 18 (4.66%) Data Lake
8 18 (4.66%) Metadata
9 14 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (3.11%) Delta Lake
11 11 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
12 10 (2.59%) DynamoDB
12 10 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (2.33%) Apache Hudi
13 9 (2.33%) Apache Iceberg
14 8 (2.07%) BigQuery
14 8 (2.07%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 26 (6.74%) Git
2 10 (2.59%) JIRA
3 9 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 5 (1.30%) GitLab
4 5 (1.30%) MLflow
5 4 (1.04%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.52%) Babel
6 2 (0.52%) gulp
6 2 (0.52%) Subversion
6 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.52%) webpack
7 1 (0.26%) ERwin
General
1 128 (33.16%) Finance
2 99 (25.65%) Social Skills
3 82 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (18.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 61 (15.80%) Banking
6 22 (5.70%) Public Sector
7 21 (5.44%) Law
7 21 (5.44%) Legal
8 18 (4.66%) Retail
9 17 (4.40%) Manufacturing
10 15 (3.89%) Games
11 14 (3.63%) Marketing
11 14 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (3.11%) Publishing
12 12 (3.11%) Tech for Good
13 11 (2.85%) Health Technology
14 10 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 3 (0.78%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 111 (28.76%) Data Scientist
2 110 (28.50%) Senior
3 59 (15.28%) Senior Data Scientist
4 41 (10.62%) Data Engineer
5 40 (10.36%) Developer
6 35 (9.07%) Analyst
7 32 (8.29%) Lead
8 22 (5.70%) Data Analyst
9 21 (5.44%) Architect
9 21 (5.44%) Data Manager
10 19 (4.92%) Senior Developer
11 18 (4.66%) Trainer
12 16 (4.15%) Data Science Graduate
12 16 (4.15%) Graduate
13 14 (3.63%) Software Engineer
14 13 (3.37%) Data Architect
15 12 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
15 12 (3.11%) Senior Data Engineer
16 11 (2.85%) Python Developer
16 11 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (10.62%) scikit-learn
1 41 (10.62%) TensorFlow
2 37 (9.59%) PySpark
3 32 (8.29%) PyTorch
4 24 (6.22%) Kafka
4 24 (6.22%) Pandas
5 23 (5.96%) React
6 18 (4.66%) .NET
7 17 (4.40%) NumPy
7 17 (4.40%) RESTful
8 12 (3.11%) .NET Framework
9 11 (2.85%) Hugging Face
9 11 (2.85%) Keras
10 10 (2.59%) Swagger
11 9 (2.33%) PyArrow
12 8 (2.07%) XGBoost
13 6 (1.55%) CSS
13 6 (1.55%) HTML
13 6 (1.55%) Lambda Expressions
14 5 (1.30%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 111 (28.76%) Algorithms
2 46 (11.92%) Cyberattack
3 36 (9.33%) Credit Risk
4 22 (5.70%) Management Information System
5 16 (4.15%) Learning Management System
6 15 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (3.11%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.59%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.33%) Linux Command Line
9 9 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.81%) IoT
11 7 (1.81%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.55%) Mobile Games
13 5 (1.30%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (1.30%) Smart City
14 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 16 (4.15%) Linux
2 9 (2.33%) Unix
3 5 (1.30%) Windows
4 2 (0.52%) Ubuntu
4 2 (0.52%) VMS
4 2 (0.52%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (49.48%) Machine Learning
2 186 (48.19%) Analytics
3 168 (43.52%) Artificial Intelligence
4 133 (34.46%) Computer Science
5 123 (31.87%) Visualisation
6 115 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
7 108 (27.98%) Mathematics
8 101 (26.17%) Statistics
9 98 (25.39%) Decision-Making
10 84 (21.76%) Agile
11 80 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
12 79 (20.47%) Data Engineering
13 73 (18.91%) Mentoring
14 68 (17.62%) DevOps
15 65 (16.84%) Data Analytics
16 63 (16.32%) Data Analysis
16 63 (16.32%) Software Engineering
17 62 (16.06%) ETL
18 61 (15.80%) Data Pipeline
19 55 (14.25%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 250 (64.77%) Python
2 172 (44.56%) SQL
3 36 (9.33%) Java
3 36 (9.33%) R
4 33 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.74%) C#
6 18 (4.66%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.33%) C++
8 7 (1.81%) C
8 7 (1.81%) Go
9 5 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 5 (1.30%) VBA
10 4 (1.04%) MATLAB
10 4 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.04%) Scala
11 3 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (0.78%) Julia
11 3 (0.78%) SPARQL
12 2 (0.52%) Bash
12 2 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 198 (51.30%) Degree
2 80 (20.73%) Master's Degree
3 62 (16.06%) Security Cleared
4 57 (14.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 54 (13.99%) PhD
6 53 (13.73%) DV Cleared
7 29 (7.51%) Numerate Degree
8 20 (5.18%) DBS Check
9 12 (3.11%) SC Cleared
10 6 (1.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
11 5 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.30%) PMI Certification
11 5 (1.30%) PMP
12 4 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.04%) SAP Certification
13 3 (0.78%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.26%) CITP
14 1 (0.26%) IIBA
14 1 (0.26%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (13.99%) Data Quality
2 18 (4.66%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.15%) QA
4 11 (2.85%) GDPR
5 8 (2.07%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (1.81%) Basel II
6 7 (1.81%) Basel III
6 7 (1.81%) Dodd-Frank
6 7 (1.81%) IFRS
6 7 (1.81%) IFRS 9
7 3 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 49 (12.69%) Docker
2 13 (3.37%) HDFS
3 4 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (14.51%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.11%) Terraform
3 2 (0.52%) Ansible
3 2 (0.52%) Packer
Vendors
1 52 (13.47%) Databricks
2 33 (8.55%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.18%) SAP
4 19 (4.92%) Google
5 15 (3.89%) PayPal
6 9 (2.33%) Oracle
6 9 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 9 (2.33%) Teradata
7 6 (1.55%) Informatica
8 2 (0.52%) F5
9 1 (0.26%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.26%) Foundry
9 1 (0.26%) Medallia
9 1 (0.26%) MicroStrategy
9 1 (0.26%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.26%) Palantir