Research Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Research Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Research Engineer salary in Work from Home is £48,745 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 662 821
Rank change year-on-year +98 +159 -258
Permanent jobs requiring a Research Engineer 19 14 23
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.056% 0.033% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.034% 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 7
10th Percentile £40,475 £48,750 £74,200
25th Percentile £42,250 £51,094 £84,300
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,745 £75,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -35.01% -14.29% +93.37%
75th Percentile £54,769 £77,500 £95,375
90th Percentile £67,000 £96,425 £102,450
UK median annual salary £58,000 £72,500 £54,584
% change year-on-year -20.00% +32.82% -16.03%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,479 40,829 66,224
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.03% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,933 29,012 42,088
10th Percentile £33,036 £36,532 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Research Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Research Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Research Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Research Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Research Engineer.

Research Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Research Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Research Engineer over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Research Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Research Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Research Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Research Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (94.74%) Software Engineering
2 17 (89.47%) Python
3 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (68.42%) Full Stack Development
3 13 (68.42%) Relational Database
3 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
3 13 (68.42%) MySQL
3 13 (68.42%) OO
4 12 (63.16%) Agile
4 12 (63.16%) Finance
4 12 (63.16%) React
4 12 (63.16%) SDLC
5 11 (57.89%) Spring Boot
5 11 (57.89%) Terraform
5 11 (57.89%) Cloud Native
5 11 (57.89%) IT Strategy
5 11 (57.89%) Technology Strategy
5 11 (57.89%) Distributed Applications
5 11 (57.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (57.89%) Law
5 11 (57.89%) Publishing
5 11 (57.89%) OOP
5 11 (57.89%) SQL
5 11 (57.89%) T-SQL
5 11 (57.89%) Java
5 11 (57.89%) Banking
5 11 (57.89%) Investment Banking
5 11 (57.89%) Spring
5 11 (57.89%) Maven
5 11 (57.89%) Groovy

Research Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (10.53%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) MySQL
1 13 (68.42%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.53%) GIS
2 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.26%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) Maven
2 2 (10.53%) CMake
General
1 12 (63.16%) Finance
2 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 11 (57.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 11 (57.89%) Investment Banking
2 11 (57.89%) Law
2 11 (57.89%) Publishing
3 2 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (63.16%) React
2 11 (57.89%) Spring
2 11 (57.89%) Spring Boot
3 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (10.53%) OpenACC
3 2 (10.53%) OpenCL
3 2 (10.53%) OpenMP
4 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.26%) Blazor
4 1 (5.26%) CSS
4 1 (5.26%) GeoJSON
4 1 (5.26%) GeoPandas
4 1 (5.26%) GeoTools
4 1 (5.26%) HTML
4 1 (5.26%) OpenLayers
4 1 (5.26%) PostGIS
4 1 (5.26%) Svelte
4 1 (5.26%) Vue
4 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Cloud Native
1 11 (57.89%) Distributed Applications
2 3 (15.79%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) CUDA
4 1 (5.26%) Blockchain
4 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Mixed Reality
4 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Unix
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (94.74%) Software Engineering
2 13 (68.42%) Full Stack Development
2 13 (68.42%) OO
2 13 (68.42%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (63.16%) Agile
3 12 (63.16%) SDLC
4 11 (57.89%) IT Strategy
4 11 (57.89%) OOP
4 11 (57.89%) Technology Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) Open Source
6 3 (15.79%) Parallel Programming
7 2 (10.53%) Code Quality
7 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
7 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.53%) Issue Tracking
7 2 (10.53%) Mathematics
7 2 (10.53%) MVVM
7 2 (10.53%) Physics
7 2 (10.53%) System Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) Python
2 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
3 11 (57.89%) Groovy
3 11 (57.89%) Java
3 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 11 (57.89%) T-SQL
4 3 (15.79%) Fortran
5 2 (10.53%) C#
5 2 (10.53%) C++
5 2 (10.53%) Rust
6 1 (5.26%) Bash
6 1 (5.26%) C
6 1 (5.26%) Go
6 1 (5.26%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 4 (21.05%) PhD
3 2 (10.53%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (57.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) ESRI
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft