Senior Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £73,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 432 415 484
Rank change year-on-year -17 +69 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 159 265 397
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.63% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.65% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 150 231 208
10th Percentile £53,250 £55,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £60,625 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -6.25% +23.08%
75th Percentile £86,250 £98,750 £92,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £130,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%

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 32,433 40,693 66,264
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 96.00% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,885 28,909 42,146
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,626 £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 £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data 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 Senior Data Engineer.

Senior Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Senior Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior Data 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 120 (75.47%) Python
2 110 (69.18%) SQL
3 86 (54.09%) Azure
4 79 (49.69%) Data Engineering
5 71 (44.65%) Data Pipeline
6 69 (43.40%) AWS
7 57 (35.85%) ETL
8 56 (35.22%) Databricks
9 48 (30.19%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (28.93%) Analytics
11 45 (28.30%) Data Lake
11 45 (28.30%) Data Modelling
12 38 (23.90%) Business Intelligence
12 38 (23.90%) Kubernetes
13 37 (23.27%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (22.64%) Data Science
14 36 (22.64%) Power BI
14 36 (22.64%) Power Platform
15 34 (21.38%) GCP
15 34 (21.38%) DevOps
16 33 (20.75%) Agile
17 32 (20.13%) Terraform
17 32 (20.13%) PySpark
17 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
18 31 (19.50%) Social Skills
18 31 (19.50%) Mentoring
19 29 (18.24%) NoSQL
20 27 (16.98%) Data Governance
21 26 (16.35%) Snowflake
22 25 (15.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Senior Data 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 24 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 22 (13.84%) Apache
3 21 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.63%) Luigi
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (54.09%) Azure
2 69 (43.40%) AWS
3 37 (23.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 36 (22.64%) Power Platform
5 34 (21.38%) GCP
6 26 (16.35%) Snowflake
7 25 (15.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 20 (12.58%) Amazon S3
9 17 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (10.69%) dbt
10 13 (8.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (5.66%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 9 (5.66%) GitHub
11 9 (5.66%) Serverless
12 8 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.77%) SaaS
14 5 (3.14%) Azure AKS
14 5 (3.14%) Azure Machine Learning
14 5 (3.14%) Cloud Composer
15 4 (2.52%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.66%) Network Security
2 1 (0.63%) LAN
2 1 (0.63%) VPN
2 1 (0.63%) WAN
2 1 (0.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (30.19%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (28.30%) Data Lake
3 36 (22.64%) Power BI
4 29 (18.24%) NoSQL
5 24 (15.09%) Tableau
6 21 (13.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (11.95%) BigQuery
8 16 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (9.43%) Hadoop
10 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
11 13 (8.18%) Big Data
12 12 (7.55%) MongoDB
13 11 (6.92%) Delta Lake
14 10 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 8 (5.03%) Data Vault
17 7 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
18 5 (3.14%) DynamoDB
18 5 (3.14%) Looker
18 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (6.92%) Git
2 9 (5.66%) MLflow
3 6 (3.77%) GitLab
4 4 (2.52%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.52%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.52%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.89%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.26%) JIRA
General
1 31 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 25 (15.72%) Finance
3 15 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.18%) Retail
5 7 (4.40%) Games
6 6 (3.77%) Law
6 6 (3.77%) Legal
7 4 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.52%) Music Industry
8 3 (1.89%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Publishing
10 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.63%) Automotive
10 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.63%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (20.13%) PySpark
2 8 (5.03%) Kafka
3 6 (3.77%) Pandas
4 5 (3.14%) Apache Beam
4 5 (3.14%) JSON
5 3 (1.89%) .NET
5 3 (1.89%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.26%) pytest
7 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.63%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.63%) Node.js
7 1 (0.63%) RESTful
7 1 (0.63%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (5.03%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.52%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.52%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.52%) NHS
4 3 (1.89%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.26%) Marketing Technology
5 2 (1.26%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.63%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.63%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.63%) Genomics
6 1 (0.63%) Mobile Payment
6 1 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.55%) Linux
2 10 (6.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.63%) Windows
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (49.69%) Data Engineering
2 71 (44.65%) Data Pipeline
3 57 (35.85%) ETL
4 46 (28.93%) Analytics
5 45 (28.30%) Data Modelling
6 38 (23.90%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (22.64%) Data Science
8 34 (21.38%) DevOps
9 33 (20.75%) Agile
10 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
11 31 (19.50%) Mentoring
12 27 (16.98%) Data Governance
13 24 (15.09%) Machine Learning
14 23 (14.47%) Visualisation
15 21 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (11.95%) Data Visualisation
17 17 (10.69%) Data Analytics
18 15 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (9.43%) Data Management
18 15 (9.43%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 120 (75.47%) Python
2 110 (69.18%) SQL
3 13 (8.18%) Java
4 11 (6.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (6.92%) T-SQL
5 9 (5.66%) U-SQL
6 6 (3.77%) C#
7 3 (1.89%) C
7 3 (1.89%) Scala
8 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.63%) Bash
9 1 (0.63%) Korn
9 1 (0.63%) PHP
9 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (8.18%) Degree
2 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.14%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.89%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.63%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.03%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.52%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.26%) QA
4 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (8.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (23.90%) Kubernetes
2 32 (20.13%) Terraform
3 3 (1.89%) Ansible
4 2 (1.26%) Marathon
4 2 (1.26%) Mesos
Vendors
1 56 (35.22%) Databricks
2 17 (10.69%) Microsoft
3 11 (6.92%) Google
4 10 (6.29%) Oracle
5 4 (2.52%) YouTube
6 3 (1.89%) Informatica
6 3 (1.89%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.26%) Ab Initio
8 1 (0.63%) Apple
8 1 (0.63%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.63%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.63%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) TIBCO