Senior Data Engineer Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Senior Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 438 425
Rank change year-on-year +110 -13 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 69 157 266
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.46% 0.46% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.48% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 56 149 231
10th Percentile £56,250 £53,250 £55,250
25th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £73,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -2.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £98,750
90th Percentile £96,875 £105,000 £130,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,900 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.98% -8.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 13,554 32,482 41,080
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 95.99% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 9,860 24,960 29,208
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Senior Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Data Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025, 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (72.46%) Python
2 49 (71.01%) SQL
3 41 (59.42%) ETL
4 39 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (56.52%) Data Engineering
5 34 (49.28%) Mentoring
6 33 (47.83%) AWS
7 32 (46.38%) Social Skills
8 27 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (39.13%) Azure
8 27 (39.13%) Data Quality
8 27 (39.13%) Analytics
9 26 (37.68%) Business Intelligence
9 26 (37.68%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (36.23%) Databricks
11 22 (31.88%) Data Lake
11 22 (31.88%) Data Modelling
12 21 (30.43%) Apache Spark
13 20 (28.99%) Agile
14 16 (23.19%) Power BI
14 16 (23.19%) Power Platform
14 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
15 15 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (21.74%) Data Architecture
16 14 (20.29%) Big Data
16 14 (20.29%) Data Governance
16 14 (20.29%) GitHub
16 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
16 14 (20.29%) Java
16 14 (20.29%) Migration

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 21 (30.43%) Apache Spark
2 13 (18.84%) Apache
3 9 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (8.70%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.45%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.83%) AWS
2 27 (39.13%) Azure
3 16 (23.19%) Power Platform
4 14 (20.29%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (20.29%) GitHub
4 14 (20.29%) Serverless
5 13 (18.84%) Amazon S3
6 9 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (11.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (11.59%) dbt
7 8 (11.59%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (8.70%) PowerApps
10 5 (7.25%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.80%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.80%) GCP
11 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
12 3 (4.35%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (37.68%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (31.88%) Data Lake
3 16 (23.19%) Power BI
4 15 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 14 (20.29%) Big Data
6 10 (14.49%) SQL Server
7 9 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (11.59%) Hadoop
9 7 (10.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 7 (10.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (10.14%) Tableau
10 5 (7.25%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (7.25%) Relational Database
11 4 (5.80%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (5.80%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (5.80%) NoSQL
12 3 (4.35%) Apache Hudi
12 3 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (4.35%) Delta Lake
12 3 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.90%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.45%) Git
3 1 (1.45%) GitLab
3 1 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (46.38%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.29%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.39%) Finance
4 6 (8.70%) Automotive
5 3 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.90%) Legal
6 2 (2.90%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.45%) Games
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (17.39%) Kafka
1 12 (17.39%) PySpark
2 4 (5.80%) Dask
2 4 (5.80%) Polars
3 3 (4.35%) PyArrow
4 2 (2.90%) Apache Beam
4 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.90%) Data Fabric
2 2 (2.90%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.45%) Online Games
3 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.14%) Linux
2 6 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (59.42%) ETL
2 39 (56.52%) Data Engineering
2 39 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
3 34 (49.28%) Mentoring
4 27 (39.13%) Analytics
4 27 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (37.68%) Business Intelligence
6 22 (31.88%) Data Modelling
7 20 (28.99%) Agile
8 16 (23.19%) CI/CD
9 15 (21.74%) Data Architecture
10 14 (20.29%) Data Governance
10 14 (20.29%) Migration
11 13 (18.84%) Data Analytics
11 13 (18.84%) Data Science
12 11 (15.94%) DevOps
12 11 (15.94%) Visualisation
13 10 (14.49%) Data Strategy
13 10 (14.49%) Data Visualisation
13 10 (14.49%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (72.46%) Python
2 49 (71.01%) SQL
3 14 (20.29%) Java
4 12 (17.39%) C#
4 12 (17.39%) Scala
5 8 (11.59%) R
6 6 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
7 4 (5.80%) Go
7 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (11.59%) Azure Certification
1 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 5 (7.25%) AWS Certification
2 5 (7.25%) DBS Check
3 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (39.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Docker
2 3 (4.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 10 (14.49%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (36.23%) Databricks
2 10 (14.49%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.90%) Cloudera
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle
4 2 (2.90%) Teradata
5 1 (1.45%) Dell
5 1 (1.45%) Facebook
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) SAP
93 Senior Data Engineer jobs with Hybrid/WFH options