Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 119 144
Rank change year-on-year -49 +25 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 642 1,138 1,985
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.90% 2.83% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.95% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 563 780 992
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,375 £55,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £93,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

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 32,508 38,611 69,620
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,864 27,418 42,055
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,359 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

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 Data Engineer.

Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, 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 Data Engineer in the job title.

1 421 (65.58%) Python
2 411 (64.02%) SQL
3 332 (51.71%) Azure
4 307 (47.82%) ETL
5 287 (44.70%) Data Engineering
6 221 (34.42%) Data Warehouse
6 221 (34.42%) Data Pipeline
7 220 (34.27%) Analytics
8 207 (32.24%) Data Modelling
9 199 (31.00%) AWS
10 171 (26.64%) Databricks
11 159 (24.77%) Data Lake
12 153 (23.83%) Social Skills
13 152 (23.68%) Data Science
14 147 (22.90%) Business Intelligence
15 137 (21.34%) Agile
16 135 (21.03%) Power Platform
16 135 (21.03%) Power BI
17 134 (20.87%) Data Quality
17 134 (20.87%) CI/CD
18 133 (20.72%) SQL Server
19 124 (19.31%) GCP
20 122 (19.00%) Finance
21 120 (18.69%) Data Integration
22 119 (18.54%) Machine Learning
23 107 (16.67%) DevOps
24 103 (16.04%) Azure Data Factory
25 100 (15.58%) Snowflake
26 89 (13.86%) Data Governance
27 86 (13.40%) Problem-Solving

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 65 (10.12%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (9.35%) Apache Spark
3 41 (6.39%) Apache
4 10 (1.56%) Confluence
5 3 (0.47%) Luigi
5 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 332 (51.71%) Azure
2 199 (31.00%) AWS
3 135 (21.03%) Power Platform
4 124 (19.31%) GCP
5 103 (16.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 100 (15.58%) Snowflake
7 80 (12.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 75 (11.68%) dbt
9 48 (7.48%) Amazon S3
10 47 (7.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 43 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (5.14%) SaaS
12 33 (5.14%) Serverless
13 32 (4.98%) Matillion
14 21 (3.27%) GitHub
15 18 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.65%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (1.71%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 11 (1.71%) Prefect
18 9 (1.40%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.71%) Network Security
2 4 (0.62%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (34.42%) Data Warehouse
2 159 (24.77%) Data Lake
3 135 (21.03%) Power BI
4 133 (20.72%) SQL Server
5 65 (10.12%) BigQuery
6 53 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
8 46 (7.17%) Tableau
9 45 (7.01%) Big Data
9 45 (7.01%) NoSQL
10 44 (6.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 35 (5.45%) Star Schema
12 32 (4.98%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
13 31 (4.83%) Hadoop
14 30 (4.67%) Relational Database
15 23 (3.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 22 (3.43%) Data Mining
16 22 (3.43%) MySQL
17 19 (2.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 44 (6.85%) Git
2 38 (5.92%) GitLab
3 26 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.87%) JIRA
4 12 (1.87%) MLflow
5 6 (0.93%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.47%) Deequ
7 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.31%) JUnit
8 2 (0.31%) MSTest
8 2 (0.31%) NUnit
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.16%) GoCD
9 1 (0.16%) Mockito
9 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (23.83%) Social Skills
2 122 (19.00%) Finance
3 46 (7.17%) Banking
4 44 (6.85%) Retail
5 38 (5.92%) Analytical Skills
6 28 (4.36%) Games
6 28 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 25 (3.89%) Legal
8 23 (3.58%) Law
9 20 (3.12%) Marketing
9 20 (3.12%) Public Sector
10 10 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Health Technology
12 4 (0.62%) Agriculture
12 4 (0.62%) Aviation
12 4 (0.62%) Electronics
12 4 (0.62%) Front Office
12 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
12 4 (0.62%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (11.99%) PySpark
2 37 (5.76%) Kafka
3 18 (2.80%) Pandas
4 13 (2.02%) Apache Beam
5 11 (1.71%) RESTful
6 9 (1.40%) JSON
7 8 (1.25%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.93%) Great Expectations
8 6 (0.93%) HTML
8 6 (0.93%) NumPy
8 6 (0.93%) REST
8 6 (0.93%) SciPy
9 4 (0.62%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.62%) Flask
10 3 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.47%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.47%) SOAP
11 2 (0.31%) .NET
11 2 (0.31%) FastAPI
11 2 (0.31%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.28%) Data Structures
2 36 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 25 (3.89%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.43%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.27%) Client/Server
7 17 (2.65%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.65%) SCADA
8 16 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.49%) Operational Technology
9 13 (2.02%) Online Games
10 11 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.71%) IoT
11 8 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.09%) NHS
12 7 (1.09%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.93%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.78%) Blog
14 5 (0.78%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.52%) Windows
2 28 (4.36%) Linux
3 22 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.34%) Unix
5 4 (0.62%) CentOS
5 4 (0.62%) Solaris
5 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.62%) zOS
6 3 (0.47%) Android
6 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (47.82%) ETL
2 287 (44.70%) Data Engineering
3 221 (34.42%) Data Pipeline
4 220 (34.27%) Analytics
5 207 (32.24%) Data Modelling
6 152 (23.68%) Data Science
7 147 (22.90%) Business Intelligence
8 137 (21.34%) Agile
9 134 (20.87%) CI/CD
10 120 (18.69%) Data Integration
11 119 (18.54%) Machine Learning
12 107 (16.67%) DevOps
13 89 (13.86%) Data Governance
14 86 (13.40%) Problem-Solving
15 78 (12.15%) Mentoring
16 76 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence
17 73 (11.37%) Data Transformation
18 71 (11.06%) Visualisation
19 69 (10.75%) Data Analytics
20 55 (8.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 421 (65.58%) Python
2 411 (64.02%) SQL
3 54 (8.41%) Java
4 42 (6.54%) T-SQL
5 26 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 23 (3.58%) C#
7 20 (3.12%) Scala
8 12 (1.87%) R
9 11 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.71%) U-SQL
10 8 (1.25%) VBA
11 6 (0.93%) C
12 5 (0.78%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.62%) Go
13 4 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.62%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.47%) PHP
14 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 2 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 78 (12.15%) Degree
2 21 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (2.02%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.56%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.56%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.78%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.62%) CISM
8 4 (0.62%) CISSP
9 2 (0.31%) HNC
9 2 (0.31%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (20.87%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.56%) QA
3 8 (1.25%) GDPR
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.62%) NIST
4 4 (0.62%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (5.30%) Docker
2 16 (2.49%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (11.21%) Terraform
2 65 (10.12%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.78%) Ansible
3 5 (0.78%) logstash
4 2 (0.31%) Marathon
4 2 (0.31%) Mesos
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 171 (26.64%) Databricks
2 80 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 50 (7.79%) Google
4 19 (2.96%) Oracle
5 17 (2.65%) VMware
6 8 (1.25%) YouTube
7 7 (1.09%) Informatica
7 7 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.09%) Teradata
8 6 (0.93%) SAP
9 4 (0.62%) Qualys
9 4 (0.62%) Splunk
9 4 (0.62%) Talend
10 3 (0.47%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.47%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.31%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.31%) ESRI
11 2 (0.31%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.31%) NEC
11 2 (0.31%) Snowplow