Data Engineering Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 111 161
Rank change year-on-year -81 +50 +54
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 567 1,215 1,785
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.67% 3.01% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 3.13% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 485 635 794
10th Percentile £40,988 £43,162 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,325 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +1.69%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £142,500 £101,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 Engineering.

Data Engineering salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Data Engineering salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 61 (10.76%) Apache Spark
2 57 (10.05%) Apache Airflow
3 44 (7.76%) Apache
4 20 (3.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 279 (49.21%) Azure
2 154 (27.16%) AWS
3 131 (23.10%) GCP
4 114 (20.11%) Power Platform
5 98 (17.28%) Snowflake
6 90 (15.87%) Azure Data Factory
7 66 (11.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 59 (10.41%) dbt
9 46 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 42 (7.41%) Amazon S3
11 32 (5.64%) Matillion
12 31 (5.47%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (4.41%) Serverless
14 20 (3.53%) GitHub
14 20 (3.53%) SaaS
15 18 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
17 14 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (2.12%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.06%) Network Security
2 4 (0.71%) Firewall
3 3 (0.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (35.45%) Data Warehouse
2 128 (22.57%) Data Lake
3 114 (20.11%) Power BI
4 87 (15.34%) SQL Server
5 55 (9.70%) BigQuery
6 47 (8.29%) Big Data
7 43 (7.58%) Tableau
8 37 (6.53%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (6.53%) Star Schema
9 31 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (5.29%) Elasticsearch
11 27 (4.76%) Hadoop
11 27 (4.76%) Relational Database
12 25 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 24 (4.23%) NoSQL
13 24 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
14 21 (3.70%) Looker
15 20 (3.53%) Azure SQL Database
15 20 (3.53%) Metadata
16 19 (3.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 46 (8.11%) GitLab
2 32 (5.64%) Git
3 26 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 24 (4.23%) JIRA
5 13 (2.29%) MLflow
6 7 (1.23%) Spinnaker
7 6 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.71%) Snakemake
9 3 (0.53%) Deequ
9 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.35%) ERwin
11 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 132 (23.28%) Finance
2 126 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (10.23%) Banking
5 36 (6.35%) Retail
6 33 (5.82%) Games
7 24 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.53%) Law
8 20 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.82%) Legal
10 11 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.59%) Front Office
11 9 (1.59%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.41%) Marketing
13 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.71%) Advertising
14 4 (0.71%) Electronics
14 4 (0.71%) Music Industry
14 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 285 (50.26%) Data Engineer
2 114 (20.11%) Senior
3 85 (14.99%) Lead
4 83 (14.64%) Senior Data Engineer
5 75 (13.23%) Data Manager
6 62 (10.93%) Lead Data Engineer
7 53 (9.35%) Engineering Manager
8 38 (6.70%) Python Engineer
9 37 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
10 31 (5.47%) Developer
11 29 (5.11%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (4.94%) Python Data Engineer
13 24 (4.23%) Architect
14 22 (3.88%) AWS Engineer
15 21 (3.70%) Data Architect
16 19 (3.35%) Head of Engineering
17 18 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Manager
18 17 (3.00%) Senior Manager
19 16 (2.82%) AWS Data Engineer
20 15 (2.65%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (10.41%) PySpark
2 22 (3.88%) Kafka
3 20 (3.53%) Apache Beam
4 11 (1.94%) Pandas
4 11 (1.94%) React
5 9 (1.59%) Django
6 8 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 7 (1.23%) JSON
7 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.06%) .NET
8 6 (1.06%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.06%) Great Expectations
8 6 (1.06%) gRPC
8 6 (1.06%) NumPy
8 6 (1.06%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.06%) RESTful
8 6 (1.06%) SciPy
9 5 (0.88%) Web Services
9 5 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.76%) Data Structures
2 43 (7.58%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.47%) Product Ownership
3 31 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
4 26 (4.59%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 15 (2.65%) Client/Server
6 10 (1.76%) Mainframe
7 9 (1.59%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.59%) Online Games
7 9 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.23%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.06%) IoT
10 5 (0.88%) Blog
10 5 (0.88%) Life Science
10 5 (0.88%) PMI
11 4 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.12%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
2 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (48.50%) Analytics
2 208 (36.68%) ETL
3 196 (34.57%) Data Pipeline
4 194 (34.22%) Data Modelling
5 179 (31.57%) Agile
6 164 (28.92%) Data Science
7 138 (24.34%) Business Intelligence
8 133 (23.46%) Machine Learning
9 118 (20.81%) CI/CD
10 107 (18.87%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (17.99%) Mentoring
11 102 (17.99%) Visualisation
12 100 (17.64%) Data Integration
13 97 (17.11%) Data Governance
14 96 (16.93%) DevOps
15 86 (15.17%) Data Management
16 80 (14.11%) Artificial Intelligence
16 80 (14.11%) Data Strategy
17 79 (13.93%) Coaching
18 76 (13.40%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 319 (56.26%) SQL
2 306 (53.97%) Python
3 46 (8.11%) Java
4 25 (4.41%) T-SQL
5 24 (4.23%) Scala
6 19 (3.35%) C#
7 13 (2.29%) Go
7 13 (2.29%) R
8 10 (1.76%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (1.23%) JavaScript
10 7 (1.23%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (1.06%) VBA
12 5 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.71%) Bash
13 4 (0.71%) C
14 3 (0.53%) C++
14 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 67 (11.82%) Degree
2 29 (5.11%) DBS Check
3 23 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 15 (2.65%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 12 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.23%) ISTQB
9 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.88%) PhD
10 5 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.71%) OCP
11 4 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (19.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.94%) GDPR
3 5 (0.88%) QA
4 4 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.71%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) COBIT
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (3.35%) Docker
2 11 (1.94%) IAG
3 2 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 49 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.70%) Terraform
3 7 (1.23%) Ansible
3 7 (1.23%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 133 (23.46%) Databricks
2 91 (16.05%) Microsoft
3 62 (10.93%) Google
4 18 (3.17%) Teradata
5 17 (3.00%) Oracle
6 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.23%) Snow
7 6 (1.06%) SAP
8 5 (0.88%) Informatica
9 4 (0.71%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.71%) Dell
9 4 (0.71%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.71%) Talend
10 3 (0.53%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.35%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.35%) ESRI
11 2 (0.35%) Hortonworks
12 1 (0.18%) Marketo
12 1 (0.18%) OpenAI