Data Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Science
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 Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 80 79
Rank change year-on-year -35 -1 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 884 1,683 3,032
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.62% 3.97% 4.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 4.13% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 637 884 1,125
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,570 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,852 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 30,949 40,734 65,929
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.59% 96.10% 96.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,494 28,287 41,473
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,617
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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Data Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 Science.

Data Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 53 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 26 (2.94%) SAS
3 22 (2.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.36%) Apache
5 9 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.68%) nginx
7 5 (0.57%) Confluence
8 3 (0.34%) IIS
9 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.23%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.11%) Luigi
Applications
1 16 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.23%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.23%) SPSS
3 2 (0.23%) Stata
4 1 (0.11%) Blender
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 20 (2.26%) Endur
2 3 (0.34%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.11%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 313 (35.41%) Azure
2 227 (25.68%) Power Platform
3 152 (17.19%) AWS
4 120 (13.57%) GCP
5 89 (10.07%) Snowflake
6 67 (7.58%) Matillion
7 66 (7.47%) Azure Data Factory
8 48 (5.43%) SaaS
9 42 (4.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 38 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
11 36 (4.07%) Serverless
12 32 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 30 (3.39%) Amazon S3
14 25 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (2.60%) Google Docs
15 23 (2.60%) Lucidchart
15 23 (2.60%) Miro
15 23 (2.60%) Slack
16 22 (2.49%) GitHub
17 18 (2.04%) Azure App Service
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.15%) HTTP
2 18 (2.04%) DNS
3 17 (1.92%) Network Security
4 5 (0.57%) MQTT
4 5 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
4 5 (0.57%) VPN
5 4 (0.45%) Intranet
6 3 (0.34%) Firewall
7 2 (0.23%) DHCP
7 2 (0.23%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 215 (24.32%) Power BI
3 205 (23.19%) SQL Server
4 114 (12.90%) Data Lake
5 105 (11.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 89 (10.07%) Tableau
7 84 (9.50%) Big Data
8 57 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
9 45 (5.09%) NoSQL
10 43 (4.86%) Relational Database
11 42 (4.75%) Hadoop
12 40 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
13 36 (4.07%) Star Schema
14 31 (3.51%) Metadata
15 27 (3.05%) BigQuery
15 27 (3.05%) MongoDB
16 26 (2.94%) Redis
17 24 (2.71%) RDBMS
18 23 (2.60%) Scylla
19 20 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 74 (8.37%) Git
2 43 (4.86%) GitLab
3 25 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.24%) JIRA
5 6 (0.68%) MLflow
5 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
6 4 (0.45%) JUnit
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.34%) Maven
8 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
8 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.23%) ERwin
8 2 (0.23%) GoCD
8 2 (0.23%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.11%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 369 (41.74%) Social Skills
2 291 (32.92%) Finance
3 158 (17.87%) Retail
4 119 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (12.22%) Public Sector
6 66 (7.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 65 (7.35%) Banking
8 56 (6.33%) Marketing
9 42 (4.75%) Law
10 32 (3.62%) Legal
11 28 (3.17%) Games
12 24 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 15 (1.70%) Health Technology
15 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.02%) Tech for Good
17 8 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
18 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
18 7 (0.79%) Police
19 6 (0.68%) Military
Job Titles
1 192 (21.72%) Senior
2 150 (16.97%) Data Engineer
3 133 (15.05%) Data Scientist
4 102 (11.54%) Consultant
5 78 (8.82%) Business Intelligence Consultant
6 77 (8.71%) Senior Data Scientist
7 69 (7.81%) Developer
8 67 (7.58%) Lead
9 62 (7.01%) Architect
10 55 (6.22%) Analyst
11 49 (5.54%) Software Engineer
12 46 (5.20%) Data Manager
13 37 (4.19%) Data Analyst
13 37 (4.19%) Principal Engineer
14 36 (4.07%) Senior Data Engineer
15 34 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
16 30 (3.39%) Data Architect
16 30 (3.39%) Python Engineer
17 28 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
18 24 (2.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.47%) Pandas
2 52 (5.88%) PySpark
3 47 (5.32%) Kafka
3 47 (5.32%) TensorFlow
4 41 (4.64%) scikit-learn
5 32 (3.62%) RESTful
6 30 (3.39%) GraphQL
7 24 (2.71%) CSS
8 22 (2.49%) React
9 18 (2.04%) HTML
9 18 (2.04%) Node.js
9 18 (2.04%) PyTorch
10 16 (1.81%) Django
10 16 (1.81%) JWT
11 15 (1.70%) XGBoost
12 10 (1.13%) .NET
12 10 (1.13%) NumPy
12 10 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
12 10 (1.13%) Web Services
13 8 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 142 (16.06%) Algorithms
2 110 (12.44%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.96%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.96%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (3.62%) Virtual Team
5 24 (2.71%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.26%) Life Science
7 20 (2.26%) Swaptions
8 19 (2.15%) Credit Risk
9 15 (1.70%) Blockchain
9 15 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (1.47%) PMI
11 12 (1.36%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.24%) NHS
13 10 (1.13%) Blog
13 10 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
13 10 (1.13%) Taxonomies
14 9 (1.02%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 48 (5.43%) Linux
2 29 (3.28%) Windows
3 16 (1.81%) Unix
4 9 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Android
5 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Solaris
7 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 408 (46.15%) Machine Learning
2 327 (36.99%) Artificial Intelligence
3 303 (34.28%) Analytics
4 258 (29.19%) ETL
5 237 (26.81%) Business Intelligence
6 210 (23.76%) Data Modelling
7 184 (20.81%) Visualisation
8 179 (20.25%) Agile
9 177 (20.02%) Roadmaps
10 171 (19.34%) Data Engineering
11 170 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
12 154 (17.42%) Software Engineering
13 140 (15.84%) Data Pipeline
14 127 (14.37%) Data Analytics
15 119 (13.46%) CI/CD
16 113 (12.78%) DevOps
17 108 (12.22%) Migration
18 102 (11.54%) Decision-Making
19 99 (11.20%) Statistics
20 97 (10.97%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 483 (54.64%) SQL
2 434 (49.10%) Python
3 92 (10.41%) Java
4 73 (8.26%) R
5 51 (5.77%) T-SQL
6 41 (4.64%) Scala
7 31 (3.51%) C#
7 31 (3.51%) Go
8 30 (3.39%) JavaScript
9 27 (3.05%) Bash
10 21 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.38%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.26%) C
11 20 (2.26%) VB
12 9 (1.02%) U-SQL
13 6 (0.68%) Ruby
14 5 (0.57%) JSX
15 4 (0.45%) PHP
16 3 (0.34%) C++
17 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 205 (23.19%) Degree
2 91 (10.29%) Master's Degree
3 43 (4.86%) DBS Check
4 33 (3.73%) PhD
5 29 (3.28%) Security Cleared
6 28 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 14 (1.58%) DV Cleared
10 9 (1.02%) SC Cleared
11 8 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.68%) OCP
12 6 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
13 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.45%) PMP
14 3 (0.34%) MBA
15 2 (0.23%) CISA
15 2 (0.23%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 32 (3.62%) GDPR
3 19 (2.15%) QA
4 16 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.68%) IFRS
5 6 (0.68%) IFRS 9
6 5 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.23%) CDISC
7 2 (0.23%) COBIT
7 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.23%) GLBA
7 2 (0.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 44 (4.98%) Docker
2 16 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (9.16%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.66%) Terraform
3 7 (0.79%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.57%) logstash
5 3 (0.34%) Ansible
6 2 (0.23%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 194 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 124 (14.03%) Databricks
3 67 (7.58%) Google
4 42 (4.75%) Oracle
5 37 (4.19%) Dell
6 20 (2.26%) OpenLink
6 20 (2.26%) Sybase
6 20 (2.26%) TIBCO
7 11 (1.24%) Alteryx
8 8 (0.90%) Adobe
8 8 (0.90%) SAP
8 8 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.79%) Snow
10 6 (0.68%) Teradata
11 5 (0.57%) Talend
12 4 (0.45%) FIS
13 2 (0.23%) CrowdStrike
13 2 (0.23%) Dataiku
13 2 (0.23%) Remedy
13 2 (0.23%) VMware