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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 86 75
Rank change year-on-year -31 -11 +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 884 1,573 3,383
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.61% 3.88% 4.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.86% 4.04% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 628 827 1,150
10th Percentile £38,375 £46,570 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% -0.79% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £89,852 £87,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £105,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £71,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.10% +10.00%

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 30,860 38,962 68,422
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.20% 96.03% 97.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23,358 27,133 41,275
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 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 19 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 21 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.58%) Apache
5 10 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.68%) Confluence
6 6 (0.68%) nginx
7 3 (0.34%) Luigi
8 2 (0.23%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.11%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.11%) IIS
9 1 (0.11%) Moodle
Applications
1 14 (1.58%) 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 21 (2.38%) 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
1 311 (35.18%) Azure
2 224 (25.34%) Power Platform
3 145 (16.40%) AWS
4 111 (12.56%) GCP
5 87 (9.84%) Snowflake
6 70 (7.92%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (7.35%) Matillion
8 45 (5.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 44 (4.98%) SaaS
10 37 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (3.85%) Serverless
12 30 (3.39%) Amazon S3
12 30 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 25 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
14 23 (2.60%) Google Docs
14 23 (2.60%) Lucidchart
14 23 (2.60%) Miro
14 23 (2.60%) Slack
15 21 (2.38%) GitHub
16 18 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.04%) Network Security
2 17 (1.92%) HTTP
3 16 (1.81%) DNS
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (24.66%) Data Warehouse
2 214 (24.21%) Power BI
3 202 (22.85%) SQL Server
4 111 (12.56%) Data Lake
5 104 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 98 (11.09%) Tableau
7 85 (9.62%) Big Data
8 59 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (4.98%) Relational Database
10 43 (4.86%) PostgreSQL
11 42 (4.75%) NoSQL
12 41 (4.64%) Hadoop
13 36 (4.07%) Star Schema
14 28 (3.17%) Metadata
14 28 (3.17%) Redis
15 26 (2.94%) MongoDB
16 25 (2.83%) BigQuery
16 25 (2.83%) RDBMS
17 23 (2.60%) Scylla
18 18 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 88 (9.95%) Git
2 43 (4.86%) GitLab
3 23 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.36%) JIRA
5 7 (0.79%) MLflow
6 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.34%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.34%) GoCD
8 3 (0.34%) JUnit
8 3 (0.34%) Maven
9 2 (0.23%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.23%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.23%) ERwin
10 1 (0.11%) PHPUnit
10 1 (0.11%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 381 (43.10%) Social Skills
2 278 (31.45%) Finance
3 158 (17.87%) Retail
4 132 (14.93%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (12.22%) Public Sector
6 61 (6.90%) Banking
7 60 (6.79%) Marketing
8 58 (6.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.85%) Law
10 32 (3.62%) Legal
11 30 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 29 (3.28%) Games
13 23 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.70%) Health Technology
15 14 (1.58%) Manufacturing
16 9 (1.02%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.79%) Police
18 6 (0.68%) Front Office
18 6 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 198 (22.40%) Senior
2 150 (16.97%) Data Engineer
3 148 (16.74%) Data Scientist
4 100 (11.31%) Consultant
5 91 (10.29%) Senior Data Scientist
6 78 (8.82%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 65 (7.35%) Developer
8 62 (7.01%) Architect
8 62 (7.01%) Lead
9 61 (6.90%) Analyst
10 47 (5.32%) Data Manager
11 43 (4.86%) Software Engineer
12 37 (4.19%) Data Analyst
12 37 (4.19%) Senior Data Engineer
13 33 (3.73%) Principal Engineer
14 32 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (3.62%) Python Engineer
15 30 (3.39%) Principal Software Engineer
16 28 (3.17%) Data Architect
17 22 (2.49%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (8.82%) Pandas
2 65 (7.35%) PySpark
3 57 (6.45%) TensorFlow
4 51 (5.77%) scikit-learn
5 46 (5.20%) Kafka
6 32 (3.62%) RESTful
7 29 (3.28%) GraphQL
8 25 (2.83%) CSS
9 21 (2.38%) React
10 19 (2.15%) HTML
11 18 (2.04%) PyTorch
12 17 (1.92%) Node.js
13 16 (1.81%) Django
13 16 (1.81%) JWT
14 15 (1.70%) XGBoost
15 10 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
16 9 (1.02%) .NET
16 9 (1.02%) NumPy
16 9 (1.02%) Web Services
17 8 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 159 (17.99%) Algorithms
2 110 (12.44%) Data Structures
3 34 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (3.51%) Cloud Native
5 29 (3.28%) Life Science
6 27 (3.05%) Virtual Team
7 23 (2.60%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 21 (2.38%) Swaptions
9 19 (2.15%) Credit Risk
10 16 (1.81%) Blockchain
11 14 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.58%) PMI
12 13 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (1.36%) Client/Server
14 11 (1.24%) NHS
15 10 (1.13%) Blog
15 10 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
15 10 (1.13%) Taxonomies
16 9 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 45 (5.09%) Linux
2 27 (3.05%) Windows
3 17 (1.92%) Unix
4 6 (0.68%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.34%) Android
5 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.34%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.11%) Solaris
6 1 (0.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 416 (47.06%) Machine Learning
2 331 (37.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 304 (34.39%) Analytics
4 251 (28.39%) ETL
5 235 (26.58%) Business Intelligence
6 215 (24.32%) Data Modelling
7 200 (22.62%) Visualisation
8 180 (20.36%) Roadmaps
9 167 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
10 166 (18.78%) Agile
11 164 (18.55%) Data Engineering
12 155 (17.53%) Software Engineering
13 136 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
14 128 (14.48%) Data Analytics
15 121 (13.69%) Statistics
16 118 (13.35%) CI/CD
17 112 (12.67%) Decision-Making
18 109 (12.33%) DevOps
19 106 (11.99%) Data Visualisation
19 106 (11.99%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 494 (55.88%) SQL
2 441 (49.89%) Python
3 93 (10.52%) Java
4 71 (8.03%) R
5 47 (5.32%) T-SQL
6 40 (4.52%) Scala
7 32 (3.62%) JavaScript
8 30 (3.39%) C#
8 30 (3.39%) Go
9 28 (3.17%) Bash
10 23 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (2.38%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.38%) VB
12 20 (2.26%) C
13 11 (1.24%) U-SQL
14 6 (0.68%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) JSX
16 3 (0.34%) C++
16 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.23%) PHP
Qualifications
1 222 (25.11%) Degree
2 110 (12.44%) Master's Degree
3 53 (6.00%) DBS Check
4 44 (4.98%) PhD
5 32 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.26%) Security Cleared
7 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 8 (0.90%) SC Cleared
10 7 (0.79%) DV Cleared
11 6 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
12 5 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.45%) OCP
13 4 (0.45%) Oracle 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 82 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 31 (3.51%) GDPR
3 21 (2.38%) QA
4 9 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (0.68%) IFRS
5 6 (0.68%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.23%) CDISC
6 2 (0.23%) COBIT
6 2 (0.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.23%) GLBA
6 2 (0.23%) NIST
6 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.11%) Basel III
System Software
1 45 (5.09%) Docker
2 16 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 82 (9.28%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.32%) Terraform
3 7 (0.79%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.57%) logstash
5 3 (0.34%) Ansible
5 3 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.23%) Argo
6 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.11%) Packer
7 1 (0.11%) yum
Vendors
1 197 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 138 (15.61%) Databricks
3 65 (7.35%) Google
4 43 (4.86%) Oracle
5 33 (3.73%) Dell
6 21 (2.38%) OpenLink
6 21 (2.38%) Sybase
6 21 (2.38%) TIBCO
7 10 (1.13%) Alteryx
8 8 (0.90%) Adobe
8 8 (0.90%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.79%) SAP
9 7 (0.79%) Snow
10 6 (0.68%) Teradata
11 5 (0.57%) Talend
12 4 (0.45%) FIS
13 3 (0.34%) VMware
14 2 (0.23%) CrowdStrike
14 2 (0.23%) Dataiku
14 2 (0.23%) Salesforce