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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 139 160
Rank change year-on-year -59 +21 +80
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 568 951 1,919
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.64% 2.47% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.58% 2.66%
Number of salaries quoted 484 611 801
10th Percentile £40,988 £44,186 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.39% +5.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,875 £142,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%

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 31,322 36,922 72,167
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.16% 96.00% 97.15%
Number of salaries quoted 23,561 26,118 41,820
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 64 (11.27%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (10.74%) Apache Spark
3 45 (7.92%) Apache
4 19 (3.35%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 288 (50.70%) Azure
2 155 (27.29%) AWS
3 126 (22.18%) GCP
4 114 (20.07%) Power Platform
5 98 (17.25%) Snowflake
6 93 (16.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (12.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 65 (11.44%) dbt
9 47 (8.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 39 (6.87%) Amazon S3
11 32 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.63%) Matillion
12 24 (4.23%) Serverless
13 20 (3.52%) SaaS
14 18 (3.17%) GitHub
15 16 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (2.11%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.06%) Network Security
2 5 (0.88%) Firewall
3 3 (0.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (34.68%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (24.30%) Data Lake
3 114 (20.07%) Power BI
4 88 (15.49%) SQL Server
5 52 (9.15%) BigQuery
6 48 (8.45%) Big Data
7 44 (7.75%) Tableau
8 36 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (6.16%) Star Schema
10 31 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (4.93%) NoSQL
12 28 (4.93%) Relational Database
13 26 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (4.40%) Hadoop
14 25 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 24 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
16 23 (4.05%) Azure SQL Database
17 21 (3.70%) Looker
18 19 (3.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (7.92%) GitLab
2 33 (5.81%) Git
3 23 (4.05%) JIRA
4 20 (3.52%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.46%) MLflow
6 6 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.70%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.70%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.70%) Snakemake
7 4 (0.70%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.53%) Deequ
8 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.35%) ERwin
10 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 127 (22.36%) Finance
1 127 (22.36%) Social Skills
2 63 (11.09%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (9.15%) Banking
4 35 (6.16%) Retail
5 33 (5.81%) Games
6 24 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (3.35%) Law
7 19 (3.35%) Legal
8 16 (2.82%) Public Sector
9 15 (2.64%) Front Office
10 11 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.41%) Marketing
13 6 (1.06%) Publishing
14 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.70%) Advertising
15 4 (0.70%) Electronics
15 4 (0.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 293 (51.58%) Data Engineer
2 118 (20.77%) Senior
3 89 (15.67%) Senior Data Engineer
4 80 (14.08%) Lead
5 72 (12.68%) Data Manager
6 59 (10.39%) Lead Data Engineer
7 50 (8.80%) Engineering Manager
8 43 (7.57%) Python Engineer
9 39 (6.87%) Azure Engineer
10 34 (5.99%) Developer
11 33 (5.81%) Python Data Engineer
12 30 (5.28%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (4.05%) Architect
14 21 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (3.52%) Data Architect
16 19 (3.35%) Head of Engineering
17 18 (3.17%) Business Intelligence Manager
18 16 (2.82%) Principal Engineer
19 15 (2.64%) AWS Data Engineer
19 15 (2.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.68%) PySpark
2 22 (3.87%) Kafka
3 18 (3.17%) Apache Beam
3 18 (3.17%) Pandas
4 12 (2.11%) NumPy
4 12 (2.11%) SciPy
5 11 (1.94%) React
6 9 (1.58%) Django
7 8 (1.41%) GraphQL
7 8 (1.41%) JSON
8 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (1.06%) .NET
9 6 (1.06%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.06%) Great Expectations
9 6 (1.06%) gRPC
9 6 (1.06%) Protocol Buffers
9 6 (1.06%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.06%) RESTful
10 5 (0.88%) Web Services
10 5 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.09%) Data Structures
2 40 (7.04%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.46%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.75%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.58%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.82%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.64%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.76%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.58%) Online Games
10 8 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.23%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
12 6 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.06%) IoT
13 5 (0.88%) Blog
13 5 (0.88%) Data Centre
13 5 (0.88%) Life Science
13 5 (0.88%) PMI
14 4 (0.70%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.11%) Linux
2 5 (0.88%) Windows
2 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (48.94%) Analytics
2 204 (35.92%) ETL
3 200 (35.21%) Data Pipeline
4 192 (33.80%) Data Modelling
5 169 (29.75%) Agile
6 160 (28.17%) Data Science
7 139 (24.47%) Machine Learning
8 133 (23.42%) Business Intelligence
9 121 (21.30%) CI/CD
10 110 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (18.31%) Mentoring
12 103 (18.13%) Data Governance
13 101 (17.78%) Data Integration
14 100 (17.61%) Visualisation
15 90 (15.85%) DevOps
16 84 (14.79%) Artificial Intelligence
17 82 (14.44%) Data Management
18 78 (13.73%) Coaching
19 76 (13.38%) Data Visualisation
20 74 (13.03%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 324 (57.04%) SQL
2 317 (55.81%) Python
3 52 (9.15%) Java
4 27 (4.75%) T-SQL
5 23 (4.05%) Scala
6 19 (3.35%) C#
7 14 (2.46%) Go
8 13 (2.29%) R
9 9 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 8 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.06%) VBA
12 5 (0.88%) Perl
12 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.70%) Bash
13 4 (0.70%) C
14 3 (0.53%) C++
14 3 (0.53%) Rust
15 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (12.15%) Degree
2 29 (5.11%) DBS Check
3 23 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.29%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.29%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.76%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.23%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.88%) PhD
8 5 (0.88%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (20.25%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.94%) GDPR
3 4 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (0.70%) QA
3 4 (0.70%) Solvency II
4 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.35%) COBIT
5 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (3.35%) Docker
2 11 (1.94%) IAG
Systems Management
1 48 (8.45%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.69%) Terraform
3 7 (1.23%) Ansible
3 7 (1.23%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 140 (24.65%) Databricks
2 86 (15.14%) Microsoft
3 56 (9.86%) Google
4 18 (3.17%) Oracle
4 18 (3.17%) Teradata
5 7 (1.23%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.23%) Snow
6 6 (1.06%) Informatica
6 6 (1.06%) SAP
7 4 (0.70%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.70%) Dell
7 4 (0.70%) Salesforce
7 4 (0.70%) SnapLogic
7 4 (0.70%) Talend
8 3 (0.53%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.35%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.35%) ESRI
9 2 (0.35%) Hortonworks
10 1 (0.18%) Marketo
10 1 (0.18%) OpenAI