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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 90 71
Rank change year-on-year -38 -19 +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 851 1,345 3,803
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.41% 3.56% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.69% 3.71% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 608 755 1,172
10th Percentile £38,750 £46,570 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £50,938
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 £103,016 £107,500
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 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
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 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 9 June 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 40 (4.70%) Apache Spark
2 26 (3.06%) SAS
3 18 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.65%) Apache
5 11 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.71%) Confluence
6 6 (0.71%) nginx
7 5 (0.59%) Luigi
8 2 (0.24%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.12%) Hyperledger
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
Applications
1 14 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.24%) LaTeX
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) SPSS
3 2 (0.24%) Stata
4 1 (0.12%) Blender
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 18 (2.12%) Endur
2 3 (0.35%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 1 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 310 (36.43%) Azure
2 216 (25.38%) Power Platform
3 132 (15.51%) AWS
4 98 (11.52%) GCP
5 88 (10.34%) Snowflake
6 68 (7.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 64 (7.52%) Matillion
8 45 (5.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 36 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
10 32 (3.76%) Serverless
11 30 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 27 (3.17%) SaaS
13 22 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
14 20 (2.35%) Amazon S3
15 19 (2.23%) GitHub
16 17 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.00%) dbt
17 16 (1.88%) Azure App Service
18 15 (1.76%) Amazon SQS
19 14 (1.65%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.00%) HTTP
1 17 (2.00%) Network Security
2 16 (1.88%) DNS
3 5 (0.59%) MQTT
3 5 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
3 5 (0.59%) VPN
4 4 (0.47%) Intranet
5 3 (0.35%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (25.03%) Data Warehouse
2 206 (24.21%) Power BI
3 197 (23.15%) SQL Server
4 108 (12.69%) Data Lake
5 103 (12.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 99 (11.63%) Tableau
7 79 (9.28%) Big Data
8 50 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
9 44 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
10 42 (4.94%) Relational Database
11 39 (4.58%) NoSQL
12 36 (4.23%) Star Schema
13 30 (3.53%) Hadoop
14 26 (3.06%) Metadata
15 25 (2.94%) BigQuery
15 25 (2.94%) MongoDB
16 23 (2.70%) RDBMS
17 19 (2.23%) Redis
18 18 (2.12%) Azure SQL Database
19 17 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 93 (10.93%) Git
2 44 (5.17%) GitLab
3 22 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.41%) JIRA
5 7 (0.82%) MLflow
6 6 (0.71%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.35%) GoCD
8 3 (0.35%) Subversion
9 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.24%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.24%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.24%) ERwin
9 2 (0.24%) JUnit
9 2 (0.24%) Maven
10 1 (0.12%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 373 (43.83%) Social Skills
2 261 (30.67%) Finance
3 158 (18.57%) Retail
4 137 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (12.69%) Public Sector
6 55 (6.46%) Banking
7 53 (6.23%) Marketing
8 47 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 32 (3.76%) Law
9 32 (3.76%) Pharmaceutical
10 31 (3.64%) Legal
11 28 (3.29%) Games
12 23 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.76%) Health Technology
14 14 (1.65%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.06%) Tech for Good
16 7 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
16 7 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.82%) Police
17 6 (0.71%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 188 (22.09%) Senior
2 152 (17.86%) Data Scientist
3 145 (17.04%) Data Engineer
4 101 (11.87%) Consultant
5 94 (11.05%) Senior Data Scientist
6 78 (9.17%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 64 (7.52%) Lead
8 63 (7.40%) Analyst
9 61 (7.17%) Developer
10 58 (6.82%) Architect
11 47 (5.52%) Data Manager
12 38 (4.47%) Data Analyst
13 34 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 32 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (3.64%) Software Engineer
16 29 (3.41%) Python Engineer
17 27 (3.17%) Data Architect
18 22 (2.59%) Data Science Manager
18 22 (2.59%) Engineering Manager
19 20 (2.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (9.52%) Pandas
2 69 (8.11%) PySpark
3 59 (6.93%) TensorFlow
4 54 (6.35%) scikit-learn
5 35 (4.11%) Kafka
6 34 (4.00%) RESTful
7 21 (2.47%) React
8 19 (2.23%) CSS
8 19 (2.23%) GraphQL
9 16 (1.88%) JWT
9 16 (1.88%) Node.js
9 16 (1.88%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.76%) Django
10 15 (1.76%) XGBoost
11 13 (1.53%) HTML
12 10 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
13 9 (1.06%) Web Services
14 7 (0.82%) .NET
14 7 (0.82%) gRPC
14 7 (0.82%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 150 (17.63%) Algorithms
2 103 (12.10%) Data Structures
3 33 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (3.64%) Life Science
5 24 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 23 (2.70%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.59%) Product Ownership
8 20 (2.35%) Credit Risk
9 19 (2.23%) Virtual Team
10 18 (2.12%) Swaptions
11 14 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
11 14 (1.65%) PMI
12 12 (1.41%) Blockchain
12 12 (1.41%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.29%) NHS
14 10 (1.18%) Blog
14 10 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
14 10 (1.18%) Taxonomies
15 9 (1.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 38 (4.47%) Linux
2 21 (2.47%) Windows
3 17 (2.00%) Unix
4 3 (0.35%) Android
4 3 (0.35%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.12%) Solaris
5 1 (0.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 414 (48.65%) Machine Learning
2 322 (37.84%) Artificial Intelligence
3 295 (34.67%) Analytics
4 243 (28.55%) ETL
5 225 (26.44%) Business Intelligence
6 209 (24.56%) Data Modelling
7 192 (22.56%) Visualisation
8 171 (20.09%) Roadmaps
9 158 (18.57%) Agile
9 158 (18.57%) Data Engineering
9 158 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
10 139 (16.33%) Software Engineering
11 132 (15.51%) Data Pipeline
12 123 (14.45%) Statistics
13 122 (14.34%) Data Analytics
14 119 (13.98%) CI/CD
15 114 (13.40%) Decision-Making
16 110 (12.93%) Computer Science
17 104 (12.22%) Data Visualisation
18 103 (12.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 487 (57.23%) SQL
2 432 (50.76%) Python
3 78 (9.17%) Java
4 73 (8.58%) R
5 45 (5.29%) T-SQL
6 31 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 30 (3.53%) Scala
8 29 (3.41%) C#
9 22 (2.59%) Go
10 21 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (2.47%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.35%) C
12 18 (2.12%) Bash
12 18 (2.12%) VB
13 11 (1.29%) U-SQL
14 7 (0.82%) Ruby
15 5 (0.59%) C++
15 5 (0.59%) JSX
16 3 (0.35%) Julia
16 3 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 224 (26.32%) Degree
2 113 (13.28%) Master's Degree
3 53 (6.23%) DBS Check
4 45 (5.29%) PhD
5 39 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 17 (2.00%) Security Cleared
9 8 (0.94%) SC Cleared
10 7 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
11 6 (0.71%) DV Cleared
12 5 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 4 (0.47%) PMP
14 3 (0.35%) MBA
15 2 (0.24%) CISA
15 2 (0.24%) CISSP
15 2 (0.24%) CRISC
15 2 (0.24%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (10.58%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.53%) GDPR
3 17 (2.00%) QA
4 9 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 6 (0.71%) IFRS
5 6 (0.71%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.24%) CDISC
6 2 (0.24%) COBIT
6 2 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.24%) GLBA
6 2 (0.24%) NIST
6 2 (0.24%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.12%) Basel III
System Software
1 46 (5.41%) Docker
2 16 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.41%) Terraform
3 7 (0.82%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.59%) logstash
5 3 (0.35%) Ansible
5 3 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.24%) Argo
6 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.12%) Packer
7 1 (0.12%) yum
Vendors
1 194 (22.80%) Microsoft
2 141 (16.57%) Databricks
3 53 (6.23%) Google
4 38 (4.47%) Oracle
5 18 (2.12%) OpenLink
5 18 (2.12%) Sybase
5 18 (2.12%) TIBCO
6 17 (2.00%) Dell
7 10 (1.18%) Alteryx
8 8 (0.94%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.82%) Snow
10 6 (0.71%) SAP
10 6 (0.71%) Teradata
11 5 (0.59%) Talend
12 4 (0.47%) Adobe
12 4 (0.47%) FIS
13 3 (0.35%) VMware
14 2 (0.24%) CrowdStrike
14 2 (0.24%) Dataiku
14 2 (0.24%) Salesforce