Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 151 146
Rank change year-on-year -21 -5 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 647 903 2,071
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.86% 2.35% 2.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.45% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 568 770 992
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £49,938 £56,013 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +9.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £130,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 33,422 36,879 72,309
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.21% 95.89% 97.34%
Number of salaries quoted 25,463 26,702 42,447
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.20% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
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 Engineer.

Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 419 (64.76%) Python
2 407 (62.91%) SQL
3 334 (51.62%) Azure
4 302 (46.68%) ETL
5 293 (45.29%) Data Engineering
6 222 (34.31%) Analytics
7 221 (34.16%) Data Pipeline
8 216 (33.38%) Data Warehouse
9 198 (30.60%) Data Modelling
9 198 (30.60%) AWS
10 171 (26.43%) Databricks
11 163 (25.19%) Data Lake
12 155 (23.96%) Social Skills
13 148 (22.87%) Data Science
14 143 (22.10%) Business Intelligence
15 136 (21.02%) Data Quality
15 136 (21.02%) CI/CD
16 135 (20.87%) Power Platform
16 135 (20.87%) Power BI
17 134 (20.71%) SQL Server
18 131 (20.25%) Agile
19 122 (18.86%) Machine Learning
20 120 (18.55%) Data Integration
21 119 (18.39%) Finance
21 119 (18.39%) GCP
22 101 (15.61%) Azure Data Factory
23 99 (15.30%) Snowflake
24 98 (15.15%) DevOps
25 90 (13.91%) Data Governance
26 87 (13.45%) Problem-Solving

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 67 (10.36%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (9.27%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.18%) Apache
4 9 (1.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) Luigi
5 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.31%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 334 (51.62%) Azure
2 198 (30.60%) AWS
3 135 (20.87%) Power Platform
4 119 (18.39%) GCP
5 101 (15.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 99 (15.30%) Snowflake
7 82 (12.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 76 (11.75%) dbt
9 47 (7.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 46 (7.11%) Amazon S3
11 43 (6.65%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (5.10%) SaaS
13 32 (4.95%) Matillion
14 31 (4.79%) Serverless
15 20 (3.09%) GitHub
16 16 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
17 15 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
18 12 (1.85%) Dagster
19 11 (1.70%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
19 11 (1.70%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.78%) Network Security
2 5 (0.77%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (33.38%) Data Warehouse
2 163 (25.19%) Data Lake
3 135 (20.87%) Power BI
4 134 (20.71%) SQL Server
5 61 (9.43%) BigQuery
6 51 (7.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 49 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (6.80%) NoSQL
9 43 (6.65%) Big Data
9 43 (6.65%) Tableau
10 42 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (5.10%) Star Schema
12 32 (4.95%) Azure SQL Database
12 32 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
13 31 (4.79%) Relational Database
14 30 (4.64%) Hadoop
15 23 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 22 (3.40%) Data Mining
17 20 (3.09%) MySQL
18 18 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 42 (6.49%) Git
2 37 (5.72%) GitLab
3 21 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.85%) MLflow
5 11 (1.70%) JIRA
6 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.62%) CircleCI
6 4 (0.62%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.46%) Deequ
7 3 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.31%) JUnit
8 2 (0.31%) MSTest
8 2 (0.31%) NUnit
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) GoCD
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 155 (23.96%) Social Skills
2 119 (18.39%) Finance
3 44 (6.80%) Retail
4 42 (6.49%) Banking
5 37 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
6 32 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (4.02%) Games
8 25 (3.86%) Legal
9 22 (3.40%) Law
10 20 (3.09%) Marketing
11 19 (2.94%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (0.93%) Front Office
14 5 (0.77%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.77%) Publishing
15 4 (0.62%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.62%) Aviation
15 4 (0.62%) Electronics
15 4 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.62%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (13.29%) PySpark
2 35 (5.41%) Kafka
3 19 (2.94%) Pandas
4 13 (2.01%) Apache Beam
5 11 (1.70%) RESTful
6 9 (1.39%) JSON
7 8 (1.24%) GraphQL
7 8 (1.24%) NumPy
7 8 (1.24%) SciPy
8 7 (1.08%) HTML
9 6 (0.93%) Great Expectations
10 4 (0.62%) AWS CDK
11 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.46%) REST
11 3 (0.46%) SOAP
12 2 (0.31%) Dropwizard
12 2 (0.31%) Flask
12 2 (0.31%) Lambda Expressions
12 2 (0.31%) pytest
12 2 (0.31%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.51%) Data Structures
2 36 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.55%) Algorithms
4 23 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.25%) Client/Server
6 17 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 17 (2.63%) SCADA
7 16 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.47%) Operational Technology
8 13 (2.01%) Online Games
9 11 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.39%) IoT
11 8 (1.24%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.08%) NHS
13 6 (0.93%) Data Centre
13 6 (0.93%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.77%) Blog
14 5 (0.77%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.77%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (4.64%) Windows
2 29 (4.48%) Linux
3 23 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.32%) Unix
5 4 (0.62%) CentOS
5 4 (0.62%) Solaris
5 4 (0.62%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.62%) zOS
6 3 (0.46%) Android
6 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (46.68%) ETL
2 293 (45.29%) Data Engineering
3 222 (34.31%) Analytics
4 221 (34.16%) Data Pipeline
5 198 (30.60%) Data Modelling
6 148 (22.87%) Data Science
7 143 (22.10%) Business Intelligence
8 136 (21.02%) CI/CD
9 131 (20.25%) Agile
10 122 (18.86%) Machine Learning
11 120 (18.55%) Data Integration
12 98 (15.15%) DevOps
13 90 (13.91%) Data Governance
14 87 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
15 80 (12.36%) Artificial Intelligence
16 79 (12.21%) Mentoring
17 76 (11.75%) Visualisation
18 74 (11.44%) Data Transformation
19 68 (10.51%) Data Analytics
20 56 (8.66%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 419 (64.76%) Python
2 407 (62.91%) SQL
3 57 (8.81%) Java
4 42 (6.49%) T-SQL
5 26 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (3.40%) C#
7 20 (3.09%) Scala
8 12 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 12 (1.85%) R
9 11 (1.70%) U-SQL
10 9 (1.39%) VBA
11 6 (0.93%) C
12 5 (0.77%) Go
12 5 (0.77%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.46%) PHP
14 3 (0.46%) Rust
15 2 (0.31%) Bash
15 2 (0.31%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 77 (11.90%) Degree
2 21 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (1.85%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.55%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.55%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.62%) CISM
8 4 (0.62%) CISSP
9 2 (0.31%) HNC
10 1 (0.15%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.15%) PhD
10 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (21.02%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.39%) QA
3 8 (1.24%) GDPR
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.62%) NIST
4 4 (0.62%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.31%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 33 (5.10%) Docker
2 16 (2.47%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 70 (10.82%) Terraform
2 61 (9.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.77%) Ansible
3 5 (0.77%) logstash
4 2 (0.31%) Marathon
4 2 (0.31%) Mesos
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 171 (26.43%) Databricks
2 81 (12.52%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.96%) Google
4 18 (2.78%) Oracle
5 17 (2.63%) VMware
6 9 (1.39%) Informatica
7 7 (1.08%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.08%) Teradata
8 6 (0.93%) YouTube
9 5 (0.77%) SAP
9 5 (0.77%) Splunk
10 4 (0.62%) Qualys
10 4 (0.62%) Talend
11 3 (0.46%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.46%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.31%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.31%) ESRI
12 2 (0.31%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.31%) NEC
12 2 (0.31%) Snowplow