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

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 136 160
Rank change year-on-year -66 +24 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 566 951 1,931
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.63% 2.47% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.57% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 482 611 804
10th Percentile £40,988 £43,162 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £79,750
Median % change year-on-year - -12.23% +6.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £90,313
90th Percentile £111,125 £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 31,295 36,978 72,765
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.07% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,528 26,243 42,080
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 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 3 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 (11.31%) Apache Airflow
2 61 (10.78%) Apache Spark
3 45 (7.95%) Apache
4 19 (3.36%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 287 (50.71%) Azure
2 154 (27.21%) AWS
3 126 (22.26%) GCP
4 114 (20.14%) Power Platform
5 98 (17.31%) Snowflake
6 93 (16.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 70 (12.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 65 (11.48%) dbt
9 47 (8.30%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 39 (6.89%) Amazon S3
11 32 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
11 32 (5.65%) Matillion
12 24 (4.24%) Serverless
13 20 (3.53%) SaaS
14 18 (3.18%) GitHub
15 16 (2.83%) Amazon Kinesis
15 16 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
17 12 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (2.12%) 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 (34.81%) Data Warehouse
2 138 (24.38%) Data Lake
3 114 (20.14%) Power BI
4 88 (15.55%) SQL Server
5 52 (9.19%) BigQuery
6 48 (8.48%) Big Data
7 44 (7.77%) Tableau
8 36 (6.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (6.18%) Star Schema
10 31 (5.48%) Elasticsearch
11 29 (5.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (4.95%) NoSQL
12 28 (4.95%) Relational Database
13 25 (4.42%) Hadoop
13 25 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 24 (4.24%) Amazon Athena
15 23 (4.06%) Azure SQL Database
16 21 (3.71%) Looker
17 19 (3.36%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (7.95%) GitLab
2 32 (5.65%) Git
3 23 (4.06%) JIRA
4 20 (3.53%) Jenkins
5 14 (2.47%) MLflow
6 6 (1.06%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.71%) Snakemake
7 4 (0.71%) 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 (22.44%) Finance
2 126 (22.26%) Social Skills
3 63 (11.13%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.19%) Banking
5 35 (6.18%) Retail
6 33 (5.83%) Games
7 24 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (3.36%) Law
8 19 (3.36%) Legal
9 16 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 15 (2.65%) Front Office
11 11 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.41%) Marketing
14 6 (1.06%) Publishing
15 5 (0.88%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.71%) Advertising
16 4 (0.71%) Electronics
16 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 293 (51.77%) Data Engineer
2 117 (20.67%) Senior
3 89 (15.72%) Senior Data Engineer
4 80 (14.13%) Lead
5 72 (12.72%) Data Manager
6 59 (10.42%) Lead Data Engineer
7 50 (8.83%) Engineering Manager
8 43 (7.60%) Python Engineer
9 38 (6.71%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (5.83%) Developer
10 33 (5.83%) Python Data Engineer
11 30 (5.30%) Azure Data Engineer
12 23 (4.06%) Architect
13 21 (3.71%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.53%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.36%) Head of Engineering
16 18 (3.18%) Business Intelligence Manager
17 16 (2.83%) Principal Engineer
18 15 (2.65%) AWS Data Engineer
18 15 (2.65%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (12.72%) PySpark
2 22 (3.89%) Kafka
3 18 (3.18%) Apache Beam
3 18 (3.18%) Pandas
4 12 (2.12%) NumPy
4 12 (2.12%) SciPy
5 10 (1.77%) React
6 8 (1.41%) Django
6 8 (1.41%) GraphQL
6 8 (1.41%) JSON
7 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Graph
8 6 (1.06%) .NET
8 6 (1.06%) Great Expectations
8 6 (1.06%) gRPC
8 6 (1.06%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.06%) PyTorch
8 6 (1.06%) RESTful
9 5 (0.88%) AngularJS
9 5 (0.88%) Web Services
9 5 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (11.13%) Data Structures
2 40 (7.07%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 27 (4.77%) Management Information System
5 26 (4.59%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.65%) Client/Server
8 10 (1.77%) Mainframe
8 10 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.59%) Online Games
10 8 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 7 (1.24%) 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 (0.71%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.12%) Linux
2 5 (0.88%) Windows
2 5 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 277 (48.94%) Analytics
2 204 (36.04%) ETL
3 199 (35.16%) Data Pipeline
4 192 (33.92%) Data Modelling
5 169 (29.86%) Agile
6 158 (27.92%) Data Science
7 137 (24.20%) Machine Learning
8 133 (23.50%) Business Intelligence
9 119 (21.02%) CI/CD
10 110 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (18.37%) Mentoring
12 103 (18.20%) Data Governance
13 101 (17.84%) Data Integration
14 100 (17.67%) Visualisation
15 89 (15.72%) DevOps
16 82 (14.49%) Artificial Intelligence
16 82 (14.49%) Data Management
17 78 (13.78%) Coaching
18 76 (13.43%) Data Visualisation
19 74 (13.07%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 323 (57.07%) SQL
2 316 (55.83%) Python
3 52 (9.19%) Java
4 27 (4.77%) T-SQL
5 23 (4.06%) Scala
6 19 (3.36%) C#
7 14 (2.47%) Go
8 13 (2.30%) R
9 9 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (1.41%) TypeScript
11 7 (1.24%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.06%) VBA
13 5 (0.88%) Perl
13 5 (0.88%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.71%) Bash
14 4 (0.71%) C
15 3 (0.53%) C++
15 3 (0.53%) Rust
16 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (12.19%) Degree
2 29 (5.12%) DBS Check
3 23 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.30%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.30%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.77%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.41%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.24%) 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 (20.32%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.94%) GDPR
3 4 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (0.71%) QA
3 4 (0.71%) 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 (3.36%) Docker
2 11 (1.94%) IAG
Systems Management
1 47 (8.30%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.71%) Terraform
3 7 (1.24%) Ansible
3 7 (1.24%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 140 (24.73%) Databricks
2 86 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 56 (9.89%) Google
4 18 (3.18%) Teradata
5 17 (3.00%) Oracle
6 7 (1.24%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.24%) Snow
7 6 (1.06%) Informatica
7 6 (1.06%) SAP
8 4 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 4 (0.71%) Dell
8 4 (0.71%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.71%) SnapLogic
8 4 (0.71%) Talend
9 3 (0.53%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.35%) Ab Initio
10 2 (0.35%) ESRI
10 2 (0.35%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.18%) Marketo
11 1 (0.18%) OpenAI