Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 150 146
Rank change year-on-year -20 -4 +55
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 672 890 2,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.89% 2.37% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 2.48% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 592 773 1,011
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,759 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,052 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +7.69%
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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 34,224 35,954 73,616
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.28% 95.93% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,903 26,270 42,683
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +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 12 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 12 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.

1 431 (64.14%) Python
2 415 (61.76%) SQL
3 347 (51.64%) Azure
4 309 (45.98%) Data Engineering
5 304 (45.24%) ETL
6 235 (34.97%) Analytics
7 225 (33.48%) Data Pipeline
8 221 (32.89%) Data Warehouse
9 204 (30.36%) AWS
10 203 (30.21%) Data Modelling
11 184 (27.38%) Databricks
12 177 (26.34%) Data Lake
13 160 (23.81%) Social Skills
14 147 (21.88%) Data Science
14 147 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
15 139 (20.68%) CI/CD
16 138 (20.54%) Power Platform
16 138 (20.54%) Power BI
17 137 (20.39%) Agile
17 137 (20.39%) Data Quality
18 134 (19.94%) SQL Server
19 124 (18.45%) Machine Learning
20 123 (18.30%) GCP
20 123 (18.30%) Finance
21 121 (18.01%) Data Integration
22 104 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
23 101 (15.03%) PySpark
24 99 (14.73%) DevOps
25 98 (14.58%) Snowflake
26 96 (14.29%) Data Governance

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 71 (10.57%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (9.23%) Apache Spark
3 40 (5.95%) Apache
4 10 (1.49%) Confluence
5 3 (0.45%) Luigi
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.45%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.30%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 347 (51.64%) Azure
2 204 (30.36%) AWS
3 138 (20.54%) Power Platform
4 123 (18.30%) GCP
5 104 (15.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 98 (14.58%) Snowflake
7 90 (13.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 80 (11.90%) dbt
9 48 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 47 (6.99%) Amazon S3
11 46 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (4.91%) SaaS
13 32 (4.76%) Matillion
14 30 (4.46%) Serverless
15 21 (3.13%) GitHub
16 18 (2.68%) Dagster
17 15 (2.23%) Amazon Kinesis
17 15 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
18 11 (1.64%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
18 11 (1.64%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.72%) Network Security
2 6 (0.89%) Firewall
3 1 (0.15%) LAN
3 1 (0.15%) VPN
3 1 (0.15%) WAN
3 1 (0.15%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (32.89%) Data Warehouse
2 177 (26.34%) Data Lake
3 138 (20.54%) Power BI
4 134 (19.94%) SQL Server
5 59 (8.78%) BigQuery
6 50 (7.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
8 44 (6.55%) NoSQL
9 43 (6.40%) Big Data
10 42 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 39 (5.80%) Tableau
12 35 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (4.91%) Star Schema
14 32 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
15 31 (4.61%) Relational Database
16 30 (4.46%) Hadoop
17 24 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (3.57%) Data Mining
18 23 (3.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 21 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 40 (5.95%) Git
2 37 (5.51%) GitLab
3 20 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 14 (2.08%) MLflow
5 12 (1.79%) JIRA
6 4 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.60%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.45%) Deequ
7 3 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.45%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.45%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.30%) JUnit
8 2 (0.30%) MSTest
8 2 (0.30%) NUnit
9 1 (0.15%) GoCD
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 160 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 123 (18.30%) Finance
3 44 (6.55%) Banking
3 44 (6.55%) Retail
4 37 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 36 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (3.87%) Games
6 26 (3.87%) Legal
7 22 (3.27%) Law
8 20 (2.98%) Marketing
9 19 (2.83%) Public Sector
10 12 (1.79%) Front Office
11 10 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.89%) Publishing
13 5 (0.74%) Health Technology
14 4 (0.60%) Agriculture
14 4 (0.60%) Aviation
14 4 (0.60%) Electronics
14 4 (0.60%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.60%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (15.03%) PySpark
2 34 (5.06%) Kafka
3 24 (3.57%) Pandas
4 14 (2.08%) NumPy
4 14 (2.08%) SciPy
5 12 (1.79%) Apache Beam
5 12 (1.79%) RESTful
6 11 (1.64%) JSON
7 8 (1.19%) GraphQL
7 8 (1.19%) HTML
8 6 (0.89%) Great Expectations
9 4 (0.60%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.60%) SOAP
10 3 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.30%) Dropwizard
11 2 (0.30%) Flask
11 2 (0.30%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (0.30%) pytest
11 2 (0.30%) Spark Streaming
11 2 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 70 (10.42%) Data Structures
2 37 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (3.57%) Algorithms
4 22 (3.27%) Product Ownership
5 21 (3.13%) Client/Server
6 20 (2.98%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.53%) SCADA
8 16 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.38%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.38%) Operational Technology
9 13 (1.93%) Online Games
10 11 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.34%) IoT
12 8 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 7 (1.04%) NHS
14 6 (0.89%) Onboarding
15 5 (0.74%) Blog
15 5 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
15 5 (0.74%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.61%) Windows
2 29 (4.32%) Linux
3 24 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.08%) Unix
5 4 (0.60%) CentOS
5 4 (0.60%) Solaris
5 4 (0.60%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.60%) zOS
6 3 (0.45%) Android
6 3 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 309 (45.98%) Data Engineering
2 304 (45.24%) ETL
3 235 (34.97%) Analytics
4 225 (33.48%) Data Pipeline
5 203 (30.21%) Data Modelling
6 147 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
6 147 (21.88%) Data Science
7 139 (20.68%) CI/CD
8 137 (20.39%) Agile
9 124 (18.45%) Machine Learning
10 121 (18.01%) Data Integration
11 99 (14.73%) DevOps
12 96 (14.29%) Data Governance
13 89 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
14 82 (12.20%) Visualisation
15 81 (12.05%) Artificial Intelligence
15 81 (12.05%) Mentoring
16 75 (11.16%) Data Transformation
17 66 (9.82%) Data Analytics
18 63 (9.38%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 431 (64.14%) Python
2 415 (61.76%) SQL
3 63 (9.38%) Java
4 42 (6.25%) T-SQL
5 26 (3.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (3.27%) C#
7 20 (2.98%) Scala
8 13 (1.93%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.79%) R
10 11 (1.64%) U-SQL
11 10 (1.49%) VBA
12 6 (0.89%) C
13 5 (0.74%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.60%) Go
14 4 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.45%) PHP
15 3 (0.45%) Rust
16 2 (0.30%) Bash
16 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 77 (11.46%) Degree
2 23 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (1.93%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.49%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.49%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.34%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.89%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.74%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.60%) CISM
9 4 (0.60%) CISSP
10 2 (0.30%) HNC
11 1 (0.15%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (20.39%) Data Quality
2 8 (1.19%) GDPR
2 8 (1.19%) QA
3 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 4 (0.60%) NIST
3 4 (0.60%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 30 (4.46%) Docker
2 16 (2.38%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (9.97%) Terraform
2 60 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.74%) Ansible
3 5 (0.74%) logstash
4 2 (0.30%) Marathon
4 2 (0.30%) Mesos
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 184 (27.38%) Databricks
2 83 (12.35%) Microsoft
3 45 (6.70%) Google
4 17 (2.53%) Oracle
4 17 (2.53%) VMware
5 13 (1.93%) Informatica
6 8 (1.19%) MuleSoft
7 6 (0.89%) SAP
7 6 (0.89%) Splunk
7 6 (0.89%) Teradata
7 6 (0.89%) YouTube
8 5 (0.74%) Talend
9 4 (0.60%) Qualys
10 3 (0.45%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.45%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.30%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.30%) ESRI
11 2 (0.30%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.30%) NEC
11 2 (0.30%) Snowplow