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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 112 161
Rank change year-on-year -78 +49 +69
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 563 1,201 1,853
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.65% 3.01% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 3.13% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 481 624 807
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 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.39% +5.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £142,500 £101,750
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 30,919 38,346 69,821
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.84% 96.05% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 23,399 26,633 41,549
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 24 May 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 61 (10.83%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (10.66%) Apache Spark
3 45 (7.99%) Apache
4 19 (3.37%) Confluence
5 3 (0.53%) SAS
6 1 (0.18%) Luigi
Applications
1 13 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 281 (49.91%) Azure
2 155 (27.53%) AWS
3 131 (23.27%) GCP
4 112 (19.89%) Power Platform
5 99 (17.58%) Snowflake
6 90 (15.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 65 (11.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 62 (11.01%) dbt
9 47 (8.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 41 (7.28%) Amazon S3
11 32 (5.68%) Matillion
12 30 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (4.44%) Serverless
14 20 (3.55%) SaaS
15 19 (3.37%) GitHub
16 18 (3.20%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (3.02%) Cloud Computing
18 14 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
18 14 (2.49%) Microsoft 365
19 11 (1.95%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.07%) Network Security
2 4 (0.71%) Firewall
3 3 (0.53%) VoIP
3 3 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (34.64%) Data Warehouse
2 129 (22.91%) Data Lake
3 112 (19.89%) Power BI
4 88 (15.63%) SQL Server
5 54 (9.59%) BigQuery
6 48 (8.53%) Big Data
7 43 (7.64%) Tableau
8 36 (6.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 36 (6.39%) Star Schema
9 31 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
9 31 (5.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (4.97%) Relational Database
11 26 (4.62%) Hadoop
11 26 (4.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 25 (4.44%) NoSQL
12 25 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
13 22 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (3.73%) Amazon Athena
14 21 (3.73%) Looker
15 19 (3.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (8.17%) GitLab
2 33 (5.86%) Git
3 24 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 23 (4.09%) JIRA
5 14 (2.49%) MLflow
6 6 (1.07%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (1.07%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.71%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.71%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.71%) Snakemake
8 3 (0.53%) Deequ
8 3 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.36%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.36%) ERwin
10 1 (0.18%) Mockito
General
1 129 (22.91%) Finance
2 125 (22.20%) Social Skills
3 62 (11.01%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (9.77%) Banking
5 35 (6.22%) Retail
6 33 (5.86%) Games
7 24 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 19 (3.37%) Law
9 17 (3.02%) Legal
10 16 (2.84%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.13%) Front Office
12 11 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.60%) Investment Banking
14 8 (1.42%) Marketing
15 5 (0.89%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.71%) Advertising
16 4 (0.71%) Electronics
16 4 (0.71%) Publishing
16 4 (0.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 286 (50.80%) Data Engineer
2 117 (20.78%) Senior
3 87 (15.45%) Senior Data Engineer
4 82 (14.56%) Lead
5 73 (12.97%) Data Manager
6 60 (10.66%) Lead Data Engineer
7 51 (9.06%) Engineering Manager
8 40 (7.10%) Python Engineer
9 38 (6.75%) Azure Engineer
10 33 (5.86%) Developer
11 30 (5.33%) Azure Data Engineer
11 30 (5.33%) Python Data Engineer
12 23 (4.09%) Architect
13 21 (3.73%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (3.55%) Data Architect
15 19 (3.37%) Head of Engineering
16 18 (3.20%) Business Intelligence Manager
17 16 (2.84%) Principal Engineer
17 16 (2.84%) Senior Manager
18 15 (2.66%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (11.37%) PySpark
2 22 (3.91%) Kafka
3 19 (3.37%) Apache Beam
4 15 (2.66%) Pandas
5 11 (1.95%) React
6 9 (1.60%) Django
6 9 (1.60%) NumPy
6 9 (1.60%) SciPy
7 8 (1.42%) GraphQL
7 8 (1.42%) JSON
8 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Graph
9 6 (1.07%) .NET
9 6 (1.07%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.07%) Great Expectations
9 6 (1.07%) gRPC
9 6 (1.07%) Protocol Buffers
9 6 (1.07%) PyTorch
9 6 (1.07%) RESTful
10 5 (0.89%) Web Services
10 5 (0.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.83%) Data Structures
2 42 (7.46%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (5.15%) Product Ownership
5 26 (4.62%) Management Information System
6 15 (2.66%) Algorithms
6 15 (2.66%) Client/Server
7 10 (1.78%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.60%) Online Games
9 8 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.24%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.24%) Hybrid Cloud
11 6 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.07%) IoT
12 5 (0.89%) Blog
12 5 (0.89%) Life Science
12 5 (0.89%) PMI
13 4 (0.71%) Pricing Data
13 4 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (2.13%) Linux
2 4 (0.71%) Windows
2 4 (0.71%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 273 (48.49%) Analytics
2 200 (35.52%) ETL
3 196 (34.81%) Data Pipeline
4 190 (33.75%) Data Modelling
5 170 (30.20%) Agile
6 161 (28.60%) Data Science
7 135 (23.98%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (23.80%) Machine Learning
9 118 (20.96%) CI/CD
10 108 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
11 104 (18.47%) Mentoring
12 100 (17.76%) Visualisation
13 99 (17.58%) Data Integration
14 98 (17.41%) Data Governance
15 92 (16.34%) DevOps
16 83 (14.74%) Data Management
17 80 (14.21%) Artificial Intelligence
18 79 (14.03%) Coaching
19 76 (13.50%) Data Visualisation
20 74 (13.14%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 319 (56.66%) SQL
2 308 (54.71%) Python
3 50 (8.88%) Java
4 26 (4.62%) T-SQL
5 24 (4.26%) Scala
6 19 (3.37%) C#
7 14 (2.49%) Go
8 13 (2.31%) R
9 10 (1.78%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (1.42%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (1.07%) VBA
13 5 (0.89%) Perl
13 5 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.71%) Bash
14 4 (0.71%) C
15 3 (0.53%) C++
15 3 (0.53%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.53%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (11.90%) Degree
2 29 (5.15%) DBS Check
3 23 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.31%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.31%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.31%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.42%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.24%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.89%) PhD
8 5 (0.89%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.36%) MCP
10 2 (0.36%) OCP
10 2 (0.36%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (19.54%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.95%) GDPR
3 4 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (0.71%) QA
3 4 (0.71%) Solvency II
4 3 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.36%) COBIT
5 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.18%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 19 (3.37%) Docker
2 11 (1.95%) IAG
3 1 (0.18%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 49 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.75%) Terraform
3 7 (1.24%) Ansible
3 7 (1.24%) SysTrack
4 5 (0.89%) logstash
Vendors
1 136 (24.16%) Databricks
2 86 (15.28%) Microsoft
3 60 (10.66%) Google
4 18 (3.20%) Oracle
4 18 (3.20%) Teradata
5 7 (1.24%) ServiceNow
5 7 (1.24%) Snow
6 6 (1.07%) SAP
7 4 (0.71%) Alteryx
7 4 (0.71%) Dell
7 4 (0.71%) Informatica
7 4 (0.71%) SnapLogic
7 4 (0.71%) Talend
8 3 (0.53%) Cloudera
8 3 (0.53%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.36%) Ab Initio
9 2 (0.36%) ESRI
9 2 (0.36%) Hortonworks
10 1 (0.18%) Marketo
10 1 (0.18%) OpenAI