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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 147 146
Rank change year-on-year -22 -1 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 658 890 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.87% 2.36% 2.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.46% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 579 769 1,011
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,607 £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% +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 33,957 36,209 73,459
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.26% 95.94% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 25,728 26,374 42,749
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,375
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 9 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 9 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.

1 423 (64.29%) Python
2 408 (62.01%) SQL
3 339 (51.52%) Azure
4 301 (45.74%) ETL
5 300 (45.59%) Data Engineering
6 227 (34.50%) Analytics
7 222 (33.74%) Data Pipeline
8 221 (33.59%) Data Warehouse
9 199 (30.24%) Data Modelling
9 199 (30.24%) AWS
10 176 (26.75%) Databricks
11 170 (25.84%) Data Lake
12 155 (23.56%) Social Skills
13 145 (22.04%) Data Science
13 145 (22.04%) Business Intelligence
14 139 (21.12%) CI/CD
15 137 (20.82%) Power Platform
15 137 (20.82%) Power BI
16 135 (20.52%) SQL Server
16 135 (20.52%) Data Quality
17 134 (20.36%) Agile
18 124 (18.84%) Machine Learning
19 121 (18.39%) Data Integration
19 121 (18.39%) Finance
19 121 (18.39%) GCP
20 102 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
21 100 (15.20%) DevOps
22 98 (14.89%) Snowflake
23 94 (14.29%) PySpark
24 92 (13.98%) 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 67 (10.18%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (9.42%) Apache Spark
3 39 (5.93%) Apache
4 10 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) Luigi
5 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.46%) 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
1 339 (51.52%) Azure
2 199 (30.24%) AWS
3 137 (20.82%) Power Platform
4 121 (18.39%) GCP
5 102 (15.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 98 (14.89%) Snowflake
7 86 (13.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 77 (11.70%) dbt
9 48 (7.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 47 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
11 46 (6.99%) Amazon S3
12 33 (5.02%) SaaS
13 32 (4.86%) Matillion
14 29 (4.41%) Serverless
15 21 (3.19%) GitHub
16 15 (2.28%) Amazon Kinesis
16 15 (2.28%) Dagster
17 14 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
18 11 (1.67%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
18 11 (1.67%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 24 (3.65%) Network Security
2 6 (0.91%) 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 (33.59%) Data Warehouse
2 170 (25.84%) Data Lake
3 137 (20.82%) Power BI
4 135 (20.52%) SQL Server
5 60 (9.12%) BigQuery
6 50 (7.60%) Amazon Redshift
7 48 (7.29%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (6.84%) NoSQL
9 43 (6.53%) Big Data
10 42 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 39 (5.93%) Tableau
12 35 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 33 (5.02%) Star Schema
14 32 (4.86%) Elasticsearch
14 32 (4.86%) Relational Database
15 31 (4.71%) Hadoop
16 24 (3.65%) Data Mining
17 23 (3.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 21 (3.19%) Amazon Athena
18 21 (3.19%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 39 (5.93%) Git
2 37 (5.62%) GitLab
3 20 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.98%) MLflow
5 12 (1.82%) JIRA
6 4 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.61%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.46%) Deequ
7 3 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.46%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.46%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.30%) JUnit
8 2 (0.30%) MSTest
8 2 (0.30%) NUnit
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.15%) GoCD
9 1 (0.15%) Mockito
General
1 155 (23.56%) Social Skills
2 121 (18.39%) Finance
3 44 (6.69%) Retail
4 42 (6.38%) Banking
5 37 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
6 36 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 26 (3.95%) Games
8 25 (3.80%) Legal
9 22 (3.34%) Law
10 20 (3.04%) Marketing
11 19 (2.89%) Public Sector
12 10 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.37%) Front Office
14 5 (0.76%) Health Technology
14 5 (0.76%) Publishing
15 4 (0.61%) Agriculture
15 4 (0.61%) Aviation
15 4 (0.61%) Electronics
15 4 (0.61%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.61%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (14.29%) PySpark
2 35 (5.32%) Kafka
3 22 (3.34%) Pandas
4 13 (1.98%) Apache Beam
5 12 (1.82%) RESTful
6 11 (1.67%) JSON
6 11 (1.67%) NumPy
6 11 (1.67%) SciPy
7 8 (1.22%) GraphQL
7 8 (1.22%) HTML
8 6 (0.91%) Great Expectations
9 4 (0.61%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.61%) SOAP
10 3 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.46%) REST
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
Miscellaneous
1 71 (10.79%) Data Structures
2 36 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
3 23 (3.50%) Algorithms
3 23 (3.50%) Product Ownership
4 21 (3.19%) Client/Server
5 20 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 17 (2.58%) SCADA
7 16 (2.43%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 16 (2.43%) Operational Technology
8 13 (1.98%) Online Games
9 11 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.37%) IoT
11 8 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.06%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.06%) NHS
13 6 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.76%) Blog
14 5 (0.76%) Mainframe
14 5 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (4.71%) Windows
2 29 (4.41%) Linux
3 24 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.13%) Unix
5 4 (0.61%) CentOS
5 4 (0.61%) Solaris
5 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.61%) zOS
6 3 (0.46%) Android
6 3 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (45.74%) ETL
2 300 (45.59%) Data Engineering
3 227 (34.50%) Analytics
4 222 (33.74%) Data Pipeline
5 199 (30.24%) Data Modelling
6 145 (22.04%) Business Intelligence
6 145 (22.04%) Data Science
7 139 (21.12%) CI/CD
8 134 (20.36%) Agile
9 124 (18.84%) Machine Learning
10 121 (18.39%) Data Integration
11 100 (15.20%) DevOps
12 92 (13.98%) Data Governance
13 87 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
14 81 (12.31%) Artificial Intelligence
15 80 (12.16%) Visualisation
16 79 (12.01%) Mentoring
17 76 (11.55%) Data Transformation
18 66 (10.03%) Data Analytics
19 61 (9.27%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 423 (64.29%) Python
2 408 (62.01%) SQL
3 60 (9.12%) Java
4 43 (6.53%) T-SQL
5 25 (3.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (3.34%) C#
7 20 (3.04%) Scala
8 13 (1.98%) JavaScript
9 12 (1.82%) R
10 11 (1.67%) U-SQL
11 10 (1.52%) VBA
12 6 (0.91%) C
13 5 (0.76%) Go
13 5 (0.76%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.46%) PHP
15 3 (0.46%) Rust
16 2 (0.30%) Bash
16 2 (0.30%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.15%) Korn
Qualifications
1 75 (11.40%) Degree
2 21 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (1.82%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.52%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.52%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 6 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 5 (0.76%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.61%) CISM
9 4 (0.61%) 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
1 135 (20.52%) Data Quality
2 9 (1.37%) QA
3 8 (1.22%) GDPR
4 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.61%) NIST
4 4 (0.61%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.30%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.15%) HIPAA
System Software
1 31 (4.71%) Docker
2 16 (2.43%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 67 (10.18%) Terraform
2 61 (9.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.76%) Ansible
3 5 (0.76%) logstash
4 2 (0.30%) Marathon
4 2 (0.30%) Mesos
5 1 (0.15%) Grafana
Vendors
1 176 (26.75%) Databricks
2 82 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 44 (6.69%) Google
4 17 (2.58%) Oracle
4 17 (2.58%) VMware
5 12 (1.82%) Informatica
6 8 (1.22%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.06%) Teradata
8 6 (0.91%) Splunk
8 6 (0.91%) YouTube
9 5 (0.76%) SAP
9 5 (0.76%) Talend
10 4 (0.61%) Qualys
11 3 (0.46%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.46%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.30%) Ab Initio
12 2 (0.30%) ESRI
12 2 (0.30%) Hortonworks
12 2 (0.30%) NEC
12 2 (0.30%) Snowplow