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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 143 162
Rank change year-on-year -55 +19 +80
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 576 911 1,923
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.63% 2.41% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 2.51% 2.62%
Number of salaries quoted 489 600 794
10th Percentile £40,988 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £112,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 31,654 36,235 73,335
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 89.73% 96.01% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 23,643 25,788 42,106
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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 67 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 63 (10.94%) Apache Spark
3 44 (7.64%) Apache
4 20 (3.47%) Confluence
5 3 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.17%) Luigi
Applications
1 14 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 293 (50.87%) Azure
2 160 (27.78%) AWS
3 128 (22.22%) GCP
4 118 (20.49%) Power Platform
5 99 (17.19%) Snowflake
6 96 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 73 (12.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 68 (11.81%) dbt
9 48 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 41 (7.12%) Amazon S3
11 35 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
12 32 (5.56%) Matillion
13 25 (4.34%) Serverless
14 20 (3.47%) GitHub
15 19 (3.30%) SaaS
16 16 (2.78%) Amazon Kinesis
16 16 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
17 15 (2.60%) Dagster
18 14 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
19 13 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.04%) Firewall
1 6 (1.04%) Network Security
2 3 (0.52%) VoIP
2 3 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (35.07%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (25.17%) Data Lake
3 118 (20.49%) Power BI
4 89 (15.45%) SQL Server
5 52 (9.03%) BigQuery
6 48 (8.33%) Big Data
7 44 (7.64%) Tableau
8 37 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
9 35 (6.08%) Star Schema
10 31 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
10 31 (5.38%) NoSQL
11 29 (5.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 28 (4.86%) Relational Database
13 27 (4.69%) Amazon Athena
14 26 (4.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 25 (4.34%) Hadoop
15 25 (4.34%) PostgreSQL
15 25 (4.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 21 (3.65%) Looker
17 20 (3.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (7.81%) GitLab
2 32 (5.56%) Git
3 24 (4.17%) JIRA
4 19 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.60%) MLflow
6 6 (1.04%) Oracle Forms
7 5 (0.87%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.69%) Snakemake
9 3 (0.52%) Deequ
9 3 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.52%) Spinnaker
10 2 (0.35%) ER Studio
10 2 (0.35%) ERwin
11 1 (0.17%) Mockito
General
1 133 (23.09%) Finance
2 124 (21.53%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (9.38%) Banking
5 36 (6.25%) Retail
6 34 (5.90%) Games
7 24 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (3.47%) Law
9 19 (3.30%) Legal
10 18 (3.13%) Front Office
11 16 (2.78%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.56%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.22%) Marketing
15 6 (1.04%) Publishing
16 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.69%) Advertising
17 4 (0.69%) Electronics
17 4 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 300 (52.08%) Data Engineer
2 121 (21.01%) Senior
3 92 (15.97%) Senior Data Engineer
4 80 (13.89%) Lead
5 72 (12.50%) Data Manager
6 58 (10.07%) Lead Data Engineer
7 50 (8.68%) Engineering Manager
8 45 (7.81%) Python Engineer
9 39 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
10 35 (6.08%) Python Data Engineer
11 34 (5.90%) Developer
12 31 (5.38%) Azure Data Engineer
13 23 (3.99%) Architect
14 21 (3.65%) AWS Engineer
15 20 (3.47%) Data Architect
16 19 (3.30%) Head of Engineering
17 18 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Manager
18 15 (2.60%) AWS Data Engineer
18 15 (2.60%) Principal Engineer
18 15 (2.60%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.72%) PySpark
2 22 (3.82%) Kafka
3 21 (3.65%) Pandas
4 18 (3.13%) Apache Beam
5 15 (2.60%) NumPy
5 15 (2.60%) SciPy
6 12 (2.08%) React
7 9 (1.56%) JSON
8 8 (1.39%) Django
8 8 (1.39%) GraphQL
9 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
10 6 (1.04%) .NET
10 6 (1.04%) Great Expectations
10 6 (1.04%) gRPC
10 6 (1.04%) Protocol Buffers
10 6 (1.04%) PyTorch
10 6 (1.04%) RESTful
11 5 (0.87%) AngularJS
11 5 (0.87%) Web Services
11 5 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (11.46%) Data Structures
2 38 (6.60%) Cloud Native
3 31 (5.38%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (5.03%) Management Information System
5 25 (4.34%) Product Ownership
6 16 (2.78%) Algorithms
7 15 (2.60%) Client/Server
8 11 (1.91%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.74%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.56%) Online Games
11 8 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.22%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 6 (1.04%) Data Centre
13 6 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.04%) IoT
14 5 (0.87%) Blog
14 5 (0.87%) Life Science
14 5 (0.87%) PMI
15 4 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 10 (1.74%) Linux
2 6 (1.04%) Windows
2 6 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (49.48%) Analytics
2 208 (36.11%) ETL
3 200 (34.72%) Data Pipeline
4 195 (33.85%) Data Modelling
5 171 (29.69%) Agile
6 158 (27.43%) Data Science
7 139 (24.13%) Machine Learning
8 135 (23.44%) Business Intelligence
9 122 (21.18%) CI/CD
10 110 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
11 107 (18.58%) Data Governance
12 103 (17.88%) Data Integration
12 103 (17.88%) Mentoring
13 101 (17.53%) Visualisation
14 90 (15.63%) DevOps
15 84 (14.58%) Data Management
16 83 (14.41%) Artificial Intelligence
17 78 (13.54%) Coaching
18 76 (13.19%) Data Strategy
18 76 (13.19%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 328 (56.94%) SQL
2 324 (56.25%) Python
3 54 (9.38%) Java
4 29 (5.03%) T-SQL
5 23 (3.99%) Scala
6 19 (3.30%) C#
7 14 (2.43%) Go
8 13 (2.26%) R
9 10 (1.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 9 (1.56%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (1.22%) JavaScript
13 6 (1.04%) VBA
14 5 (0.87%) Perl
14 5 (0.87%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.69%) Bash
15 4 (0.69%) C
16 3 (0.52%) C++
16 3 (0.52%) Rust
17 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 68 (11.81%) Degree
2 30 (5.21%) DBS Check
3 22 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 13 (2.26%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.26%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.26%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.74%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.39%) Azure Certification
7 7 (1.22%) ISTQB
7 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (0.87%) PhD
8 5 (0.87%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (20.14%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.91%) GDPR
3 5 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (0.69%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.52%) QA
6 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.35%) COBIT
6 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 18 (3.13%) Docker
2 11 (1.91%) IAG
Systems Management
1 47 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 38 (6.60%) Terraform
3 7 (1.22%) SysTrack
4 6 (1.04%) Ansible
5 5 (0.87%) logstash
Vendors
1 143 (24.83%) Databricks
2 87 (15.10%) Microsoft
3 55 (9.55%) Google
4 18 (3.13%) Teradata
5 17 (2.95%) Oracle
6 9 (1.56%) Informatica
7 7 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.22%) Snow
8 6 (1.04%) SAP
9 4 (0.69%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.69%) Dell
9 4 (0.69%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.69%) SnapLogic
9 4 (0.69%) Talend
10 3 (0.52%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.35%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.35%) ESRI
11 2 (0.35%) Hortonworks
12 1 (0.17%) Marketo
12 1 (0.17%) OpenAI