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 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 119 140
Rank change year-on-year -50 +21 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 634 1,152 1,965
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.88% 2.84% 2.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 2.96% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 555 793 996
10th Percentile £40,500 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,052 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £92,500 £87,125
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 32,489 38,930 69,374
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.09% 95.94% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,845 27,706 42,291
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,375 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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.

1 414 (65.30%) Python
2 404 (63.72%) SQL
3 324 (51.10%) Azure
4 308 (48.58%) ETL
5 283 (44.64%) Data Engineering
6 220 (34.70%) Data Warehouse
7 218 (34.38%) Data Pipeline
8 216 (34.07%) Analytics
9 207 (32.65%) Data Modelling
10 195 (30.76%) AWS
11 166 (26.18%) Databricks
12 155 (24.45%) Data Lake
13 152 (23.97%) Social Skills
14 149 (23.50%) Data Science
15 147 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
16 134 (21.14%) Power Platform
16 134 (21.14%) Power BI
16 134 (21.14%) CI/CD
17 133 (20.98%) SQL Server
17 133 (20.98%) Agile
18 132 (20.82%) Data Quality
19 120 (18.93%) Data Integration
20 119 (18.77%) Finance
20 119 (18.77%) GCP
21 116 (18.30%) Machine Learning
22 109 (17.19%) DevOps
23 103 (16.25%) Azure Data Factory
24 99 (15.62%) Snowflake
25 87 (13.72%) Data Governance
26 85 (13.41%) Problem-Solving

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 61 (9.62%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (9.46%) Apache Spark
3 40 (6.31%) Apache
4 11 (1.74%) Confluence
5 3 (0.47%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.32%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.16%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.47%) AutoCAD
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 324 (51.10%) Azure
2 195 (30.76%) AWS
3 134 (21.14%) Power Platform
4 119 (18.77%) GCP
5 103 (16.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 99 (15.62%) Snowflake
7 79 (12.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (11.36%) dbt
9 49 (7.73%) Amazon S3
10 46 (7.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 44 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (5.21%) SaaS
12 33 (5.21%) Serverless
13 32 (5.05%) Matillion
14 22 (3.47%) GitHub
15 18 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (1.74%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 11 (1.74%) Prefect
18 9 (1.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.74%) Network Security
2 4 (0.63%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) LAN
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
3 1 (0.16%) WAN
3 1 (0.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (34.70%) Data Warehouse
2 155 (24.45%) Data Lake
3 134 (21.14%) Power BI
4 133 (20.98%) SQL Server
5 65 (10.25%) BigQuery
6 54 (8.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 46 (7.26%) PostgreSQL
8 45 (7.10%) Tableau
9 44 (6.94%) Big Data
9 44 (6.94%) NoSQL
9 44 (6.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 35 (5.52%) Star Schema
11 31 (4.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (4.89%) Elasticsearch
11 31 (4.89%) Hadoop
12 30 (4.73%) Relational Database
13 23 (3.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (3.47%) Data Mining
14 22 (3.47%) MySQL
15 19 (3.00%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 42 (6.62%) Git
2 38 (5.99%) GitLab
3 27 (4.26%) Jenkins
4 13 (2.05%) JIRA
5 11 (1.74%) MLflow
6 7 (1.10%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.63%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.63%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.47%) Deequ
8 3 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (0.47%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.32%) JUnit
9 2 (0.32%) MSTest
9 2 (0.32%) NUnit
9 2 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.16%) GoCD
10 1 (0.16%) Mockito
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 152 (23.97%) Social Skills
2 119 (18.77%) Finance
3 44 (6.94%) Banking
3 44 (6.94%) Retail
4 38 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (4.42%) Games
6 27 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.79%) Law
7 24 (3.79%) Legal
8 20 (3.15%) Marketing
8 20 (3.15%) Public Sector
9 10 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (0.79%) Health Technology
11 4 (0.63%) Agriculture
11 4 (0.63%) Aviation
11 4 (0.63%) Electronics
11 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.63%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.32%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (10.88%) PySpark
2 37 (5.84%) Kafka
3 14 (2.21%) Pandas
4 13 (2.05%) Apache Beam
5 11 (1.74%) RESTful
6 9 (1.42%) JSON
7 8 (1.26%) GraphQL
8 6 (0.95%) Great Expectations
8 6 (0.95%) HTML
8 6 (0.95%) REST
9 4 (0.63%) AWS CDK
9 4 (0.63%) Flask
10 3 (0.47%) .NET
10 3 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.47%) NumPy
10 3 (0.47%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.47%) SciPy
11 2 (0.32%) MDX
11 2 (0.32%) pytest
11 2 (0.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.41%) Data Structures
2 36 (5.68%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 26 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.47%) Algorithms
6 21 (3.31%) Client/Server
7 17 (2.68%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.68%) SCADA
8 16 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 16 (2.52%) Operational Technology
9 13 (2.05%) Online Games
10 11 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.74%) IoT
11 8 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.10%) NHS
12 7 (1.10%) Public Cloud
13 6 (0.95%) Onboarding
14 5 (0.79%) Blog
14 5 (0.79%) Data Centre
14 5 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (4.57%) Windows
2 27 (4.26%) Linux
3 22 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 14 (2.21%) Unix
5 4 (0.63%) CentOS
5 4 (0.63%) Solaris
5 4 (0.63%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.63%) zOS
6 3 (0.47%) Android
6 3 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (48.58%) ETL
2 283 (44.64%) Data Engineering
3 218 (34.38%) Data Pipeline
4 216 (34.07%) Analytics
5 207 (32.65%) Data Modelling
6 149 (23.50%) Data Science
7 147 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
8 134 (21.14%) CI/CD
9 133 (20.98%) Agile
10 120 (18.93%) Data Integration
11 116 (18.30%) Machine Learning
12 109 (17.19%) DevOps
13 87 (13.72%) Data Governance
14 85 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
15 75 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
15 75 (11.83%) Mentoring
16 73 (11.51%) Data Transformation
17 71 (11.20%) Visualisation
18 69 (10.88%) Data Analytics
19 56 (8.83%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 414 (65.30%) Python
2 404 (63.72%) SQL
3 51 (8.04%) Java
4 41 (6.47%) T-SQL
5 26 (4.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 24 (3.79%) C#
7 20 (3.15%) Scala
8 13 (2.05%) R
9 11 (1.74%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.74%) U-SQL
10 7 (1.10%) VBA
11 6 (0.95%) C
11 6 (0.95%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.63%) Go
12 4 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.63%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.47%) PHP
13 3 (0.47%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.32%) Ruby
14 2 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (12.15%) Degree
2 19 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (2.05%) Security Cleared
5 10 (1.58%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.58%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.58%) SC Cleared
6 6 (0.95%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.79%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.63%) CISM
8 4 (0.63%) CISSP
9 2 (0.32%) HNC
9 2 (0.32%) PhD
10 1 (0.16%) ICAEW
10 1 (0.16%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.16%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (20.82%) Data Quality
2 10 (1.58%) QA
3 8 (1.26%) GDPR
4 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.63%) NIST
4 4 (0.63%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
System Software
1 34 (5.36%) Docker
2 16 (2.52%) Hyper-V
2 16 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.16%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 72 (11.36%) Terraform
2 63 (9.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.79%) Ansible
3 5 (0.79%) logstash
4 2 (0.32%) Marathon
4 2 (0.32%) Mesos
5 1 (0.16%) Grafana
Vendors
1 166 (26.18%) Databricks
2 81 (12.78%) Microsoft
3 50 (7.89%) Google
4 18 (2.84%) Oracle
5 17 (2.68%) VMware
6 8 (1.26%) Informatica
6 8 (1.26%) YouTube
7 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 7 (1.10%) Teradata
8 6 (0.95%) SAP
9 4 (0.63%) Qualys
9 4 (0.63%) Splunk
9 4 (0.63%) Talend
10 3 (0.47%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.47%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.32%) Ab Initio
11 2 (0.32%) ESRI
11 2 (0.32%) Hortonworks
11 2 (0.32%) NEC
11 2 (0.32%) Snowplow