Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 152 154
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,541 2,114 3,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.79% 2.39% 2.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.61% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,126 1,489 1,880
10th Percentile £34,328 £46,250 £44,731
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,076 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,581 81,069 129,549
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 91.49% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,773 51,486 74,695
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -27 591 £75,000 -11.76% 211
North of England +86 386 £55,000 -8.33% 53
North West +89 252 £60,000 +15.38% 34
South East -54 160 £49,000 -21.60% 25
Midlands +10 157 £55,750 +6.19% 35
South West -35 149 £62,500 -5.24% 32
West Midlands +8 113 £57,500 +9.52% 27
Yorkshire +58 82 £51,000 -21.54% 12
East of England +20 69 £57,500 -8.00% 16
North East 0 52 £72,000 +10.77% 7
East Midlands +7 42 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 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 job ads across the England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 785 (50.94%) SQL
2 746 (48.41%) Python
3 661 (42.89%) Data Engineering
4 611 (39.65%) Azure
5 609 (39.52%) ETL
6 585 (37.96%) Data Pipeline
7 447 (29.01%) Data Science
7 447 (29.01%) Data Modelling
8 429 (27.84%) Data Warehouse
9 421 (27.32%) Analytics
10 409 (26.54%) Agile
11 385 (24.98%) AWS
12 371 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
13 367 (23.82%) GCP
14 357 (23.17%) DevOps
15 311 (20.18%) Databricks
16 307 (19.92%) Business Intelligence
17 305 (19.79%) Data Quality
17 305 (19.79%) Social Skills
18 299 (19.40%) Mentoring
19 280 (18.17%) Power Platform
20 276 (17.91%) Power BI
21 268 (17.39%) Data Lake
22 250 (16.22%) SQL Server
23 248 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
24 245 (15.90%) BigQuery
25 243 (15.77%) Finance
25 243 (15.77%) Google
26 226 (14.67%) CI/CD
27 217 (14.08%) Platform Engineering

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 139 (9.02%) Apache Spark
2 104 (6.75%) Apache Airflow
3 102 (6.62%) Apache
4 18 (1.17%) nginx
5 17 (1.10%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.91%) Confluence
7 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.26%) Luigi
9 3 (0.19%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 611 (39.65%) Azure
2 385 (24.98%) AWS
3 367 (23.82%) GCP
4 280 (18.17%) Power Platform
5 184 (11.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 145 (9.41%) Snowflake
7 130 (8.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 108 (7.01%) Amazon S3
9 104 (6.75%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (6.36%) dbt
11 76 (4.93%) Serverless
12 53 (3.44%) GitHub
13 48 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 39 (2.53%) SaaS
16 35 (2.27%) Matillion
17 33 (2.14%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (2.08%) Amazon Kinesis
19 19 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
19 19 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.05%) Structured Cabling
2 14 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.71%) Wireless
4 10 (0.65%) Network Security
5 5 (0.32%) Firewall
5 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.26%) FTP
6 4 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.13%) 5G
7 2 (0.13%) PPP
7 2 (0.13%) WebEx
8 1 (0.065%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.065%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.065%) DMZ
8 1 (0.065%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.065%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.065%) snoop
8 1 (0.065%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (27.84%) Data Warehouse
2 276 (17.91%) Power BI
3 268 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 250 (16.22%) SQL Server
5 245 (15.90%) BigQuery
6 171 (11.10%) Looker
7 134 (8.70%) Big Data
8 103 (6.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 97 (6.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 82 (5.32%) Hadoop
11 78 (5.06%) NoSQL
12 76 (4.93%) Relational Database
12 76 (4.93%) Tableau
13 62 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 62 (4.02%) Data Vault
14 61 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
15 47 (3.05%) Delta Lake
16 43 (2.79%) Star Schema
17 42 (2.73%) Metadata
18 40 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (4.74%) Git
2 65 (4.22%) JIRA
3 59 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.99%) GitLab
5 17 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.78%) Spinnaker
7 11 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.39%) RStudio
10 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.065%) GoCD
13 1 (0.065%) Gradle
13 1 (0.065%) Mockito
13 1 (0.065%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.065%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.065%) Zephyr
General
1 305 (19.79%) Social Skills
2 248 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
3 243 (15.77%) Finance
4 108 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (4.48%) Retail
6 63 (4.09%) Banking
7 46 (2.99%) Public Sector
8 42 (2.73%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.66%) Games
10 34 (2.21%) Legal
10 34 (2.21%) Marketing
11 28 (1.82%) Law
12 20 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.71%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.65%) Electronics
15 10 (0.65%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.58%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (9.15%) PySpark
2 72 (4.67%) Kafka
3 39 (2.53%) Pandas
4 22 (1.43%) Apache Beam
5 21 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
5 21 (1.36%) Elastic Stack
6 20 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (1.23%) RESTful
8 18 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
9 17 (1.10%) .NET
9 17 (1.10%) YAML
10 16 (1.04%) JSON
11 15 (0.97%) XML
12 14 (0.91%) REST
13 13 (0.84%) PyTorch
14 12 (0.78%) AWS CDK
14 12 (0.78%) TensorFlow
15 10 (0.65%) Flask
15 10 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
16 9 (0.58%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 196 (12.72%) Self-Motivation
2 131 (8.50%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 48 (3.11%) Reinsurance
5 40 (2.60%) Algorithms
6 38 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.82%) Driving Licence
9 27 (1.75%) Product Ownership
10 26 (1.69%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.56%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.36%) Client/Server
12 21 (1.36%) IoT
13 19 (1.23%) CCTV
14 18 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (1.10%) SCADA
16 16 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
16 16 (1.04%) Operational Technology
17 15 (0.97%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 65 (4.22%) Linux
2 31 (2.01%) Windows
3 23 (1.49%) Unix
3 23 (1.49%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.26%) Android
4 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.26%) CentOS
4 4 (0.26%) Solaris
4 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (42.89%) Data Engineering
2 609 (39.52%) ETL
3 585 (37.96%) Data Pipeline
4 447 (29.01%) Data Modelling
4 447 (29.01%) Data Science
5 421 (27.32%) Analytics
6 409 (26.54%) Agile
7 371 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
8 357 (23.17%) DevOps
9 307 (19.92%) Business Intelligence
10 299 (19.40%) Mentoring
11 226 (14.67%) CI/CD
12 217 (14.08%) Platform Engineering
13 209 (13.56%) Data Integration
14 184 (11.94%) Machine Learning
15 178 (11.55%) DataOps
16 147 (9.54%) Change Management
17 137 (8.89%) Visualisation
18 129 (8.37%) Data Management
19 128 (8.31%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 785 (50.94%) SQL
2 746 (48.41%) Python
3 104 (6.75%) Java
4 83 (5.39%) T-SQL
5 74 (4.80%) Scala
6 45 (2.92%) C#
7 28 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 28 (1.82%) R
8 21 (1.36%) Bash
9 20 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.30%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.17%) JavaScript
11 14 (0.91%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.65%) U-SQL
13 9 (0.58%) VBA
14 8 (0.52%) C
15 7 (0.45%) Go
15 7 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.39%) PHP
16 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 184 (11.94%) Degree
2 55 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (3.37%) Security Cleared
4 33 (2.14%) Master's Degree
5 32 (2.08%) SC Cleared
6 28 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 28 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (1.30%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.45%) CISSP
11 5 (0.32%) PhD
12 4 (0.26%) CCNA
12 4 (0.26%) CISM
12 4 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.19%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.19%) CCSK
13 3 (0.19%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (19.79%) Data Quality
2 158 (10.25%) GDPR
3 19 (1.23%) QA
4 15 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.26%) NIST
5 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.065%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.065%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.065%) GMP
6 1 (0.065%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.065%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (5.52%) Docker
2 16 (1.04%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.65%) HDFS
4 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.065%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.065%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 130 (8.44%) Terraform
2 89 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.88%) Ansible
4 18 (1.17%) Grafana
5 17 (1.10%) HAProxy
5 17 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.39%) logstash
7 3 (0.19%) Argo
7 3 (0.19%) CASB
7 3 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.13%) Marathon
8 2 (0.13%) Mesos
9 1 (0.065%) Kibana
9 1 (0.065%) Oozie
9 1 (0.065%) Podman
Vendors
1 311 (20.18%) Databricks
2 243 (15.77%) Google
3 177 (11.49%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.39%) Informatica
5 76 (4.93%) Oracle
6 18 (1.17%) Alteryx
6 18 (1.17%) YouTube
7 17 (1.10%) VMware
8 16 (1.04%) Cloudera
9 12 (0.78%) Dataiku
10 11 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 11 (0.71%) SAP
10 11 (0.71%) Teradata
11 8 (0.52%) Splunk
12 6 (0.39%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.39%) F5
12 6 (0.39%) Talend
13 5 (0.32%) SnapLogic
14 4 (0.26%) Qualys
15 3 (0.19%) Symantec