Data Engineering Jobs in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 121 159
Rank change year-on-year -56 +38 +91
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,396 2,573 3,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.63% 2.86% 2.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.00% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 823 1,090 1,388
10th Percentile £41,492 £46,700 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,664 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +18.52%
75th Percentile £89,375 £100,000 £90,313
90th Percentile £105,000 £130,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,416 85,899 127,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.47% 95.61% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 53,988 50,919 73,096
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 -76 474 £82,500 -5.71% 186
North of England -45 317 £60,000 -0.97% 41
South East +24 202 £67,500 -3.57% 28
Midlands -44 177 £59,300 +6.85% 31
North West -37 173 £55,000 +2.33% 26
South West -23 155 £75,000 +24.48% 24
West Midlands -48 112 £61,616 +10.03% 26
Yorkshire -41 90 £65,066 -0.44% 6
East Midlands -2 64 £43,750 -20.45% 5
North East +20 54 £75,000 +11.11% 9
East of England -37 43 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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
1 130 (9.31%) Apache Spark
2 93 (6.66%) Apache
3 84 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.01%) Confluence
5 21 (1.50%) SAS
6 20 (1.43%) Jupyter
7 17 (1.22%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.14%) Luigi
9 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (1.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 676 (48.42%) Azure
2 519 (37.18%) GCP
3 494 (35.39%) AWS
4 243 (17.41%) Power Platform
5 169 (12.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 132 (9.46%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (8.95%) Snowflake
8 118 (8.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 98 (7.02%) Amazon S3
10 76 (5.44%) dbt
11 51 (3.65%) Serverless
12 47 (3.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 43 (3.08%) GitHub
14 36 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (2.29%) Matillion
16 31 (2.22%) SaaS
17 28 (2.01%) Amazon Kinesis
18 25 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (1.22%) MinIO
19 17 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) Firewall
2 4 (0.29%) Network Security
3 3 (0.21%) VoIP
3 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) WAN
4 2 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.072%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.072%) 5G
5 1 (0.072%) PPP
5 1 (0.072%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (38.54%) Data Warehouse
2 393 (28.15%) BigQuery
3 346 (24.79%) Looker
4 241 (17.26%) Power BI
5 220 (15.76%) Data Lake
6 144 (10.32%) SQL Server
7 112 (8.02%) Big Data
8 99 (7.09%) Tableau
9 82 (5.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 72 (5.16%) Hadoop
11 66 (4.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 55 (3.94%) Metadata
12 55 (3.94%) NoSQL
13 51 (3.65%) Relational Database
14 44 (3.15%) Azure SQL Database
15 43 (3.08%) Star Schema
16 40 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
17 39 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 38 (2.72%) Elasticsearch
19 28 (2.01%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 73 (5.23%) Git
2 61 (4.37%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.30%) GitLab
4 34 (2.44%) JIRA
5 17 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.86%) Spinnaker
7 10 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 9 (0.64%) ERwin
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.36%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.29%) Snakemake
12 3 (0.21%) MLflow
12 3 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 3 (0.21%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.072%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.072%) JMeter
13 1 (0.072%) Postman
13 1 (0.072%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.072%) Toad
General
1 479 (34.31%) Analytical Skills
2 249 (17.84%) Social Skills
3 207 (14.83%) Finance
4 77 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (5.01%) Banking
6 65 (4.66%) Billing
7 59 (4.23%) Retail
8 44 (3.15%) Legal
9 39 (2.79%) Law
10 33 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (2.29%) Public Sector
12 30 (2.15%) Games
13 27 (1.93%) Marketing
14 22 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.93%) Telecoms
16 12 (0.86%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.86%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.86%) Retail Banking
17 11 (0.79%) Front Office
18 10 (0.72%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 665 (47.64%) Data Engineer
2 206 (14.76%) Senior
3 178 (12.75%) Data Manager
4 174 (12.46%) Principal Engineer
5 166 (11.89%) Architect
6 163 (11.68%) Principal Data Engineer
7 156 (11.17%) Platform Engineer
8 150 (10.74%) Data Architect
9 139 (9.96%) Engineering Manager
10 128 (9.17%) Lead
11 126 (9.03%) Senior Data Engineer
12 72 (5.16%) Lead Data Engineer
13 68 (4.87%) Azure Engineer
14 52 (3.72%) Azure Data Engineer
15 49 (3.51%) Developer
16 46 (3.30%) Analyst
17 40 (2.87%) Python Engineer
18 37 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
19 34 (2.44%) Head of Engineering
20 32 (2.29%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.95%) PySpark
2 47 (3.37%) Kafka
3 30 (2.15%) Apache Beam
4 28 (2.01%) Pandas
5 27 (1.93%) NumPy
5 27 (1.93%) TensorFlow
6 21 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
6 21 (1.50%) YAML
7 20 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
8 19 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (1.29%) .NET
9 18 (1.29%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (1.29%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.07%) Keras
11 12 (0.86%) React
11 12 (0.86%) RESTful
12 11 (0.79%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
14 8 (0.57%) GraphQL
14 8 (0.57%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.20%) Self-Motivation
2 105 (7.52%) Product Ownership
3 83 (5.95%) Data Structures
4 60 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 51 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 44 (3.15%) Management Information System
7 32 (2.29%) Onboarding
8 24 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
8 24 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
9 15 (1.07%) Client/Server
9 15 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
9 15 (1.07%) IoT
9 15 (1.07%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.07%) Taxonomies
10 13 (0.93%) NHS
11 10 (0.72%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.64%) Online Games
12 9 (0.64%) Reference Data
13 8 (0.57%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.72%) Linux
2 10 (0.72%) Windows
3 5 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (41.48%) Data Modelling
2 572 (40.97%) ETL
3 545 (39.04%) Problem-Solving
4 496 (35.53%) Agile
5 481 (34.46%) Analytics
6 471 (33.74%) Data Pipeline
7 436 (31.23%) Data Science
8 420 (30.09%) Mentoring
9 401 (28.72%) DevOps
10 369 (26.43%) Platform Engineering
11 323 (23.14%) Business Intelligence
12 275 (19.70%) CI/CD
12 275 (19.70%) Data Governance
13 253 (18.12%) Data Architecture
14 246 (17.62%) Data Integration
15 219 (15.69%) Visualisation
16 215 (15.40%) Machine Learning
17 176 (12.61%) DataOps
18 165 (11.82%) Change Management
19 153 (10.96%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 621 (44.48%) SQL
2 557 (39.90%) Python
3 110 (7.88%) Java
4 75 (5.37%) Scala
5 57 (4.08%) T-SQL
6 44 (3.15%) R
7 31 (2.22%) C#
8 28 (2.01%) MATLAB
9 22 (1.58%) Go
9 22 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.50%) Bash
11 19 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.36%) PowerShell
12 12 (0.86%) TypeScript
13 11 (0.79%) C
14 10 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.72%) VBA
15 8 (0.57%) JavaScript
15 8 (0.57%) Perl
15 8 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (11.32%) Degree
2 68 (4.87%) Security Cleared
3 59 (4.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.87%) DBS Check
6 34 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 28 (2.01%) SC Cleared
9 21 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.15%) PhD
11 8 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.43%) MBA
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.21%) OCP
14 3 (0.21%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.21%) PMP
15 2 (0.14%) MCP
16 1 (0.072%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (22.71%) Data Quality
2 279 (19.99%) GDPR
3 99 (7.09%) QA
4 23 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.21%) SLA
8 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.14%) COBIT
8 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.072%) NCSC
9 1 (0.072%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 57 (4.08%) Docker
2 9 (0.64%) HDFS
3 7 (0.50%) IAG
4 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 86 (6.16%) Terraform
2 79 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 32 (2.29%) Ansible
4 17 (1.22%) Grafana
4 17 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 17 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.50%) SysTrack
6 5 (0.36%) logstash
7 3 (0.21%) Argo
7 3 (0.21%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.14%) Oozie
9 1 (0.072%) Podman
Vendors
1 405 (29.01%) Google
2 208 (14.90%) Databricks
3 162 (11.60%) Microsoft
4 39 (2.79%) Oracle
5 30 (2.15%) Informatica
6 22 (1.58%) Teradata
7 18 (1.29%) Cloudera
8 13 (0.93%) SAP
9 9 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.57%) Samsung
11 7 (0.50%) Dataiku
11 7 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.50%) SnapLogic
11 7 (0.50%) Snow
12 6 (0.43%) F5
13 5 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.29%) IBM
14 4 (0.29%) Talend
15 3 (0.21%) Embarcadero
15 3 (0.21%) Salesforce