Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 200 203
Rank change year-on-year +83 +3 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 393 276 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.27% 1.59% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.39% 1.77% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 289 167 138
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,544 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £83,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,250 £88,400
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,413 15,560 17,363
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 89.41% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 12,701 8,233 11,133
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,225
90th Percentile £78,500 £81,900 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,635 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.45% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
North West +93 253 £60,000 +15.38% 38
Yorkshire +59 86 £51,000 -21.54% 14
North East +5 54 £71,500 +10.00% 3
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 197 (50.13%) Data Engineering
2 189 (48.09%) ETL
3 178 (45.29%) SQL
4 158 (40.20%) Python
5 152 (38.68%) Data Pipeline
6 150 (38.17%) Agile
7 148 (37.66%) Azure
8 128 (32.57%) Data Modelling
9 115 (29.26%) Data Science
10 114 (29.01%) DevOps
11 107 (27.23%) Data Quality
12 106 (26.97%) Data Warehouse
13 104 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
14 97 (24.68%) Analytics
15 93 (23.66%) Mentoring
16 92 (23.41%) SQL Server
17 91 (23.16%) GCP
18 87 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
19 85 (21.63%) Databricks
20 82 (20.87%) DataOps
20 82 (20.87%) Data Integration
21 80 (20.36%) BigQuery
22 77 (19.59%) Self-Motivation
23 76 (19.34%) Google
24 69 (17.56%) Social Skills
24 69 (17.56%) Platform Engineering
25 67 (17.05%) AWS
26 66 (16.79%) Data Lake
27 65 (16.54%) Looker
28 59 (15.01%) GDPR

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 20 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.07%) Apache
3 15 (3.82%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 148 (37.66%) Azure
2 91 (23.16%) GCP
3 67 (17.05%) AWS
4 52 (13.23%) Power Platform
5 48 (12.21%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (9.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 36 (9.16%) Snowflake
8 31 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 30 (7.63%) Amazon S3
10 28 (7.12%) dbt
11 18 (4.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 18 (4.58%) Matillion
12 17 (4.33%) Amazon Kinesis
13 16 (4.07%) Serverless
14 13 (3.31%) SaaS
15 12 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
16 9 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (1.53%) Collibra
17 6 (1.53%) Fivetran
17 6 (1.53%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.54%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.02%) Firewall
2 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.51%) WebEx
4 1 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.25%) DMZ
4 1 (0.25%) LAN
4 1 (0.25%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.25%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.25%) WAN
4 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (26.97%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (23.41%) SQL Server
3 80 (20.36%) BigQuery
4 66 (16.79%) Data Lake
5 65 (16.54%) Looker
6 50 (12.72%) Power BI
7 41 (10.43%) Data Vault
8 32 (8.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (7.38%) Delta Lake
10 22 (5.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (5.09%) Tableau
13 19 (4.83%) Star Schema
14 18 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (3.82%) Data Mining
15 15 (3.82%) Relational Database
16 13 (3.31%) Big Data
17 8 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
17 8 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.21%) JIRA
2 19 (4.83%) GitLab
3 12 (3.05%) Git
4 10 (2.54%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.27%) Spinnaker
5 5 (1.27%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 87 (22.14%) Analytical Skills
2 69 (17.56%) Social Skills
3 40 (10.18%) Finance
4 19 (4.83%) Marketing
5 17 (4.33%) Retail
6 14 (3.56%) Games
6 14 (3.56%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.54%) Banking
8 9 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.29%) Law
9 7 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.51%) Aviation
10 2 (0.51%) Back Office
10 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Legal
10 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.25%) Electronics
11 1 (0.25%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.16%) PySpark
2 8 (2.04%) Kafka
3 7 (1.78%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.53%) Apache Beam
4 6 (1.53%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.02%) RESTful
6 3 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.76%) JSON
6 3 (0.76%) XML
7 2 (0.51%) .NET
7 2 (0.51%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.51%) Handlebars
7 2 (0.51%) Pandas
8 1 (0.25%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.25%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.59%) Self-Motivation
2 59 (15.01%) Data Structures
3 42 (10.69%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.18%) Reinsurance
5 17 (4.33%) SCADA
6 16 (4.07%) Operational Technology
7 13 (3.31%) Client/Server
7 13 (3.31%) Online Games
8 12 (3.05%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.54%) CCTV
9 10 (2.54%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.29%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.78%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.53%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.27%) Blog
13 5 (1.27%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.27%) Mainframe
14 4 (1.02%) Fibre Optics
14 4 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.09%) Windows
1 20 (5.09%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (50.13%) Data Engineering
2 189 (48.09%) ETL
3 152 (38.68%) Data Pipeline
4 150 (38.17%) Agile
5 128 (32.57%) Data Modelling
6 115 (29.26%) Data Science
7 114 (29.01%) DevOps
8 104 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
9 97 (24.68%) Analytics
10 93 (23.66%) Mentoring
11 82 (20.87%) Data Integration
11 82 (20.87%) DataOps
12 69 (17.56%) Platform Engineering
13 59 (15.01%) Change Management
14 57 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
15 56 (14.25%) Data Analysis
15 56 (14.25%) Data Management
16 53 (13.49%) CI/CD
17 51 (12.98%) Machine Learning
18 46 (11.70%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 178 (45.29%) SQL
2 158 (40.20%) Python
3 25 (6.36%) T-SQL
4 11 (2.80%) Java
4 11 (2.80%) Scala
5 10 (2.54%) C#
6 8 (2.04%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.53%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (7.63%) Degree
2 7 (1.78%) Azure Certification
2 7 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.02%) CCNA
5 4 (1.02%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (0.76%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.51%) HND
8 1 (0.25%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (27.23%) Data Quality
2 59 (15.01%) GDPR
3 5 (1.27%) QA
4 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.25%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.25%) GMP
System Software
1 16 (4.07%) Hyper-V
1 16 (4.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.02%) Docker
3 1 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 14 (3.56%) Terraform
2 6 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.25%) Oozie
Vendors
1 85 (21.63%) Databricks
2 76 (19.34%) Google
3 56 (14.25%) Informatica
4 45 (11.45%) Microsoft
5 43 (10.94%) Oracle
6 16 (4.07%) VMware
7 6 (1.53%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.53%) F5
8 5 (1.27%) Teradata
8 5 (1.27%) YouTube
9 2 (0.51%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.51%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.25%) Arista
10 1 (0.25%) Cisco
10 1 (0.25%) Facebook
10 1 (0.25%) Sage
10 1 (0.25%) SAP
10 1 (0.25%) Sun
10 1 (0.25%) Workday