Data Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 108 239
Rank change year-on-year -36 +131 +14
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 317 553 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.79% 3.29% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.39% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 195 130 142
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,433 £40,749
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,125 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,590 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -13.44% +21.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £76,383 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.36% -4.52% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,675 16,295 17,008
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.09% 96.80% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 11,264 7,864 10,600
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
North West -35 176 £54,500 +3.81% 22
Yorkshire -41 87 £65,066 -0.44% 9
North East +21 54 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 21 (6.62%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.31%) Confluence
3 13 (4.10%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.52%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (47.00%) Azure
2 146 (46.06%) GCP
3 79 (24.92%) AWS
4 57 (17.98%) Power Platform
5 46 (14.51%) Snowflake
6 37 (11.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (10.41%) dbt
8 25 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 25 (7.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 24 (7.57%) Amazon S3
10 21 (6.62%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.68%) Matillion
12 13 (4.10%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (4.10%) Serverless
13 9 (2.84%) Cloud Composer
13 9 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.84%) SaaS
14 8 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.26%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (37.54%) BigQuery
2 113 (35.65%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (32.49%) Looker
4 58 (18.30%) Data Lake
5 57 (17.98%) Power BI
6 44 (13.88%) SQL Server
7 30 (9.46%) Tableau
8 23 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (5.99%) Star Schema
10 18 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (5.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (2.21%) Big Data
14 7 (2.21%) Hadoop
14 7 (2.21%) Metadata
15 6 (1.89%) Data Mining
16 5 (1.58%) Qlik Sense
16 5 (1.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.57%) GitLab
2 21 (6.62%) JIRA
3 15 (4.73%) Git
4 12 (3.79%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.58%) Spinnaker
6 3 (0.95%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
General
1 123 (38.80%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (16.40%) Social Skills
3 44 (13.88%) Finance
4 19 (5.99%) Banking
5 12 (3.79%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.47%) Retail
7 9 (2.84%) Games
8 8 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.21%) Law
10 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.95%) Marketing
12 2 (0.63%) Back Office
12 2 (0.63%) Legal
12 2 (0.63%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.63%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
13 1 (0.32%) Electronics
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 194 (61.20%) Data Engineer
2 64 (20.19%) Platform Engineer
3 59 (18.61%) Principal Data Engineer
3 59 (18.61%) Principal Engineer
4 51 (16.09%) Lead
5 45 (14.20%) Architect
6 43 (13.56%) Senior
7 41 (12.93%) Lead Data Engineer
8 40 (12.62%) Data Architect
9 25 (7.89%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (6.31%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.36%) Data Manager
12 15 (4.73%) Developer
13 12 (3.79%) AWS Data Engineer
13 12 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (3.79%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.47%) Azure Data Engineer
14 11 (3.47%) Python Data Engineer
14 11 (3.47%) Python Engineer
15 9 (2.84%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.79%) PySpark
2 7 (2.21%) Kafka
2 7 (2.21%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.89%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.89%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.58%) .NET
4 5 (1.58%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.26%) React
6 2 (0.63%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.63%) Pandas
7 1 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (33.75%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (7.26%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.31%) Data Structures
4 19 (5.99%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.15%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.84%) Client/Server
6 9 (2.84%) Online Games
7 6 (1.89%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.26%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.26%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.26%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.95%) IoT
10 3 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.63%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.32%) e-Learning
12 1 (0.32%) FMCG
12 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.26%) Windows
1 4 (1.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.32%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (45.11%) ETL
2 138 (43.53%) Problem-Solving
3 136 (42.90%) Mentoring
4 134 (42.27%) Agile
5 132 (41.64%) Data Pipeline
6 114 (35.96%) Analytics
7 112 (35.33%) Data Science
8 111 (35.02%) DevOps
9 106 (33.44%) Data Modelling
10 103 (32.49%) Platform Engineering
11 78 (24.61%) Data Governance
12 71 (22.40%) Data Integration
12 71 (22.40%) DataOps
13 70 (22.08%) Data Architecture
14 67 (21.14%) Change Management
15 60 (18.93%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (17.98%) Visualisation
17 52 (16.40%) CI/CD
18 46 (14.51%) Machine Learning
19 45 (14.20%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 128 (40.38%) SQL
2 87 (27.44%) Python
3 21 (6.62%) T-SQL
4 12 (3.79%) Java
5 11 (3.47%) Scala
6 5 (1.58%) Perl
6 5 (1.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.63%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) C#
9 1 (0.32%) C++
9 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (3.47%) Degree
2 9 (2.84%) Azure Certification
3 8 (2.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.89%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.58%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.26%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.63%) OCP
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (29.34%) Data Quality
2 92 (29.02%) GDPR
3 2 (0.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.21%) IAG
2 2 (0.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (5.36%) Terraform
2 13 (4.10%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.21%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Oozie
4 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 120 (37.85%) Google
2 49 (15.46%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.04%) Databricks
4 10 (3.15%) Teradata
5 7 (2.21%) Informatica
5 7 (2.21%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.21%) Snow
6 6 (1.89%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.89%) Dataiku
6 6 (1.89%) F5
7 1 (0.32%) ESRI
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) SAP