Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 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 166 220 215
Rank change year-on-year +54 -5 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,273 999 1,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 1.63% 1.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 1.82% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 683 600 708
10th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,313 £46,537 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.71% +14.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,635 54,775 67,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 89.22% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,217 31,082 42,983
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the UK excluding London 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 of England +83 393 £55,000 -8.33% 55
Scotland +81 308 £65,000 +8.33% 19
North West +93 253 £60,000 +15.38% 38
South East -45 167 £49,000 -21.60% 27
South West -26 153 £65,000 -1.45% 20
Midlands -9 148 £55,000 +3.29% 28
West Midlands +7 107 £58,750 +10.33% 17
Yorkshire +59 86 £51,000 -21.54% 14
East of England +39 77 £60,000 +11.63% 17
North East +5 54 £71,500 +10.00% 3
East Midlands -10 40 £47,500 -13.64% 11
Wales +3 16 £46,060 +3.12% 12
Northern Ireland +37 12 £60,000 - 7
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 583 (45.80%) Python
2 574 (45.09%) Agile
3 523 (41.08%) SQL
4 504 (39.59%) Data Engineering
5 437 (34.33%) Data Pipeline
6 399 (31.34%) ETL
7 390 (30.64%) CI/CD
8 389 (30.56%) Azure
9 382 (30.01%) AWS
10 362 (28.44%) Data Modelling
11 350 (27.49%) Finance
12 339 (26.63%) Data Science
13 311 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
14 306 (24.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 304 (23.88%) Mentoring
16 296 (23.25%) DevOps
17 289 (22.70%) Analytics
18 288 (22.62%) GCP
19 284 (22.31%) Big Data
20 269 (21.13%) Data Warehouse
20 269 (21.13%) Software Engineering
21 266 (20.90%) Machine Learning
22 259 (20.35%) Law
23 253 (19.87%) Apache Spark
24 243 (19.09%) Databricks
25 232 (18.22%) Data Lake
26 216 (16.97%) SDLC
26 216 (16.97%) Data Quality
27 213 (16.73%) Artificial Intelligence
28 209 (16.42%) Analytical Skills

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 253 (19.87%) Apache Spark
2 114 (8.96%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (4.56%) Apache
4 19 (1.49%) nginx
5 18 (1.41%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.94%) Confluence
7 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.079%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.079%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 389 (30.56%) Azure
2 382 (30.01%) AWS
3 288 (22.62%) GCP
4 164 (12.88%) Power Platform
5 112 (8.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 93 (7.31%) Snowflake
7 77 (6.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 69 (5.42%) Amazon S3
8 69 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (3.46%) Serverless
10 43 (3.38%) dbt
11 34 (2.67%) SaaS
12 32 (2.51%) Matillion
13 31 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 28 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (2.12%) GitHub
16 25 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (1.41%) MinIO
18 18 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.51%) Structured Cabling
2 18 (1.41%) DSL
3 11 (0.86%) Wireless
4 10 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.39%) LAN
6 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.31%) Firewall
6 4 (0.31%) FTP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 2 (0.16%) WebEx
8 1 (0.079%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.079%) 5G
8 1 (0.079%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.079%) DMZ
8 1 (0.079%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.079%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.079%) SMS
8 1 (0.079%) snoop
8 1 (0.079%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 284 (22.31%) Big Data
2 269 (21.13%) Data Warehouse
3 232 (18.22%) Data Lake
4 206 (16.18%) BigQuery
5 193 (15.16%) SQL Server
6 170 (13.35%) Looker
7 162 (12.73%) Power BI
8 95 (7.46%) Hadoop
9 68 (5.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 66 (5.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (4.63%) NoSQL
11 59 (4.63%) Tableau
12 50 (3.93%) Apache Hive
13 48 (3.77%) Relational Database
14 45 (3.53%) Data Vault
15 42 (3.30%) Delta Lake
15 42 (3.30%) Qlik Sense
16 38 (2.99%) Star Schema
17 35 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
18 31 (2.44%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 68 (5.34%) Jenkins
2 64 (5.03%) Git
3 51 (4.01%) JIRA
4 40 (3.14%) GitLab
5 30 (2.36%) Bitbucket Server
6 18 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.47%) RStudio
10 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.079%) ERwin
14 1 (0.079%) Subversion
14 1 (0.079%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.079%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.079%) Toad
14 1 (0.079%) Zephyr
General
1 350 (27.49%) Finance
2 306 (24.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 259 (20.35%) Law
4 209 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
5 200 (15.71%) Social Skills
6 194 (15.24%) Legal
7 100 (7.86%) Marketing
8 44 (3.46%) Retail
9 41 (3.22%) Banking
10 34 (2.67%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.51%) Games
12 25 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.79%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.39%) Aviation
18 5 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (13.59%) PySpark
2 81 (6.36%) Kafka
3 43 (3.38%) Spring
3 43 (3.38%) Spring Boot
4 21 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (1.57%) ActiveMQ
5 20 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
6 19 (1.49%) RESTful
7 18 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (1.41%) YAML
8 13 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 12 (0.94%) Pandas
10 10 (0.79%) Apache Beam
10 10 (0.79%) JSON
11 9 (0.71%) XML
12 8 (0.63%) PyTorch
13 7 (0.55%) REST
13 7 (0.55%) TensorFlow
14 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
14 5 (0.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 196 (15.40%) Self-Motivation
2 160 (12.57%) Algorithms
3 132 (10.37%) Cloud Native
4 109 (8.56%) Data Structures
5 79 (6.21%) Public Cloud
6 63 (4.95%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.53%) Product Ownership
8 43 (3.38%) Legacy Code
9 41 (3.22%) Reinsurance
10 39 (3.06%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.49%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.41%) CCTV
12 18 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.34%) Driving Licence
13 17 (1.34%) IoT
13 17 (1.34%) SCADA
14 16 (1.26%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
16 13 (1.02%) Online Games
17 12 (0.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (2.83%) Unix
2 34 (2.67%) Linux
3 21 (1.65%) Windows
3 21 (1.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (45.09%) Agile
2 504 (39.59%) Data Engineering
3 437 (34.33%) Data Pipeline
4 399 (31.34%) ETL
5 390 (30.64%) CI/CD
6 362 (28.44%) Data Modelling
7 339 (26.63%) Data Science
8 311 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
9 304 (23.88%) Mentoring
10 296 (23.25%) DevOps
11 289 (22.70%) Analytics
12 269 (21.13%) Software Engineering
13 266 (20.90%) Machine Learning
14 216 (16.97%) SDLC
15 213 (16.73%) Artificial Intelligence
16 203 (15.95%) Business Intelligence
17 199 (15.63%) Visualisation
18 198 (15.55%) Operational Stability
19 180 (14.14%) Platform Engineering
20 178 (13.98%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 583 (45.80%) Python
2 523 (41.08%) SQL
3 163 (12.80%) Java
4 78 (6.13%) Scala
5 61 (4.79%) PL/SQL
6 53 (4.16%) T-SQL
7 26 (2.04%) C#
8 20 (1.57%) Bash
9 18 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.18%) R
11 13 (1.02%) JavaScript
12 11 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.71%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.47%) C
14 6 (0.47%) PHP
15 5 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.31%) Go
16 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 124 (9.74%) Degree
2 45 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 28 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (2.12%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.73%) Master's Degree
5 22 (1.73%) SC Cleared
6 17 (1.34%) Azure Certification
7 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (0.71%) DBS Check
9 5 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.31%) CCNA
10 4 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.16%) HNC
11 2 (0.16%) HND
11 2 (0.16%) PhD
12 1 (0.079%) CCNP
12 1 (0.079%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.079%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (16.97%) Data Quality
2 160 (12.57%) GDPR
3 35 (2.75%) SLA
4 10 (0.79%) QA
5 9 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.079%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.079%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.079%) GMP
6 1 (0.079%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.079%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (3.22%) Docker
2 32 (2.51%) HDFS
3 16 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.079%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 99 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 83 (6.52%) Terraform
3 22 (1.73%) Ansible
4 18 (1.41%) Grafana
4 18 (1.41%) HAProxy
4 18 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.079%) Oozie
Vendors
1 243 (19.09%) Databricks
2 207 (16.26%) Google
3 121 (9.51%) Microsoft
4 101 (7.93%) Informatica
5 75 (5.89%) Oracle
6 65 (5.11%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.41%) Cognos
7 18 (1.41%) Sybase
8 16 (1.26%) VMware
9 10 (0.79%) Teradata
10 8 (0.63%) MuleSoft
10 8 (0.63%) SAP
11 7 (0.55%) Dataiku
11 7 (0.55%) YouTube
12 6 (0.47%) F5
12 6 (0.47%) Talend
13 4 (0.31%) Splunk
14 3 (0.24%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.24%) Siemens
14 3 (0.24%) SnapLogic