Data Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 147 254
Rank change year-on-year -44 +107 +34
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,040 1,377 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.47% 2.31% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.42% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 499 444 514
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,544 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,249 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -7.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £79,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,455 57,006 67,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.91% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,124 29,353 41,315
10th Percentile £27,128 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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 of England -46 316 £60,000 -1.93% 42
South East +26 201 £67,500 -3.57% 34
Midlands -31 179 £59,300 +5.89% 29
North West -34 174 £55,000 +2.33% 26
South West -18 152 £75,000 +24.48% 25
Scotland -27 121 £70,000 +3.70% 7
West Midlands -47 114 £62,500 +10.13% 24
Yorkshire -35 88 £65,066 -0.44% 7
East Midlands -2 64 £43,750 -20.45% 5
North East +18 54 £75,000 +11.11% 9
East of England -53 43 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Wales +1 19 £97,500 +118.29% 4
Northern Ireland +31 9 £55,000 - 6
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 91 (8.75%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.17%) Apache
3 30 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.92%) Confluence
5 18 (1.73%) Jupyter
5 18 (1.73%) nginx
6 4 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.096%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 464 (44.62%) Azure
2 448 (43.08%) GCP
3 354 (34.04%) AWS
4 163 (15.67%) Power Platform
5 111 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (9.13%) Snowflake
7 92 (8.85%) Azure Data Factory
8 62 (5.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 50 (4.81%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.94%) dbt
11 37 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (3.08%) Matillion
13 25 (2.40%) Serverless
14 18 (1.73%) MinIO
14 18 (1.73%) OpenShift
15 17 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (1.54%) SaaS
17 15 (1.44%) Amazon Kinesis
18 14 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
19 13 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.29%) VoIP
2 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.096%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.096%) 5G
4 1 (0.096%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (38.37%) Data Warehouse
2 372 (35.77%) BigQuery
3 337 (32.40%) Looker
4 163 (15.67%) Power BI
5 154 (14.81%) Data Lake
6 109 (10.48%) SQL Server
7 58 (5.58%) Big Data
8 56 (5.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 55 (5.29%) Tableau
10 44 (4.23%) Relational Database
11 43 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 41 (3.94%) Hadoop
13 37 (3.56%) Star Schema
14 35 (3.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 34 (3.27%) Metadata
16 30 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
17 22 (2.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
18 21 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (1.92%) MySQL
20 18 (1.73%) Presto
Development Applications
1 41 (3.94%) GitLab
1 41 (3.94%) Jenkins
2 24 (2.31%) Git
2 24 (2.31%) JIRA
3 18 (1.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (0.48%) Spinnaker
5 4 (0.38%) ERwin
6 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.096%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.096%) JUnit
8 1 (0.096%) Toad
General
1 398 (38.27%) Analytical Skills
2 197 (18.94%) Finance
3 147 (14.13%) Social Skills
4 108 (10.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.92%) Billing
6 66 (6.35%) Law
7 57 (5.48%) Marketing
8 49 (4.71%) Banking
9 40 (3.85%) Retail
10 30 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.31%) Games
11 24 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 18 (1.73%) Legal
13 13 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.48%) Electronics
16 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.38%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 498 (47.88%) Data Engineer
2 159 (15.29%) Platform Engineer
2 159 (15.29%) Principal Engineer
3 158 (15.19%) Principal Data Engineer
4 143 (13.75%) Data Manager
5 136 (13.08%) Architect
6 129 (12.40%) Lead
7 126 (12.12%) Data Architect
8 122 (11.73%) Senior
9 118 (11.35%) Engineering Manager
10 66 (6.35%) Lead Data Engineer
11 62 (5.96%) Software Engineer
12 49 (4.71%) Senior Data Engineer
13 43 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (3.56%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
16 31 (2.98%) Developer
17 30 (2.88%) Azure Data Engineer
18 27 (2.60%) Security Engineer
19 26 (2.50%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.00%) PySpark
2 33 (3.17%) React
3 30 (2.88%) Kafka
4 24 (2.31%) AngularJS
4 24 (2.31%) Spring
5 20 (1.92%) ActiveMQ
5 20 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
5 20 (1.92%) TensorFlow
6 18 (1.73%) Elastic Stack
6 18 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
6 18 (1.73%) YAML
7 14 (1.35%) Keras
7 14 (1.35%) NumPy
8 13 (1.25%) Apache Beam
8 13 (1.25%) JPA
8 13 (1.25%) REST
9 12 (1.15%) RESTful
9 12 (1.15%) Web Services
10 11 (1.06%) Hibernate
10 11 (1.06%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 284 (27.31%) Self-Motivation
2 99 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 57 (5.48%) Algorithms
4 55 (5.29%) Data Structures
5 50 (4.81%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.54%) Reference Data
9 15 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 13 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 13 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 10 (0.96%) Onboarding
12 9 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.87%) IoT
12 9 (0.87%) Online Games
13 8 (0.77%) NHS
13 8 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
14 6 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
15 5 (0.48%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 33 (3.17%) Linux
2 9 (0.87%) Windows
3 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.096%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (46.92%) Problem-Solving
2 476 (45.77%) Agile
3 448 (43.08%) ETL
4 433 (41.63%) Data Modelling
5 371 (35.67%) Mentoring
6 360 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
7 354 (34.04%) DevOps
8 349 (33.56%) Data Pipeline
9 347 (33.37%) Analytics
10 343 (32.98%) Data Science
11 221 (21.25%) CI/CD
12 220 (21.15%) Data Governance
13 210 (20.19%) Business Intelligence
14 193 (18.56%) Data Architecture
15 175 (16.83%) DataOps
16 173 (16.63%) Data Integration
17 172 (16.54%) Machine Learning
18 168 (16.15%) Change Management
19 149 (14.33%) Visualisation
20 116 (11.15%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 346 (33.27%) SQL
2 307 (29.52%) Python
3 112 (10.77%) Java
4 47 (4.52%) T-SQL
5 39 (3.75%) Scala
6 23 (2.21%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.92%) Bash
8 19 (1.83%) C#
9 14 (1.35%) Go
9 14 (1.35%) MATLAB
10 10 (0.96%) R
11 8 (0.77%) Perl
11 8 (0.77%) PowerShell
11 8 (0.77%) Ruby
12 6 (0.58%) C
12 6 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.58%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.58%) VBA
13 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (9.71%) Degree
2 58 (5.58%) Security Cleared
3 41 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 35 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (3.17%) DBS Check
6 20 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.63%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.63%) SC Cleared
8 12 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.58%) MBA
9 6 (0.58%) OCP
9 6 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.58%) PhD
10 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (28.94%) Data Quality
2 267 (25.67%) GDPR
3 89 (8.56%) QA
4 16 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) COBIT
7 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.096%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (4.23%) Docker
2 7 (0.67%) IAG
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.096%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 55 (5.29%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.00%) Terraform
3 23 (2.21%) Ansible
4 18 (1.73%) Grafana
4 18 (1.73%) HAProxy
4 18 (1.73%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.67%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.096%) Oozie
6 1 (0.096%) Podman
6 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.096%) Puppet
6 1 (0.096%) Rancher
Vendors
1 381 (36.63%) Google
2 128 (12.31%) Microsoft
3 107 (10.29%) Databricks
4 44 (4.23%) Oracle
5 19 (1.83%) Informatica
6 17 (1.63%) Teradata
7 7 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.67%) Snow
8 6 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.58%) Dataiku
8 6 (0.58%) F5
9 5 (0.48%) SAP
10 4 (0.38%) Talend
11 3 (0.29%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.29%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.096%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.096%) Cognos
12 1 (0.096%) Dell
12 1 (0.096%) ESRI
12 1 (0.096%) StreamSets