Data Engineer Jobs in Bolton

Data Engineer
Manchester > Bolton

The median Data Engineer salary in Bolton is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 0.65% 0.88% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.94% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -
75th Percentile £56,250 £48,750 -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £67,500 £61,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +3.17%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Bolton with a recognized job title 128 106 33
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 83.12% 92.98% 53.23%
Number of salaries quoted 95 69 29
10th Percentile £25,480 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £43,750 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +26.51% -17.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £53,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £69,000 £63,150
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Bolton

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Bolton.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Bolton

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 24 August 2025, 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 Bolton region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bolton 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle