Data Engineer Job Trends in Bury

Data Engineer
Manchester > Bury

The median Data Engineer salary in Bury is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bury 9.09% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 12.50% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Bury

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bury. 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 Bury with a recognized job title 8 17 21
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 72.73% 85.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 4 10
10th Percentile £27,950 £46,000 £23,405
25th Percentile £29,000 £49,375 £28,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.95% +16.67% +25.70%
75th Percentile £35,313 £56,563 £58,063
90th Percentile £44,500 £61,625 £66,125
Manchester median annual salary £60,000 £54,143 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.82% -1.56% -8.33%

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury

For the 6 months to 16 September 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bury region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bury by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Lakehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft