Data Engineer Jobs in Cheshire

Data Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Cheshire is £35,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 78 86
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 24 14 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.57% 1.48% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.66% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 11 5 3
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £34,723 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% - -20.83%
75th Percentile - £52,500 £53,125
90th Percentile - £53,250 £55,750
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -0.95% -10.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 1,483 842 983
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.99% 89.19% 93.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,114 480 529
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,403 £24,925
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £33,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,824 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £58,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £88,750 £72,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,941 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.99% +4.65% +10.53%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cheshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Cheshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Cheshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cheshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Cheshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Chester +9 9 £35,000 -4.80% 1
Warrington -25 4 £67,500 +35.00%
Macclesfield - 4 £31,000 -
Crewe - 3 £35,000 -
Sandbach - 2 - -
Data Engineer
North West

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 24 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 Cheshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 16 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 12 (50.00%) Data Science
3 12 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (50.00%) Python
4 10 (41.67%) Data Lake
4 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (29.17%) ETL
5 7 (29.17%) Azure
5 7 (29.17%) DataOps
6 6 (25.00%) Snowflake
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (25.00%) Google
6 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (25.00%) SQL
6 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (25.00%) Star Schema
6 6 (25.00%) Change Management
6 6 (25.00%) GDPR
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Looker

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (16.67%) Apache
1 4 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 6 (25.00%) GCP
2 6 (25.00%) Matillion
2 6 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (20.83%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (4.17%) DMZ
2 1 (4.17%) LAN
2 1 (4.17%) NX-OS
2 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.17%) WAN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) Data Lake
2 6 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 6 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (25.00%) Looker
2 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (25.00%) Star Schema
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (16.67%) Tableau
4 2 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Back Office
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (8.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (25.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (16.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (62.50%) Data Engineering
3 12 (50.00%) Data Science
4 10 (41.67%) Machine Learning
5 7 (29.17%) DataOps
5 7 (29.17%) ETL
6 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 6 (25.00%) Change Management
6 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (25.00%) Data Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Data Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 6 (25.00%) DevOps
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) CCNA
2 4 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 6 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (4.17%) Arista
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) Sun