Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 172 160
Rank change year-on-year -84 -12 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 653 1,474 1,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.24% 1.64% 2.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.73% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 507 1,116 1,428
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,105 £46,534
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%
75th Percentile £93,750 £85,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £120,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 47,373 85,234 69,473
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 94.65% 91.58%
Number of salaries quoted 26,433 61,352 48,383
10th Percentile £28,000 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 2025. 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
London +19 370 £85,000 +13.33% 289
North of England -144 106 £60,000 - 95
South East -3 57 £70,000 +33.33% 119
Midlands -7 53 £65,000 +8.33% 54
Yorkshire -11 50 £60,000 +17.65% 35
North West -143 48 £61,938 -0.90% 43
South West +3 33 £62,500 +13.64% 51
West Midlands -5 29 £60,000 - 40
East of England +8 27 £65,127 +15.78% 10
East Midlands +29 24 £65,000 +26.21% 14
North East -15 8 £58,750 -21.67% 17
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 July 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 466 (71.36%) Python
2 422 (64.62%) SQL
3 347 (53.14%) Azure
4 337 (51.61%) Data Engineering
5 295 (45.18%) ETL
6 254 (38.90%) AWS
7 253 (38.74%) Data Pipeline
8 219 (33.54%) Data Modelling
9 213 (32.62%) Analytics
10 198 (30.32%) Data Warehouse
10 198 (30.32%) Finance
11 187 (28.64%) Databricks
12 181 (27.72%) CI/CD
13 180 (27.57%) Agile
14 171 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
15 169 (25.88%) DevOps
16 165 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
17 154 (23.58%) PySpark
18 150 (22.97%) Power Platform
19 147 (22.51%) Azure Data Factory
20 145 (22.21%) Power BI
21 140 (21.44%) Social Skills
22 127 (19.45%) Data Science
23 120 (18.38%) Terraform
23 120 (18.38%) Java
24 113 (17.30%) Data Quality
25 112 (17.15%) Data Lake
26 104 (15.93%) Apache Spark
26 104 (15.93%) Software Engineering
27 102 (15.62%) Apache Airflow

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 104 (15.93%) Apache Spark
2 102 (15.62%) Apache Airflow
3 76 (11.64%) Apache
4 8 (1.23%) SAS
5 7 (1.07%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) Luigi
7 4 (0.61%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.31%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.15%) Appian
9 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.61%) SPSS
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Aladdin
1 2 (0.31%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.15%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.15%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 347 (53.14%) Azure
2 254 (38.90%) AWS
3 150 (22.97%) Power Platform
4 147 (22.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 99 (15.16%) GCP
6 95 (14.55%) Serverless
7 90 (13.78%) dbt
8 86 (13.17%) Snowflake
9 75 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
9 75 (11.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 58 (8.88%) Amazon S3
10 58 (8.88%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (5.67%) Amazon ECS
11 37 (5.67%) OpenShift
12 22 (3.37%) Azure Logic Apps
13 20 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.91%) SaaS
15 18 (2.76%) Azure Functions
16 17 (2.60%) GitHub
17 16 (2.45%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.77%) Internet
2 3 (0.46%) PuTTY
2 3 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.31%) Multicast
3 2 (0.31%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (30.32%) Data Warehouse
2 145 (22.21%) Power BI
3 112 (17.15%) Data Lake
4 66 (10.11%) SQL Server
5 64 (9.80%) Amazon Athena
6 50 (7.66%) Apache Iceberg
7 46 (7.04%) Big Data
8 45 (6.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 41 (6.28%) Dremio
10 34 (5.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (5.05%) Apache Arrow
11 33 (5.05%) Apache Ignite
11 33 (5.05%) Tableau
12 31 (4.75%) NoSQL
13 30 (4.59%) BigQuery
14 29 (4.44%) Hadoop
15 28 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 28 (4.29%) Relational Database
16 24 (3.68%) MySQL
17 23 (3.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 34 (5.21%) Artifactory
2 27 (4.13%) Git
3 17 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.07%) JIRA
5 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.77%) CircleCI
6 5 (0.77%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.61%) Terragrunt
8 3 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.15%) ERwin
9 1 (0.15%) kappa
9 1 (0.15%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.15%) Selenium
9 1 (0.15%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 198 (30.32%) Finance
2 140 (21.44%) Social Skills
3 99 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.72%) Law
5 49 (7.50%) Front Office
6 46 (7.04%) Marketing
7 39 (5.97%) Banking
7 39 (5.97%) Public Sector
8 36 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 30 (4.59%) Retail
10 15 (2.30%) Advertising
11 14 (2.14%) Legal
12 11 (1.68%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 7 (1.07%) Electronics
15 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
16 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (0.61%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.61%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (23.58%) PySpark
2 80 (12.25%) Kafka
3 33 (5.05%) J2EE
4 21 (3.22%) .NET
5 16 (2.45%) ARM Templates
6 15 (2.30%) Pandas
7 12 (1.84%) JSON
8 11 (1.68%) XML
9 10 (1.53%) NumPy
9 10 (1.53%) pytest
10 9 (1.38%) REST
10 9 (1.38%) RESTful
10 9 (1.38%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (1.23%) SciPy
12 7 (1.07%) RabbitMQ
13 6 (0.92%) Apache NiFi
13 6 (0.92%) Django
13 6 (0.92%) HTML
13 6 (0.92%) React
14 5 (0.77%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.83%) Data Structures
1 25 (3.83%) Product Ownership
2 19 (2.91%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
5 9 (1.38%) Equities
6 8 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 8 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.23%) Replication
7 7 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
9 5 (0.77%) Data Fabric
9 5 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
9 5 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.61%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.61%) IoT
10 4 (0.61%) Management Information System
10 4 (0.61%) Mobile Banking
11 3 (0.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.23%) Unix
2 4 (0.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (51.61%) Data Engineering
2 295 (45.18%) ETL
3 253 (38.74%) Data Pipeline
4 219 (33.54%) Data Modelling
5 213 (32.62%) Analytics
6 181 (27.72%) CI/CD
7 180 (27.57%) Agile
8 171 (26.19%) Business Intelligence
9 169 (25.88%) DevOps
10 165 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (19.45%) Data Science
12 104 (15.93%) Software Engineering
13 101 (15.47%) Mentoring
14 95 (14.55%) Artificial Intelligence
15 92 (14.09%) Visualisation
16 76 (11.64%) Data Governance
17 72 (11.03%) Decision-Making
18 70 (10.72%) Machine Learning
19 63 (9.65%) Data Architecture
19 63 (9.65%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 466 (71.36%) Python
2 422 (64.62%) SQL
3 120 (18.38%) Java
4 63 (9.65%) Scala
5 41 (6.28%) C#
6 36 (5.51%) T-SQL
7 35 (5.36%) Go
8 25 (3.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (3.68%) R
10 14 (2.14%) C++
11 12 (1.84%) JavaScript
12 11 (1.68%) PowerShell
12 11 (1.68%) SPARQL
13 9 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.92%) Bash
14 6 (0.92%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.77%) Bicep
15 5 (0.77%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.61%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.61%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 91 (13.94%) Degree
2 42 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 42 (6.43%) Security Cleared
3 37 (5.67%) SC Cleared
4 26 (3.98%) Master's Degree
5 24 (3.68%) Azure Certification
6 13 (1.99%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.38%) SnowPro
8 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.46%) CCSK
9 3 (0.46%) CCSP
9 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.46%) CISSP
9 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.31%) PhD
11 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.15%) NVQ Level 3
11 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (17.30%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.83%) GDPR
3 19 (2.91%) QA
4 13 (1.99%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.61%) NIST
7 3 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.31%) Dublin Core
8 2 (0.31%) GAAP
8 2 (0.31%) GRC
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 95 (14.55%) Docker
2 10 (1.53%) HDFS
3 8 (1.23%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 120 (18.38%) Terraform
2 92 (14.09%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.23%) Ansible
3 8 (1.23%) Oozie
4 5 (0.77%) Grafana
4 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.61%) Kibana
6 3 (0.46%) CASB
6 3 (0.46%) logstash
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 187 (28.64%) Databricks
2 90 (13.78%) Microsoft
3 38 (5.82%) Google
4 23 (3.52%) Oracle
5 21 (3.22%) Informatica
6 18 (2.76%) SAP
7 17 (2.60%) Palantir
8 12 (1.84%) Talend
9 11 (1.68%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.38%) Foundry
11 8 (1.23%) PayPal
12 6 (0.92%) Splunk
13 4 (0.61%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.61%) Vertica
14 3 (0.46%) MicroStrategy
14 3 (0.46%) Refinitiv
14 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.46%) Symantec
14 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
15 2 (0.31%) Dataiku