Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 152 156
Rank change year-on-year -9 +4 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,553 2,217 3,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.83% 2.39% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.61% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1,122 1,567 1,878
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £44,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £84,313 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £124,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,823
% change year-on-year -7.14% +1.71% +14.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 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
London -24 585 £75,000 -11.76% 192
North of England +84 392 £55,000 -8.33% 56
North West +98 252 £60,000 +15.38% 36
South East -41 168 £50,000 -20.00% 26
South West -35 153 £66,250 +0.45% 21
Midlands -11 146 £55,000 +3.29% 26
West Midlands +7 105 £60,000 +12.68% 13
Yorkshire +66 86 £51,000 -21.54% 17
East of England +40 77 £60,000 +11.63% 16
North East +6 54 £71,500 +10.00% 3
East Midlands -3 40 £47,500 -13.64% 13
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 783 (50.42%) SQL
2 754 (48.55%) Python
3 660 (42.50%) Data Engineering
4 619 (39.86%) ETL
5 591 (38.06%) Data Pipeline
6 589 (37.93%) Azure
7 460 (29.62%) Data Science
8 447 (28.78%) Data Modelling
9 420 (27.04%) Data Warehouse
10 414 (26.66%) Analytics
11 406 (26.14%) AWS
12 403 (25.95%) Agile
13 377 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
14 376 (24.21%) GCP
15 366 (23.57%) DevOps
16 316 (20.35%) Social Skills
17 298 (19.19%) Databricks
18 297 (19.12%) Mentoring
19 292 (18.80%) Data Quality
20 282 (18.16%) Business Intelligence
21 261 (16.81%) Data Lake
21 261 (16.81%) Power Platform
22 257 (16.55%) Power BI
23 252 (16.23%) BigQuery
24 244 (15.71%) SQL Server
24 244 (15.71%) Google
25 239 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
26 227 (14.62%) Finance
27 224 (14.42%) CI/CD
28 217 (13.97%) Platform Engineering

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
1 139 (8.95%) Apache Spark
2 110 (7.08%) Apache
3 103 (6.63%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (1.16%) nginx
5 17 (1.09%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.77%) Confluence
7 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.19%) Luigi
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 589 (37.93%) Azure
2 406 (26.14%) AWS
3 376 (24.21%) GCP
4 261 (16.81%) Power Platform
5 179 (11.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (9.85%) Snowflake
7 120 (7.73%) Amazon S3
7 120 (7.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 103 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (6.57%) dbt
10 90 (5.80%) Serverless
11 60 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
12 48 (3.09%) GitHub
13 43 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 37 (2.38%) Amazon Kinesis
15 36 (2.32%) SaaS
16 35 (2.25%) Matillion
17 32 (2.06%) Amazon EMR
18 19 (1.22%) Fivetran
18 19 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.96%) Structured Cabling
2 14 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.71%) Wireless
4 9 (0.58%) Network Security
5 5 (0.32%) Firewall
5 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.26%) FTP
6 4 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.13%) WebEx
8 1 (0.064%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.064%) 5G
8 1 (0.064%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.064%) DMZ
8 1 (0.064%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.064%) PPP
8 1 (0.064%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.064%) SMS
8 1 (0.064%) snoop
8 1 (0.064%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (27.04%) Data Warehouse
2 261 (16.81%) Data Lake
3 257 (16.55%) Power BI
4 252 (16.23%) BigQuery
5 244 (15.71%) SQL Server
6 170 (10.95%) Looker
7 136 (8.76%) Big Data
8 112 (7.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 92 (5.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 88 (5.67%) Hadoop
11 80 (5.15%) NoSQL
12 79 (5.09%) Tableau
13 71 (4.57%) Relational Database
14 63 (4.06%) Data Vault
15 61 (3.93%) Azure SQL Database
16 57 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
17 52 (3.35%) Delta Lake
18 44 (2.83%) Star Schema
19 37 (2.38%) Metadata
19 37 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 73 (4.70%) Git
2 63 (4.06%) JIRA
3 58 (3.73%) Jenkins
4 45 (2.90%) GitLab
5 17 (1.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.64%) CircleCI
6 10 (0.64%) Spinnaker
7 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.39%) RStudio
11 4 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.064%) Ant
13 1 (0.064%) Gradle
13 1 (0.064%) JUnit
13 1 (0.064%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.064%) Zephyr
General
1 316 (20.35%) Social Skills
2 239 (15.39%) Analytical Skills
3 227 (14.62%) Finance
4 94 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (4.38%) Banking
5 68 (4.38%) Retail
6 49 (3.16%) Public Sector
7 42 (2.70%) Games
8 41 (2.64%) Telecoms
9 35 (2.25%) Marketing
10 32 (2.06%) Legal
11 24 (1.55%) Law
12 20 (1.29%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.71%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (0.71%) Retail Banking
14 10 (0.64%) Electronics
15 9 (0.58%) Front Office
15 9 (0.58%) Health Technology
15 9 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (8.37%) PySpark
2 75 (4.83%) Kafka
3 47 (3.03%) Pandas
4 25 (1.61%) Apache Beam
5 23 (1.48%) RESTful
6 21 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
6 21 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
7 20 (1.29%) .NET
7 20 (1.29%) JSON
8 19 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (1.16%) RabbitMQ
9 18 (1.16%) XML
10 17 (1.09%) YAML
11 15 (0.97%) PyTorch
12 14 (0.90%) TensorFlow
13 13 (0.84%) REST
14 12 (0.77%) AWS CDK
15 11 (0.71%) GraphQL
16 10 (0.64%) NumPy
16 10 (0.64%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 198 (12.75%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (8.11%) Data Structures
3 58 (3.73%) Public Cloud
4 49 (3.16%) Reinsurance
5 39 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 37 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (1.74%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 26 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.48%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.42%) IoT
12 21 (1.35%) Client/Server
13 20 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.22%) CCTV
15 17 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (1.09%) SCADA
16 16 (1.03%) Operational Technology
17 15 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
18 14 (0.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 58 (3.73%) Linux
2 29 (1.87%) Windows
3 22 (1.42%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.35%) Unix
5 4 (0.26%) Android
5 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.26%) CentOS
5 4 (0.26%) Solaris
5 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 660 (42.50%) Data Engineering
2 619 (39.86%) ETL
3 591 (38.06%) Data Pipeline
4 460 (29.62%) Data Science
5 447 (28.78%) Data Modelling
6 414 (26.66%) Analytics
7 403 (25.95%) Agile
8 377 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
9 366 (23.57%) DevOps
10 297 (19.12%) Mentoring
11 282 (18.16%) Business Intelligence
12 224 (14.42%) CI/CD
13 217 (13.97%) Platform Engineering
14 212 (13.65%) Data Integration
15 189 (12.17%) Machine Learning
16 178 (11.46%) DataOps
17 145 (9.34%) Change Management
18 136 (8.76%) Visualisation
19 130 (8.37%) Data Management
20 127 (8.18%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 783 (50.42%) SQL
2 754 (48.55%) Python
3 98 (6.31%) Java
4 81 (5.22%) Scala
4 81 (5.22%) T-SQL
5 50 (3.22%) C#
6 28 (1.80%) R
7 26 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 22 (1.42%) Bash
9 19 (1.22%) PowerShell
9 19 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.16%) JavaScript
11 15 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.58%) U-SQL
13 8 (0.52%) C
13 8 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.52%) VB
14 7 (0.45%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.39%) PHP
16 5 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 186 (11.98%) Degree
2 59 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (3.61%) Security Cleared
4 37 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 35 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 28 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 21 (1.35%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.45%) CISSP
11 5 (0.32%) PhD
12 4 (0.26%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.26%) CCNA
12 4 (0.26%) CISM
12 4 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.19%) CCSK
13 3 (0.19%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 292 (18.80%) Data Quality
2 155 (9.98%) GDPR
3 20 (1.29%) QA
4 15 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.26%) NIST
5 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.064%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.064%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.064%) GMP
7 1 (0.064%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (5.80%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.64%) HDFS
4 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.064%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 132 (8.50%) Terraform
2 87 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.87%) Ansible
4 18 (1.16%) Grafana
4 18 (1.16%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.09%) HAProxy
6 6 (0.39%) logstash
7 3 (0.19%) Argo
7 3 (0.19%) CASB
7 3 (0.19%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.13%) Marathon
8 2 (0.13%) Mesos
9 1 (0.064%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.064%) Kibana
9 1 (0.064%) Oozie
9 1 (0.064%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.064%) Podman
Vendors
1 298 (19.19%) Databricks
2 244 (15.71%) Google
3 172 (11.08%) Microsoft
4 85 (5.47%) Informatica
5 76 (4.89%) Oracle
6 18 (1.16%) Alteryx
6 18 (1.16%) YouTube
7 17 (1.09%) Cloudera
8 16 (1.03%) VMware
9 14 (0.90%) Dataiku
10 12 (0.77%) SAP
10 12 (0.77%) Teradata
11 10 (0.64%) MuleSoft
12 9 (0.58%) Splunk
13 8 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.45%) Talend
15 6 (0.39%) F5
16 5 (0.32%) SnapLogic
17 4 (0.26%) Qualys
18 3 (0.19%) Siemens