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 16 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
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 169 155
Rank change year-on-year -82 -14 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 650 1,474 1,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.24% 1.64% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 1.73% 2.48%
Number of salaries quoted 506 1,116 1,433
10th Percentile £50,000 £35,105 £46,510
25th Percentile £57,500 £49,938 £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 47,366 84,988 69,006
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.24% 94.67% 91.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,430 61,085 48,189
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -
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 16 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 16 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 +24 364 £85,000 +13.33% 298
North of England -132 107 £60,000 - 96
Midlands -9 58 £65,000 +8.33% 56
South East -3 55 £65,000 +26.83% 116
Yorkshire -5 50 £60,000 +17.65% 34
North West -135 49 £60,000 -2.04% 46
South West -3 33 £62,500 +13.64% 48
West Midlands -6 32 £60,000 -0.41% 47
East of England +13 27 £65,127 +15.78% 11
East Midlands +33 26 £65,000 +26.21% 9
North East -10 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 16 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.

1 465 (71.54%) Python
2 422 (64.92%) SQL
3 353 (54.31%) Azure
4 332 (51.08%) Data Engineering
5 291 (44.77%) ETL
6 253 (38.92%) Data Pipeline
7 248 (38.15%) AWS
8 224 (34.46%) Data Modelling
9 215 (33.08%) Analytics
10 201 (30.92%) Data Warehouse
11 196 (30.15%) Finance
12 187 (28.77%) Databricks
13 179 (27.54%) CI/CD
14 178 (27.38%) Agile
15 173 (26.62%) Business Intelligence
16 167 (25.69%) DevOps
17 166 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
18 153 (23.54%) Power Platform
19 151 (23.23%) PySpark
20 148 (22.77%) Azure Data Factory
20 148 (22.77%) Power BI
21 140 (21.54%) Social Skills
22 127 (19.54%) Data Science
23 115 (17.69%) Java
24 114 (17.54%) Terraform
25 111 (17.08%) Data Quality
26 110 (16.92%) Data Lake
27 101 (15.54%) Mentoring
28 100 (15.38%) Apache Spark
28 100 (15.38%) Software 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
1 100 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 99 (15.23%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (11.23%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) Confluence
4 7 (1.08%) SAS
5 5 (0.77%) Luigi
6 4 (0.62%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.15%) Appian
7 1 (0.15%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.23%) Chatbot
2 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.46%) SPSS
4 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
1 353 (54.31%) Azure
2 248 (38.15%) AWS
3 153 (23.54%) Power Platform
4 148 (22.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 98 (15.08%) GCP
6 90 (13.85%) Serverless
7 87 (13.38%) dbt
8 85 (13.08%) Snowflake
9 73 (11.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 71 (10.92%) AWS Lambda
11 59 (9.08%) Azure DevOps
12 56 (8.62%) Amazon S3
13 34 (5.23%) Amazon ECS
13 34 (5.23%) OpenShift
14 22 (3.38%) Azure Logic Apps
15 19 (2.92%) SaaS
16 18 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (2.62%) Azure Functions
18 16 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
18 16 (2.46%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.62%) 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
1 201 (30.92%) Data Warehouse
2 148 (22.77%) Power BI
3 110 (16.92%) Data Lake
4 65 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 59 (9.08%) Amazon Athena
6 47 (7.23%) Apache Iceberg
7 45 (6.92%) Big Data
8 43 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
9 38 (5.85%) Dremio
10 33 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 32 (4.92%) Tableau
12 30 (4.62%) Apache Arrow
12 30 (4.62%) Apache Ignite
12 30 (4.62%) BigQuery
12 30 (4.62%) NoSQL
13 28 (4.31%) Hadoop
13 28 (4.31%) Relational Database
14 27 (4.15%) Azure SQL Database
15 24 (3.69%) Delta Lake
16 23 (3.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (4.77%) Artifactory
2 27 (4.15%) Git
3 16 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.08%) JIRA
5 6 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.77%) CircleCI
7 4 (0.62%) Spinnaker
7 4 (0.62%) 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
1 196 (30.15%) Finance
2 140 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 98 (15.08%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.77%) Law
5 46 (7.08%) Front Office
6 45 (6.92%) Marketing
7 39 (6.00%) Banking
7 39 (6.00%) Public Sector
8 37 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (5.38%) Retail
10 14 (2.15%) Advertising
10 14 (2.15%) Legal
11 11 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.23%) Telecoms
13 7 (1.08%) Electronics
14 6 (0.92%) Tech for Good
15 4 (0.62%) Games
15 4 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.62%) Music Industry
15 4 (0.62%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (23.23%) PySpark
2 77 (11.85%) Kafka
3 30 (4.62%) J2EE
4 20 (3.08%) .NET
5 16 (2.46%) ARM Templates
6 15 (2.31%) Pandas
7 12 (1.85%) JSON
8 11 (1.69%) XML
9 10 (1.54%) NumPy
9 10 (1.54%) pytest
10 9 (1.38%) REST
10 9 (1.38%) RESTful
10 9 (1.38%) Spark Streaming
11 8 (1.23%) SciPy
12 7 (1.08%) 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%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 24 (3.69%) Product Ownership
3 20 (3.08%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.38%) Algorithms
6 9 (1.38%) Equities
7 8 (1.23%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.23%) Replication
8 7 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (0.92%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.77%) Data Fabric
10 5 (0.77%) Distributed Applications
10 5 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
10 5 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.62%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.62%) IoT
11 4 (0.62%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.62%) Mobile Banking
12 3 (0.46%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.23%) Unix
2 4 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (51.08%) Data Engineering
2 291 (44.77%) ETL
3 253 (38.92%) Data Pipeline
4 224 (34.46%) Data Modelling
5 215 (33.08%) Analytics
6 179 (27.54%) CI/CD
7 178 (27.38%) Agile
8 173 (26.62%) Business Intelligence
9 167 (25.69%) DevOps
10 166 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
11 127 (19.54%) Data Science
12 101 (15.54%) Mentoring
13 100 (15.38%) Software Engineering
14 95 (14.62%) Artificial Intelligence
15 91 (14.00%) Visualisation
16 75 (11.54%) Data Governance
17 72 (11.08%) Decision-Making
18 70 (10.77%) Machine Learning
19 64 (9.85%) Data Architecture
20 62 (9.54%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 465 (71.54%) Python
2 422 (64.92%) SQL
3 115 (17.69%) Java
4 61 (9.38%) Scala
5 37 (5.69%) C#
6 36 (5.54%) T-SQL
7 32 (4.92%) Go
8 24 (3.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (3.54%) R
10 14 (2.15%) C++
11 12 (1.85%) JavaScript
12 11 (1.69%) SPARQL
13 9 (1.38%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.92%) Bash
15 6 (0.92%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.92%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.77%) Bicep
17 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
18 3 (0.46%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 89 (13.69%) Degree
2 42 (6.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 41 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 36 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 25 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 22 (3.38%) Azure Certification
7 13 (2.00%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.38%) SnowPro
9 6 (0.92%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.46%) CCSK
10 3 (0.46%) CCSP
10 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.46%) CISSP
10 3 (0.46%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.15%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.15%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (17.08%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.85%) GDPR
3 19 (2.92%) QA
4 13 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.62%) 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 90 (13.85%) Docker
2 10 (1.54%) HDFS
3 8 (1.23%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 114 (17.54%) Terraform
2 88 (13.54%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.23%) Oozie
4 7 (1.08%) Ansible
5 5 (0.77%) Grafana
5 5 (0.77%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.62%) Kibana
7 3 (0.46%) CASB
7 3 (0.46%) logstash
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.31%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 187 (28.77%) Databricks
2 88 (13.54%) Microsoft
3 37 (5.69%) Google
4 22 (3.38%) Oracle
5 21 (3.23%) Informatica
6 18 (2.77%) SAP
7 17 (2.62%) Palantir
8 12 (1.85%) Talend
9 11 (1.69%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.38%) Foundry
11 8 (1.23%) PayPal
12 6 (0.92%) Splunk
13 4 (0.62%) Red Hat
14 3 (0.46%) MicroStrategy
14 3 (0.46%) Refinitiv
14 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.46%) Symantec
14 3 (0.46%) Vertica
14 3 (0.46%) Zscaler
15 2 (0.31%) Dataiku