Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £68,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 158 159
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +48
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,282 1,594 3,932
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.64% 2.24% 2.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.45% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 954 1,345 1,932
10th Percentile £36,308 £46,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.21% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £103,925 £120,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 74,198 65,186 140,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.69% 91.70% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 51,681 46,119 77,508
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -44 486 £80,000 -5.88% 43
North of England +101 351 £60,000 -4.00% 36
North West +96 216 £62,500 +13.64% 17
Midlands 0 132 £60,000 +10.09% 15
South West +5 128 £55,000 -20.45% 19
South East -63 120 £45,000 -28.00% 18
West Midlands -3 96 £60,000 +11.11% 13
Yorkshire +71 91 £51,000 -23.88% 3
East of England +19 44 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North East +8 44 £72,500 +16.00% 16
East Midlands -3 34 £50,750 -3.33% 2
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 590 (46.02%) SQL
2 552 (43.06%) Python
2 552 (43.06%) Data Engineering
3 522 (40.72%) Azure
4 458 (35.73%) Data Pipeline
5 424 (33.07%) ETL
6 362 (28.24%) Agile
7 338 (26.37%) Analytics
8 323 (25.20%) DevOps
9 313 (24.41%) Data Modelling
10 306 (23.87%) Data Warehouse
11 304 (23.71%) GCP
12 292 (22.78%) Data Science
13 279 (21.76%) AWS
14 268 (20.90%) Databricks
15 265 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
16 253 (19.73%) Business Intelligence
17 249 (19.42%) Finance
18 239 (18.64%) Power Platform
19 236 (18.41%) Power BI
20 235 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
21 230 (17.94%) Mentoring
22 228 (17.78%) Social Skills
23 226 (17.63%) Data Lake
24 225 (17.55%) Data Quality
25 211 (16.46%) Google
26 202 (15.76%) Azure Data Factory
27 199 (15.52%) BigQuery
28 194 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
29 186 (14.51%) CI/CD

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
1 112 (8.74%) Apache Spark
2 92 (7.18%) Apache Airflow
3 78 (6.08%) Apache
4 17 (1.33%) nginx
5 16 (1.25%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.17%) Confluence
6 15 (1.17%) SAS
7 6 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.23%) Luigi
9 2 (0.16%) Apache Pig
9 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.078%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 23 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.16%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.078%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 522 (40.72%) Azure
2 304 (23.71%) GCP
3 279 (21.76%) AWS
4 239 (18.64%) Power Platform
5 202 (15.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 161 (12.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 95 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 93 (7.25%) dbt
9 78 (6.08%) Snowflake
10 74 (5.77%) Amazon S3
11 52 (4.06%) Serverless
12 46 (3.59%) GitHub
13 39 (3.04%) Dagster
14 27 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (1.64%) Amazon EMR
16 19 (1.48%) SaaS
17 18 (1.40%) Fivetran
18 17 (1.33%) OpenShift
19 16 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
19 16 (1.25%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.35%) Structured Cabling
2 24 (1.87%) Network Security
3 9 (0.70%) Wireless
4 7 (0.55%) Firewall
4 7 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 3 (0.23%) WebEx
7 2 (0.16%) 5G
7 2 (0.16%) LAN
7 2 (0.16%) PPP
7 2 (0.16%) WAN
8 1 (0.078%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.078%) FTP
8 1 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 306 (23.87%) Data Warehouse
2 236 (18.41%) Power BI
3 226 (17.63%) Data Lake
4 199 (15.52%) BigQuery
5 166 (12.95%) Looker
6 159 (12.40%) SQL Server
7 87 (6.79%) Big Data
7 87 (6.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 71 (5.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 62 (4.84%) NoSQL
9 62 (4.84%) Relational Database
10 53 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 51 (3.98%) Amazon Athena
12 49 (3.82%) Hadoop
13 45 (3.51%) Tableau
14 41 (3.20%) Data Vault
15 38 (2.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 36 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
17 35 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 34 (2.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 58 (4.52%) Git
2 45 (3.51%) JIRA
3 38 (2.96%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 14 (1.09%) GitLab
5 14 (1.09%) RStudio
6 6 (0.47%) Spinnaker
7 5 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.39%) CircleCI
7 5 (0.39%) MLflow
8 4 (0.31%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.16%) Flyway
9 2 (0.16%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.16%) Subversion
9 2 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.078%) ERwin
10 1 (0.078%) GoCD
10 1 (0.078%) Toad
General
1 249 (19.42%) Finance
2 235 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
3 228 (17.78%) Social Skills
4 77 (6.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 55 (4.29%) Banking
6 39 (3.04%) Retail
7 33 (2.57%) Front Office
8 31 (2.42%) Telecoms
9 25 (1.95%) Law
10 22 (1.72%) Legal
11 18 (1.40%) Marketing
12 13 (1.01%) Games
12 13 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 10 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 10 (0.78%) Public Sector
13 10 (0.78%) Publishing
14 9 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.55%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.55%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (13.57%) PySpark
2 55 (4.29%) Pandas
3 48 (3.74%) Kafka
4 35 (2.73%) NumPy
5 32 (2.50%) SciPy
6 18 (1.40%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (1.25%) YAML
9 10 (0.78%) REST
10 9 (0.70%) JSON
10 9 (0.70%) XML
11 8 (0.62%) .NET
11 8 (0.62%) HTML
12 7 (0.55%) Apache Beam
12 7 (0.55%) RESTful
13 6 (0.47%) AWS CDK
13 6 (0.47%) Lambda Expressions
14 4 (0.31%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 165 (12.87%) Self-Motivation
2 76 (5.93%) Data Structures
3 41 (3.20%) Algorithms
4 30 (2.34%) Reinsurance
5 26 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
5 26 (2.03%) Public Cloud
6 23 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.64%) Driving Licence
8 20 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 17 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
10 16 (1.25%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
11 15 (1.17%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (1.01%) NHS
13 11 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (0.86%) SCADA
14 10 (0.78%) Blog
14 10 (0.78%) IoT
14 10 (0.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (4.37%) Linux
2 29 (2.26%) Windows
3 21 (1.64%) Unix
4 19 (1.48%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.39%) OS/2
6 4 (0.31%) CentOS
6 4 (0.31%) Solaris
6 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.31%) zOS
7 3 (0.23%) Android
7 3 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (43.06%) Data Engineering
2 458 (35.73%) Data Pipeline
3 424 (33.07%) ETL
4 362 (28.24%) Agile
5 338 (26.37%) Analytics
6 323 (25.20%) DevOps
7 313 (24.41%) Data Modelling
8 292 (22.78%) Data Science
9 265 (20.67%) Problem-Solving
10 253 (19.73%) Business Intelligence
11 230 (17.94%) Mentoring
12 194 (15.13%) Platform Engineering
13 186 (14.51%) CI/CD
14 166 (12.95%) DataOps
15 148 (11.54%) Change Management
16 133 (10.37%) Visualisation
17 122 (9.52%) Data Integration
18 118 (9.20%) Data Governance
19 115 (8.97%) Data Management
20 105 (8.19%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 590 (46.02%) SQL
2 552 (43.06%) Python
3 102 (7.96%) Java
4 68 (5.30%) T-SQL
5 49 (3.82%) Scala
6 32 (2.50%) R
7 29 (2.26%) Bash
8 27 (2.11%) C#
9 26 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 24 (1.87%) PowerShell
11 22 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 19 (1.48%) JavaScript
13 15 (1.17%) VBA
14 10 (0.78%) U-SQL
15 9 (0.70%) PL/SQL
16 7 (0.55%) Go
17 6 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (0.39%) Rust
19 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
20 2 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 120 (9.36%) Degree
2 57 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 57 (4.45%) Security Cleared
3 38 (2.96%) SC Cleared
4 27 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 21 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 21 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (1.56%) DBS Check
7 19 (1.48%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.31%) CCNA
8 4 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.31%) CISM
8 4 (0.31%) CISSP
8 4 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
9 2 (0.16%) PhD
9 2 (0.16%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.078%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.078%) HNC
10 1 (0.078%) HND
10 1 (0.078%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (17.55%) Data Quality
2 155 (12.09%) GDPR
3 13 (1.01%) QA
4 8 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.31%) NIST
6 1 (0.078%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.078%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.078%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.078%) NCSC
6 1 (0.078%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (3.98%) Docker
2 10 (0.78%) Hyper-V
2 10 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.31%) HDFS
4 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.078%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.078%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 98 (7.64%) Terraform
2 60 (4.68%) Kubernetes
3 26 (2.03%) Ansible
4 17 (1.33%) Grafana
5 16 (1.25%) HAProxy
5 16 (1.25%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.39%) logstash
7 3 (0.23%) Argo
8 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 268 (20.90%) Databricks
2 211 (16.46%) Google
3 148 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 76 (5.93%) Informatica
5 47 (3.67%) Oracle
6 17 (1.33%) Alteryx
7 11 (0.86%) SAP
7 11 (0.86%) VMware
8 10 (0.78%) Splunk
9 7 (0.55%) Cloudera
9 7 (0.55%) TIBCO
10 5 (0.39%) Talend
10 5 (0.39%) Teradata
11 4 (0.31%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.31%) Qualys
11 4 (0.31%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.31%) SnapLogic
12 3 (0.23%) Siemens
12 3 (0.23%) YouTube
13 2 (0.16%) StreamSets