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 18 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 160 158
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,584 2,235 3,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.88% 2.34% 2.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 2.56% 2.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,139 1,571 1,866
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £44,194
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,625 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,308 £120,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +12.50%

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 79,551 87,358 124,629
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.64% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 59,915 55,003 76,174
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,190 £45,000 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.37% +0.42% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,433 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £53,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% - +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 18 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 18 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 -11 594 £75,000 -11.76% 191
North of England +86 390 £55,000 -8.33% 50
North West +90 249 £60,000 +15.38% 32
South West -19 171 £67,500 +2.34% 20
South East -31 169 £50,500 -15.83% 17
Midlands +3 147 £54,000 -1.82% 31
West Midlands +15 100 £60,250 +13.15% 16
Yorkshire +54 86 £51,000 -21.54% 16
East of England +53 77 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North East +8 55 £64,000 -3.03% 2
East Midlands +3 46 £47,500 -13.64% 15
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 797 (50.32%) SQL
2 779 (49.18%) Python
3 667 (42.11%) Data Engineering
4 631 (39.84%) ETL
5 596 (37.63%) Azure
6 585 (36.93%) Data Pipeline
7 476 (30.05%) Data Science
8 451 (28.47%) Data Modelling
9 423 (26.70%) Data Warehouse
10 420 (26.52%) AWS
10 420 (26.52%) Analytics
11 408 (25.76%) Agile
12 386 (24.37%) GCP
13 381 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
14 375 (23.67%) DevOps
15 314 (19.82%) Social Skills
16 304 (19.19%) Mentoring
17 297 (18.75%) Data Quality
18 292 (18.43%) Databricks
19 281 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
20 263 (16.60%) Power Platform
21 261 (16.48%) Data Lake
22 259 (16.35%) Power BI
23 254 (16.04%) BigQuery
24 248 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
25 247 (15.59%) Google
26 245 (15.47%) Finance
27 243 (15.34%) SQL Server
28 217 (13.70%) CI/CD
29 214 (13.51%) Data Integration

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 (8.78%) Apache Spark
2 115 (7.26%) Apache
3 108 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
4 22 (1.39%) Jupyter
5 18 (1.14%) nginx
6 12 (0.76%) Confluence
7 6 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.25%) SAS
9 3 (0.19%) Luigi
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.063%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.063%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
6 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 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.063%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.063%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 596 (37.63%) Azure
2 420 (26.52%) AWS
3 386 (24.37%) GCP
4 263 (16.60%) Power Platform
5 174 (10.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (9.66%) Snowflake
7 122 (7.70%) Amazon S3
8 119 (7.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 104 (6.57%) dbt
10 103 (6.50%) Azure DevOps
11 93 (5.87%) Serverless
12 63 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (3.03%) GitHub
14 43 (2.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 40 (2.53%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (2.27%) Matillion
17 35 (2.21%) Amazon EMR
17 35 (2.21%) SaaS
18 27 (1.70%) OpenShift
19 19 (1.20%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.90%) Structured Cabling
2 14 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.69%) Wireless
4 8 (0.51%) Network Security
5 5 (0.32%) Firewall
5 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 4 (0.25%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.25%) FTP
6 4 (0.25%) WAN
7 2 (0.13%) WebEx
8 1 (0.063%) 5G
8 1 (0.063%) BIG-IP
8 1 (0.063%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.063%) DMZ
8 1 (0.063%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.063%) PPP
8 1 (0.063%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.063%) SMS
8 1 (0.063%) snoop
8 1 (0.063%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 423 (26.70%) Data Warehouse
2 261 (16.48%) Data Lake
3 259 (16.35%) Power BI
4 254 (16.04%) BigQuery
5 243 (15.34%) SQL Server
6 170 (10.73%) Looker
7 152 (9.60%) Big Data
8 114 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 93 (5.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 90 (5.68%) Hadoop
11 84 (5.30%) NoSQL
12 80 (5.05%) Tableau
13 76 (4.80%) Relational Database
14 61 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 61 (3.85%) Data Vault
15 58 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
16 54 (3.41%) Delta Lake
17 45 (2.84%) Star Schema
18 38 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 37 (2.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (4.61%) Git
2 63 (3.98%) JIRA
3 58 (3.66%) Jenkins
4 42 (2.65%) GitLab
5 17 (1.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.63%) CircleCI
6 10 (0.63%) Spinnaker
7 9 (0.57%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.38%) RStudio
11 4 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.063%) ERwin
13 1 (0.063%) Maven
13 1 (0.063%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.063%) Subversion
13 1 (0.063%) Toad
General
1 314 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 248 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 245 (15.47%) Finance
4 110 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 73 (4.61%) Banking
6 67 (4.23%) Retail
7 53 (3.35%) Public Sector
8 42 (2.65%) Games
9 41 (2.59%) Telecoms
10 38 (2.40%) Marketing
11 32 (2.02%) Legal
12 24 (1.52%) Law
13 19 (1.20%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.82%) Front Office
15 11 (0.69%) Retail Banking
16 10 (0.63%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.63%) Electronics
16 10 (0.63%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.57%) Health Technology
17 9 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (8.08%) PySpark
2 76 (4.80%) Kafka
3 52 (3.28%) Pandas
4 25 (1.58%) Apache Beam
5 23 (1.45%) HTML
5 23 (1.45%) RESTful
6 21 (1.33%) Apache NiFi
6 21 (1.33%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (1.33%) YAML
7 20 (1.26%) .NET
7 20 (1.26%) JSON
8 19 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
9 18 (1.14%) PyTorch
9 18 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
9 18 (1.14%) XML
10 16 (1.01%) TensorFlow
11 14 (0.88%) NumPy
12 13 (0.82%) REST
13 12 (0.76%) AWS CDK
14 11 (0.69%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 200 (12.63%) Self-Motivation
2 126 (7.95%) Data Structures
3 57 (3.60%) Public Cloud
4 53 (3.35%) Algorithms
5 49 (3.09%) Reinsurance
6 37 (2.34%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 28 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 27 (1.70%) Driving Licence
9 27 (1.70%) Management Information System
10 22 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.39%) IoT
11 21 (1.33%) Client/Server
12 19 (1.20%) CCTV
13 17 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.07%) SCADA
14 16 (1.01%) Operational Technology
15 15 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
16 14 (0.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 55 (3.47%) Linux
2 28 (1.77%) Windows
3 22 (1.39%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.26%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) Android
5 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.19%) CentOS
6 3 (0.19%) Solaris
6 3 (0.19%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (42.11%) Data Engineering
2 631 (39.84%) ETL
3 585 (36.93%) Data Pipeline
4 476 (30.05%) Data Science
5 451 (28.47%) Data Modelling
6 420 (26.52%) Analytics
7 408 (25.76%) Agile
8 381 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
9 375 (23.67%) DevOps
10 304 (19.19%) Mentoring
11 281 (17.74%) Business Intelligence
12 217 (13.70%) CI/CD
13 214 (13.51%) Data Integration
14 213 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
15 201 (12.69%) Machine Learning
16 178 (11.24%) DataOps
17 152 (9.60%) Visualisation
18 145 (9.15%) Change Management
19 139 (8.78%) Data Analysis
20 136 (8.59%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 797 (50.32%) SQL
2 779 (49.18%) Python
3 118 (7.45%) Java
4 86 (5.43%) Scala
5 82 (5.18%) T-SQL
6 49 (3.09%) C#
7 43 (2.71%) R
8 33 (2.08%) JavaScript
9 25 (1.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 23 (1.45%) Bash
11 19 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.14%) PowerShell
13 15 (0.95%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.69%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.51%) C
15 8 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.51%) U-SQL
15 8 (0.51%) VB
16 7 (0.44%) Ruby
17 6 (0.38%) PHP
Qualifications
1 204 (12.88%) Degree
2 74 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 73 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 42 (2.65%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.40%) SC Cleared
6 37 (2.34%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.26%) DBS Check
8 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.38%) CISSP
11 5 (0.32%) PhD
12 4 (0.25%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.25%) CCNA
12 4 (0.25%) 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
13 3 (0.19%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 297 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 154 (9.72%) GDPR
3 21 (1.33%) QA
4 15 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.19%) NIST
7 2 (0.13%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.063%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.063%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.063%) GMP
8 1 (0.063%) NCSC
System Software
1 104 (6.57%) Docker
2 16 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.63%) HDFS
4 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.063%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.063%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.063%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 130 (8.21%) Terraform
2 98 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 26 (1.64%) Ansible
4 18 (1.14%) Grafana
4 18 (1.14%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.07%) HAProxy
6 6 (0.38%) 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 (0.063%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
9 1 (0.063%) Kibana
9 1 (0.063%) Oozie
9 1 (0.063%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.063%) Podman
9 1 (0.063%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 292 (18.43%) Databricks
2 247 (15.59%) Google
3 173 (10.92%) Microsoft
4 85 (5.37%) Informatica
5 76 (4.80%) Oracle
6 18 (1.14%) Alteryx
6 18 (1.14%) YouTube
7 17 (1.07%) Cloudera
8 16 (1.01%) Dataiku
8 16 (1.01%) VMware
9 13 (0.82%) MuleSoft
10 12 (0.76%) SAP
10 12 (0.76%) Teradata
11 8 (0.51%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.51%) Splunk
12 7 (0.44%) F5
12 7 (0.44%) Talend
13 5 (0.32%) SnapLogic
14 4 (0.25%) Salesforce
15 3 (0.19%) Siemens