Data Engineering Job Trends in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 156 170
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -54
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 896 765 1,300
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.37% 1.95% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.09% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 591 551 758
10th Percentile £46,000 £42,500 £41,848
25th Percentile £56,625 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £110,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £122,500 £111,250
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 51,202 36,655 64,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 78.09% 93.66% 87.20%
Number of salaries quoted 31,769 20,174 50,526
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £29,010
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.86%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 14 March 2026. 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 +48 486 £80,000 -15.79% 274
North of England -71 110 £75,000 +25.00% 101
South East -16 100 £67,500 -3.57% 125
Midlands +12 88 £65,000 +20.93% 43
West Midlands +36 67 £60,000 +33.33% 35
North West -18 53 £76,250 +17.31% 47
East of England +36 50 £59,450 -8.54% 15
Yorkshire -55 50 £77,500 +29.17% 45
South West -36 33 £55,000 -26.67% 38
East Midlands -33 19 £75,000 +22.45% 8
North East -27 7 £65,000 +13.04% 10
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 131 (14.62%) Apache Airflow
2 101 (11.27%) Apache Spark
3 70 (7.81%) Apache
4 23 (2.57%) Palantir Foundry
5 20 (2.23%) SAS
6 13 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 12 (1.34%) Appian
8 5 (0.56%) Confluence
8 5 (0.56%) Moodle
9 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.11%) Notion
4 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.45%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.22%) SAP SD
2 2 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.11%) Primavera
3 1 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 412 (45.98%) Azure
2 285 (31.81%) AWS
3 199 (22.21%) Power Platform
4 153 (17.08%) Snowflake
5 139 (15.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 131 (14.62%) GCP
7 97 (10.83%) dbt
8 67 (7.48%) Amazon S3
8 67 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 48 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
10 44 (4.91%) Serverless
11 37 (4.13%) GitHub
12 35 (3.91%) SaaS
13 29 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (3.01%) OpenShift
15 26 (2.90%) Amazon Kinesis
16 23 (2.57%) Power Automate
17 22 (2.46%) Azure AI
17 22 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
18 18 (2.01%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.23%) Broadband
2 3 (0.33%) DHCP
2 3 (0.33%) DNS
2 3 (0.33%) HTTP
2 3 (0.33%) Kerberos
3 2 (0.22%) DAB
4 1 (0.11%) 4G
4 1 (0.11%) 5G
4 1 (0.11%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (27.46%) Data Warehouse
2 189 (21.09%) Power BI
3 146 (16.29%) Data Lake
4 95 (10.60%) SQL Server
5 77 (8.59%) Metadata
6 75 (8.37%) Tableau
7 54 (6.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (5.02%) BigQuery
9 40 (4.46%) Relational Database
10 38 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (4.02%) Big Data
11 36 (4.02%) Delta Lake
11 36 (4.02%) MySQL
12 32 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (3.24%) NoSQL
14 28 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 27 (3.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 26 (2.90%) Looker
16 26 (2.90%) Spark SQL
17 25 (2.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 69 (7.70%) Git
2 40 (4.46%) MLflow
3 12 (1.34%) IBM UrbanCode
4 10 (1.12%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.12%) JIRA
5 8 (0.89%) GitLab
6 4 (0.45%) Selenium
7 3 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.22%) Deequ
9 1 (0.11%) CMake
9 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 233 (26.00%) Finance
2 214 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 124 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (6.70%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.14%) Banking
6 35 (3.91%) Law
7 31 (3.46%) Retail
8 26 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 25 (2.79%) Marketing
10 24 (2.68%) Legal
11 21 (2.34%) Manufacturing
12 20 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.67%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.34%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.23%) Automotive
16 10 (1.12%) Advertising
17 8 (0.89%) Front Office
17 8 (0.89%) Games
18 7 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
18 7 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 392 (43.75%) Data Engineer
2 173 (19.31%) Senior
3 141 (15.74%) Lead
4 109 (12.17%) Senior Data Engineer
5 96 (10.71%) Architect
6 77 (8.59%) Data Architect
7 61 (6.81%) Lead Data Engineer
8 43 (4.80%) Developer
9 39 (4.35%) Consultant
10 37 (4.13%) Analyst
10 37 (4.13%) Data Manager
11 34 (3.79%) AWS Engineer
11 34 (3.79%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (3.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 28 (3.13%) AWS Data Engineer
12 28 (3.13%) Azure Data Engineer
13 22 (2.46%) Principal Engineer
13 22 (2.46%) Technical Leader
14 21 (2.34%) Data Consultant
15 19 (2.12%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (12.17%) PySpark
2 79 (8.82%) Kafka
3 47 (5.25%) PyTorch
3 47 (5.25%) TensorFlow
4 33 (3.68%) Pandas
4 33 (3.68%) scikit-learn
5 29 (3.24%) LangChain
6 25 (2.79%) RESTful
7 20 (2.23%) REST
8 18 (2.01%) pytest
9 16 (1.79%) FastAPI
9 16 (1.79%) React
9 16 (1.79%) Spring
10 15 (1.67%) OAuth
10 15 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.56%) Flask
11 14 (1.56%) HTML
12 13 (1.45%) Hugging Face
12 13 (1.45%) NumPy
13 12 (1.34%) Faiss
Miscellaneous
1 75 (8.37%) Cloud Native
2 37 (4.13%) Data Structures
3 35 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
4 28 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (3.13%) Low-Code
5 24 (2.68%) Product Ownership
6 20 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 16 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.67%) e-Learning
9 14 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.34%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 10 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
11 10 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.00%) Algorithms
12 9 (1.00%) Clustering
13 8 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 7 (0.78%) NHS
14 7 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (0.89%) Linux
2 4 (0.45%) Windows
3 3 (0.33%) Unix
3 3 (0.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (51.67%) Analytics
2 404 (45.09%) Data Pipeline
3 356 (39.73%) Data Modelling
4 353 (39.40%) ETL
5 286 (31.92%) AI
6 266 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
7 245 (27.34%) Data Governance
8 238 (26.56%) CI/CD
9 195 (21.76%) Agile
10 182 (20.31%) Data Architecture
11 176 (19.64%) Data Science
12 166 (18.53%) Machine Learning
13 159 (17.75%) DevOps
14 158 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
15 151 (16.85%) Mentoring
16 144 (16.07%) Data Integration
17 142 (15.85%) Decision-Making
18 121 (13.50%) Continuous Improvement
19 117 (13.06%) Data Management
20 101 (11.27%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 483 (53.91%) Python
2 450 (50.22%) SQL
3 71 (7.92%) Java
4 36 (4.02%) Scala
5 29 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 22 (2.46%) R
7 20 (2.23%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 20 (2.23%) T-SQL
8 19 (2.12%) Bash
9 15 (1.67%) C#
10 13 (1.45%) C++
11 11 (1.23%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.89%) Bicep
12 8 (0.89%) PHP
13 7 (0.78%) Go
14 3 (0.33%) Ruby
14 3 (0.33%) VBA
15 2 (0.22%) Groovy
15 2 (0.22%) Julia
Qualifications
1 98 (10.94%) Degree
2 68 (7.59%) Security Cleared
3 49 (5.47%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (4.91%) SC Cleared
5 33 (3.68%) Master's Degree
6 23 (2.57%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.23%) Azure Certification
8 18 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 11 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.78%) MCSE
11 6 (0.67%) CISSP
11 6 (0.67%) OCP
11 6 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
12 5 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.56%) PhD
13 1 (0.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.11%) MBA
13 1 (0.11%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (26.45%) Data Quality
2 70 (7.81%) GDPR
3 62 (6.92%) Accessibility
4 24 (2.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 18 (2.01%) HIPAA
6 11 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.12%) GRC
8 7 (0.78%) QA
9 6 (0.67%) NIST
10 5 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.33%) Solvency II
12 2 (0.22%) SLA
13 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.11%) GMP
13 1 (0.11%) IFRS
13 1 (0.11%) IFRS 17
13 1 (0.11%) NCSC
13 1 (0.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 87 (9.71%) Docker
2 11 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.33%) HDFS
4 1 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 77 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 70 (7.81%) Terraform
3 12 (1.34%) Grafana
4 11 (1.23%) Prometheus
5 9 (1.00%) Argo
6 8 (0.89%) Ansible
7 7 (0.78%) Control-M
8 3 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.33%) SCCM
9 1 (0.11%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 238 (26.56%) Databricks
2 182 (20.31%) Microsoft
3 48 (5.36%) Informatica
4 46 (5.13%) Oracle
5 34 (3.79%) Google
5 34 (3.79%) OpenAI
6 33 (3.68%) Dell
7 32 (3.57%) Palantir
8 29 (3.24%) Foundry
9 24 (2.68%) Talend
10 15 (1.67%) Cloudera
10 15 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.45%) Automation Anywhere
11 13 (1.45%) Denodo
11 13 (1.45%) UiPath
12 12 (1.34%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.34%) Teradata
13 8 (0.89%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.89%) NVIDIA
14 7 (0.78%) SAP