Data Engineering Jobs in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 178 114 166
Rank change year-on-year -64 +52 +82
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,389 2,817 3,185
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.64% 3.02% 2.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.16% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 804 1,109 1,401
10th Percentile £41,492 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £88,750 £100,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,956 89,282 125,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.89% 95.65% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 53,883 52,696 73,771
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,250 £33,500
25th Percentile £39,750 £46,000 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

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 26 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 -69 471 £82,500 -8.33% 176
North of England -51 322 £60,000 - 37
South East +41 201 £67,500 -3.57% 30
North West -53 176 £55,000 +2.33% 25
Midlands -64 162 £57,500 +1.32% 23
South West -25 158 £75,000 +14.50% 11
West Midlands -63 102 £60,016 +4.38% 13
Yorkshire -28 94 £65,066 +0.10% 5
East Midlands -12 59 £42,500 -22.73% 10
North East +22 52 £75,000 +11.11% 7
East of England -40 51 £70,000 +21.74% 12
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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
1 137 (9.86%) Apache Spark
2 109 (7.85%) Apache
3 81 (5.83%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.87%) Confluence
5 20 (1.44%) Jupyter
6 19 (1.37%) SAS
7 17 (1.22%) nginx
8 3 (0.22%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.14%) Luigi
10 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.29%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.22%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.072%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 663 (47.73%) Azure
2 520 (37.44%) GCP
3 498 (35.85%) AWS
4 251 (18.07%) Power Platform
5 167 (12.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 124 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
6 124 (8.93%) Snowflake
7 113 (8.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 101 (7.27%) Amazon S3
9 75 (5.40%) dbt
10 56 (4.03%) Serverless
11 51 (3.67%) GitHub
12 46 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 42 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (2.30%) Matillion
15 31 (2.23%) Amazon Kinesis
16 29 (2.09%) SaaS
17 26 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
19 17 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) Firewall
2 4 (0.29%) Network Security
3 3 (0.22%) VoIP
3 3 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) WAN
4 2 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.072%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.072%) 5G
5 1 (0.072%) PPP
5 1 (0.072%) SMS
5 1 (0.072%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 518 (37.29%) Data Warehouse
2 398 (28.65%) BigQuery
3 357 (25.70%) Looker
4 249 (17.93%) Power BI
5 229 (16.49%) Data Lake
6 142 (10.22%) SQL Server
7 122 (8.78%) Big Data
8 111 (7.99%) Tableau
9 80 (5.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 77 (5.54%) Hadoop
11 66 (4.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 64 (4.61%) NoSQL
13 59 (4.25%) Relational Database
14 51 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
15 47 (3.38%) Metadata
16 43 (3.10%) Star Schema
17 42 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
17 42 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 38 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
19 32 (2.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 71 (5.11%) Jenkins
2 70 (5.04%) Git
3 42 (3.02%) GitLab
4 33 (2.38%) JIRA
5 17 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.72%) ERwin
6 10 (0.72%) Spinnaker
7 9 (0.65%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.36%) ER Studio
10 4 (0.29%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.29%) Snakemake
11 3 (0.22%) MLflow
11 3 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 1 (0.072%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.072%) Selenium
13 1 (0.072%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.072%) SpecFlow
General
1 480 (34.56%) Analytical Skills
2 255 (18.36%) Social Skills
3 216 (15.55%) Finance
4 85 (6.12%) Banking
5 71 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (5.11%) Retail
6 65 (4.68%) Billing
7 39 (2.81%) Legal
8 35 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (2.45%) Public Sector
10 32 (2.30%) Law
11 30 (2.16%) Games
11 30 (2.16%) Marketing
12 25 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (0.94%) Front Office
13 13 (0.94%) Telecoms
14 12 (0.86%) Investment Banking
15 11 (0.79%) Retail Banking
16 10 (0.72%) Electronics
17 9 (0.65%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 656 (47.23%) Data Engineer
2 195 (14.04%) Senior
3 176 (12.67%) Data Manager
4 172 (12.38%) Principal Engineer
5 169 (12.17%) Architect
6 161 (11.59%) Principal Data Engineer
7 157 (11.30%) Platform Engineer
8 153 (11.02%) Data Architect
9 138 (9.94%) Engineering Manager
10 136 (9.79%) Lead
11 116 (8.35%) Senior Data Engineer
12 73 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
13 59 (4.25%) Azure Engineer
14 50 (3.60%) Developer
15 47 (3.38%) Analyst
15 47 (3.38%) Azure Data Engineer
16 41 (2.95%) Head of Engineering
16 41 (2.95%) Python Engineer
17 37 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
18 32 (2.30%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (5.62%) PySpark
2 63 (4.54%) Kafka
3 33 (2.38%) Apache Beam
3 33 (2.38%) Pandas
4 28 (2.02%) NumPy
5 26 (1.87%) TensorFlow
6 21 (1.51%) YAML
7 19 (1.37%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
8 18 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (1.22%) .NET
9 17 (1.22%) PyTorch
9 17 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
10 14 (1.01%) Keras
11 12 (0.86%) React
12 11 (0.79%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.79%) RESTful
13 10 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
14 8 (0.58%) GraphQL
14 8 (0.58%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 298 (21.45%) Self-Motivation
2 107 (7.70%) Product Ownership
3 74 (5.33%) Data Structures
4 56 (4.03%) Cloud Native
5 49 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 43 (3.10%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.87%) Greenfield Project
9 24 (1.73%) Hybrid Cloud
10 17 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
10 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.15%) Taxonomies
12 15 (1.08%) Client/Server
13 14 (1.01%) IoT
14 12 (0.86%) NHS
15 10 (0.72%) Mainframe
16 9 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.65%) Online Games
17 8 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
18 7 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (2.30%) Linux
2 10 (0.72%) Windows
3 5 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.22%) Unix
5 1 (0.072%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (41.76%) ETL
2 558 (40.17%) Data Modelling
3 541 (38.95%) Problem-Solving
4 506 (36.43%) Agile
5 483 (34.77%) Analytics
6 476 (34.27%) Data Pipeline
7 438 (31.53%) Data Science
8 416 (29.95%) Mentoring
9 394 (28.37%) DevOps
10 368 (26.49%) Platform Engineering
11 317 (22.82%) Business Intelligence
12 273 (19.65%) CI/CD
13 261 (18.79%) Data Governance
14 256 (18.43%) Data Integration
15 251 (18.07%) Data Architecture
16 224 (16.13%) Machine Learning
17 223 (16.05%) Visualisation
18 174 (12.53%) DataOps
19 163 (11.74%) Change Management
20 156 (11.23%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 607 (43.70%) SQL
2 543 (39.09%) Python
3 101 (7.27%) Java
4 79 (5.69%) Scala
5 55 (3.96%) T-SQL
6 42 (3.02%) R
7 31 (2.23%) C#
8 26 (1.87%) MATLAB
9 22 (1.58%) Shell Script
10 21 (1.51%) Bash
11 20 (1.44%) Go
12 19 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 18 (1.30%) PowerShell
14 12 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 11 (0.79%) C
16 10 (0.72%) VBA
17 9 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.58%) JavaScript
18 8 (0.58%) Perl
18 8 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 162 (11.66%) Degree
2 70 (5.04%) Security Cleared
3 65 (4.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.95%) Master's Degree
6 34 (2.45%) DBS Check
7 30 (2.16%) Azure Certification
8 29 (2.09%) SC Cleared
9 20 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.15%) PhD
11 9 (0.65%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.43%) MBA
13 4 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.29%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.22%) OCP
14 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.22%) PMP
15 2 (0.14%) MCP
16 1 (0.072%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 301 (21.67%) Data Quality
2 277 (19.94%) GDPR
3 99 (7.13%) QA
4 20 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.22%) SLA
9 2 (0.14%) COBIT
9 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.072%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.072%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.072%) NCSC
10 1 (0.072%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 53 (3.82%) Docker
2 9 (0.65%) HDFS
3 7 (0.50%) IAG
4 2 (0.14%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 89 (6.41%) Terraform
2 68 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.09%) Ansible
4 17 (1.22%) Grafana
4 17 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 17 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.50%) SysTrack
6 5 (0.36%) logstash
7 3 (0.22%) Argo
7 3 (0.22%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.14%) Oozie
9 1 (0.072%) Podman
Vendors
1 416 (29.95%) Google
2 202 (14.54%) Databricks
3 161 (11.59%) Microsoft
4 33 (2.38%) Oracle
5 29 (2.09%) Informatica
6 24 (1.73%) Teradata
7 19 (1.37%) Cloudera
8 13 (0.94%) SAP
9 11 (0.79%) Alteryx
10 9 (0.65%) IBM
11 8 (0.58%) Samsung
11 8 (0.58%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.50%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.50%) Snow
13 6 (0.43%) F5
13 6 (0.43%) SnapLogic
14 5 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.36%) Talend
15 3 (0.22%) Cognos
15 3 (0.22%) Confluent