Data Engineering Jobs in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 178 125
Rank change year-on-year +2 -53 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 930 1,400 2,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.92% 1.58% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.88% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 470 827 1,038
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,492 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,625 £52,500 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,750 £70,000 £76,942
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -9.02% -3.82%
75th Percentile £108,188 £90,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £137,500 £107,474 £130,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +10.71% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 45,477 74,482 83,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.01% 84.24% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 22,533 54,432 49,691
10th Percentile £29,625 £29,000 £34,375
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,695 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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 +35 339 £96,750 +17.27% 733
North of England +15 276 £65,000 +8.33% 146
North West +3 222 £60,000 +9.09% 74
South East +55 175 £70,000 +3.70% 230
Yorkshire +25 46 £68,750 +5.66% 53
Midlands -65 45 £58,750 +2.17% 71
South West +17 37 £95,000 +26.67% 46
East of England +34 35 £50,000 -31.03% 30
West Midlands -22 26 £57,500 -3.04% 47
East Midlands -9 19 £65,000 +44.44% 19
North East +2 8 £51,250 -31.67% 21
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
1 125 (13.44%) Apache Spark
2 120 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
3 81 (8.71%) Apache
4 36 (3.87%) SharePoint
5 23 (2.47%) IBM Domino
6 8 (0.86%) Confluence
7 4 (0.43%) SAS
8 3 (0.32%) Luigi
9 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.22%) Trello
4 1 (0.11%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.22%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 582 (62.58%) Azure
2 490 (52.69%) AWS
3 335 (36.02%) GCP
4 160 (17.20%) Power Platform
5 116 (12.47%) dbt
6 114 (12.26%) Snowflake
7 101 (10.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 97 (10.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 97 (10.43%) Serverless
9 81 (8.71%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (6.99%) OpenShift
11 61 (6.56%) Amazon ECS
12 54 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
13 43 (4.62%) Power Automate
14 37 (3.98%) GitHub
15 34 (3.66%) Amazon S3
15 34 (3.66%) PowerApps
16 20 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
18 15 (1.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.43%) 5G
1 4 (0.43%) Broadband
2 3 (0.32%) Internet
3 2 (0.22%) ADSL2
3 2 (0.22%) Firewall
3 2 (0.22%) VPN
4 1 (0.11%) DNS
4 1 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.11%) Network Security
4 1 (0.11%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (24.62%) Data Warehouse
2 160 (17.20%) Power BI
3 143 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 88 (9.46%) Amazon Athena
5 84 (9.03%) Big Data
6 79 (8.49%) Apache Iceberg
7 73 (7.85%) Dremio
8 63 (6.77%) Metadata
9 60 (6.45%) NoSQL
9 60 (6.45%) Tableau
10 59 (6.34%) Apache Arrow
10 59 (6.34%) Apache Ignite
11 48 (5.16%) SQL Server
12 46 (4.95%) BigQuery
13 40 (4.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 40 (4.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (3.98%) Hadoop
14 37 (3.98%) Relational Database
15 31 (3.33%) Data Mining
16 28 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 62 (6.67%) Artifactory
2 32 (3.44%) Git
3 16 (1.72%) JIRA
4 13 (1.40%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.86%) CircleCI
6 7 (0.75%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.54%) MLflow
8 4 (0.43%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.22%) ER Studio
9 2 (0.22%) GitLab
9 2 (0.22%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.11%) ERwin
10 1 (0.11%) kappa
10 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.11%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.11%) Subversion
10 1 (0.11%) Toad
10 1 (0.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 261 (28.06%) Finance
2 217 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 193 (20.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 140 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
5 121 (13.01%) Law
6 79 (8.49%) Banking
7 78 (8.39%) Front Office
8 52 (5.59%) Retail
9 38 (4.09%) Public Sector
10 28 (3.01%) Manufacturing
11 27 (2.90%) Marketing
12 13 (1.40%) Legal
13 12 (1.29%) Retail Banking
14 11 (1.18%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.86%) Telecoms
16 6 (0.65%) Advertising
16 6 (0.65%) Automotive
16 6 (0.65%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 355 (38.17%) Senior
2 343 (36.88%) Data Engineer
3 215 (23.12%) Software Engineer
4 198 (21.29%) Lead
5 188 (20.22%) Senior Software Engineer
6 95 (10.22%) Senior Data Engineer
7 88 (9.46%) Python Engineer
8 74 (7.96%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
10 62 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
10 62 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 47 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
12 41 (4.41%) Azure Engineer
13 30 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
13 30 (3.23%) Data Manager
14 28 (3.01%) Architect
15 26 (2.80%) Python Data Engineer
16 22 (2.37%) Data Architect
17 20 (2.15%) Analyst
17 20 (2.15%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (21.40%) .NET
2 183 (19.68%) Node.js
3 143 (15.38%) PySpark
4 123 (13.23%) Kafka
5 59 (6.34%) J2EE
6 25 (2.69%) NumPy
7 23 (2.47%) Pandas
8 14 (1.51%) React
9 13 (1.40%) TensorFlow
10 12 (1.29%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.29%) RESTful
10 12 (1.29%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.18%) REST
11 11 (1.18%) SciPy
12 10 (1.08%) GraphQL
12 10 (1.08%) Middleware
13 9 (0.97%) Keras
14 8 (0.86%) Plotly
14 8 (0.86%) pytest
15 7 (0.75%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 181 (19.46%) Linux Command Line
1 181 (19.46%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (19.14%) Cyberattack
3 60 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 51 (5.48%) Algorithms
5 48 (5.16%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.69%) Data Structures
7 23 (2.47%) Management Information System
8 15 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.29%) FMCG
11 10 (1.08%) Equities
11 10 (1.08%) Fixed Income
12 8 (0.86%) Reinsurance
13 6 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
13 6 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.54%) Data Fabric
14 5 (0.54%) Distributed Applications
15 4 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
15 4 (0.43%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 189 (20.32%) Linux
2 7 (0.75%) Unix
3 4 (0.43%) Windows
4 2 (0.22%) VMS
5 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (46.34%) Agile
2 358 (38.49%) Software Engineering
3 351 (37.74%) Analytics
3 351 (37.74%) Machine Learning
4 330 (35.48%) Mentoring
5 270 (29.03%) DevOps
6 250 (26.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 248 (26.67%) Data Pipeline
8 238 (25.59%) CI/CD
8 238 (25.59%) ETL
9 234 (25.16%) Data Modelling
10 215 (23.12%) Business Intelligence
11 207 (22.26%) Microservices
12 205 (22.04%) Scrum
13 204 (21.94%) Data Science
14 194 (20.86%) User Experience
15 184 (19.78%) Cloud Security
16 178 (19.14%) Data Governance
17 173 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
18 157 (16.88%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 642 (69.03%) Python
2 403 (43.33%) SQL
3 332 (35.70%) Java
4 242 (26.02%) Go
5 196 (21.08%) JavaScript
6 190 (20.43%) C++
7 180 (19.35%) Rust
8 56 (6.02%) C#
9 49 (5.27%) Scala
10 45 (4.84%) T-SQL
11 28 (3.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.94%) PowerShell
12 18 (1.94%) R
13 10 (1.08%) Bash
13 10 (1.08%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.65%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.43%) Bicep
17 3 (0.32%) Cypher
18 2 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 220 (23.66%) Security Cleared
2 202 (21.72%) AWS Certification
3 184 (19.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 183 (19.68%) DV Cleared
5 178 (19.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 161 (17.31%) Degree
7 35 (3.76%) SC Cleared
8 33 (3.55%) Azure Certification
8 33 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (3.23%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.72%) PhD
11 7 (0.75%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.54%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.22%) SnowPro
14 2 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.11%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (19.35%) Data Quality
2 53 (5.70%) QA
3 47 (5.05%) Accessibility
4 36 (3.87%) GDPR
5 9 (0.97%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.54%) NIST
8 2 (0.22%) Dublin Core
9 1 (0.11%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.11%) COBIT
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.11%) GRC
9 1 (0.11%) PMO
9 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 113 (12.15%) Docker
2 9 (0.97%) HDFS
3 6 (0.65%) Apache Flume
4 5 (0.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 131 (14.09%) Terraform
2 107 (11.51%) Kubernetes
3 7 (0.75%) Grafana
3 7 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 6 (0.65%) Oozie
5 3 (0.32%) Packer
6 2 (0.22%) Ansible
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 189 (20.32%) Databricks
2 161 (17.31%) Microsoft
3 67 (7.20%) Google
4 27 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.58%) Informatica
6 17 (1.83%) Oracle
7 16 (1.72%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.29%) Palantir
9 10 (1.08%) SAP
10 8 (0.86%) Cloudera
11 7 (0.75%) Foundry
11 7 (0.75%) Red Hat
12 6 (0.65%) Talend
13 3 (0.32%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.32%) Cribl.io
13 3 (0.32%) MicroStrategy
13 3 (0.32%) Snowplow
13 3 (0.32%) Splunk
13 3 (0.32%) StreamSets
13 3 (0.32%) YouTube