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 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 152 154
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,553 2,199 3,569
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.82% 2.39% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 2.61% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 1,557 1,895
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £44,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £124,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.51%

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 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -29 580 £75,000 -11.76% 220
North of England +86 392 £55,000 -8.33% 56
North West +98 252 £60,000 +15.38% 40
South East -44 165 £47,750 -23.60% 30
Midlands +10 153 £56,500 +2.73% 38
South West -42 153 £65,000 +4.00% 29
West Midlands +9 111 £58,750 +10.33% 25
Yorkshire +67 85 £51,000 -21.54% 13
East of England +42 76 £58,750 -6.00% 22
North East +4 55 £67,750 +4.23% 3
East Midlands -1 41 £46,250 -15.91% 13
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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.

1 781 (50.29%) SQL
2 746 (48.04%) Python
3 664 (42.76%) Data Engineering
4 617 (39.73%) ETL
5 596 (38.38%) Data Pipeline
6 594 (38.25%) Azure
7 457 (29.43%) Data Science
8 452 (29.10%) Data Modelling
9 421 (27.11%) Data Warehouse
10 414 (26.66%) Analytics
11 403 (25.95%) Agile
12 395 (25.43%) AWS
13 375 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
14 373 (24.02%) DevOps
14 373 (24.02%) GCP
15 314 (20.22%) Social Skills
16 302 (19.45%) Databricks
17 299 (19.25%) Mentoring
18 298 (19.19%) Data Quality
19 286 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
20 264 (17.00%) Power Platform
21 263 (16.93%) Data Lake
22 260 (16.74%) Power BI
23 250 (16.10%) SQL Server
23 250 (16.10%) BigQuery
24 246 (15.84%) Google
25 241 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
26 228 (14.68%) CI/CD
27 223 (14.36%) Finance
28 215 (13.84%) Platform Engineering

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
1 142 (9.14%) Apache Spark
2 104 (6.70%) Apache
3 101 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.22%) nginx
5 18 (1.16%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.84%) Confluence
7 5 (0.32%) SharePoint
8 3 (0.19%) Luigi
9 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.13%) SAS
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.064%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 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 (0.064%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 594 (38.25%) Azure
2 395 (25.43%) AWS
3 373 (24.02%) GCP
4 264 (17.00%) Power Platform
5 181 (11.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 147 (9.47%) Snowflake
7 123 (7.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 116 (7.47%) Amazon S3
9 108 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (6.31%) dbt
11 85 (5.47%) Serverless
12 56 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
13 52 (3.35%) GitHub
14 43 (2.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 37 (2.38%) SaaS
16 35 (2.25%) Amazon Kinesis
17 34 (2.19%) Matillion
18 31 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
19 21 (1.35%) OpenShift
20 19 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.96%) Structured Cabling
2 14 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.71%) Wireless
4 9 (0.58%) Network Security
5 5 (0.32%) Firewall
5 5 (0.32%) LAN
6 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.26%) FTP
6 4 (0.26%) WAN
7 2 (0.13%) WebEx
8 1 (0.064%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.064%) 5G
8 1 (0.064%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.064%) DMZ
8 1 (0.064%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.064%) PPP
8 1 (0.064%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.064%) SMS
8 1 (0.064%) snoop
8 1 (0.064%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 421 (27.11%) Data Warehouse
2 263 (16.93%) Data Lake
3 260 (16.74%) Power BI
4 250 (16.10%) BigQuery
4 250 (16.10%) SQL Server
5 172 (11.08%) Looker
6 137 (8.82%) Big Data
7 110 (7.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 93 (5.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 88 (5.67%) Hadoop
10 79 (5.09%) NoSQL
10 79 (5.09%) Tableau
11 77 (4.96%) Relational Database
12 62 (3.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 62 (3.99%) Data Vault
13 59 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
14 50 (3.22%) Delta Lake
15 44 (2.83%) Star Schema
16 38 (2.45%) Metadata
16 38 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 75 (4.83%) Git
2 65 (4.19%) JIRA
3 61 (3.93%) Jenkins
4 46 (2.96%) GitLab
5 18 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (0.71%) CircleCI
6 11 (0.71%) Spinnaker
7 9 (0.58%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.39%) RStudio
11 4 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.13%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.064%) Gradle
13 1 (0.064%) Mockito
13 1 (0.064%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.064%) Toad
13 1 (0.064%) Zephyr
General
1 314 (20.22%) Social Skills
2 241 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
3 223 (14.36%) Finance
4 96 (6.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 69 (4.44%) Retail
6 65 (4.19%) Banking
7 49 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 42 (2.70%) Games
9 41 (2.64%) Telecoms
10 34 (2.19%) Marketing
11 33 (2.12%) Legal
12 25 (1.61%) Law
13 20 (1.29%) Manufacturing
14 13 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
15 11 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 11 (0.71%) Retail Banking
16 10 (0.64%) Electronics
16 10 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (0.58%) Health Technology
18 8 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (8.44%) PySpark
2 72 (4.64%) Kafka
3 41 (2.64%) Pandas
4 23 (1.48%) Apache Beam
4 23 (1.48%) RESTful
5 22 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
5 22 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
7 19 (1.22%) .NET
7 19 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
8 18 (1.16%) YAML
9 17 (1.09%) JSON
10 15 (0.97%) PyTorch
10 15 (0.97%) XML
11 14 (0.90%) TensorFlow
12 13 (0.84%) REST
13 12 (0.77%) AWS CDK
14 11 (0.71%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.64%) Flask
15 10 (0.64%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 197 (12.69%) Self-Motivation
2 131 (8.44%) Data Structures
3 59 (3.80%) Public Cloud
4 48 (3.09%) Reinsurance
5 39 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 37 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
8 27 (1.74%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 26 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 23 (1.48%) IoT
11 22 (1.42%) Management Information System
12 21 (1.35%) Client/Server
13 20 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (1.22%) CCTV
15 18 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 17 (1.09%) SCADA
17 16 (1.03%) Operational Technology
18 15 (0.97%) Fibre Optics
19 14 (0.90%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 64 (4.12%) Linux
2 30 (1.93%) Windows
3 23 (1.48%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.42%) Unix
5 4 (0.26%) Android
5 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.26%) CentOS
5 4 (0.26%) Solaris
5 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (42.76%) Data Engineering
2 617 (39.73%) ETL
3 596 (38.38%) Data Pipeline
4 457 (29.43%) Data Science
5 452 (29.10%) Data Modelling
6 414 (26.66%) Analytics
7 403 (25.95%) Agile
8 375 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
9 373 (24.02%) DevOps
10 299 (19.25%) Mentoring
11 286 (18.42%) Business Intelligence
12 228 (14.68%) CI/CD
13 215 (13.84%) Platform Engineering
14 210 (13.52%) Data Integration
15 185 (11.91%) Machine Learning
16 178 (11.46%) DataOps
17 146 (9.40%) Change Management
18 135 (8.69%) Visualisation
19 129 (8.31%) Data Management
20 126 (8.11%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 781 (50.29%) SQL
2 746 (48.04%) Python
3 102 (6.57%) Java
4 83 (5.34%) T-SQL
5 78 (5.02%) Scala
6 47 (3.03%) C#
7 27 (1.74%) R
8 26 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 23 (1.48%) Bash
10 21 (1.35%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 18 (1.16%) JavaScript
13 15 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 9 (0.58%) U-SQL
15 8 (0.52%) C
15 8 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.45%) VB
17 6 (0.39%) Go
17 6 (0.39%) PHP
18 5 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 184 (11.85%) Degree
2 57 (3.67%) Security Cleared
3 55 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 35 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 34 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 29 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 25 (1.61%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.42%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.45%) CISSP
12 5 (0.32%) PhD
13 4 (0.26%) AWS Certification
13 4 (0.26%) CCNA
13 4 (0.26%) CISM
13 4 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.19%) CCSK
14 3 (0.19%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 298 (19.19%) Data Quality
2 157 (10.11%) GDPR
3 20 (1.29%) QA
4 15 (0.97%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.26%) NIST
5 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.064%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.064%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.064%) GMP
6 1 (0.064%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.064%) NCSC
System Software
1 90 (5.80%) Docker
2 16 (1.03%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.64%) HDFS
4 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.064%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 135 (8.69%) Terraform
2 92 (5.92%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.93%) Ansible
4 20 (1.29%) Grafana
5 19 (1.22%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.16%) HAProxy
7 6 (0.39%) logstash
8 3 (0.19%) Argo
8 3 (0.19%) CASB
8 3 (0.19%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.13%) Marathon
9 2 (0.13%) Mesos
10 1 (0.064%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.064%) Kibana
10 1 (0.064%) Oozie
10 1 (0.064%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.064%) Podman
Vendors
1 302 (19.45%) Databricks
2 246 (15.84%) Google
3 175 (11.27%) Microsoft
4 84 (5.41%) Informatica
5 78 (5.02%) Oracle
6 18 (1.16%) Alteryx
6 18 (1.16%) YouTube
7 17 (1.09%) VMware
8 16 (1.03%) Cloudera
9 14 (0.90%) Dataiku
10 12 (0.77%) SAP
11 11 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.71%) Teradata
12 9 (0.58%) Splunk
13 7 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 7 (0.45%) Talend
14 6 (0.39%) F5
15 5 (0.32%) SnapLogic
16 4 (0.26%) Qualys
17 3 (0.19%) Facebook