Data Engineer Job Trends in Halifax

Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Halifax

The median Data Engineer salary in Halifax is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Halifax 2.08% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £80,000 £60,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +33.33% +17.65% -26.23%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Halifax

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Halifax. 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 Halifax with a recognized job title 48 44 35
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 70.97% 94.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36 42 29
10th Percentile - £25,313 £22,350
25th Percentile £30,000 £57,500 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £74,870 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.22% +52.79% -17.68%
75th Percentile £60,000 £98,474 £79,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £146,300 £99,279
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £56,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.68% +12.00% -9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Halifax

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Halifax.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Halifax

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Halifax

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Halifax.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Halifax

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax

For the 6 months to 16 June 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Halifax region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Halifax 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft