Data Engineer Jobs in Lancashire

Data Engineer
North West > Lancashire

The median Data Engineer salary in Lancashire is £57,560 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 67 63
Rank change year-on-year -61 -4 +50
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 6 19 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 0.30% 1.48% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 1.59% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 11
10th Percentile £51,875 £40,863 £41,250
25th Percentile £54,125 £41,250 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £42,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.43% -9.57% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61,625 £48,000 -
90th Percentile £66,500 £51,300 £57,356
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% -3.26%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Lancashire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Lancashire. 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 Lancashire with a recognized job title 1,906 1,195 569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.31% 92.78% 81.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,244 1,019 363
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £45,000 £46,654
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -3.55% +9.77%
75th Percentile £54,793 £60,741 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,943 £75,000 £63,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Lancashire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Lancashire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Lancashire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Lancashire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Lancashire over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Lancashire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Blackburn - 4 £58,000 - 1
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2025, 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 Lancashire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Big Data
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (33.33%) HNC
3 2 (33.33%) HND
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
3 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Development
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) PySpark
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Data Development
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (33.33%) HNC
2 2 (33.33%) HND
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft