Data Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Data Engineer salary in Leeds is £51,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 112 156
Rank change year-on-year +18 +44 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 40 68 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 1.76% 2.23% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.35% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 34 50 25
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,719 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,438 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% -7.14% +27.27%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £100,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £51,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -21.54% +4.00% +13.64%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 2,183 2,899 3,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.96% 95.21% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,568 1,732 2,534
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £74,156 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £87,375 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +6.06%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Leeds

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Leeds

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Leeds region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 18 (45.00%) Python
3 16 (40.00%) ETL
4 14 (35.00%) SQL
4 14 (35.00%) Azure
4 14 (35.00%) Databricks
5 12 (30.00%) DevOps
6 11 (27.50%) Analytics
6 11 (27.50%) Data Quality
7 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 9 (22.50%) Data Science
8 9 (22.50%) Machine Learning
8 9 (22.50%) Agile
9 7 (17.50%) SCADA
9 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (17.50%) Marketing
9 7 (17.50%) Line Management
9 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
9 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
9 7 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
10 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
10 6 (15.00%) Operational Technology
10 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (15.00%) Data Strategy
10 6 (15.00%) PySpark
10 6 (15.00%) Value Proposition
10 6 (15.00%) Systems Engineering

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 2 (5.00%) Apache
1 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) AWS
2 6 (15.00%) Snowflake
3 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.50%) iPaaS
4 3 (7.50%) Matillion
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.00%) BigQuery
4 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (7.50%) Looker
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (7.50%) Star Schema
5 2 (5.00%) Big Data
5 2 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) GitLab
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Marketing
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Retail
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Aviation
6 2 (5.00%) Law
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.00%) PySpark
2 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) SCADA
1 7 (17.50%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.00%) Operational Technology
3 5 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (7.50%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.00%) Tandem
6 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.50%) CCTV
6 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
1 6 (15.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 16 (40.00%) ETL
3 12 (30.00%) DevOps
4 11 (27.50%) Analytics
5 9 (22.50%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
5 9 (22.50%) Data Science
5 9 (22.50%) Machine Learning
6 7 (17.50%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (17.50%) Decision-Making
6 7 (17.50%) Line Management
6 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
7 6 (15.00%) Data Acquisition
7 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.00%) Data Strategy
7 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.00%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) User Experience
7 6 (15.00%) UX Design
7 6 (15.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (27.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Databricks
2 6 (15.00%) VMware
3 4 (10.00%) Google
4 2 (5.00%) Informatica
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.50%) Facebook