Data Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Data Engineer salary in Leeds is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 March 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Mar 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 94 132
Rank change year-on-year +49 +38 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 35 40 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 4.52% 1.85% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.85% 1.92% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 33 34 40
10th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £38,442
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,306 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -20.00% +8.05%
75th Percentile £73,886 £82,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £80,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £51,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -21.54% +10.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 722 2,079 3,010
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 96.34% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 484 1,442 1,843
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,038 £41,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%

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 20 March 2025.

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 20 March 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 Leeds region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (65.71%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 22 (62.86%) SQL
3 21 (60.00%) Analytics
4 19 (54.29%) Azure
4 19 (54.29%) Data Engineering
5 18 (51.43%) AWS
5 18 (51.43%) ETL
5 18 (51.43%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (48.57%) Python
6 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (45.71%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (40.00%) Data Strategy
9 12 (34.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
10 11 (31.43%) Agile
10 11 (31.43%) Data Architecture
10 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
11 10 (28.57%) Data Lake
11 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
11 10 (28.57%) Databricks
11 10 (28.57%) Data Extraction
12 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
12 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
12 9 (25.71%) SQL Server
13 8 (22.86%) R
13 8 (22.86%) Serverless
13 8 (22.86%) Data Science
14 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
14 7 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift

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 6 (17.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (54.29%) Azure
2 18 (51.43%) AWS
3 12 (34.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (22.86%) Serverless
5 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (17.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (17.14%) GCP
7 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 5 (14.29%) Power Automate
8 4 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Functions
8 4 (11.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (11.43%) dbt
8 4 (11.43%) Snowflake
9 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (5.71%) Cloud Functions
11 1 (2.86%) Azure Storage
11 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
11 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (45.71%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 9 (25.71%) SQL Server
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (17.14%) Power BI
6 5 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
7 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (11.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
9 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (5.71%) MongoDB
9 2 (5.71%) MySQL
10 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (2.86%) SAS Enterprise Guide
10 1 (2.86%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Git
2 3 (8.57%) JIRA
General
1 22 (62.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Finance
3 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Node.js
2 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.86%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.86%) Clustering
1 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (65.71%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (60.00%) Analytics
3 19 (54.29%) Data Engineering
4 18 (51.43%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (51.43%) ETL
5 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (40.00%) Data Strategy
7 11 (31.43%) Agile
7 11 (31.43%) Data Architecture
8 10 (28.57%) Data Extraction
8 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
10 8 (22.86%) Data Science
11 7 (20.00%) Data Security
12 6 (17.14%) Data Analytics
13 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
14 4 (11.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
14 4 (11.43%) Migration
14 4 (11.43%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) SQL
2 17 (48.57%) Python
3 8 (22.86%) R
4 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
5 2 (5.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (28.57%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Google
4 2 (5.71%) Palantir