Data Engineering Jobs in Leeds

Data Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 76 92
Rank change year-on-year +29 +16 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 30 54 91
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.80% 2.36% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% 2.76% 3.19%
Number of salaries quoted 30 38 52
10th Percentile £47,207 £36,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £65,033 £67,071
Median % change year-on-year +5.72% -3.04% -21.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £84,348 £80,938
90th Percentile £81,082 £87,500 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £67,500 £65,066 £65,351
% change year-on-year +3.74% -0.44% -23.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 742 1,959 2,852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.92% 85.66% 97.60%
Number of salaries quoted 505 1,402 1,657
10th Percentile £26,000 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,991 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% -0.18% -
75th Percentile £78,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £84,996 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £52,500 £51,997 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.97% -5.46% +4.76%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Leeds

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Leeds

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Leeds

Data Engineering
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 3 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) Azure
2 14 (46.67%) AWS
3 8 (26.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (26.67%) GCP
4 5 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (13.33%) Power Automate
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.67%) Collibra
6 2 (6.67%) Serverless
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.33%) dbt
7 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Data Lake
2 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (16.67%) Power BI
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 3 (10.00%) MySQL
4 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.67%) Ataccama
5 2 (6.67%) Metadata
6 1 (3.33%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Banking
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Data Engineer
2 14 (46.67%) Senior
3 12 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Engineering Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Python Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) REST
2 3 (10.00%) Plotly
3 1 (3.33%) Node.js
3 1 (3.33%) Pandas
3 1 (3.33%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.33%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Algorithms
1 4 (13.33%) Clustering
2 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.33%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (50.00%) Analytics
2 15 (50.00%) ETL
3 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (43.33%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 9 (30.00%) Data Architecture
6 9 (30.00%) Data Extraction
7 8 (26.67%) Data Strategy
8 7 (23.33%) Data Modelling
8 7 (23.33%) Machine Learning
9 6 (20.00%) Data Science
10 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 4 (13.33%) Data Governance
11 4 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
11 4 (13.33%) Open Source
11 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 4 (13.33%) Visualisation
12 3 (10.00%) Mathematics
12 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (56.67%) SQL
2 14 (46.67%) Python
3 7 (23.33%) R
4 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (13.33%) T-SQL
5 3 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
1 5 (16.67%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Databricks
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Palantir
4 1 (3.33%) Google