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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 81 96
Rank change year-on-year +35 +15 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 32 52 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 4.14% 2.21% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.42% 2.63% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 32 36 48
10th Percentile £47,800 £36,250 £50,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,313 £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,250 £65,066 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -6.68% -17.97%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,598 £85,313
90th Percentile - £87,500 £92,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £70,500 £65,066 £67,071
% change year-on-year +8.35% -2.99% -21.09%

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 724 1,977 2,810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 93.66% 84.09% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 472 1,411 1,639
10th Percentile £26,025 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,250 £85,000 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £54,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% +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 28 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 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 17 (53.13%) AWS
3 8 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (25.00%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
5 4 (12.50%) Power Automate
5 4 (12.50%) Serverless
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
6 2 (6.25%) Collibra
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.13%) dbt
7 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Data Lake
2 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 4 (12.50%) MySQL
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.25%) Ataccama
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.75%) Banking
3 6 (18.75%) Finance
4 4 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (56.25%) Data Engineer
2 14 (43.75%) Senior
3 12 (37.50%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Data Manager
5 4 (12.50%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) Engineering Manager
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Manager
8 1 (3.13%) Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Data Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Lead Consultant
8 1 (3.13%) Python Data Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Python Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (9.38%) Plotly
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) Pandas
3 1 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 3 (9.38%) Clustering
3 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Data Pipeline
2 14 (43.75%) Analytics
2 14 (43.75%) ETL
2 14 (43.75%) Mentoring
3 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (25.00%) Data Architecture
5 8 (25.00%) Data Extraction
5 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 8 (25.00%) Machine Learning
6 7 (21.88%) Data Science
6 7 (21.88%) Data Strategy
7 6 (18.75%) Computer Science
8 5 (15.63%) Data Governance
8 5 (15.63%) Open Source
9 4 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 4 (12.50%) SQL Optimisation
9 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 4 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) SQL
2 18 (56.25%) Python
3 6 (18.75%) R
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (12.50%) Scala
4 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
1 6 (18.75%) Master's Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Palantir
3 1 (3.13%) Google