Data Engineer Jobs in Liverpool

Data Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Data Engineer salary in Liverpool is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 41 89
Rank change year-on-year +5 +48 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 48 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Liverpool 2.61% 4.49% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.89% 4.68% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7 44 4
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £75,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +21.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £64,375 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £104,750 £82,250
Merseyside median annual salary £55,000 £85,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -35.29% +21.43% -12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 242 1,026 795
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 95.98% 83.77%
Number of salaries quoted 164 696 395
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,875 £28,600
25th Percentile £31,688 £34,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £65,813 £58,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £70,360
Merseyside median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Liverpool

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Liverpool

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Liverpool

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Liverpool

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Liverpool over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Liverpool

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Liverpool region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (71.43%) Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
4 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Git
4 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) Database Security
6 2 (28.57%) dbt
6 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) OO
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 2 (28.57%) JIRA
6 2 (28.57%) Data Quality

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) dbt
4 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Database Security
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) DataOps
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Parallel Computing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft