Data Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer salary in Manchester is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 105 125
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 44 80 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 1.87% 1.98% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 2.10% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 37 60 32
10th Percentile £49,500 £42,500 £46,256
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,000 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -6.98%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,250 £72,500
North West median annual salary £60,000 £61,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.04% +11.36% -12.70%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 2,141 3,813 2,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 94.45% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,272 2,210 2,157
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £34,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,143 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,925 £82,500 £84,022
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton +7 1 £52,500 +10.53%
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 Manchester region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (65.91%) SQL
2 25 (56.82%) Python
3 24 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
4 22 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 21 (47.73%) ETL
6 16 (36.36%) Analytics
7 15 (34.09%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (31.82%) Azure
9 12 (27.27%) AWS
10 11 (25.00%) Data Modelling
11 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (20.45%) Java
12 9 (20.45%) Data Lake
12 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
12 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
13 8 (18.18%) Big Data
13 8 (18.18%) Retail
14 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
14 7 (15.91%) Data Science
15 6 (13.64%) Databricks
15 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
15 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
15 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
15 6 (13.64%) Apache
15 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
16 5 (11.36%) Agile
16 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
16 5 (11.36%) Data Architecture
16 5 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
16 5 (11.36%) Terraform

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (13.64%) Apache
2 5 (11.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 14 (31.82%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (9.09%) Serverless
3 4 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.82%) Amazon S3
4 3 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (6.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
6 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.27%) dbt
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.27%) Stitch
6 1 (2.27%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (34.09%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (20.45%) Data Lake
3 8 (18.18%) Big Data
4 6 (13.64%) SQL Server
5 5 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (6.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
7 2 (4.55%) Tableau
8 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
8 1 (2.27%) MySQL
8 1 (2.27%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
8 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Retail
3 4 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (9.09%) Marketing
4 3 (6.82%) Law
4 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Electronics
5 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.27%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Kafka
1 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.27%) Data Fabric
3 1 (2.27%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.27%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 21 (47.73%) ETL
4 16 (36.36%) Analytics
5 11 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (20.45%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (15.91%) Data Science
9 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.64%) Software Engineering
10 5 (11.36%) Agile
10 5 (11.36%) Computer Science
10 5 (11.36%) Data Architecture
11 4 (9.09%) Data Analytics
11 4 (9.09%) Data Migration
11 4 (9.09%) DevOps
11 4 (9.09%) Migration
11 4 (9.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) SQL
2 25 (56.82%) Python
3 9 (20.45%) Java
4 4 (9.09%) Scala
5 3 (6.82%) C#
6 1 (2.27%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (6.82%) Degree
1 3 (6.82%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Databricks
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.27%) Google
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle
3 1 (2.27%) PayPal
3 1 (2.27%) Talend