Data Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer salary in Manchester is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 109 80
Rank change year-on-year +30 -29 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 99 34 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.85% 1.59% 2.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.76% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 86 26 116
10th Percentile £41,500 £43,750 £38,125
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,375 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £71,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +18.75% +15.38%
75th Percentile £79,375 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £91,250 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £66,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% +10.42% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,923 1,931 4,655
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.05% 90.44% 94.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,537 1,282 3,736
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £59,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +10.19% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,925 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £54,793 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.38% +9.59% -8.90%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend 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 5 May 2026.

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 5 May 2026. 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
Salford - 2 £65,000 - 1
Wigan - 1 £47,500 -
Data Engineer
North West

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 5 May 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (51.52%) SQL
2 38 (38.38%) Python
3 26 (26.26%) Data Engineering
4 24 (24.24%) ETL
5 23 (23.23%) Agile
5 23 (23.23%) AWS
6 21 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
7 19 (19.19%) Analytics
8 15 (15.15%) Data Lake
8 15 (15.15%) Databricks
9 14 (14.14%) Azure
9 14 (14.14%) Data Modelling
9 14 (14.14%) GCP
10 13 (13.13%) Apache Airflow
10 13 (13.13%) Terraform
11 11 (11.11%) Data Science
11 11 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (10.10%) Data Quality
12 10 (10.10%) Mentoring
12 10 (10.10%) SQL Server
13 9 (9.09%) BigQuery
13 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
13 9 (9.09%) Kafka
13 9 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
14 8 (8.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (8.08%) Data Design
14 8 (8.08%) SaaS
14 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
15 7 (7.07%) CI/CD
15 7 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (13.13%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.02%) Apache
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.23%) AWS
2 14 (14.14%) Azure
2 14 (14.14%) GCP
3 8 (8.08%) SaaS
4 6 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 5 (5.05%) dbt
5 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.04%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (4.04%) Serverless
7 3 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.03%) GitHub
7 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.02%) Dagster
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.01%) Prefect
9 1 (1.01%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) Broadband
1 1 (1.01%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.15%) Data Lake
2 11 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (10.10%) SQL Server
4 9 (9.09%) BigQuery
5 8 (8.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.06%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (4.04%) Flink
7 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.03%) Power BI
9 2 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
9 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.01%) Big Data
10 1 (1.01%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Git
General
1 11 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.08%) Finance
3 7 (7.07%) Health Technology
4 5 (5.05%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.02%) Advertising
5 2 (2.02%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.02%) Law
6 1 (1.01%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.01%) Legal
6 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.01%) Retail
6 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) Kafka
2 4 (4.04%) Great Expectations
2 4 (4.04%) Pandas
2 4 (4.04%) PySpark
3 1 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.05%) Legacy Applications
2 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.01%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.01%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.01%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.01%) Online Gambling
4 1 (1.01%) Replication
4 1 (1.01%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (26.26%) Data Engineering
2 24 (24.24%) ETL
3 23 (23.23%) Agile
4 21 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (19.19%) Analytics
6 14 (14.14%) Data Modelling
7 11 (11.11%) Data Science
8 10 (10.10%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
10 8 (8.08%) Data Design
11 7 (7.07%) CI/CD
11 7 (7.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (7.07%) Data Transformation
12 6 (6.06%) AI
12 6 (6.06%) Data Ingestion
12 6 (6.06%) Decision-Making
12 6 (6.06%) Event-Driven
13 5 (5.05%) Cost Control
13 5 (5.05%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 51 (51.52%) SQL
2 38 (38.38%) Python
3 5 (5.05%) Java
4 3 (3.03%) Bash
5 1 (1.01%) Groovy
5 1 (1.01%) Scala
5 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.07%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.03%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.01%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (13.13%) Terraform
2 2 (2.02%) Grafana
2 2 (2.02%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Databricks
2 6 (6.06%) Google
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.01%) BT