Data Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 168 131
Rank change year-on-year +77 -37 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 138 76 144
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.68% 1.56% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 1.70% 2.65%
Number of salaries quoted 114 54 64
10th Percentile £36,875 £39,544 £38,947
25th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £84,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £71,250 £87,350
North West median annual salary £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,863 4,466 5,438
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 91.48% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,751 2,614 3,634
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%

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

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Manchester

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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
Stockport +28 3 £50,000 -28.00%
Cheadle -4 3 £35,000 -
Oldham - 3 - -
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, 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 74 (53.62%) ETL
2 71 (51.45%) Data Engineering
3 70 (50.72%) SQL
4 59 (42.75%) Python
5 56 (40.58%) Data Warehouse
6 55 (39.86%) Azure
7 53 (38.41%) Data Pipeline
8 51 (36.96%) Analytics
9 42 (30.43%) Agile
10 41 (29.71%) Data Modelling
11 39 (28.26%) SQL Server
12 36 (26.09%) Data Science
13 35 (25.36%) Data Management
13 35 (25.36%) Visualisation
14 33 (23.91%) DevOps
15 32 (23.19%) Data Quality
15 32 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
16 31 (22.46%) Power BI
16 31 (22.46%) Power Platform
17 30 (21.74%) DataOps
17 30 (21.74%) Databricks
18 29 (21.01%) AWS
19 26 (18.84%) Microsoft
19 26 (18.84%) GCP
20 25 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
21 24 (17.39%) Data Lake
21 24 (17.39%) CI/CD
21 24 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
21 24 (17.39%) Machine Learning
22 21 (15.22%) Social Skills

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 10 (7.25%) Confluence
2 9 (6.52%) Apache
2 9 (6.52%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Synapse
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 55 (39.86%) Azure
2 31 (22.46%) Power Platform
3 29 (21.01%) AWS
4 26 (18.84%) GCP
5 20 (14.49%) Snowflake
6 19 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (12.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (10.87%) Amazon S3
10 14 (10.14%) dbt
11 7 (5.07%) Serverless
12 6 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (4.35%) Fivetran
12 6 (4.35%) GitHub
12 6 (4.35%) Google Analytics
12 6 (4.35%) Matillion
13 5 (3.62%) Collibra
13 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (2.17%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) Firewall
1 4 (2.90%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (2.90%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (40.58%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (28.26%) SQL Server
3 31 (22.46%) Power BI
4 24 (17.39%) Data Lake
5 17 (12.32%) BigQuery
6 15 (10.87%) Tableau
7 13 (9.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (9.42%) Looker
8 11 (7.97%) Data Mining
8 11 (7.97%) Relational Database
9 10 (7.25%) Data Vault
10 9 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (5.80%) Big Data
12 6 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (4.35%) Metadata
12 6 (4.35%) Star Schema
13 5 (3.62%) Airbyte
13 5 (3.62%) Oracle Database
13 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (2.90%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (13.77%) JIRA
2 6 (4.35%) GitLab
3 5 (3.62%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.62%) Spinnaker
4 3 (2.17%) Git
General
1 25 (18.12%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 19 (13.77%) Finance
4 7 (5.07%) Law
5 6 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.62%) Banking
7 4 (2.90%) Retail
8 3 (2.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.45%) Marketing
10 1 (0.72%) Electronics
10 1 (0.72%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) Kafka
2 6 (4.35%) Apache Beam
2 6 (4.35%) PySpark
2 6 (4.35%) PyTorch
2 6 (4.35%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.90%) RESTful
4 3 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.72%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.72%) JSON
5 1 (0.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Data Structures
2 15 (10.87%) Public Cloud
3 13 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (7.25%) Reinsurance
5 6 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.62%) Blog
6 5 (3.62%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.62%) Mainframe
6 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.90%) Algorithms
7 4 (2.90%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.90%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.17%) NHS
9 1 (0.72%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.90%) Windows
1 4 (2.90%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (53.62%) ETL
2 71 (51.45%) Data Engineering
3 53 (38.41%) Data Pipeline
4 51 (36.96%) Analytics
5 42 (30.43%) Agile
6 41 (29.71%) Data Modelling
7 36 (26.09%) Data Science
8 35 (25.36%) Data Management
8 35 (25.36%) Visualisation
9 33 (23.91%) DevOps
10 32 (23.19%) Business Intelligence
11 30 (21.74%) DataOps
12 24 (17.39%) CI/CD
12 24 (17.39%) Machine Learning
12 24 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (15.22%) Data Strategy
14 20 (14.49%) Mentoring
15 19 (13.77%) Data Visualisation
16 18 (13.04%) Data Analysis
17 17 (12.32%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 70 (50.72%) SQL
2 59 (42.75%) Python
3 14 (10.14%) T-SQL
4 12 (8.70%) Java
5 9 (6.52%) Scala
6 8 (5.80%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.45%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.72%) C#
8 1 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (6.52%) Degree
2 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (2.90%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.17%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (23.19%) Data Quality
2 8 (5.80%) GDPR
3 5 (3.62%) QA
4 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.72%) GMP
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.07%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (21.74%) Databricks
2 26 (18.84%) Microsoft
3 19 (13.77%) Google
4 16 (11.59%) Informatica
5 14 (10.14%) Oracle
6 6 (4.35%) Dataiku
6 6 (4.35%) F5
7 5 (3.62%) Teradata
8 2 (1.45%) YouTube
9 1 (0.72%) SAP