Data Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer salary in Manchester is £66,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 125 106
Rank change year-on-year +70 -19 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 154 39 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.31% 1.55% 2.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.69% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 130 34 75
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,675 £44,250
25th Percentile £47,375 £52,813 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £68,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,232
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.48% +18.60%

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 6,316 2,304 4,274
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.57% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,968 1,389 2,982
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £83,063
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Wigan - 3 £65,000 -
Salford - 1 - - 1
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 76 (49.35%) SQL
2 70 (45.45%) Python
3 52 (33.77%) AWS
4 46 (29.87%) Analytics
5 45 (29.22%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (28.57%) Data Engineering
7 39 (25.32%) Azure
8 34 (22.08%) ETL
9 31 (20.13%) Data Quality
10 29 (18.83%) Agile
11 27 (17.53%) GCP
12 26 (16.88%) AI
13 25 (16.23%) Data Modelling
13 25 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (14.29%) Databricks
14 22 (14.29%) Decision-Making
15 20 (12.99%) SQL Server
16 19 (12.34%) Platform Engineering
17 18 (11.69%) Terraform
18 17 (11.04%) CI/CD
19 16 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
19 16 (10.39%) Data Transformation
19 16 (10.39%) Machine Learning
20 15 (9.74%) Apache Airflow
21 14 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
22 13 (8.44%) BigQuery
22 13 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
22 13 (8.44%) Data Architecture
22 13 (8.44%) dbt
22 13 (8.44%) Snowflake

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 15 (9.74%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.49%) Apache
2 10 (6.49%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 52 (33.77%) AWS
2 39 (25.32%) Azure
3 27 (17.53%) GCP
4 13 (8.44%) dbt
4 13 (8.44%) Snowflake
5 11 (7.14%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.84%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (5.84%) Serverless
7 8 (5.19%) GitHub
7 8 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 6 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.90%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.25%) SaaS
10 4 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.95%) Fivetran
12 2 (1.30%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.30%) Dagster
12 2 (1.30%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) Broadband
1 1 (0.65%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.23%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (12.99%) SQL Server
3 16 (10.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (8.44%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.19%) Power BI
6 6 (3.90%) Big Data
6 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.25%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.25%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.60%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.60%) Flink
8 4 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.95%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.30%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.65%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.65%) Looker
11 1 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.84%) Git
2 3 (1.95%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.95%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.95%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (9.09%) Finance
3 11 (7.14%) Law
4 10 (6.49%) Health Technology
5 9 (5.84%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.65%) Games
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
8 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.79%) Kafka
2 9 (5.84%) PySpark
3 4 (2.60%) Great Expectations
3 4 (2.60%) Pandas
4 3 (1.95%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.90%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 5 (3.25%) Legacy Applications
4 4 (2.60%) Replication
5 3 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.95%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.30%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.65%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.65%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (29.87%) Analytics
2 45 (29.22%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 34 (22.08%) ETL
5 29 (18.83%) Agile
6 26 (16.88%) AI
7 25 (16.23%) Data Modelling
8 22 (14.29%) Decision-Making
9 19 (12.34%) Platform Engineering
10 17 (11.04%) CI/CD
11 16 (10.39%) Data Transformation
11 16 (10.39%) Machine Learning
12 14 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (8.44%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (8.44%) Data Architecture
14 12 (7.79%) Data Science
14 12 (7.79%) Mentoring
14 12 (7.79%) Validation
15 11 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
16 10 (6.49%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.35%) SQL
2 70 (45.45%) Python
3 8 (5.19%) Scala
4 6 (3.90%) Bash
5 4 (2.60%) Java
6 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (3.90%) DV Cleared
3 3 (1.95%) Degree
3 3 (1.95%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.30%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (20.13%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.90%) QA
3 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (5.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (11.69%) Terraform
2 2 (1.30%) Grafana
2 2 (1.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (14.29%) Databricks
2 9 (5.84%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.30%) Google
4 1 (0.65%) BT