Data Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Data Engineer salary in Manchester is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 111 107
Rank change year-on-year +42 -4 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 152 44 79
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.05% 1.86% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% 2.04% 2.06%
Number of salaries quoted 125 37 60
10th Percentile £40,000 £49,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,250
North West median annual salary £66,805 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +11.34% -4.00% +13.64%

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 6,955 2,154 3,832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 90.85% 94.45%
Number of salaries quoted 5,354 1,282 2,197
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,143 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -1.56% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £86,250 £82,500
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 - 2 £70,000 - 2
Salford - 2 - - 4
Bury - 1 £55,000 - 3
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 74 (48.68%) SQL
2 69 (45.39%) Python
3 57 (37.50%) Analytics
3 57 (37.50%) AWS
4 51 (33.55%) Data Pipeline
5 47 (30.92%) Data Engineering
6 43 (28.29%) Azure
7 35 (23.03%) ETL
8 34 (22.37%) Data Quality
9 28 (18.42%) Agile
9 28 (18.42%) AI
9 28 (18.42%) Decision-Making
10 26 (17.11%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (15.79%) GCP
12 22 (14.47%) Data Modelling
13 21 (13.82%) Databricks
14 20 (13.16%) CI/CD
14 20 (13.16%) Data Transformation
14 20 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
15 19 (12.50%) Terraform
16 18 (11.84%) Machine Learning
17 17 (11.18%) Snowflake
18 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
19 15 (9.87%) Amazon S3
19 15 (9.87%) Data Architecture
19 15 (9.87%) SQL Server
20 14 (9.21%) Security Cleared
20 14 (9.21%) Validation
21 13 (8.55%) Business Strategy

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 12 (7.89%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.24%) Apache
3 10 (6.58%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 57 (37.50%) AWS
2 43 (28.29%) Azure
3 24 (15.79%) GCP
4 17 (11.18%) Snowflake
5 15 (9.87%) Amazon S3
6 12 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (7.89%) dbt
6 12 (7.89%) GitHub
6 12 (7.89%) Serverless
7 9 (5.92%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.92%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.95%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.29%) SaaS
10 4 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.97%) Amazon EMR
11 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.97%) Fivetran
11 3 (1.97%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.11%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (9.87%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.58%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.26%) Data Lake
6 6 (3.95%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (3.95%) Big Data
6 6 (3.95%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.95%) Power BI
7 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
7 5 (3.29%) MongoDB
7 5 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.63%) Delta Lake
8 4 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.97%) Flink
10 2 (1.32%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.32%) Parquet
11 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.92%) Git
2 3 (1.97%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 16 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.55%) Finance
4 11 (7.24%) Law
5 10 (6.58%) Health Technology
6 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 7 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.32%) Advertising
8 2 (1.32%) Games
9 1 (0.66%) Banking
9 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.66%) iGaming
9 1 (0.66%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.50%) Terraform
2 11 (7.24%) Kafka
2 11 (7.24%) PySpark
3 3 (1.97%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.97%) Great Expectations
3 3 (1.97%) Pandas
4 2 (1.32%) Apache Avro
4 2 (1.32%) JSON
5 1 (0.66%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.55%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 7 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.97%) Replication
5 3 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.97%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.32%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.66%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.66%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.66%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.66%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.66%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (37.50%) Analytics
2 51 (33.55%) Data Pipeline
3 47 (30.92%) Data Engineering
4 35 (23.03%) ETL
5 28 (18.42%) Agile
5 28 (18.42%) AI
5 28 (18.42%) Decision-Making
6 22 (14.47%) Data Modelling
7 20 (13.16%) CI/CD
7 20 (13.16%) Data Transformation
7 20 (13.16%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (11.84%) Machine Learning
9 16 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.87%) Data Architecture
11 14 (9.21%) Validation
12 13 (8.55%) Business Strategy
12 13 (8.55%) Data Science
12 13 (8.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (8.55%) Lakehouse
12 13 (8.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 74 (48.68%) SQL
2 69 (45.39%) Python
3 9 (5.92%) Bash
4 8 (5.26%) Scala
5 5 (3.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (9.21%) Security Cleared
2 8 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.63%) Degree
3 4 (2.63%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.97%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (22.37%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (0.66%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.32%) Grafana
1 2 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (13.82%) Databricks
2 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.66%) Google
3 1 (0.66%) YouTube