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 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 123 89
Rank change year-on-year +63 -34 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 130 37 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.10% 1.62% 2.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.77% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 118 30 120
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,313 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.58% +4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,750 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £59,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +18.14% -5.20% +19.62%

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 5,841 2,088 5,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 91.18% 94.99%
Number of salaries quoted 4,612 1,219 4,238
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,750 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £52,830
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +7.89% -8.12%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,913
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% -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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -
Wigan - 1 £47,500 - 1
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 (56.92%) SQL
2 64 (49.23%) Python
3 42 (32.31%) AWS
4 41 (31.54%) Analytics
5 39 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (27.69%) Data Engineering
7 34 (26.15%) Azure
8 31 (23.85%) ETL
9 28 (21.54%) Agile
10 25 (19.23%) Data Quality
11 24 (18.46%) Databricks
11 24 (18.46%) GCP
12 23 (17.69%) Data Modelling
13 18 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
13 18 (13.85%) Terraform
14 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
15 15 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
15 15 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
16 14 (10.77%) AI
16 14 (10.77%) Data Science
16 14 (10.77%) Decision-Making
17 13 (10.00%) CI/CD
17 13 (10.00%) Data Transformation
17 13 (10.00%) Mentoring
18 12 (9.23%) BigQuery
18 12 (9.23%) Kafka
18 12 (9.23%) Machine Learning
18 12 (9.23%) Security Cleared
18 12 (9.23%) Validation
19 11 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift

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 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (6.92%) Apache
2 9 (6.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 42 (32.31%) AWS
2 34 (26.15%) Azure
3 24 (18.46%) GCP
4 9 (6.92%) Amazon S3
4 9 (6.92%) dbt
5 8 (6.15%) Snowflake
6 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (5.38%) SaaS
6 7 (5.38%) Serverless
7 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.85%) GitHub
8 5 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.54%) Dagster
11 1 (0.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.77%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.77%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.77%) Broadband
1 1 (0.77%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.85%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.23%) BigQuery
4 11 (8.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (8.46%) Data Lake
5 6 (4.62%) Power BI
6 5 (3.85%) Big Data
7 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (3.08%) Flink
7 4 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.31%) Delta Lake
8 3 (2.31%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.31%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.54%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.77%) MySQL
10 1 (0.77%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (4.62%) Git
General
1 23 (17.69%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.46%) Finance
2 11 (8.46%) Law
3 10 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.69%) Health Technology
4 9 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.54%) Advertising
7 1 (0.77%) Banking
7 1 (0.77%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.77%) Games
7 1 (0.77%) Retail
7 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.23%) Kafka
2 7 (5.38%) PySpark
3 4 (3.08%) Great Expectations
3 4 (3.08%) Pandas
4 1 (0.77%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.85%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.31%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.54%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.54%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.77%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.77%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.77%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.77%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (31.54%) Analytics
2 39 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 36 (27.69%) Data Engineering
4 31 (23.85%) ETL
5 28 (21.54%) Agile
6 23 (17.69%) Data Modelling
7 15 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (10.77%) AI
8 14 (10.77%) Data Science
8 14 (10.77%) Decision-Making
9 13 (10.00%) CI/CD
9 13 (10.00%) Data Transformation
9 13 (10.00%) Mentoring
10 12 (9.23%) Machine Learning
10 12 (9.23%) Validation
11 10 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (7.69%) Data Architecture
11 10 (7.69%) Data Ingestion
11 10 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (6.92%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 74 (56.92%) SQL
2 64 (49.23%) Python
3 8 (6.15%) Scala
4 5 (3.85%) Bash
4 5 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (0.77%) Groovy
5 1 (0.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.23%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.15%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.77%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.77%) Degree
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.62%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (13.85%) Terraform
2 2 (1.54%) Grafana
2 2 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (18.46%) Databricks
2 6 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (0.77%) BT