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 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 126 89
Rank change year-on-year +65 -37 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 129 38 156
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.10% 1.67% 2.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.83% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 117 30 126
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £68,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.58% +6.67%
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 £60,000
% change year-on-year +18.14% -1.25% +14.83%

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 5,783 2,073 5,644
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 91.28% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,563 1,208 4,305
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.48% -6.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £96,200 £93,750 £80,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 20 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 20 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 -
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 (57.36%) SQL
2 63 (48.84%) Python
3 40 (31.01%) Analytics
4 39 (30.23%) AWS
5 37 (28.68%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (27.91%) Data Engineering
7 32 (24.81%) Azure
8 30 (23.26%) ETL
9 28 (21.71%) Agile
10 24 (18.60%) Data Modelling
10 24 (18.60%) Data Quality
10 24 (18.60%) Databricks
11 23 (17.83%) GCP
12 19 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (13.18%) Terraform
14 16 (12.40%) SQL Server
15 15 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
16 14 (10.85%) Data Science
16 14 (10.85%) Platform Engineering
17 13 (10.08%) AI
17 13 (10.08%) Data Lake
17 13 (10.08%) Decision-Making
18 12 (9.30%) BigQuery
18 12 (9.30%) Data Transformation
18 12 (9.30%) Kafka
18 12 (9.30%) Mentoring
18 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
19 11 (8.53%) CI/CD
19 11 (8.53%) Machine Learning
19 11 (8.53%) Validation

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 (11.63%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (6.20%) Apache
2 8 (6.20%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.23%) AWS
2 32 (24.81%) Azure
3 23 (17.83%) GCP
4 8 (6.20%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.20%) dbt
4 8 (6.20%) SaaS
4 8 (6.20%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.65%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.65%) Serverless
6 5 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.88%) GitHub
6 5 (3.88%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.10%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.55%) Dagster
9 1 (0.78%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (0.78%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.78%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) Broadband
1 1 (0.78%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (12.40%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.08%) Data Lake
4 12 (9.30%) BigQuery
5 10 (7.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.65%) Power BI
7 5 (3.88%) Big Data
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (3.10%) Flink
8 4 (3.10%) Relational Database
8 4 (3.10%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (2.33%) Delta Lake
9 3 (2.33%) MongoDB
9 3 (2.33%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.55%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.78%) MySQL
11 1 (0.78%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Git
General
1 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.53%) Finance
3 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.75%) Health Technology
3 10 (7.75%) Law
4 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.55%) Advertising
7 1 (0.78%) Banking
7 1 (0.78%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.78%) Games
7 1 (0.78%) Retail
7 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.30%) Kafka
2 6 (4.65%) PySpark
3 4 (3.10%) Great Expectations
3 4 (3.10%) Pandas
4 1 (0.78%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.88%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (3.88%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.10%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.33%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.55%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.55%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.78%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.78%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.78%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (31.01%) Analytics
2 37 (28.68%) Data Pipeline
3 36 (27.91%) Data Engineering
4 30 (23.26%) ETL
5 28 (21.71%) Agile
6 24 (18.60%) Data Modelling
7 14 (10.85%) Data Science
7 14 (10.85%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (10.08%) AI
8 13 (10.08%) Decision-Making
9 12 (9.30%) Data Transformation
9 12 (9.30%) Mentoring
10 11 (8.53%) CI/CD
10 11 (8.53%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.53%) Validation
11 10 (7.75%) Data Ingestion
11 10 (7.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 9 (6.98%) Business Strategy
12 9 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.98%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 74 (57.36%) SQL
2 63 (48.84%) Python
3 7 (5.43%) Scala
4 5 (3.88%) Bash
4 5 (3.88%) Java
5 1 (0.78%) Groovy
5 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.20%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.78%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.78%) Degree
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (18.60%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.88%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (13.18%) Terraform
2 2 (1.55%) Grafana
2 2 (1.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (18.60%) Databricks
2 6 (4.65%) Google
2 6 (4.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.78%) BT