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 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 129 104
Rank change year-on-year +70 -25 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 149 39 101
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.28% 1.55% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 1.69% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 129 34 80
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,813 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £68,750 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +12.24% +2.08%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% +18.18%

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 6,195 2,307 4,485
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.67% 91.66% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 4,867 1,389 3,180
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £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 29 July 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 29 July 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 - -
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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 75 (50.34%) SQL
2 69 (46.31%) Python
3 52 (34.90%) AWS
4 44 (29.53%) Analytics
4 44 (29.53%) Data Engineering
4 44 (29.53%) Data Pipeline
5 38 (25.50%) Azure
6 33 (22.15%) ETL
7 30 (20.13%) Data Quality
8 29 (19.46%) Agile
9 27 (18.12%) GCP
10 26 (17.45%) Data Modelling
11 25 (16.78%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (14.77%) AI
12 22 (14.77%) Databricks
13 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
13 20 (13.42%) SQL Server
14 18 (12.08%) Platform Engineering
14 18 (12.08%) Terraform
15 16 (10.74%) Amazon Redshift
15 16 (10.74%) CI/CD
15 16 (10.74%) Data Transformation
16 15 (10.07%) Machine Learning
17 14 (9.40%) Apache Airflow
17 14 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
18 13 (8.72%) BigQuery
18 13 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
18 13 (8.72%) Data Architecture
18 13 (8.72%) dbt
19 12 (8.05%) Data Science

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 14 (9.40%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (6.71%) Apache Spark
3 9 (6.04%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 52 (34.90%) AWS
2 38 (25.50%) Azure
3 27 (18.12%) GCP
4 13 (8.72%) dbt
5 12 (8.05%) Snowflake
6 11 (7.38%) Amazon S3
7 9 (6.04%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (6.04%) Serverless
8 8 (5.37%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.03%) GitHub
10 5 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (3.36%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.36%) SaaS
11 4 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.01%) Fivetran
13 2 (1.34%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.34%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.34%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.67%) Broadband
1 1 (0.67%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.78%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (13.42%) SQL Server
3 16 (10.74%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (8.72%) BigQuery
5 8 (5.37%) Power BI
6 7 (4.70%) Data Lake
7 6 (4.03%) Big Data
8 5 (3.36%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.36%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.68%) Flink
9 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
10 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.01%) DynamoDB
10 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.67%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.67%) Looker
12 1 (0.67%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (6.04%) Git
2 3 (2.01%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.01%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.01%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (9.40%) Finance
3 11 (7.38%) Law
4 10 (6.71%) Health Technology
4 10 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.34%) Advertising
7 1 (0.67%) Banking
7 1 (0.67%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.67%) Games
7 1 (0.67%) Retail
7 1 (0.67%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.05%) Kafka
2 9 (6.04%) PySpark
3 4 (2.68%) Great Expectations
3 4 (2.68%) Pandas
4 3 (2.01%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.03%) Cloud Native
1 6 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.36%) Data Structures
2 5 (3.36%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (3.36%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.68%) Replication
4 3 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (2.01%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.34%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.67%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.67%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.67%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (29.53%) Analytics
1 44 (29.53%) Data Engineering
1 44 (29.53%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (22.15%) ETL
3 29 (19.46%) Agile
4 26 (17.45%) Data Modelling
5 22 (14.77%) AI
6 20 (13.42%) Decision-Making
7 18 (12.08%) Platform Engineering
8 16 (10.74%) CI/CD
8 16 (10.74%) Data Transformation
9 15 (10.07%) Machine Learning
10 14 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (8.72%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (8.72%) Data Architecture
12 12 (8.05%) Data Science
12 12 (8.05%) Mentoring
12 12 (8.05%) Validation
13 10 (6.71%) Data Ingestion
13 10 (6.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.34%) SQL
2 69 (46.31%) Python
3 8 (5.37%) Scala
4 5 (3.36%) Bash
5 4 (2.68%) Java
6 1 (0.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (7.38%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
3 3 (2.01%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.34%) Degree
5 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.13%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.03%) QA
3 3 (2.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (6.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (12.08%) Terraform
2 2 (1.34%) Grafana
2 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (14.77%) Databricks
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.34%) Google
4 1 (0.67%) BT