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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 119 90
Rank change year-on-year +61 -29 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 126 41 150
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.10% 1.81% 2.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.97% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 114 33 122
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £46,313 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,250 £90,000 £90,000
North West median annual salary £70,000 £63,876 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.59% +6.46% +9.09%

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 5,656 2,077 5,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 91.50% 94.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,455 1,204 4,195
10th Percentile £31,570 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £95,000 £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 12 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 12 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 - 1
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 12 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 71 (56.35%) SQL
2 60 (47.62%) Python
3 38 (30.16%) Analytics
3 38 (30.16%) AWS
4 34 (26.98%) Data Engineering
4 34 (26.98%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (24.60%) Azure
5 31 (24.60%) ETL
6 28 (22.22%) Agile
7 23 (18.25%) Data Modelling
8 22 (17.46%) Data Quality
8 22 (17.46%) Databricks
8 22 (17.46%) GCP
9 18 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
10 17 (13.49%) Terraform
11 16 (12.70%) SQL Server
12 15 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
13 14 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (10.32%) Data Science
14 13 (10.32%) Mentoring
15 12 (9.52%) AI
15 12 (9.52%) BigQuery
15 12 (9.52%) Data Lake
15 12 (9.52%) Data Transformation
15 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
15 12 (9.52%) Kafka
16 11 (8.73%) CI/CD
16 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
17 10 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
17 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (11.90%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (5.56%) Apache
2 7 (5.56%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.16%) AWS
2 31 (24.60%) Azure
3 22 (17.46%) GCP
4 8 (6.35%) Amazon S3
4 8 (6.35%) dbt
4 8 (6.35%) SaaS
4 8 (6.35%) Snowflake
5 6 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.76%) Serverless
6 5 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.97%) GitHub
6 5 (3.97%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (3.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.59%) Dagster
10 1 (0.79%) Amazon MSK
10 1 (0.79%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.79%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Broadband
1 1 (0.79%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (12.70%) SQL Server
3 12 (9.52%) BigQuery
3 12 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 10 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (4.76%) Power BI
6 4 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (3.17%) Big Data
6 4 (3.17%) Flink
6 4 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.17%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (2.38%) Delta Lake
7 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.79%) MySQL
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Git
General
1 19 (15.08%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.94%) Finance
2 10 (7.94%) Health Technology
3 9 (7.14%) Law
4 8 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.59%) Advertising
7 1 (0.79%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.79%) Games
7 1 (0.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.52%) Kafka
2 5 (3.97%) PySpark
3 4 (3.17%) Great Expectations
3 4 (3.17%) Pandas
4 1 (0.79%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.97%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (2.38%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.59%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.59%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.79%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.79%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.79%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.79%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.16%) Analytics
2 34 (26.98%) Data Engineering
2 34 (26.98%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (24.60%) ETL
4 28 (22.22%) Agile
5 23 (18.25%) Data Modelling
6 14 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
7 13 (10.32%) Data Science
7 13 (10.32%) Mentoring
8 12 (9.52%) AI
8 12 (9.52%) Data Transformation
8 12 (9.52%) Decision-Making
9 11 (8.73%) CI/CD
10 10 (7.94%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (7.94%) Machine Learning
10 10 (7.94%) Validation
11 9 (7.14%) Business Strategy
11 9 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.14%) Data Ingestion
12 8 (6.35%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 71 (56.35%) SQL
2 60 (47.62%) Python
3 6 (4.76%) Scala
4 5 (3.97%) Bash
4 5 (3.97%) Java
5 1 (0.79%) Groovy
5 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (6.35%) DV Cleared
3 5 (3.97%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.46%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (13.49%) Terraform
2 2 (1.59%) Grafana
2 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (17.46%) Databricks
2 6 (4.76%) Google
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.79%) BT