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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 119 110
Rank change year-on-year +53 -9 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 148 42 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.07% 1.76% 2.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.19% 1.93% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 123 36 64
10th Percentile £40,000 £49,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £43,125 £53,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £88,500
North West median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -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 6,750 2,174 3,939
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 90.92% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5,253 1,308 2,445
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £78,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £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 4 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 4 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 -
Salford - 1 - - 1
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 73 (49.32%) SQL
2 68 (45.95%) Python
3 54 (36.49%) AWS
4 49 (33.11%) Analytics
5 48 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (29.73%) Data Engineering
7 40 (27.03%) Azure
8 33 (22.30%) ETL
9 32 (21.62%) Data Quality
10 27 (18.24%) AI
11 26 (17.57%) Agile
11 26 (17.57%) Decision-Making
12 25 (16.89%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (16.22%) GCP
14 22 (14.86%) Data Modelling
15 20 (13.51%) Data Transformation
15 20 (13.51%) Databricks
15 20 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
16 19 (12.84%) Terraform
17 18 (12.16%) CI/CD
18 17 (11.49%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (11.49%) Machine Learning
18 17 (11.49%) Snowflake
19 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
20 14 (9.46%) Data Architecture
20 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
20 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
21 13 (8.78%) Business Strategy
22 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
22 12 (8.11%) Apache Airflow

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 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (7.43%) Apache
3 10 (6.76%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 54 (36.49%) AWS
2 40 (27.03%) Azure
3 24 (16.22%) GCP
4 17 (11.49%) Snowflake
5 12 (8.11%) Amazon S3
5 12 (8.11%) dbt
5 12 (8.11%) GitHub
6 9 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (6.08%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (6.08%) Serverless
7 6 (4.05%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.38%) SaaS
9 4 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.03%) Fivetran
10 3 (2.03%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.35%) Amazon MSK
11 2 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.35%) Dagster
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (16.89%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (11.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 16 (10.81%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.76%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.05%) Big Data
5 6 (4.05%) Power BI
6 5 (3.38%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.38%) DynamoDB
6 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.38%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.70%) Flink
7 4 (2.70%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.03%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.68%) Looker
10 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.73%) Git
2 3 (2.03%) Bitbucket
2 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 37 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (9.46%) Finance
3 11 (7.43%) Law
4 10 (6.76%) Health Technology
5 8 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.35%) Advertising
7 2 (1.35%) Games
8 1 (0.68%) Banking
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) iGaming
8 1 (0.68%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.84%) Terraform
2 12 (8.11%) Kafka
3 9 (6.08%) PySpark
4 4 (2.70%) Great Expectations
4 4 (2.70%) Pandas
5 3 (2.03%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.68%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
2 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.05%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.03%) Replication
5 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.03%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.35%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.68%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (33.11%) Analytics
2 48 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (29.73%) Data Engineering
4 33 (22.30%) ETL
5 27 (18.24%) AI
6 26 (17.57%) Agile
6 26 (17.57%) Decision-Making
7 22 (14.86%) Data Modelling
8 20 (13.51%) Data Transformation
8 20 (13.51%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (12.16%) CI/CD
10 17 (11.49%) Machine Learning
11 14 (9.46%) Data Architecture
11 14 (9.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (9.46%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.78%) Business Strategy
13 12 (8.11%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (8.11%) Data Science
13 12 (8.11%) Lakehouse
13 12 (8.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 73 (49.32%) SQL
2 68 (45.95%) Python
3 9 (6.08%) Bash
4 8 (5.41%) Scala
5 4 (2.70%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (6.76%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.38%) DV Cleared
3 4 (2.70%) Degree
4 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.62%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.35%) Grafana
1 2 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (13.51%) Databricks
2 8 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.68%) Google