Data Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Data Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 103 82
Rank change year-on-year +19 -21 +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 62 123 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 2.88% 2.40% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 2.77% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 29 98 52
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,375 £39,544
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £47,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -32.15%
75th Percentile £115,000 £77,500 £68,125
90th Percentile £141,151 £96,539 £78,646
North West median annual salary £70,000 £55,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +27.27% +2.33% -23.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,046 4,447 4,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.03% 86.67% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,306 3,393 2,562
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,155 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,700 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -4.87% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,800 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Manchester

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Manchester.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Manchester

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Manchester

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 May 2025. 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
Stockport - 5 £75,000 - 3
Cheadle +6 2 - -
Oldham +1 2 - -
Salford - 2 - -
Altrincham - 2 - - 3
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 1 - - 2
Bury - 1 - - 2
Dukinfield - 1 - -
Stalybridge - 1 - -
Sale - 1 - -
Data Engineering
North West

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.61%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 48 (77.42%) Azure
2 44 (70.97%) AWS
3 35 (56.45%) GCP
4 8 (12.90%) Cloud Composer
4 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (16.13%) BigQuery
2 8 (12.90%) Power BI
3 7 (11.29%) Big Data
4 6 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.84%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.84%) Hadoop
5 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.23%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.61%) Apache Zeppelin
7 1 (1.61%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (1.61%) MySQL
7 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) MLflow
2 1 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.61%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (40.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 12 (19.35%) Banking
4 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (48.39%) Senior
2 24 (38.71%) Senior Software Engineer
2 24 (38.71%) Software Engineer
3 17 (27.42%) Data Engineer
4 10 (16.13%) Lead
5 6 (9.68%) Head of Engineering
5 6 (9.68%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Architect
7 3 (4.84%) Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.23%) Data Science Graduate
8 2 (3.23%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.23%) Graduate
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Engineer
9 1 (1.61%) Azure Specialist
9 1 (1.61%) GCP Engineer
9 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 1 (1.61%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (1.61%) Senior Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (41.94%) .NET
2 24 (38.71%) Node.js
3 4 (6.45%) Kafka
3 4 (6.45%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) Pandas
4 1 (1.61%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (38.71%) Cyberattack
1 24 (38.71%) Linux Command Line
1 24 (38.71%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.45%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.84%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.84%) Life Science
4 2 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.23%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.23%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 24 (38.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Mentoring
2 40 (64.52%) Agile
3 29 (46.77%) Machine Learning
3 29 (46.77%) Software Engineering
4 25 (40.32%) Microservices
5 24 (38.71%) Cloud Security
5 24 (38.71%) Scrum
5 24 (38.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 24 (38.71%) User Experience
6 14 (22.58%) Coaching
6 14 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (20.97%) Data Modelling
8 12 (19.35%) Analytics
8 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (19.35%) ETL
8 12 (19.35%) Visualisation
9 11 (17.74%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
10 10 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
11 9 (14.52%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (62.90%) Python
2 25 (40.32%) Java
3 24 (38.71%) C++
3 24 (38.71%) Go
3 24 (38.71%) JavaScript
3 24 (38.71%) Rust
3 24 (38.71%) SQL
4 2 (3.23%) C#
4 2 (3.23%) Scala
5 1 (1.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 26 (41.94%) AWS Certification
2 25 (40.32%) Security Cleared
3 24 (38.71%) AWS Certified Developer
3 24 (38.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 24 (38.71%) DV Cleared
4 6 (9.68%) Degree
5 4 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.23%) PhD
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.58%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (4.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.61%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Google
2 7 (11.29%) Informatica
3 4 (6.45%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.23%) Splunk
5 1 (1.61%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.61%) Databricks
5 1 (1.61%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.61%) MicroStrategy