Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Senior Data Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Manchester is £71,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 179 224
Rank change year-on-year +45 +45 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 10 43 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.47% 0.84% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.89% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10 36 10
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,625 -
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £60,000 £48,197
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +24.49% -44.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 £74,063 £59,375
90th Percentile £80,250 £77,500 £63,375
North West median annual salary £61,750 £62,500 £48,197
% change year-on-year -1.20% +29.68% -44.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 1,928 4,846 4,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 94.61% 91.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,745 2,665
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Manchester

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Manchester

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Manchester

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) ETL
3 8 (80.00%) AWS
4 6 (60.00%) Scala
4 6 (60.00%) Azure
4 6 (60.00%) Python
4 6 (60.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (60.00%) Big Data
4 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
5 5 (50.00%) Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (50.00%) Java
6 4 (40.00%) Apache
6 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
6 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (40.00%) Power BI
7 3 (30.00%) Terraform
7 3 (30.00%) Serverless
7 3 (30.00%) Data Development
7 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (30.00%) Operational Stability
7 3 (30.00%) Business Strategy
7 3 (30.00%) Coaching
7 3 (30.00%) Amazon EMR

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
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 6 (60.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (40.00%) Apache
3 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EMR
4 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) Big Data
2 4 (40.00%) Power BI
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (20.00%) MySQL
4 2 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Zeppelin
5 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (10.00%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) Pandas
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 6 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Analytics
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (40.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Coaching
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Data Development
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (30.00%) MapReduce
5 3 (30.00%) OO
5 3 (30.00%) Operational Stability
5 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) Scala
3 5 (50.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Informatica
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle