Data Engineer Jobs in Merseyside

Data Engineer
North West > Merseyside

The median Data Engineer salary in Merseyside is £55,000 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 45 44 93
Rank change year-on-year -1 +49 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 53 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.70% 4.09% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 4.33% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7 49 4
10th Percentile £38,000 £35,000 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £85,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £64,375 £90,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £90,500 £82,250
North West median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +15.38% -0.95%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Merseyside

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Merseyside. 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 Merseyside with a recognized job title 305 1,225 873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 74.03% 94.52% 79.95%
Number of salaries quoted 197 855 449
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,200 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.43% -7.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £76,550 £75,000 £70,600
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £54,882
% change year-on-year +0.11% -8.90% +4.54%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Merseyside

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Merseyside

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Merseyside

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Merseyside

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 3 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
Liverpool +4 7 £55,000 -35.29% 8
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, 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 Merseyside region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks
2 6 (85.71%) Azure
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (71.43%) Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
4 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
4 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
4 4 (57.14%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) Git
4 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
5 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) Database Security
6 2 (28.57%) dbt
6 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) OO
6 2 (28.57%) Scrum
6 2 (28.57%) JIRA
6 2 (28.57%) Data Quality

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (57.14%) Azure Functions
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) dbt
4 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (57.14%) Relational Database
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) Database Security
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
5 1 (14.29%) Data Science
5 1 (14.29%) DataOps
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Parallel Computing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Databricks
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft