Data Engineering Job Trends in Merseyside

Data Engineering
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 62 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 0.36% 0.11% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.16% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £35,513
25th Percentile £57,500 - £40,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £50,125
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.78%
75th Percentile £62,500 - £61,719
90th Percentile - - £67,438
North West median annual salary £60,000 £55,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.11% -3.48% -17.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 640 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 89.70% 72.98% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 230 450 353
10th Percentile £25,750 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £35,188 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £80,497 £70,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% +4.76%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Merseyside

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 September 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 +7 2 £60,000 - 4
Data Engineering
North West

Data Engineering
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL