Data Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 June 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 193 101
Rank change year-on-year +109 -92 +129
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 362 106 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.83% 1.30% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.45% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 297 98 320
10th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,114 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £61,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% +11.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 18,651 7,312 18,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.20% 89.63% 95.30%
Number of salaries quoted 13,349 3,702 14,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £83,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -12.86%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 June 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
North West +99 185 £70,000 +9.59% 44
Yorkshire +25 122 £67,500 +12.50% 22
North East +8 55 £60,000 -9.43% 22
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 8 June 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 North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 144 (39.78%) SQL
2 122 (33.70%) Python
3 100 (27.62%) Data Engineering
4 95 (26.24%) Analytics
4 95 (26.24%) Data Pipeline
5 90 (24.86%) Azure
6 72 (19.89%) Data Modelling
7 70 (19.34%) AWS
8 69 (19.06%) Databricks
8 69 (19.06%) ETL
9 61 (16.85%) Data Quality
10 54 (14.92%) Data Warehouse
11 45 (12.43%) CI/CD
12 42 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
12 42 (11.60%) Machine Learning
13 41 (11.33%) Agile
13 41 (11.33%) AI
14 38 (10.50%) Data Governance
14 38 (10.50%) Decision-Making
15 37 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 35 (9.67%) GCP
16 35 (9.67%) PySpark
17 34 (9.39%) Terraform
18 33 (9.12%) Microsoft
19 32 (8.84%) DevOps
20 31 (8.56%) Apache Airflow
21 30 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
22 29 (8.01%) Mentoring
22 29 (8.01%) Power Platform
22 29 (8.01%) Security Cleared

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 31 (8.56%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (4.14%) Apache Spark
3 12 (3.31%) Apache
4 4 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.83%) Confluence
6 2 (0.55%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.28%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 90 (24.86%) Azure
2 70 (19.34%) AWS
3 37 (10.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 35 (9.67%) GCP
5 29 (8.01%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.97%) Serverless
7 16 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.42%) dbt
8 13 (3.59%) Amazon S3
9 11 (3.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 11 (3.04%) Snowflake
10 10 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
11 9 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (2.49%) Azure Functions
11 9 (2.49%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (2.21%) SaaS
13 6 (1.66%) GitHub
14 5 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.10%) Amazon Kinesis
15 4 (1.10%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.38%) Broadband
2 3 (0.83%) DSLAM
3 2 (0.55%) Internet
3 2 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (14.92%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (7.73%) Power BI
3 25 (6.91%) Data Lake
4 22 (6.08%) BigQuery
5 21 (5.80%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.25%) Spark SQL
7 18 (4.97%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (3.59%) Metadata
9 12 (3.31%) Big Data
10 11 (3.04%) Semantic Layer
11 7 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.66%) Delta Lake
12 6 (1.66%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.66%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.66%) Star Schema
13 4 (1.10%) Flink
13 4 (1.10%) Tableau
14 3 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.83%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.21%) Git
2 3 (0.83%) JIRA
3 2 (0.55%) GitLab
4 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (8.29%) Social Skills
2 28 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.63%) Finance
4 17 (4.70%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.31%) Retail
6 10 (2.76%) Health Technology
6 10 (2.76%) Law
7 8 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.38%) Advertising
8 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.55%) Digital Health
11 2 (0.55%) Games
11 2 (0.55%) Local Government
12 1 (0.28%) Automotive
12 1 (0.28%) Banking
12 1 (0.28%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.28%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.67%) PySpark
2 12 (3.31%) Kafka
3 10 (2.76%) ARM Templates
4 9 (2.49%) REST
5 4 (1.10%) Great Expectations
5 4 (1.10%) Pandas
6 3 (0.83%) JSON
7 1 (0.28%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.04%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (1.93%) Cloud Native
3 6 (1.66%) Hedge funds
4 5 (1.38%) Data Structures
4 5 (1.38%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (1.38%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.38%) Sports Betting
5 4 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.10%) Operational Technology
6 3 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (0.83%) Driving Licence
6 3 (0.83%) Online Gambling
7 2 (0.55%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.55%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.28%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.28%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.28%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.28%) NHS
8 1 (0.28%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (27.62%) Data Engineering
2 95 (26.24%) Analytics
2 95 (26.24%) Data Pipeline
3 72 (19.89%) Data Modelling
4 69 (19.06%) ETL
5 45 (12.43%) CI/CD
6 42 (11.60%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (11.60%) Machine Learning
7 41 (11.33%) Agile
7 41 (11.33%) AI
8 38 (10.50%) Data Governance
8 38 (10.50%) Decision-Making
9 32 (8.84%) DevOps
10 30 (8.29%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (8.01%) Mentoring
12 28 (7.73%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 26 (7.18%) Data Science
15 24 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (6.63%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 144 (39.78%) SQL
2 122 (33.70%) Python
3 10 (2.76%) Java
4 6 (1.66%) Scala
5 5 (1.38%) Bash
6 3 (0.83%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.55%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.28%) Bicep
8 1 (0.28%) Go
8 1 (0.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 29 (8.01%) Security Cleared
2 16 (4.42%) SC Cleared
3 13 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (3.59%) Degree
4 11 (3.04%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.10%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (16.85%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.87%) GDPR
3 6 (1.66%) QA
4 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (2.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (9.39%) Terraform
2 3 (0.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.55%) Grafana
3 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (19.06%) Databricks
2 33 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.04%) Google
4 5 (1.38%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.38%) SAP
5 4 (1.10%) Foundry
5 4 (1.10%) Palantir
6 3 (0.83%) BT
7 1 (0.28%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.28%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.28%) Informatica
7 1 (0.28%) Nintex
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow