Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 210 117 200
Rank change year-on-year -93 +83 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 98 393 276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.89% 2.27% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 2.39% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 89 289 167
10th Percentile £44,500 £35,000 £39,544
25th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,750 £90,000 £79,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,008 16,414 15,566
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.35% 94.99% 89.42%
Number of salaries quoted 5,788 12,702 8,239
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,125
90th Percentile £78,678 £78,725 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
North West -118 49 £65,000 +8.33% 61
Yorkshire +39 47 £60,000 +17.65% 35
North East +2 6 £72,500 +1.40% 20
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 68 (69.39%) SQL
2 61 (62.24%) ETL
3 53 (54.08%) Data Pipeline
4 51 (52.04%) Python
5 50 (51.02%) Azure
5 50 (51.02%) AWS
6 48 (48.98%) Data Engineering
7 46 (46.94%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (41.84%) Analytics
9 32 (32.65%) Social Skills
9 32 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (29.59%) Databricks
10 29 (29.59%) Data Warehouse
10 29 (29.59%) Data Quality
11 28 (28.57%) Data Modelling
11 28 (28.57%) Mentoring
12 27 (27.55%) Power Platform
13 26 (26.53%) Power BI
14 25 (25.51%) Azure Data Factory
15 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
16 22 (22.45%) Agile
17 21 (21.43%) Data Lake
17 21 (21.43%) Data Strategy
18 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
19 19 (19.39%) Apache Spark
20 18 (18.37%) GCP
20 18 (18.37%) Data Science
20 18 (18.37%) Data Architecture
20 18 (18.37%) Degree
21 15 (15.31%) Data Analysis

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 19 (19.39%) Apache Spark
2 12 (12.24%) Apache
3 3 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.02%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 50 (51.02%) AWS
1 50 (51.02%) Azure
2 27 (27.55%) Power Platform
3 25 (25.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (18.37%) GCP
5 15 (15.31%) Snowflake
6 14 (14.29%) Serverless
7 13 (13.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (12.24%) Amazon S3
9 11 (11.22%) dbt
10 10 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (6.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (5.10%) Power Automate
13 4 (4.08%) Azure Functions
14 3 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
14 3 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
14 3 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
15 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
15 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.59%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (26.53%) Power BI
3 21 (21.43%) Data Lake
4 14 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 12 (12.24%) BigQuery
6 10 (10.20%) Big Data
7 8 (8.16%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (7.14%) Relational Database
8 7 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (6.12%) MySQL
10 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (4.08%) Looker
11 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 4 (4.08%) Power Query
11 4 (4.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (3.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
13 2 (2.04%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Git
2 4 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.06%) JIRA
4 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.02%) GitLab
4 1 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.02%) TeamCity
4 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.27%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Banking
5 5 (5.10%) Retail
6 4 (4.08%) Advertising
7 3 (3.06%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Billing
9 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.29%) Kafka
2 7 (7.14%) PySpark
3 4 (4.08%) REST
4 2 (2.04%) JSON
4 2 (2.04%) RESTful
5 1 (1.02%) Node.js
5 1 (1.02%) Pandas
5 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.02%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
1 3 (3.06%) Life Science
2 2 (2.04%) Data Fabric
2 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
2 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.02%) Clustering
3 1 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.02%) Educational Technology
3 1 (1.02%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.02%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (62.24%) ETL
2 53 (54.08%) Data Pipeline
3 48 (48.98%) Data Engineering
4 46 (46.94%) Business Intelligence
5 41 (41.84%) Analytics
6 32 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (28.57%) Data Modelling
7 28 (28.57%) Mentoring
8 22 (22.45%) Agile
9 21 (21.43%) Data Strategy
10 18 (18.37%) Data Architecture
10 18 (18.37%) Data Science
11 15 (15.31%) CI/CD
11 15 (15.31%) Data Analysis
12 14 (14.29%) OO
12 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
13 12 (12.24%) DataOps
14 11 (11.22%) Data Extraction
14 11 (11.22%) Visualisation
15 10 (10.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 68 (69.39%) SQL
2 51 (52.04%) Python
3 12 (12.24%) Scala
4 9 (9.18%) R
5 8 (8.16%) Java
6 7 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (6.12%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.08%) C#
9 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.02%) Bash
10 1 (1.02%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Degree
2 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (3.06%) DBS Check
2 3 (3.06%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.06%) PhD
3 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.04%) HNC
3 2 (2.04%) HND
3 2 (2.04%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (29.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.04%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (5.10%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Kubernetes
1 4 (4.08%) Terraform
2 1 (1.02%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (29.59%) Databricks
2 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.14%) Informatica
4 6 (6.12%) Google
5 5 (5.10%) Oracle
6 3 (3.06%) Palantir
6 3 (3.06%) PayPal
7 2 (2.04%) Splunk
8 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
8 1 (1.02%) Talend