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 £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 210 216
Rank change year-on-year +94 +6 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 389 275 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.26% 1.56% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.75% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 286 163 144
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,544 £37,934
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £82,500 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,600 £87,350
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,370 15,738 17,408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 89.42% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,667 8,315 11,202
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,169
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 +92 250 £60,000 +15.38% 36
Yorkshire +64 86 £51,000 -21.54% 16
North East +14 53 £67,750 +2.65% 3
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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.

1 195 (50.13%) Data Engineering
2 187 (48.07%) ETL
3 177 (45.50%) SQL
4 158 (40.62%) Python
5 150 (38.56%) Agile
6 149 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
7 147 (37.79%) Azure
8 125 (32.13%) Data Modelling
9 115 (29.56%) Data Science
10 114 (29.31%) DevOps
11 105 (26.99%) Data Quality
12 104 (26.74%) Data Warehouse
12 104 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
13 93 (23.91%) Analytics
14 91 (23.39%) Mentoring
14 91 (23.39%) GCP
15 90 (23.14%) SQL Server
16 87 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
17 85 (21.85%) Databricks
18 82 (21.08%) DataOps
19 81 (20.82%) Data Integration
20 80 (20.57%) BigQuery
21 77 (19.79%) Self-Motivation
22 76 (19.54%) Google
23 68 (17.48%) Social Skills
23 68 (17.48%) Platform Engineering
23 68 (17.48%) AWS
24 65 (16.71%) Looker
25 64 (16.45%) Data Lake
26 59 (15.17%) GDPR

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 21 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (4.11%) Apache
3 15 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 147 (37.79%) Azure
2 91 (23.39%) GCP
3 68 (17.48%) AWS
4 50 (12.85%) Power Platform
5 48 (12.34%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (9.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 36 (9.25%) Snowflake
7 30 (7.71%) Amazon S3
8 29 (7.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (7.20%) dbt
10 18 (4.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (4.63%) Matillion
11 17 (4.37%) Amazon Kinesis
12 16 (4.11%) Serverless
13 13 (3.34%) SaaS
14 12 (3.08%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
16 6 (1.54%) Collibra
16 6 (1.54%) Fivetran
16 6 (1.54%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.57%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.03%) Firewall
2 4 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.51%) WebEx
4 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.26%) DMZ
4 1 (0.26%) LAN
4 1 (0.26%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.26%) WAN
4 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (26.74%) Data Warehouse
2 90 (23.14%) SQL Server
3 80 (20.57%) BigQuery
4 65 (16.71%) Looker
5 64 (16.45%) Data Lake
6 48 (12.34%) Power BI
7 41 (10.54%) Data Vault
8 33 (8.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 29 (7.46%) Delta Lake
10 22 (5.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (5.40%) PostgreSQL
12 20 (5.14%) Star Schema
12 20 (5.14%) Tableau
13 18 (4.63%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (3.86%) Data Mining
14 15 (3.86%) Relational Database
15 13 (3.34%) Big Data
16 8 (2.06%) Apache Cassandra
16 8 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (2.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (12.34%) JIRA
2 18 (4.63%) GitLab
3 12 (3.08%) Git
4 10 (2.57%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.29%) Spinnaker
5 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 87 (22.37%) Analytical Skills
2 68 (17.48%) Social Skills
3 41 (10.54%) Finance
4 19 (4.88%) Marketing
5 16 (4.11%) Retail
6 14 (3.60%) Games
6 14 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 10 (2.57%) Banking
8 9 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.31%) Law
9 7 (1.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.51%) Aviation
10 2 (0.51%) Back Office
10 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Legal
10 2 (0.51%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.26%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.26%) Electronics
11 1 (0.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.74%) PySpark
2 8 (2.06%) Kafka
3 7 (1.80%) TensorFlow
4 6 (1.54%) Apache Beam
4 6 (1.54%) PyTorch
5 4 (1.03%) RESTful
6 3 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.77%) JSON
6 3 (0.77%) XML
7 2 (0.51%) .NET
7 2 (0.51%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.51%) Handlebars
7 2 (0.51%) Pandas
8 1 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.79%) Self-Motivation
2 59 (15.17%) Data Structures
3 42 (10.80%) Public Cloud
4 40 (10.28%) Reinsurance
5 17 (4.37%) SCADA
6 16 (4.11%) Operational Technology
7 13 (3.34%) Client/Server
7 13 (3.34%) Online Games
8 12 (3.08%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.57%) CCTV
9 10 (2.57%) Product Ownership
10 9 (2.31%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.80%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Cloud
13 5 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 5 (1.29%) Blog
13 5 (1.29%) Data Centre
13 5 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.29%) Mainframe
14 4 (1.03%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 20 (5.14%) Windows
1 20 (5.14%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (50.13%) Data Engineering
2 187 (48.07%) ETL
3 150 (38.56%) Agile
4 149 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
5 125 (32.13%) Data Modelling
6 115 (29.56%) Data Science
7 114 (29.31%) DevOps
8 104 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
9 93 (23.91%) Analytics
10 91 (23.39%) Mentoring
11 82 (21.08%) DataOps
12 81 (20.82%) Data Integration
13 68 (17.48%) Platform Engineering
14 59 (15.17%) Change Management
15 56 (14.40%) Data Analysis
15 56 (14.40%) Data Management
16 54 (13.88%) Business Intelligence
17 52 (13.37%) CI/CD
18 50 (12.85%) Machine Learning
19 46 (11.83%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 177 (45.50%) SQL
2 158 (40.62%) Python
3 25 (6.43%) T-SQL
4 11 (2.83%) Java
4 11 (2.83%) Scala
5 10 (2.57%) C#
6 8 (2.06%) PL/SQL
7 6 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.51%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 30 (7.71%) Degree
2 7 (1.80%) Azure Certification
2 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.03%) CCNA
5 4 (1.03%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.51%) HND
8 1 (0.26%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (26.99%) Data Quality
2 59 (15.17%) GDPR
3 5 (1.29%) QA
4 4 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.26%) GMP
System Software
1 16 (4.11%) Hyper-V
1 16 (4.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.03%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (3.34%) Terraform
2 5 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) Ansible
3 1 (0.26%) Oozie
Vendors
1 85 (21.85%) Databricks
2 76 (19.54%) Google
3 56 (14.40%) Informatica
4 45 (11.57%) Microsoft
5 43 (11.05%) Oracle
6 16 (4.11%) VMware
7 6 (1.54%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.54%) F5
8 5 (1.29%) Teradata
8 5 (1.29%) YouTube
9 2 (0.51%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.51%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.26%) Arista
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco
10 1 (0.26%) Facebook
10 1 (0.26%) Sage
10 1 (0.26%) SAP
10 1 (0.26%) Sun
10 1 (0.26%) Workday