Data Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 103 238
Rank change year-on-year -40 +135 +7
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 323 596 248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.87% 3.41% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 3.52% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 199 138 141
10th Percentile £37,000 £39,213 £40,749
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,661 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,375 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £76,250 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.20% -1.61% +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,477 16,944 16,938
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.70% 96.89% 93.82%
Number of salaries quoted 11,113 8,092 10,799
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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 -29 178 £55,000 +2.33% 27
Yorkshire -40 91 £65,066 -0.44% 6
North East +21 54 £75,000 +11.11% 7
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 (6.50%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.19%) Confluence
3 13 (4.02%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.48%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 149 (46.13%) Azure
2 146 (45.20%) GCP
3 82 (25.39%) AWS
4 58 (17.96%) Power Platform
5 46 (14.24%) Snowflake
6 37 (11.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (10.22%) dbt
8 26 (8.05%) Amazon S3
9 25 (7.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 25 (7.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 20 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (5.57%) Matillion
12 13 (4.02%) Amazon Kinesis
12 13 (4.02%) Serverless
13 10 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.79%) Cloud Composer
14 9 (2.79%) SaaS
15 8 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.31%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (36.53%) BigQuery
2 114 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (31.58%) Looker
4 58 (17.96%) Power BI
5 57 (17.65%) Data Lake
6 44 (13.62%) SQL Server
7 30 (9.29%) Tableau
8 23 (7.12%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (5.88%) Star Schema
10 18 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (5.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 14 (4.33%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (2.17%) Big Data
12 7 (2.17%) Hadoop
12 7 (2.17%) Metadata
13 6 (1.86%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 5 (1.55%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 24 (7.43%) GitLab
2 21 (6.50%) JIRA
3 16 (4.95%) Git
4 12 (3.72%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.55%) Spinnaker
6 3 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Artifactory
General
1 123 (38.08%) Analytical Skills
2 55 (17.03%) Social Skills
3 47 (14.55%) Finance
4 21 (6.50%) Banking
5 12 (3.72%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.10%) Retail
7 9 (2.79%) Games
7 9 (2.79%) Law
8 8 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.62%) Back Office
11 2 (0.62%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.62%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.31%) Billing
12 1 (0.31%) Electronics
12 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.31%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (60.99%) Data Engineer
2 64 (19.81%) Platform Engineer
3 59 (18.27%) Principal Data Engineer
3 59 (18.27%) Principal Engineer
4 54 (16.72%) Lead
5 45 (13.93%) Architect
5 45 (13.93%) Senior
6 42 (13.00%) Lead Data Engineer
7 40 (12.38%) Data Architect
8 27 (8.36%) Senior Data Engineer
9 19 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (5.26%) Data Manager
11 16 (4.95%) Developer
12 13 (4.02%) Python Data Engineer
12 13 (4.02%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) AWS Data Engineer
13 12 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (3.41%) Azure Data Engineer
14 11 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.79%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.41%) PySpark
2 9 (2.79%) Kafka
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Graph
4 6 (1.86%) PyTorch
4 6 (1.86%) TensorFlow
5 5 (1.55%) Apache Beam
6 4 (1.24%) .NET
6 4 (1.24%) React
7 2 (0.62%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.62%) Pandas
8 1 (0.31%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.31%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (33.13%) Self-Motivation
2 22 (6.81%) Cloud Native
3 21 (6.50%) Product Ownership
4 20 (6.19%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.10%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.79%) Client/Server
6 9 (2.79%) Online Games
7 8 (2.48%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.86%) Enterprise Cloud
9 5 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.24%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.24%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.93%) IoT
11 3 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.62%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.62%) Taxonomies
13 1 (0.31%) e-Learning
13 1 (0.31%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.24%) Windows
1 4 (1.24%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (46.13%) ETL
2 141 (43.65%) Problem-Solving
3 140 (43.34%) Agile
4 137 (42.41%) Mentoring
5 133 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
6 116 (35.91%) Data Science
7 114 (35.29%) Analytics
8 111 (34.37%) DevOps
9 106 (32.82%) Data Modelling
10 103 (31.89%) Platform Engineering
11 78 (24.15%) Data Governance
12 72 (22.29%) Data Architecture
12 72 (22.29%) DataOps
13 71 (21.98%) Data Integration
14 67 (20.74%) Change Management
15 61 (18.89%) Business Intelligence
16 58 (17.96%) Visualisation
17 53 (16.41%) CI/CD
18 47 (14.55%) Machine Learning
19 46 (14.24%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 130 (40.25%) SQL
2 90 (27.86%) Python
3 23 (7.12%) T-SQL
4 11 (3.41%) Java
4 11 (3.41%) Scala
5 5 (1.55%) Perl
5 5 (1.55%) Shell Script
6 3 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.62%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (3.10%) Degree
2 8 (2.48%) Azure Certification
2 8 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.86%) DBS Check
5 4 (1.24%) ISTQB
5 4 (1.24%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.93%) OCP
6 3 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.31%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (28.79%) Data Quality
2 92 (28.48%) GDPR
3 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.17%) IAG
2 2 (0.62%) Docker
3 1 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 15 (4.64%) Terraform
2 12 (3.72%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.17%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.31%) Ansible
4 1 (0.31%) Oozie
4 1 (0.31%) Podman
Vendors
1 118 (36.53%) Google
2 48 (14.86%) Microsoft
3 36 (11.15%) Databricks
4 10 (3.10%) Teradata
5 9 (2.79%) Informatica
6 7 (2.17%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.17%) Snow
7 6 (1.86%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.86%) F5
8 2 (0.62%) Confluent
8 2 (0.62%) IBM
9 1 (0.31%) ESRI
9 1 (0.31%) SAP