Data Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 140 100
Rank change year-on-year -57 -40 +127
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 111 324 628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.01% 1.88% 3.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 2.24% 3.72%
Number of salaries quoted 99 197 139
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £39,323
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.93% -12.60%
75th Percentile £78,125 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £101,684 £87,500 £85,250
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,358 14,485 16,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.54% 83.83% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,755 11,127 8,023
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,500 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +9.62%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Yorkshire +40 55 £62,500 -3.94% 36
North West -84 46 £67,500 +22.73% 56
North East +7 10 £52,500 -30.00% 12
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 9 (8.11%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.50%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.45%) AWS
2 46 (41.44%) Azure
3 26 (23.42%) GCP
4 17 (15.32%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (7.21%) Cloud Composer
7 5 (4.50%) GitHub
7 5 (4.50%) Snowflake
8 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.60%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.60%) Serverless
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.70%) dbt
10 2 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.80%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.80%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.71%) Firewall
2 4 (3.60%) 5G
2 4 (3.60%) Broadband
3 2 (1.80%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.32%) Data Lake
1 17 (15.32%) Power BI
2 13 (11.71%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (10.81%) BigQuery
4 10 (9.01%) Big Data
4 10 (9.01%) SQL Server
5 7 (6.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
7 5 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 4 (3.60%) MySQL
8 4 (3.60%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.70%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.80%) Ataccama
10 2 (1.80%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.80%) Cloud Spanner
10 2 (1.80%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 8 (7.21%) JIRA
2 5 (4.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.70%) Git
4 1 (0.90%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) Gradle
4 1 (0.90%) JUnit
4 1 (0.90%) Maven
4 1 (0.90%) MLflow
4 1 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.90%) Selenium
4 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.90%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.90%) TestNG
4 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (30.63%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (28.83%) Finance
3 30 (27.03%) Social Skills
4 27 (24.32%) Banking
5 14 (12.61%) Law
6 10 (9.01%) Legal
7 4 (3.60%) Back Office
7 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Front Office
10 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 48 (43.24%) Data Engineer
2 28 (25.23%) Senior
3 25 (22.52%) Senior Data Engineer
4 17 (15.32%) Lead
5 13 (11.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (11.71%) Security Engineer
6 12 (10.81%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (9.91%) Cloud Security Engineer
8 9 (8.11%) Data Science Graduate
8 9 (8.11%) Graduate
9 8 (7.21%) Lead Data Engineer
10 7 (6.31%) Developer
11 6 (5.41%) Head of Engineering
12 4 (3.60%) Applications Developer
12 4 (3.60%) Data Manager
13 3 (2.70%) Architect
13 3 (2.70%) Azure Data Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Python Engineer
13 3 (2.70%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) Kafka
1 7 (6.31%) PySpark
2 4 (3.60%) REST
3 3 (2.70%) Plotly
4 2 (1.80%) .NET
4 2 (1.80%) Pandas
4 2 (1.80%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.80%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.90%) Node.js
5 1 (0.90%) Web Services
5 1 (0.90%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Algorithms
2 13 (11.71%) Cloud Security Posture
2 13 (11.71%) Security Posture
3 11 (9.91%) Credit Risk
4 9 (8.11%) Learning Management System
5 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.60%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.60%) Clustering
7 3 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.70%) Life Science
8 2 (1.80%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.90%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.90%) Replication
9 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.14%) Data Pipeline
2 42 (37.84%) Analytics
2 42 (37.84%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 36 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (30.63%) ETL
6 31 (27.93%) Agile
7 25 (22.52%) Data Science
7 25 (22.52%) DevOps
8 24 (21.62%) Data Modelling
8 24 (21.62%) Visualisation
9 22 (19.82%) Machine Learning
10 21 (18.92%) Artificial Intelligence
10 21 (18.92%) Roadmaps
11 20 (18.02%) Decision-Making
12 18 (16.22%) Data Strategy
13 17 (15.32%) Coaching
14 16 (14.41%) Data Architecture
15 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (13.51%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 58 (52.25%) SQL
2 54 (48.65%) Python
3 9 (8.11%) R
4 8 (7.21%) Scala
5 7 (6.31%) Java
6 5 (4.50%) C#
6 5 (4.50%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.60%) Bash
7 4 (3.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.90%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 24 (21.62%) Degree
2 16 (14.41%) Master's Degree
3 15 (13.51%) AWS Certification
4 13 (11.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 9 (8.11%) PhD
6 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.80%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.90%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.90%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (19.82%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.80%) NIST
4 1 (0.90%) Basel III
4 1 (0.90%) GDPR
4 1 (0.90%) IFRS
4 1 (0.90%) IFRS 9
4 1 (0.90%) QA
4 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (0.90%) Ansible
3 1 (0.90%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Databricks
2 13 (11.71%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.91%) Google
4 7 (6.31%) Informatica
5 3 (2.70%) Oracle
5 3 (2.70%) Palantir
6 2 (1.80%) Splunk
7 1 (0.90%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.90%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.90%) MicroStrategy