Data Engineering Job Trends in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 112 73
Rank change year-on-year -6 -39 +61
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 277 288 474
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.32% 3.05% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 3.39% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 233 96 158
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,625 £40,988
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £67,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.08% +12.92% -7.69%
75th Percentile £95,000 £75,313 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £88,750 £85,375
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.18% -4.01%

All Process & 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 14,754 8,507 13,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.12% 90.22% 79.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,063 4,229 9,653
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Engineering

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 21 July 2026.

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 21 July 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 -16 151 £80,000 +26.98% 44
Yorkshire -10 86 £75,000 +7.14% 23
North East -15 40 £70,000 +47.37% 22
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 30 (10.83%) Apache Spark
2 28 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
3 23 (8.30%) Apache
4 12 (4.33%) Jupyter
5 4 (1.44%) Moodle
6 3 (1.08%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (3.25%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 125 (45.13%) Azure
2 91 (32.85%) AWS
3 45 (16.25%) Power Platform
4 43 (15.52%) GCP
5 35 (12.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 26 (9.39%) Amazon S3
7 21 (7.58%) Serverless
8 20 (7.22%) Snowflake
9 15 (5.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 14 (5.05%) dbt
11 13 (4.69%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (4.33%) Amazon EMR
13 10 (3.61%) Amazon ECR
14 9 (3.25%) Azure Functions
14 9 (3.25%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
15 7 (2.53%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (19.49%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (16.25%) Power BI
3 25 (9.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (8.66%) Data Lake
5 21 (7.58%) BigQuery
6 17 (6.14%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (6.14%) SQL Server
7 16 (5.78%) Spark SQL
8 14 (5.05%) Big Data
9 13 (4.69%) DynamoDB
10 12 (4.33%) Metadata
11 9 (3.25%) Semantic Layer
12 8 (2.89%) Delta Lake
12 8 (2.89%) Star Schema
13 7 (2.53%) Relational Database
14 6 (2.17%) Data Vault
14 6 (2.17%) MongoDB
14 6 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.17%) Tableau
15 5 (1.81%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (4.33%) GitLab
2 6 (2.17%) JIRA
3 4 (1.44%) Git
4 2 (0.72%) MLflow
5 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
1 51 (18.41%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.72%) Finance
3 25 (9.03%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (6.50%) Retail
5 9 (3.25%) Law
6 7 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.81%) Games
8 5 (1.81%) Legal
8 5 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.08%) Advertising
10 2 (0.72%) Front Office
10 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 122 (44.04%) Data Engineer
2 66 (23.83%) Lead
3 53 (19.13%) Senior
4 38 (13.72%) Senior Data Engineer
5 32 (11.55%) Lead Data Engineer
6 25 (9.03%) Consultant
6 25 (9.03%) Data Consultant
7 22 (7.94%) Architect
8 19 (6.86%) Data Architect
9 17 (6.14%) Data Manager
9 17 (6.14%) Digital Director
10 16 (5.78%) Head of Engineering
11 13 (4.69%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (3.97%) Business Intelligence Lead
13 10 (3.61%) Engineering Manager
14 9 (3.25%) Azure Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 7 (2.53%) Data Governance Analyst
15 7 (2.53%) Governance Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.36%) PySpark
2 10 (3.61%) REST
3 9 (3.25%) ARM Templates
4 6 (2.17%) Kafka
5 4 (1.44%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.08%) JSON
6 3 (1.08%) Pandas
6 3 (1.08%) PyTorch
6 3 (1.08%) TensorFlow
7 2 (0.72%) LangChain
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.36%) FHIR
8 1 (0.36%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (0.36%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (0.36%) pgvector
8 1 (0.36%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.78%) Data Structures
2 15 (5.42%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.17%) Hedge funds
5 5 (1.81%) NHS
5 5 (1.81%) Operational Technology
5 5 (1.81%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.81%) Sports Betting
6 4 (1.44%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.08%) Online Gambling
7 3 (1.08%) Replication
8 2 (0.72%) Cyberattack
8 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.85%) Analytics
2 100 (36.10%) Data Pipeline
3 80 (28.88%) Data Modelling
4 76 (27.44%) ETL
5 73 (26.35%) Data Governance
6 70 (25.27%) Data Architecture
7 62 (22.38%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (20.94%) Decision-Making
9 53 (19.13%) Agile
10 51 (18.41%) CI/CD
11 47 (16.97%) Mentoring
12 44 (15.88%) AI
13 42 (15.16%) DevOps
14 32 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (11.55%) Data Science
14 32 (11.55%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (11.19%) Machine Learning
15 31 (11.19%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (10.47%) Test Automation
17 28 (10.11%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 133 (48.01%) SQL
2 113 (40.79%) Python
3 14 (5.05%) Java
3 14 (5.05%) Scala
4 5 (1.81%) Bash
4 5 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.44%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.36%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (10.11%) Security Cleared
2 25 (9.03%) Degree
3 22 (7.94%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.81%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) CBAP
9 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.36%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (30.69%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.42%) GDPR
3 10 (3.61%) QA
4 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (10.11%) Terraform
2 2 (0.72%) Grafana
2 2 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 90 (32.49%) Databricks
2 37 (13.36%) Microsoft
3 11 (3.97%) Google
4 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.08%) Informatica
5 3 (1.08%) SAP
6 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.72%) Oracle
7 1 (0.36%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.36%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.36%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.36%) Dell
7 1 (0.36%) Foundry
7 1 (0.36%) Palantir