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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 144 109
Rank change year-on-year +15 -35 +132
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 274 314 542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.38% 1.77% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.14% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 90 192 127
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,250 £39,544
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £50,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £79,688 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £99,468 £87,500 £89,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.68% -3.13%

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 10,928 14,694 16,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 95.08% 82.96% 96.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,472 11,264 7,883
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,750 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,342 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £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 22 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 22 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 +10 219 £67,500 +22.73% 88
Yorkshire +28 47 £67,500 +3.74% 57
North East -1 8 £51,250 -31.67% 26
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 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.82%) Confluence
3 3 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 220 (80.29%) AWS
2 216 (78.83%) Azure
3 195 (71.17%) GCP
4 21 (7.66%) Power Platform
5 12 (4.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.92%) Cloud Composer
7 6 (2.19%) GitHub
7 6 (2.19%) Snowflake
8 5 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.82%) Serverless
9 4 (1.46%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 4 (1.46%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.09%) AWS Fargate
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.73%) Azure Storage
11 2 (0.73%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Firewall
2 4 (1.46%) 5G
2 4 (1.46%) Broadband
3 2 (0.73%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.36%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.66%) Power BI
2 15 (5.47%) Data Lake
3 14 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.38%) Big Data
5 11 (4.01%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.55%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.19%) MySQL
7 6 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.82%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.46%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 4 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.09%) Metadata
10 3 (1.09%) Tableau
11 2 (0.73%) Ataccama
11 2 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Spanner
Development Applications
1 8 (2.92%) JIRA
2 5 (1.82%) Git
3 2 (0.73%) Cypress.io
3 2 (0.73%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) Visual Studio
General
1 173 (63.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (9.49%) Finance
2 26 (9.49%) Social Skills
3 24 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (6.93%) Banking
5 7 (2.55%) Law
5 7 (2.55%) Retail
6 5 (1.82%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.46%) Back Office
7 4 (1.46%) Legal
8 1 (0.36%) Electronics
8 1 (0.36%) Front Office
8 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 200 (72.99%) Senior
2 175 (63.87%) Software Engineer
3 172 (62.77%) Senior Software Engineer
4 50 (18.25%) Data Engineer
5 25 (9.12%) Senior Data Engineer
6 16 (5.84%) Lead
7 8 (2.92%) Developer
8 7 (2.55%) Lead Data Engineer
9 6 (2.19%) Head of Engineering
10 5 (1.82%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (1.82%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (1.82%) Data Manager
10 5 (1.82%) Security Engineer
11 4 (1.46%) Applications Developer
11 4 (1.46%) Python Data Engineer
11 4 (1.46%) Python Engineer
12 3 (1.09%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 3 (1.09%) Data Science Graduate
12 3 (1.09%) Engineering Manager
12 3 (1.09%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (64.23%) .NET
2 175 (63.87%) Node.js
3 8 (2.92%) PySpark
4 7 (2.55%) Kafka
5 4 (1.46%) Plotly
5 4 (1.46%) REST
6 2 (0.73%) CSS
6 2 (0.73%) HTML
6 2 (0.73%) Jest
6 2 (0.73%) React
6 2 (0.73%) RESTful
6 2 (0.73%) Vue
7 1 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.36%) Pandas
7 1 (0.36%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.36%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.36%) Shiny
7 1 (0.36%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.36%) Web Services
7 1 (0.36%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 173 (63.14%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (62.77%) Cyberattack
2 172 (62.77%) Linux Command Line
3 9 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 7 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.82%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (1.82%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.46%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.09%) Clustering
7 3 (1.09%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.09%) Life Science
8 2 (0.73%) Data Fabric
8 2 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.36%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.36%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 173 (63.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (76.28%) Mentoring
2 198 (72.26%) Agile
3 188 (68.61%) Machine Learning
4 185 (67.52%) Software Engineering
5 177 (64.60%) Cloud Security
6 175 (63.87%) Microservices
7 174 (63.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 172 (62.77%) Scrum
8 172 (62.77%) User Experience
9 43 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
10 36 (13.14%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (12.41%) Analytics
11 34 (12.41%) ETL
11 34 (12.41%) Problem-Solving
12 30 (10.95%) Data Modelling
13 23 (8.39%) Data Science
14 19 (6.93%) Visualisation
15 18 (6.57%) Coaching
16 17 (6.20%) Roadmaps
17 16 (5.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 225 (82.12%) Python
2 181 (66.06%) Java
3 174 (63.50%) JavaScript
4 172 (62.77%) C++
4 172 (62.77%) Go
4 172 (62.77%) Rust
5 59 (21.53%) SQL
6 7 (2.55%) R
6 7 (2.55%) Scala
7 5 (1.82%) Bash
7 5 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.46%) C#
8 4 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.36%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 180 (65.69%) AWS Certification
2 172 (62.77%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (62.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (62.77%) DV Cleared
2 172 (62.77%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.57%) Degree
4 11 (4.01%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.09%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.09%) PhD
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.03%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.09%) NIST
4 2 (0.73%) QA
5 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (4.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.36%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.36%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (1.46%) Terraform
2 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.36%) Kibana
3 1 (0.36%) logstash
3 1 (0.36%) Oozie
Vendors
1 20 (7.30%) Databricks
2 9 (3.28%) Google
2 9 (3.28%) Informatica
2 9 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 4 (1.46%) Oracle
3 4 (1.46%) Palantir
4 3 (1.09%) MicroStrategy
5 2 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.36%) RedGate
6 1 (0.36%) SAP
6 1 (0.36%) Talend