Data Engineer Jobs in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £63,876 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 240 92 189
Rank change year-on-year -148 +97 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 51 252 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.64% 2.55% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 2.69% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 43 195 73
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £39,544
25th Percentile £50,625 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,876 £60,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +15.38% -5.45%
75th Percentile £79,375 £87,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £90,000 £72,900
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,100
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.28% +0.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 7,357 9,353 6,927
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.84% 94.63% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 4,011 7,192 4,022
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester -36 35 £75,000 +25.00% 37
Lancashire -83 8 £57,530 +35.36% 10
Merseyside -11 7 £55,000 -35.29% 4
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, 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 West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (64.71%) SQL
2 29 (56.86%) Python
3 27 (52.94%) ETL
3 27 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (49.02%) Data Engineering
5 24 (47.06%) Azure
6 23 (45.10%) AWS
6 23 (45.10%) Analytics
7 22 (43.14%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (43.14%) Data Modelling
8 15 (29.41%) Data Quality
8 15 (29.41%) Mentoring
9 14 (27.45%) Power BI
9 14 (27.45%) Power Platform
10 13 (25.49%) Databricks
10 13 (25.49%) Degree
11 12 (23.53%) Big Data
12 11 (21.57%) Visualisation
12 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
12 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
12 11 (21.57%) Data Science
13 10 (19.61%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
13 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
13 10 (19.61%) Agile
13 10 (19.61%) Data Analysis
13 10 (19.61%) Coaching
14 9 (17.65%) Data Analytics
14 9 (17.65%) Data Architecture
14 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 8 (15.69%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.84%) Apache
3 1 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (47.06%) Azure
2 23 (45.10%) AWS
3 14 (27.45%) Power Platform
4 10 (19.61%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (15.69%) Snowflake
6 7 (13.73%) Serverless
7 6 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (11.76%) dbt
7 6 (11.76%) GCP
8 4 (7.84%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.88%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.92%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.96%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.96%) SaaS
11 1 (1.96%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) Power BI
2 12 (23.53%) Big Data
3 11 (21.57%) SQL Server
4 10 (19.61%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 6 (11.76%) Relational Database
6 5 (9.80%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (7.84%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (3.92%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.92%) MySQL
8 2 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.96%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.96%) Looker
9 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) Git
2 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.92%) JIRA
General
1 11 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.69%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Finance
3 7 (13.73%) Retail
4 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.96%) Billing
5 1 (1.96%) Electronics
5 1 (1.96%) Law
5 1 (1.96%) Legal
5 1 (1.96%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.73%) Kafka
2 5 (9.80%) PySpark
3 1 (1.96%) JSON
3 1 (1.96%) RESTful
3 1 (1.96%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.88%) Life Science
2 2 (3.92%) Data Fabric
2 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.96%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.96%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) Data Pipeline
1 27 (52.94%) ETL
2 25 (49.02%) Data Engineering
3 23 (45.10%) Analytics
4 22 (43.14%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (43.14%) Data Modelling
5 15 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 11 (21.57%) Data Science
6 11 (21.57%) Visualisation
7 10 (19.61%) Agile
7 10 (19.61%) Coaching
7 10 (19.61%) Data Analysis
8 9 (17.65%) Data Analytics
8 9 (17.65%) Data Architecture
8 9 (17.65%) Data Development
8 9 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.69%) Business Strategy
10 7 (13.73%) OO
10 7 (13.73%) Operational Stability
11 6 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 33 (64.71%) SQL
2 29 (56.86%) Python
3 7 (13.73%) Java
4 5 (9.80%) Scala
5 3 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (1.96%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (25.49%) Degree
2 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.88%) PhD
3 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.92%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.92%) HNC
3 2 (3.92%) HND
4 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.96%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (29.41%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Databricks
2 10 (19.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.73%) Informatica
4 3 (5.88%) Google
4 3 (5.88%) PayPal
5 2 (3.92%) Splunk
6 1 (1.96%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.96%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (1.96%) Talend