Data Engineer Jobs in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 192 176
Rank change year-on-year +98 -16 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 252 119 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.58% 1.50% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.73% 1.68% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 194 76 70
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,544 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £83,438
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,125 £88,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 9,236 7,075 9,027
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 89.06% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,094 4,124 5,451
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +4.54% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
Manchester +83 141 £60,000 +15.38% 27
Merseyside +49 54 £85,000 +21.43% 6
Cheshire -2 24 £35,000 -28.21% 4
Lancashire -4 19 £42,500 -9.57% 3
Cumbria +6 13 £40,000 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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.

1 127 (50.40%) ETL
2 121 (48.02%) SQL
3 112 (44.44%) Azure
3 112 (44.44%) Data Engineering
4 110 (43.65%) Python
5 105 (41.67%) Agile
6 96 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
7 95 (37.70%) Data Modelling
8 80 (31.75%) SQL Server
9 76 (30.16%) Data Warehouse
9 76 (30.16%) Data Quality
10 75 (29.76%) Analytics
11 72 (28.57%) DevOps
12 69 (27.38%) Data Science
13 62 (24.60%) Databricks
14 60 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
15 56 (22.22%) Data Structures
16 53 (21.03%) Informatica
16 53 (21.03%) Data Analysis
17 52 (20.63%) DataOps
18 50 (19.84%) Data Integration
18 50 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
19 49 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
19 49 (19.44%) JIRA
20 47 (18.65%) Data Management
20 47 (18.65%) GCP
21 46 (18.25%) Mentoring
22 44 (17.46%) Data Lake
22 44 (17.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
23 43 (17.06%) Self-Motivation

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 13 (5.16%) Apache
1 13 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.97%) Confluence
3 6 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 112 (44.44%) Azure
2 49 (19.44%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (18.65%) GCP
4 40 (15.87%) Power Platform
5 38 (15.08%) AWS
6 29 (11.51%) Snowflake
7 22 (8.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 17 (6.75%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (5.95%) dbt
10 15 (5.95%) Matillion
11 9 (3.57%) Serverless
12 8 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.38%) Collibra
13 6 (2.38%) Fivetran
13 6 (2.38%) GitHub
13 6 (2.38%) Google Analytics
14 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.17%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.59%) Firewall
2 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.79%) WebEx
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.40%) DMZ
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
4 1 (0.40%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (31.75%) SQL Server
2 76 (30.16%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (17.46%) Data Lake
4 40 (15.87%) Data Vault
4 40 (15.87%) Power BI
5 38 (15.08%) BigQuery
6 34 (13.49%) Looker
7 27 (10.71%) Delta Lake
8 19 (7.54%) Tableau
9 17 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (5.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 15 (5.95%) Star Schema
11 12 (4.76%) Relational Database
12 11 (4.37%) Big Data
12 11 (4.37%) Data Mining
13 8 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (2.38%) Metadata
15 5 (1.98%) Airbyte
15 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (19.44%) JIRA
2 15 (5.95%) GitLab
3 7 (2.78%) Git
4 5 (1.98%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.98%) Spinnaker
4 5 (1.98%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (13.10%) Social Skills
3 29 (11.51%) Finance
4 11 (4.37%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (2.78%) Law
7 6 (2.38%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.98%) Banking
9 4 (1.59%) Retail
10 2 (0.79%) Back Office
10 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.79%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Electronics
11 1 (0.40%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.51%) PySpark
2 7 (2.78%) Kafka
3 6 (2.38%) Apache Beam
3 6 (2.38%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.38%) TensorFlow
4 4 (1.59%) RESTful
5 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.79%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.79%) Pandas
7 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.40%) JSON
7 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (22.22%) Data Structures
2 43 (17.06%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 39 (15.48%) Reinsurance
5 9 (3.57%) CCTV
6 7 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.98%) Blog
7 5 (1.98%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.98%) Mainframe
7 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.59%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.19%) NHS
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Windows
1 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (50.40%) ETL
2 112 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 105 (41.67%) Agile
4 96 (38.10%) Data Pipeline
5 95 (37.70%) Data Modelling
6 75 (29.76%) Analytics
7 72 (28.57%) DevOps
8 69 (27.38%) Data Science
9 60 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (21.03%) Data Analysis
11 52 (20.63%) DataOps
12 50 (19.84%) Data Integration
13 47 (18.65%) Data Management
14 46 (18.25%) Mentoring
15 44 (17.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 43 (17.06%) Scrum
16 43 (17.06%) Visualisation
17 40 (15.87%) Business Intelligence
18 38 (15.08%) CI/CD
18 38 (15.08%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 121 (48.02%) SQL
2 110 (43.65%) Python
3 21 (8.33%) T-SQL
4 12 (4.76%) Java
5 9 (3.57%) Scala
6 8 (3.17%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.79%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.40%) C#
8 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (5.16%) Degree
2 7 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.59%) CCNA
4 4 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.40%) CCNP
6 1 (0.40%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (30.16%) Data Quality
2 29 (11.51%) GDPR
3 5 (1.98%) QA
4 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.40%) GMP
System Software
1 3 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.78%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 62 (24.60%) Databricks
2 53 (21.03%) Informatica
3 42 (16.67%) Oracle
4 40 (15.87%) Google
5 31 (12.30%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.38%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.38%) F5
7 5 (1.98%) Teradata
7 5 (1.98%) YouTube
8 2 (0.79%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.40%) Arista
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Sun
9 1 (0.40%) Workday