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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 94 181
Rank change year-on-year -139 +87 -19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 53 250 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 2.45% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 2.58% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 45 194 74
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £40,055
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £46,512
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,876 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £90,000 £74,400
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

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 7,153 9,681 6,823
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.70% 89.36%
Number of salaries quoted 3,787 7,427 4,039
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,250
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 £76,840 £78,500 £80,650
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +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 28 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 28 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 -26 37 £70,000 +16.67% 48
Lancashire -76 8 £57,530 +19.85% 9
Merseyside -9 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 28 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 (62.26%) SQL
2 29 (54.72%) Python
3 28 (52.83%) ETL
4 26 (49.06%) Data Pipeline
5 25 (47.17%) Data Engineering
6 24 (45.28%) Azure
7 22 (41.51%) AWS
7 22 (41.51%) Analytics
7 22 (41.51%) Business Intelligence
7 22 (41.51%) Data Modelling
8 14 (26.42%) Power BI
8 14 (26.42%) Power Platform
8 14 (26.42%) Data Quality
8 14 (26.42%) Mentoring
9 13 (24.53%) Degree
9 13 (24.53%) Databricks
10 12 (22.64%) Big Data
11 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
11 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (20.75%) SQL Server
11 11 (20.75%) Data Science
12 10 (18.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
12 10 (18.87%) Agile
12 10 (18.87%) Coaching
13 9 (16.98%) Data Analytics
13 9 (16.98%) Retail
13 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
13 9 (16.98%) 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 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.55%) Apache
3 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 24 (45.28%) Azure
2 22 (41.51%) AWS
3 14 (26.42%) Power Platform
4 10 (18.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (15.09%) Snowflake
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
7 6 (11.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (11.32%) dbt
7 6 (11.32%) GCP
8 4 (7.55%) Azure Functions
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Cognitive Services
11 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.89%) Stitch
11 1 (1.89%) Twilio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (26.42%) Power BI
2 12 (22.64%) Big Data
3 11 (20.75%) SQL Server
4 10 (18.87%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (11.32%) Data Lake
5 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
6 5 (9.43%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (7.55%) BigQuery
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Spanner
8 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.77%) MySQL
8 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.89%) Parquet
9 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Git
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (16.98%) Retail
3 7 (13.21%) Finance
3 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.77%) Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Billing
5 1 (1.89%) Electronics
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Legal
5 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.21%) Kafka
2 4 (7.55%) PySpark
3 1 (1.89%) JSON
3 1 (1.89%) RESTful
3 1 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
1 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.77%) Data Fabric
2 2 (3.77%) Life Science
2 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) ETL
2 26 (49.06%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (47.17%) Data Engineering
4 22 (41.51%) Analytics
4 22 (41.51%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (41.51%) Data Modelling
5 14 (26.42%) Mentoring
6 11 (20.75%) Data Science
6 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
7 10 (18.87%) Agile
7 10 (18.87%) Coaching
8 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
8 9 (16.98%) Data Analytics
8 9 (16.98%) Data Development
8 9 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.09%) Business Strategy
9 8 (15.09%) Data Architecture
10 7 (13.21%) OO
10 7 (13.21%) Operational Stability
11 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 33 (62.26%) SQL
2 29 (54.72%) Python
3 8 (15.09%) Java
4 5 (9.43%) Scala
5 3 (5.66%) C#
6 1 (1.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.66%) PhD
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.77%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.77%) HNC
3 2 (3.77%) HND
4 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.89%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.42%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (24.53%) Databricks
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 7 (13.21%) Informatica
4 3 (5.66%) Google
4 3 (5.66%) PayPal
5 2 (3.77%) Splunk
6 1 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.89%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (1.89%) Talend