Data Engineering Jobs in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 97 191
Rank change year-on-year -27 +94 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 175 275 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.79% 3.51% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.67% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 121 58 72
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,930 £41,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,938 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -25.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £66,953 £87,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,025 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,098 7,493 8,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.89% 95.71% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 6,147 3,891 5,293
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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 -25 120 £60,000 +14.29% 23
Cheshire -8 21 £50,000 +15.25% 5
Lancashire -17 16 £42,500 -25.58% 1
Merseyside -9 10 £40,000 -37.25%
Cumbria -2 6 - -
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 20 (11.43%) Confluence
2 13 (7.43%) Apache Spark
3 10 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (4.00%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (52.00%) Azure
2 60 (34.29%) GCP
3 50 (28.57%) Power Platform
4 34 (19.43%) Snowflake
5 33 (18.86%) AWS
6 29 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (12.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 20 (11.43%) dbt
9 18 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (8.57%) Matillion
11 13 (7.43%) Amazon S3
12 6 (3.43%) Fivetran
12 6 (3.43%) GitHub
12 6 (3.43%) Serverless
13 5 (2.86%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (2.86%) Collibra
13 5 (2.86%) Google Analytics
13 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
14 4 (2.29%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (37.14%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (28.57%) Power BI
3 48 (27.43%) BigQuery
4 46 (26.29%) Looker
5 41 (23.43%) Data Lake
6 36 (20.57%) SQL Server
7 26 (14.86%) Tableau
8 15 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (8.57%) Star Schema
9 13 (7.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (6.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (4.00%) Big Data
12 7 (4.00%) Metadata
13 6 (3.43%) Data Mining
13 6 (3.43%) Hadoop
14 5 (2.86%) Airbyte
14 5 (2.86%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (2.29%) MySQL
16 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 21 (12.00%) JIRA
2 20 (11.43%) GitLab
3 9 (5.14%) Git
4 5 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.86%) Spinnaker
5 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 60 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (13.71%) Finance
3 23 (13.14%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.00%) Law
4 7 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.86%) Banking
5 5 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Back Office
6 2 (1.14%) Marketing
6 2 (1.14%) Tech for Good
6 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.57%) Electronics
7 1 (0.57%) Legal
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (63.43%) Data Engineer
2 33 (18.86%) Platform Engineer
3 29 (16.57%) Principal Data Engineer
3 29 (16.57%) Principal Engineer
3 29 (16.57%) Senior
4 20 (11.43%) Senior Data Engineer
5 19 (10.86%) Architect
5 19 (10.86%) Lead
6 15 (8.57%) Data Architect
6 15 (8.57%) Developer
6 15 (8.57%) Lead Data Engineer
7 12 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (5.14%) SQL Developer
9 8 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Data Manager
9 8 (4.57%) Python Data Engineer
9 8 (4.57%) Python Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 6 (3.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (3.43%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.43%) PySpark
1 6 (3.43%) PyTorch
1 6 (3.43%) TensorFlow
2 5 (2.86%) Apache Beam
2 5 (2.86%) Kafka
3 4 (2.29%) .NET
3 4 (2.29%) React
4 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (1.14%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (0.57%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 50 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (9.71%) Data Structures
3 16 (9.14%) Cloud Native
4 12 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 10 (5.71%) Mainframe
6 6 (3.43%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.29%) Enterprise Cloud
9 3 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.14%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.57%) FMCG
11 1 (0.57%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.29%) Windows
1 4 (2.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (47.43%) Data Pipeline
2 77 (44.00%) Agile
3 76 (43.43%) ETL
4 73 (41.71%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (38.86%) Analytics
6 60 (34.29%) DevOps
7 59 (33.71%) Data Science
8 53 (30.29%) Data Modelling
8 53 (30.29%) Mentoring
9 50 (28.57%) Visualisation
10 46 (26.29%) Business Intelligence
10 46 (26.29%) Platform Engineering
11 41 (23.43%) DataOps
12 35 (20.00%) Machine Learning
13 34 (19.43%) CI/CD
14 32 (18.29%) Data Governance
15 31 (17.71%) Data Management
16 30 (17.14%) Change Management
16 30 (17.14%) Data Analytics
17 29 (16.57%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 82 (46.86%) SQL
2 57 (32.57%) Python
3 18 (10.29%) T-SQL
4 10 (5.71%) Java
5 9 (5.14%) Scala
6 5 (2.86%) Perl
6 5 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.71%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (4.57%) Azure Certification
2 7 (4.00%) Degree
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (22.29%) Data Quality
2 38 (21.71%) GDPR
3 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) IAG
Systems Management
1 7 (4.00%) Terraform
2 4 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.71%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 52 (29.71%) Google
2 33 (18.86%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.29%) Databricks
4 10 (5.71%) Teradata
5 6 (3.43%) Dataiku
5 6 (3.43%) F5
6 5 (2.86%) Alteryx
6 5 (2.86%) Informatica
7 3 (1.71%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.71%) Snow
8 1 (0.57%) SAP