Data Engineering Jobs in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 127 137 103
Rank change year-on-year +10 -34 +82
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 219 174 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.80% 1.74% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.92% 2.11% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 37 120 51
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £39,544
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £46,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% -25.00%
75th Percentile £98,474 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £141,151 £90,000 £78,750
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 West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,507 8,231 7,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 96.01% 82.32% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 3,825 6,235 3,868
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
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 £77,500 £80,000 £81,500
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 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 22 May 2025.

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 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
Manchester +45 120 £76,250 +27.08% 160
Lancashire -22 78 £53,750 +28.67% 51
Cheshire +5 20 - - 81
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 4 (1.83%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 197 (89.95%) Azure
2 191 (87.21%) AWS
3 182 (83.11%) GCP
4 14 (6.39%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.65%) Cloud Composer
6 4 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.37%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.46%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.91%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.39%) Power BI
2 11 (5.02%) Big Data
3 10 (4.57%) BigQuery
4 8 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.91%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Git
2 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
2 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
General
1 173 (79.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (5.94%) Finance
3 10 (4.57%) Banking
3 10 (4.57%) Social Skills
4 9 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.20%) Retail
6 1 (0.46%) Electronics
6 1 (0.46%) Legal
6 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 183 (83.56%) Senior
2 172 (78.54%) Senior Software Engineer
2 172 (78.54%) Software Engineer
3 26 (11.87%) Data Engineer
4 12 (5.48%) Lead
5 11 (5.02%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (3.20%) Lead Data Engineer
7 6 (2.74%) Head of Engineering
8 4 (1.83%) Developer
9 2 (0.91%) Architect
9 2 (0.91%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (0.91%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (0.91%) Data Architect
9 2 (0.91%) Data Scientist
9 2 (0.91%) Support Specialist
10 1 (0.46%) Azure Specialist
10 1 (0.46%) Business Developer
10 1 (0.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 1 (0.46%) MicroStrategy Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (80.37%) .NET
2 174 (79.45%) Node.js
3 5 (2.28%) PySpark
4 4 (1.83%) Kafka
5 2 (0.91%) CSS
5 2 (0.91%) HTML
5 2 (0.91%) Jest
5 2 (0.91%) React
5 2 (0.91%) RESTful
5 2 (0.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 172 (78.54%) Cyberattack
1 172 (78.54%) Linux Command Line
1 172 (78.54%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (2.28%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.37%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.37%) Life Science
4 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
4 2 (0.91%) Data Fabric
4 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 172 (78.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (87.21%) Mentoring
2 188 (85.84%) Agile
3 176 (80.37%) Software Engineering
4 175 (79.91%) Microservices
5 174 (79.45%) Machine Learning
6 173 (79.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 172 (78.54%) Cloud Security
7 172 (78.54%) Scrum
7 172 (78.54%) User Experience
8 21 (9.59%) Data Modelling
9 17 (7.76%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (7.31%) Analytics
10 16 (7.31%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (6.39%) Coaching
11 14 (6.39%) ETL
12 11 (5.02%) Decision-Making
12 11 (5.02%) Visualisation
13 10 (4.57%) Data Science
13 10 (4.57%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 193 (88.13%) Python
2 176 (80.37%) Java
3 174 (79.45%) JavaScript
4 172 (78.54%) C++
4 172 (78.54%) Go
4 172 (78.54%) Rust
5 28 (12.79%) SQL
6 2 (0.91%) C#
6 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 174 (79.45%) AWS Certification
2 172 (78.54%) AWS Certified Developer
2 172 (78.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 172 (78.54%) DV Cleared
2 172 (78.54%) Security Cleared
3 5 (2.28%) Degree
4 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
4 2 (0.91%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (1.83%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (3.65%) Google
2 7 (3.20%) Informatica
3 5 (2.28%) Microsoft
4 2 (0.91%) Databricks
4 2 (0.91%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (0.91%) Splunk
5 1 (0.46%) Cloudera