Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the North West

Senior Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the North West is £61,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 227 293
Rank change year-on-year -34 +66 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 14 59 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.18% 0.60% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.64% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 14 50 10
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,313 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £62,500 £48,197
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +29.68% -41.58%
75th Percentile £79,688 £84,063 £59,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,750 £63,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 7,084 9,236 7,083
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.97% 94.64% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,088 7,094 4,132
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,385 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North West

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North West

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the North West

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 7 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 +23 10 £71,250 +18.75% 8
Lancashire -55 4 £58,000 +18.37% 3
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) Python
2 10 (71.43%) ETL
3 9 (64.29%) Data Engineering
3 9 (64.29%) Big Data
3 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (57.14%) AWS
5 7 (50.00%) Azure
5 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 7 (50.00%) Analytics
5 7 (50.00%) Power Platform
5 7 (50.00%) Power BI
5 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (42.86%) Apache Spark
6 6 (42.86%) Scala
7 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
7 5 (35.71%) Java
7 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
7 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
7 5 (35.71%) Data Science
8 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
8 4 (28.57%) Coaching
8 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
8 4 (28.57%) Apache
8 4 (28.57%) Retail
9 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
9 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (21.43%) Agile

Senior 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 6 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 4 (28.57%) Apache
3 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (21.43%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (21.43%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Big Data
2 7 (50.00%) Power BI
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
5 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
5 2 (14.29%) MySQL
5 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
6 1 (7.14%) Apache Zeppelin
6 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Data Fabric
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) ETL
2 9 (64.29%) Data Engineering
2 9 (64.29%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (50.00%) Analytics
3 7 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Data Science
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (35.71%) Visualisation
5 4 (28.57%) Coaching
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Agile
6 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Data Development
6 3 (21.43%) MapReduce
6 3 (21.43%) OO
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 10 (71.43%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) Scala
4 5 (35.71%) Java
5 3 (21.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Informatica
2 2 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle