Data Engineering Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 68 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 5 11 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.81% 0.98% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53,750 £44,738 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £75,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 - -
90th Percentile £73,250 - -
Yorkshire median annual salary £69,000 £50,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +38.00% -33.33% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 466 853 720
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 75.65% 76.09% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 322 531 511
10th Percentile £25,315 £29,971 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £39,390 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £64,688 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £79,900 £75,000 £70,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in South Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Sheffield +17 3 £57,500 -23.33% 4
Rotherham - 2 - -
Data Engineering
Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Data Science
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Physical Data Model
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Due Diligence
3 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks