Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 166 223
Rank change year-on-year -155 +57 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 289 1,270 942
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.70% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 1.79% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 235 693 569
10th Percentile £43,500 £31,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,647
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,540 70,800 51,694
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.25% 94.95% 89.10%
Number of salaries quoted 17,956 49,914 29,611
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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
North of England -124 106 £60,000 +4.35% 625
South East -11 62 £70,000 +45.83% 767
North West -141 55 £63,876 +6.46% 296
Yorkshire +25 49 £60,000 +17.65% 234
Midlands -23 43 £60,000 +9.09% 474
South West +4 35 £55,000 -8.33% 323
East of England +3 27 £66,253 +20.46% 356
East Midlands +28 24 £55,000 +15.79% 190
West Midlands -35 19 £60,000 +4.35% 253
Scotland -63 14 £50,000 -23.08% 137
North East +1 6 £66,250 -7.99% 96
Wales +35 1 £36,000 -21.96% 75
Northern Ireland +29 1 - - 28
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 205 (70.93%) SQL
2 171 (59.17%) Python
3 157 (54.33%) Azure
4 153 (52.94%) ETL
5 144 (49.83%) Data Engineering
6 125 (43.25%) Data Pipeline
7 110 (38.06%) Analytics
8 109 (37.72%) Business Intelligence
9 106 (36.68%) Data Warehouse
10 105 (36.33%) Data Modelling
11 99 (34.26%) AWS
12 92 (31.83%) Databricks
13 88 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (27.68%) Power Platform
15 79 (27.34%) Social Skills
16 77 (26.64%) Power BI
17 76 (26.30%) Azure Data Factory
18 72 (24.91%) Data Quality
19 61 (21.11%) Agile
20 58 (20.07%) Finance
21 57 (19.72%) Visualisation
22 56 (19.38%) Mentoring
23 54 (18.69%) CI/CD
24 52 (17.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 52 (17.99%) Microsoft
25 49 (16.96%) Snowflake
26 47 (16.26%) Degree
27 46 (15.92%) DevOps
28 45 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
28 45 (15.57%) Data Lake

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 40 (13.84%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.38%) Apache
3 21 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.08%) Confluence
4 6 (2.08%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.69%) Luigi
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
6 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Chatbot
2 6 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 157 (54.33%) Azure
2 99 (34.26%) AWS
3 80 (27.68%) Power Platform
4 76 (26.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (17.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 49 (16.96%) Snowflake
7 35 (12.11%) GCP
8 31 (10.73%) Amazon S3
9 23 (7.96%) Serverless
10 17 (5.88%) dbt
11 16 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.50%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.11%) SaaS
15 7 (2.42%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.42%) GitHub
15 7 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.42%) PowerApps
16 6 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Network Security
1 2 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
2 1 (0.35%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (36.68%) Data Warehouse
2 77 (26.64%) Power BI
3 45 (15.57%) Data Lake
4 34 (11.76%) Big Data
5 32 (11.07%) SQL Server
6 30 (10.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (7.61%) BigQuery
8 20 (6.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 19 (6.57%) Tableau
10 18 (6.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 17 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
12 16 (5.54%) Hadoop
13 15 (5.19%) MySQL
14 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
14 14 (4.84%) Relational Database
15 10 (3.46%) Looker
15 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 9 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
16 9 (3.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 8 (2.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (4.15%) Git
2 8 (2.77%) JIRA
3 6 (2.08%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.08%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.35%) ERwin
5 1 (0.35%) JUnit
5 1 (0.35%) MLflow
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 79 (27.34%) Social Skills
2 58 (20.07%) Finance
3 45 (15.57%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.96%) Law
5 16 (5.54%) Retail
6 13 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.15%) Banking
8 9 (3.11%) Marketing
9 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.08%) Automotive
11 5 (1.73%) Advertising
12 4 (1.38%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.38%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.69%) Electronics
13 2 (0.69%) Legal
13 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.35%) Billing
14 1 (0.35%) Front Office
14 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.80%) PySpark
2 25 (8.65%) Kafka
3 16 (5.54%) .NET
4 6 (2.08%) HTML
4 6 (2.08%) PyArrow
5 5 (1.73%) Pandas
5 5 (1.73%) REST
6 4 (1.38%) Dask
6 4 (1.38%) JSON
6 4 (1.38%) NumPy
6 4 (1.38%) Polars
6 4 (1.38%) XML
7 3 (1.04%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.69%) Apache Jena
8 2 (0.69%) Middleware
8 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.69%) RESTful
8 2 (0.69%) Spring
8 2 (0.69%) Spring Boot
8 2 (0.69%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (2.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (2.42%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
3 6 (2.08%) Replication
4 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.38%) IoT
4 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.04%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.69%) Data Fabric
6 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.69%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.69%) Life Science
6 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.46%) Unix
2 8 (2.77%) Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (52.94%) ETL
2 144 (49.83%) Data Engineering
3 125 (43.25%) Data Pipeline
4 110 (38.06%) Analytics
5 109 (37.72%) Business Intelligence
6 105 (36.33%) Data Modelling
7 88 (30.45%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (21.11%) Agile
9 57 (19.72%) Visualisation
10 56 (19.38%) Mentoring
11 54 (18.69%) CI/CD
12 46 (15.92%) DevOps
13 45 (15.57%) Data Architecture
13 45 (15.57%) Software Engineering
14 41 (14.19%) Data Science
15 37 (12.80%) Data Security
15 37 (12.80%) Decision-Making
16 34 (11.76%) Data Analysis
16 34 (11.76%) Data Governance
17 31 (10.73%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 205 (70.93%) SQL
2 171 (59.17%) Python
3 33 (11.42%) C#
3 33 (11.42%) Java
4 19 (6.57%) Scala
5 16 (5.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (5.54%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.11%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.77%) C++
8 7 (2.42%) R
9 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.69%) Bash
11 2 (0.69%) Ruby
11 2 (0.69%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.69%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
12 1 (0.35%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (16.26%) Degree
2 22 (7.61%) Azure Certification
3 8 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (2.77%) Master's Degree
3 8 (2.77%) Security Cleared
4 6 (2.08%) DBS Check
5 5 (1.73%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.38%) AWS Certification
7 3 (1.04%) PhD
8 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.69%) HNC
8 2 (0.69%) HND
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (24.91%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.84%) Accessibility
3 13 (4.50%) GDPR
4 4 (1.38%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) Dublin Core
5 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (4.50%) Docker
2 10 (3.46%) HDFS
3 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 16 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.50%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Ansible
3 2 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.35%) Kibana
4 1 (0.35%) logstash
4 1 (0.35%) Oozie
Vendors
1 92 (31.83%) Databricks
2 52 (17.99%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.19%) Google
4 14 (4.84%) Informatica
4 14 (4.84%) Oracle
5 9 (3.11%) PayPal
5 9 (3.11%) SAP
6 7 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.73%) Palantir
7 5 (1.73%) Talend
8 4 (1.38%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.69%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.69%) MapR
10 2 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 2 (0.69%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.69%) Splunk
10 2 (0.69%) StreamSets
11 1 (0.35%) UiPath