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 £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 222 217
Rank change year-on-year +54 -5 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,274 992 1,266
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.81% 1.62% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.90% 1.81% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 682 601 700
10th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,250 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,715 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 66,883 54,717 68,218
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.25% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 47,333 31,108 43,002
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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
North of England +86 392 £55,000 -8.33% 56
Scotland +80 308 £65,000 +8.33% 22
North West +98 252 £60,000 +15.38% 40
South East -44 165 £47,750 -23.60% 30
Midlands +10 153 £56,500 +2.73% 39
South West -42 153 £65,000 +4.00% 30
West Midlands +9 111 £58,750 +10.33% 25
Yorkshire +67 85 £51,000 -21.54% 13
East of England +42 76 £58,750 -6.00% 23
North East +4 55 £67,750 +4.23% 3
East Midlands -1 41 £46,250 -15.91% 14
Wales +8 16 £46,060 +3.12% 16
Northern Ireland +35 12 £60,000 - 15
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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.

1 582 (45.68%) Python
2 573 (44.98%) Agile
3 522 (40.97%) SQL
4 507 (39.80%) Data Engineering
5 438 (34.38%) Data Pipeline
6 401 (31.48%) ETL
7 390 (30.61%) CI/CD
8 387 (30.38%) Azure
9 380 (29.83%) AWS
10 364 (28.57%) Data Modelling
11 350 (27.47%) Finance
12 336 (26.37%) Data Science
13 312 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
14 306 (24.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 305 (23.94%) Mentoring
16 301 (23.63%) DevOps
17 290 (22.76%) Analytics
18 289 (22.68%) GCP
19 287 (22.53%) Big Data
20 271 (21.27%) Data Warehouse
21 269 (21.11%) Software Engineering
22 264 (20.72%) Machine Learning
23 259 (20.33%) Law
24 255 (20.02%) Apache Spark
25 246 (19.31%) Databricks
26 233 (18.29%) Data Lake
27 224 (17.58%) Data Quality
28 216 (16.95%) SDLC
29 212 (16.64%) Artificial Intelligence
30 211 (16.56%) Analytical Skills

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
1 255 (20.02%) Apache Spark
2 114 (8.95%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (4.55%) Apache
4 19 (1.49%) nginx
5 18 (1.41%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.94%) Confluence
7 1 (0.078%) Apache Synapse
7 1 (0.078%) Luigi
7 1 (0.078%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.078%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.078%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.078%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 387 (30.38%) Azure
2 380 (29.83%) AWS
3 289 (22.68%) GCP
4 166 (13.03%) Power Platform
5 110 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 93 (7.30%) Snowflake
7 77 (6.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 73 (5.73%) Azure DevOps
9 68 (5.34%) Amazon S3
10 43 (3.38%) dbt
11 42 (3.30%) Serverless
12 34 (2.67%) SaaS
13 32 (2.51%) Matillion
14 30 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 28 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (2.20%) GitHub
16 25 (1.96%) Amazon Kinesis
17 19 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
18 18 (1.41%) MinIO
18 18 (1.41%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.51%) Structured Cabling
2 18 (1.41%) DSL
3 11 (0.86%) Wireless
4 10 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.39%) LAN
6 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.31%) Firewall
6 4 (0.31%) FTP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 2 (0.16%) WebEx
8 1 (0.078%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.078%) 5G
8 1 (0.078%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.078%) DMZ
8 1 (0.078%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.078%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.078%) SMS
8 1 (0.078%) snoop
8 1 (0.078%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 287 (22.53%) Big Data
2 271 (21.27%) Data Warehouse
3 233 (18.29%) Data Lake
4 207 (16.25%) BigQuery
5 194 (15.23%) SQL Server
6 171 (13.42%) Looker
7 164 (12.87%) Power BI
8 95 (7.46%) Hadoop
9 69 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 66 (5.18%) Amazon Redshift
11 60 (4.71%) Tableau
12 57 (4.47%) NoSQL
13 50 (3.92%) Apache Hive
13 50 (3.92%) Relational Database
14 44 (3.45%) Data Vault
15 42 (3.30%) Qlik Sense
16 40 (3.14%) Delta Lake
17 38 (2.98%) Star Schema
18 35 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
19 31 (2.43%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 68 (5.34%) Jenkins
2 65 (5.10%) Git
3 52 (4.08%) JIRA
4 40 (3.14%) GitLab
5 30 (2.35%) Bitbucket Server
6 18 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.47%) RStudio
10 5 (0.39%) Spinnaker
11 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
14 1 (0.078%) ERwin
14 1 (0.078%) Subversion
14 1 (0.078%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (0.078%) TeamCity
14 1 (0.078%) Toad
14 1 (0.078%) Zephyr
General
1 350 (27.47%) Finance
2 306 (24.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 259 (20.33%) Law
4 211 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
5 198 (15.54%) Social Skills
6 194 (15.23%) Legal
7 100 (7.85%) Marketing
8 44 (3.45%) Retail
9 41 (3.22%) Banking
10 35 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 32 (2.51%) Games
12 25 (1.96%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.41%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.41%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.26%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.78%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.39%) Aviation
18 5 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.50%) PySpark
2 81 (6.36%) Kafka
3 43 (3.38%) Spring
3 43 (3.38%) Spring Boot
4 21 (1.65%) ActiveMQ
4 21 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
5 20 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
6 19 (1.49%) RESTful
7 18 (1.41%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (1.41%) YAML
8 13 (1.02%) GraphQL
9 12 (0.94%) Pandas
10 10 (0.78%) Apache Beam
11 8 (0.63%) JSON
11 8 (0.63%) PyTorch
12 7 (0.55%) REST
12 7 (0.55%) TensorFlow
12 7 (0.55%) XML
13 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
13 5 (0.39%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 196 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
2 160 (12.56%) Algorithms
3 131 (10.28%) Cloud Native
4 112 (8.79%) Data Structures
5 79 (6.20%) Public Cloud
6 63 (4.95%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.53%) Product Ownership
8 43 (3.38%) Legacy Code
9 40 (3.14%) Reinsurance
10 38 (2.98%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.49%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.41%) CCTV
12 18 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.33%) Driving Licence
13 17 (1.33%) IoT
13 17 (1.33%) SCADA
14 16 (1.26%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.18%) Fibre Optics
16 13 (1.02%) Online Games
17 12 (0.94%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (2.98%) Linux
2 36 (2.83%) Unix
3 21 (1.65%) Windows
3 21 (1.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (44.98%) Agile
2 507 (39.80%) Data Engineering
3 438 (34.38%) Data Pipeline
4 401 (31.48%) ETL
5 390 (30.61%) CI/CD
6 364 (28.57%) Data Modelling
7 336 (26.37%) Data Science
8 312 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
9 305 (23.94%) Mentoring
10 301 (23.63%) DevOps
11 290 (22.76%) Analytics
12 269 (21.11%) Software Engineering
13 264 (20.72%) Machine Learning
14 216 (16.95%) SDLC
15 212 (16.64%) Artificial Intelligence
16 205 (16.09%) Business Intelligence
17 198 (15.54%) Operational Stability
18 197 (15.46%) Visualisation
19 180 (14.13%) Platform Engineering
20 178 (13.97%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 582 (45.68%) Python
2 522 (40.97%) SQL
3 164 (12.87%) Java
4 78 (6.12%) Scala
5 61 (4.79%) PL/SQL
6 54 (4.24%) T-SQL
7 24 (1.88%) C#
8 20 (1.57%) Bash
9 18 (1.41%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.26%) R
11 13 (1.02%) JavaScript
12 11 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 9 (0.71%) PowerShell
14 6 (0.47%) C
14 6 (0.47%) PHP
15 5 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.31%) Go
16 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.31%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 124 (9.73%) Degree
2 45 (3.53%) Security Cleared
3 28 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 27 (2.12%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.73%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 12 (0.94%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.31%) CCNA
11 4 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.16%) HNC
12 2 (0.16%) HND
12 2 (0.16%) PhD
13 1 (0.078%) CCNP
13 1 (0.078%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.078%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (17.58%) Data Quality
2 162 (12.72%) GDPR
3 35 (2.75%) SLA
4 10 (0.78%) QA
5 9 (0.71%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.078%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.078%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.078%) GMP
6 1 (0.078%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.078%) NCSC
System Software
1 41 (3.22%) Docker
2 32 (2.51%) HDFS
3 16 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.078%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.078%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 99 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 85 (6.67%) Terraform
3 22 (1.73%) Ansible
4 18 (1.41%) Grafana
4 18 (1.41%) HAProxy
4 18 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.078%) Oozie
Vendors
1 246 (19.31%) Databricks
2 208 (16.33%) Google
3 125 (9.81%) Microsoft
4 102 (8.01%) Informatica
5 75 (5.89%) Oracle
6 65 (5.10%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.41%) Cognos
7 18 (1.41%) Sybase
8 16 (1.26%) VMware
9 10 (0.78%) Teradata
10 9 (0.71%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.63%) SAP
12 7 (0.55%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.55%) YouTube
13 6 (0.47%) F5
13 6 (0.47%) Talend
14 4 (0.31%) Splunk
15 3 (0.24%) Cloudera
15 3 (0.24%) Siemens
15 3 (0.24%) SnapLogic