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 £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 243 223
Rank change year-on-year +78 -20 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,035 688 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.59% 1.43% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.59% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 596 555 712
10th Percentile £34,905 £41,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,688 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,350 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

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 61,941 43,162 74,370
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 89.65% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 41,460 27,696 44,286
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.92% +9.47%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,500 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +101 351 £60,000 -4.00% 36
Scotland +98 241 £67,000 +11.67% 8
North West +96 216 £62,500 +13.64% 17
Midlands 0 132 £60,000 +10.09% 15
South West +5 128 £55,000 -20.45% 19
South East -63 120 £45,000 -28.00% 18
West Midlands -3 96 £60,000 +11.11% 13
Yorkshire +71 91 £51,000 -23.88% 3
East of England +19 44 £55,000 -18.52% 4
North East +8 44 £72,500 +16.00% 16
East Midlands -3 34 £50,750 -3.33% 2
Wales +25 14 £66,199 +48.21% 4
Northern Ireland - 5 £35,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 - - 1
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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.

1 446 (43.09%) Agile
2 399 (38.55%) Python
3 379 (36.62%) Data Engineering
4 356 (34.40%) SQL
5 323 (31.21%) Data Pipeline
6 283 (27.34%) CI/CD
7 282 (27.25%) Azure
8 275 (26.57%) ETL
9 273 (26.38%) DevOps
10 272 (26.28%) Finance
11 258 (24.93%) AWS
12 247 (23.86%) GCP
13 233 (22.51%) Data Modelling
14 232 (22.42%) Mentoring
15 223 (21.55%) Data Science
16 219 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
17 213 (20.58%) Software Engineering
18 203 (19.61%) Apache Spark
19 200 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
20 199 (19.23%) Analytics
21 193 (18.65%) Google
22 188 (18.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
23 187 (18.07%) Big Data
24 185 (17.87%) Data Warehouse
25 178 (17.20%) Law
25 178 (17.20%) Databricks
26 177 (17.10%) BigQuery
27 176 (17.00%) Visualisation
28 175 (16.91%) Platform Engineering
29 169 (16.33%) Looker

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
1 203 (19.61%) Apache Spark
2 82 (7.92%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (5.41%) Apache
4 17 (1.64%) nginx
5 16 (1.55%) Jupyter
5 16 (1.55%) SAS
6 11 (1.06%) Confluence
7 2 (0.19%) Luigi
8 1 (0.097%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.097%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.097%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 282 (27.25%) Azure
2 258 (24.93%) AWS
3 247 (23.86%) GCP
4 135 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 102 (9.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 65 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (6.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 44 (4.25%) Amazon S3
9 29 (2.80%) GitHub
10 27 (2.61%) Snowflake
11 22 (2.13%) Serverless
12 21 (2.03%) dbt
13 19 (1.84%) SaaS
14 16 (1.55%) MinIO
14 16 (1.55%) OpenShift
15 12 (1.16%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
18 8 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
18 8 (0.77%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.67%) Structured Cabling
2 26 (2.51%) Network Security
3 9 (0.87%) Wireless
4 7 (0.68%) Firewall
5 6 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (0.39%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.39%) LAN
6 4 (0.39%) WAN
7 3 (0.29%) WebEx
8 2 (0.19%) 5G
9 1 (0.097%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.097%) FTP
9 1 (0.097%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (18.07%) Big Data
2 185 (17.87%) Data Warehouse
3 177 (17.10%) BigQuery
4 169 (16.33%) Looker
5 142 (13.72%) Data Lake
6 133 (12.85%) Power BI
7 117 (11.30%) SQL Server
8 68 (6.57%) Hadoop
9 66 (6.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 49 (4.73%) NoSQL
11 46 (4.44%) Apache Hive
12 38 (3.67%) Qlik Sense
13 35 (3.38%) Relational Database
14 33 (3.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 32 (3.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 31 (3.00%) HBase
17 30 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
18 28 (2.71%) Data Vault
19 26 (2.51%) Tableau
20 24 (2.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (5.70%) Git
2 51 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.96%) JIRA
4 30 (2.90%) Bitbucket Server
5 16 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 14 (1.35%) RStudio
7 9 (0.87%) GitLab
8 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.19%) MLflow
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.19%) Subversion
10 1 (0.097%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.097%) ERwin
10 1 (0.097%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.097%) Toad
10 1 (0.097%) Zephyr
General
1 272 (26.28%) Finance
2 200 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
3 188 (18.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 178 (17.20%) Law
5 143 (13.82%) Social Skills
6 131 (12.66%) Legal
7 58 (5.60%) Marketing
8 26 (2.51%) Telecoms
9 21 (2.03%) Retail
10 13 (1.26%) Games
11 9 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (0.77%) Public Sector
13 6 (0.58%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.48%) Electronics
14 5 (0.48%) Local Government
15 4 (0.39%) Banking
15 4 (0.39%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.19%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (14.20%) PySpark
2 47 (4.54%) Kafka
3 21 (2.03%) Spring
3 21 (2.03%) Spring Boot
4 18 (1.74%) ActiveMQ
5 17 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
6 16 (1.55%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (1.55%) YAML
7 12 (1.16%) Pandas
8 7 (0.68%) REST
8 7 (0.68%) RESTful
9 5 (0.48%) AWS CDK
9 5 (0.48%) CSS
9 5 (0.48%) HTML
10 4 (0.39%) Apache Beam
11 3 (0.29%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.29%) JSON
11 3 (0.29%) SOAP
11 3 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (15.85%) Self-Motivation
2 123 (11.88%) Algorithms
3 73 (7.05%) Cloud Native
4 65 (6.28%) Data Structures
5 42 (4.06%) Onboarding
6 35 (3.38%) Public Cloud
7 30 (2.90%) Reinsurance
8 21 (2.03%) Legacy Code
9 20 (1.93%) Data Centre
10 17 (1.64%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
10 17 (1.64%) Management Information System
11 16 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 16 (1.55%) Product Ownership
12 12 (1.16%) Operational Technology
12 12 (1.16%) SCADA
13 9 (0.87%) NHS
14 8 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.58%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (4.15%) Linux
2 36 (3.48%) Unix
3 20 (1.93%) Windows
4 17 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.48%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (43.09%) Agile
2 379 (36.62%) Data Engineering
3 323 (31.21%) Data Pipeline
4 283 (27.34%) CI/CD
5 275 (26.57%) ETL
6 273 (26.38%) DevOps
7 233 (22.51%) Data Modelling
8 232 (22.42%) Mentoring
9 223 (21.55%) Data Science
10 219 (21.16%) Problem-Solving
11 213 (20.58%) Software Engineering
12 199 (19.23%) Analytics
13 176 (17.00%) Visualisation
14 175 (16.91%) Platform Engineering
15 165 (15.94%) DataOps
16 160 (15.46%) SDLC
17 151 (14.59%) Machine Learning
18 150 (14.49%) Change Management
19 142 (13.72%) Operational Stability
20 128 (12.37%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 399 (38.55%) Python
2 356 (34.40%) SQL
3 98 (9.47%) Java
4 44 (4.25%) Scala
5 40 (3.86%) T-SQL
6 37 (3.57%) PL/SQL
7 28 (2.71%) Bash
8 22 (2.13%) R
9 18 (1.74%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.55%) JavaScript
11 14 (1.35%) C#
12 12 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 4 (0.39%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.19%) Go
14 2 (0.19%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.097%) C++
15 1 (0.097%) Korn
15 1 (0.097%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (7.05%) Degree
2 51 (4.93%) Security Cleared
3 36 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 32 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 21 (2.03%) DV Cleared
6 16 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.35%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.26%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.39%) CCNA
10 4 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.39%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.097%) HNC
11 1 (0.097%) HND
11 1 (0.097%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (16.23%) Data Quality
2 160 (15.46%) GDPR
3 14 (1.35%) SLA
4 13 (1.26%) QA
5 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.097%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.097%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.097%) NCSC
6 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (3.09%) HDFS
2 28 (2.71%) Docker
3 10 (0.97%) Hyper-V
3 10 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.097%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.097%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 80 (7.73%) Terraform
2 58 (5.60%) Kubernetes
3 19 (1.84%) Ansible
4 16 (1.55%) Grafana
4 16 (1.55%) HAProxy
4 16 (1.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 193 (18.65%) Google
2 178 (17.20%) Databricks
3 105 (10.14%) Informatica
4 104 (10.05%) Microsoft
5 42 (4.06%) Alteryx
6 37 (3.57%) Oracle
7 11 (1.06%) SAP
8 10 (0.97%) VMware
9 9 (0.87%) Splunk
10 7 (0.68%) TIBCO
11 5 (0.48%) Talend
11 5 (0.48%) Teradata
12 3 (0.29%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.29%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.29%) Siemens
12 3 (0.29%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.19%) Sage
13 2 (0.19%) Twitter
14 1 (0.097%) Vertica
14 1 (0.097%) webMethods