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 £63,188 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2025.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 168 254
Rank change year-on-year -152 +86 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 289 1,312 735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.66% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.75% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 236 743 569
10th Percentile £45,125 £31,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,188 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,813 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £87,500 £80,250
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 35,927 74,928 49,449
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.90% 94.84% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,460 52,327 29,289
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +6.37%
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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -124 108 £60,000 +9.09% 149
South East -18 59 £70,000 +36.59% 231
North West -143 56 £61,938 +3.23% 86
Yorkshire +19 49 £60,000 +17.65% 36
Midlands -29 45 £60,000 +9.09% 58
South West +1 34 £56,000 -10.40% 84
East of England -3 27 £66,253 +20.46% 18
East Midlands +36 26 £65,000 +36.84% 32
West Midlands -28 19 £59,000 +2.61% 25
Scotland -68 14 £51,250 -22.05% 34
North East +1 7 £62,500 -12.59% 27
Northern Ireland +31 1 - - 12
Wales +26 1 £36,000 -21.96% 12
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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
2 170 (58.82%) Python
3 155 (53.63%) ETL
4 153 (52.94%) Azure
5 145 (50.17%) Data Engineering
6 125 (43.25%) Data Pipeline
7 109 (37.72%) Analytics
8 107 (37.02%) Business Intelligence
9 105 (36.33%) Data Warehouse
10 101 (34.95%) Data Modelling
10 101 (34.95%) AWS
11 89 (30.80%) Databricks
12 80 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
13 79 (27.34%) Power Platform
14 78 (26.99%) Social Skills
15 76 (26.30%) Power BI
16 72 (24.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 72 (24.91%) Data Quality
17 63 (21.80%) Agile
18 57 (19.72%) Visualisation
19 55 (19.03%) Mentoring
20 54 (18.69%) Finance
21 53 (18.34%) Microsoft
22 52 (17.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
23 51 (17.65%) Snowflake
23 51 (17.65%) CI/CD
24 45 (15.57%) Data Science
25 44 (15.22%) Software Engineering
26 43 (14.88%) Degree
26 43 (14.88%) 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 39 (13.49%) 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
5 2 (0.69%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.11%) Chatbot
2 5 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 153 (52.94%) Azure
2 101 (34.95%) AWS
3 79 (27.34%) Power Platform
4 72 (24.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (17.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 51 (17.65%) Snowflake
7 36 (12.46%) GCP
8 34 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 26 (9.00%) Serverless
10 19 (6.57%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (5.54%) dbt
12 14 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.50%) Power Automate
14 9 (3.11%) SaaS
15 8 (2.77%) GitHub
16 7 (2.42%) Azure Functions
16 7 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (2.42%) PowerApps
17 6 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.69%) Network Security
1 2 (0.69%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.69%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (36.33%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (26.30%) Power BI
3 43 (14.88%) Data Lake
4 33 (11.42%) Big Data
5 31 (10.73%) SQL Server
6 30 (10.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (7.96%) BigQuery
8 21 (7.27%) Tableau
9 19 (6.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 17 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
11 16 (5.54%) MySQL
11 16 (5.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 15 (5.19%) Hadoop
13 14 (4.84%) NoSQL
13 14 (4.84%) Relational Database
14 12 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (3.46%) Looker
15 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 8 (2.77%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 13 (4.50%) 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%) Selenium
5 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.35%) Toad
General
1 78 (26.99%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.69%) Finance
3 43 (14.88%) 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 6 (2.08%) Automotive
9 6 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.73%) Advertising
11 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.04%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.69%) Electronics
12 2 (0.69%) Legal
12 2 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.35%) Billing
13 1 (0.35%) Front Office
13 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (12.46%) PySpark
2 24 (8.30%) Kafka
3 16 (5.54%) .NET
4 6 (2.08%) HTML
4 6 (2.08%) PyArrow
5 5 (1.73%) REST
6 4 (1.38%) Dask
6 4 (1.38%) JSON
6 4 (1.38%) Pandas
6 4 (1.38%) Polars
6 4 (1.38%) XML
7 3 (1.04%) Middleware
7 3 (1.04%) NumPy
7 3 (1.04%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.69%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (0.69%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.69%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.69%) RESTful
8 2 (0.69%) Shiny
8 2 (0.69%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (2.42%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.08%) Replication
4 5 (1.73%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (1.38%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.38%) IoT
5 4 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.69%) CCTV
7 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.69%) Life Science
7 2 (0.69%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.69%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.46%) Unix
2 6 (2.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (53.63%) ETL
2 145 (50.17%) Data Engineering
3 125 (43.25%) Data Pipeline
4 109 (37.72%) Analytics
5 107 (37.02%) Business Intelligence
6 101 (34.95%) Data Modelling
7 80 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
8 63 (21.80%) Agile
9 57 (19.72%) Visualisation
10 55 (19.03%) Mentoring
11 51 (17.65%) CI/CD
12 45 (15.57%) Data Science
13 44 (15.22%) Software Engineering
14 43 (14.88%) DevOps
15 42 (14.53%) Data Architecture
16 38 (13.15%) Data Security
17 33 (11.42%) Artificial Intelligence
17 33 (11.42%) Data Governance
17 33 (11.42%) Decision-Making
18 32 (11.07%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 205 (70.93%) SQL
2 170 (58.82%) Python
3 33 (11.42%) C#
4 31 (10.73%) Java
5 15 (5.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (5.19%) Scala
6 14 (4.84%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.77%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.77%) R
8 7 (2.42%) C++
9 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.04%) Bash
10 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.04%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.69%) PROC SQL
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
Qualifications
1 43 (14.88%) Degree
2 20 (6.92%) Azure Certification
3 10 (3.46%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.11%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.42%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.08%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.38%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.04%) PhD
9 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.69%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) HNC
9 2 (0.69%) HND
9 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.69%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (24.91%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.54%) GDPR
3 14 (4.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.73%) QA
5 4 (1.38%) NIST
6 2 (0.69%) Dublin Core
6 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.69%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (4.50%) Docker
2 11 (3.81%) HDFS
3 2 (0.69%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 12 (4.15%) Terraform
3 2 (0.69%) Ansible
3 2 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (0.69%) Kibana
3 2 (0.69%) logstash
3 2 (0.69%) Oozie
Vendors
1 89 (30.80%) Databricks
2 53 (18.34%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.88%) Oracle
4 15 (5.19%) Google
4 15 (5.19%) Informatica
5 9 (3.11%) PayPal
5 9 (3.11%) SAP
6 6 (2.08%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.73%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.73%) Palantir
7 5 (1.73%) Talend
8 3 (1.04%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.04%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.69%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.69%) MapR
9 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.69%) SnapLogic
9 2 (0.69%) Splunk
9 2 (0.69%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.35%) MuleSoft