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 14 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
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 161 258
Rank change year-on-year -164 +97 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 285 1,340 732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.67% 1.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 1.76% 1.50%
Number of salaries quoted 233 774 575
10th Percentile £45,050 £31,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £80,750
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 35,542 76,310 48,855
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.59% 94.88% 88.79%
Number of salaries quoted 18,265 53,235 29,153
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 14 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 14 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 -128 107 £60,000 +4.35% 176
South East -12 58 £70,000 +40.00% 371
North West -138 55 £63,876 +6.46% 107
Yorkshire +9 48 £60,000 +17.65% 43
Midlands -31 46 £59,500 +5.31% 55
South West +3 34 £55,000 -8.33% 89
East Midlands +40 26 £65,000 +36.84% 29
East of England 0 26 £66,253 +20.46% 19
West Midlands -37 20 £58,250 +1.30% 25
Scotland -66 13 £52,500 -21.05% 44
North East -1 8 £62,500 -13.79% 27
Wales +31 1 £36,000 -21.96% 18
Northern Ireland +27 1 - - 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 14 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.

1 204 (71.58%) SQL
2 168 (58.95%) Python
3 155 (54.39%) ETL
4 151 (52.98%) Azure
5 147 (51.58%) Data Engineering
6 126 (44.21%) Data Pipeline
7 110 (38.60%) Analytics
8 108 (37.89%) Business Intelligence
9 106 (37.19%) Data Warehouse
10 101 (35.44%) Data Modelling
11 98 (34.39%) AWS
12 87 (30.53%) Databricks
13 82 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (27.37%) Power Platform
15 76 (26.67%) Social Skills
15 76 (26.67%) Power BI
16 72 (25.26%) Data Quality
17 69 (24.21%) Azure Data Factory
18 61 (21.40%) Agile
19 57 (20.00%) Visualisation
20 55 (19.30%) Finance
20 55 (19.30%) Mentoring
21 52 (18.25%) Snowflake
22 51 (17.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
22 51 (17.89%) Microsoft
23 49 (17.19%) CI/CD
24 47 (16.49%) Data Science
25 43 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
25 43 (15.09%) Software Engineering
26 42 (14.74%) Data Architecture

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 (14.04%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.53%) Apache
3 22 (7.72%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.11%) Confluence
5 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.05%) SAS
7 2 (0.70%) Luigi
8 1 (0.35%) Appian
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.16%) Chatbot
2 3 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 151 (52.98%) Azure
2 98 (34.39%) AWS
3 78 (27.37%) Power Platform
4 69 (24.21%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (18.25%) Snowflake
6 51 (17.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 36 (12.63%) GCP
8 33 (11.58%) Amazon S3
9 26 (9.12%) Serverless
10 19 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (5.26%) dbt
12 13 (4.56%) Power Automate
13 12 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.16%) SaaS
15 8 (2.81%) GitHub
16 7 (2.46%) Azure Functions
16 7 (2.46%) Azure Logic Apps
17 6 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
17 6 (2.11%) OpenShift
17 6 (2.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.05%) PuTTY
2 2 (0.70%) Network Security
2 2 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (37.19%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (26.67%) Power BI
3 42 (14.74%) Data Lake
4 35 (12.28%) Big Data
5 32 (11.23%) SQL Server
6 28 (9.82%) Amazon Redshift
7 23 (8.07%) BigQuery
7 23 (8.07%) Tableau
8 20 (7.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (5.96%) MySQL
9 17 (5.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 16 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (5.61%) Hadoop
11 14 (4.91%) NoSQL
11 14 (4.91%) Relational Database
12 13 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
14 10 (3.51%) Looker
14 10 (3.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 9 (3.16%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 12 (4.21%) Git
2 8 (2.81%) JIRA
3 6 (2.11%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.05%) 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 76 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.30%) Finance
3 43 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.72%) Law
5 16 (5.61%) Retail
6 14 (4.91%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.21%) Banking
8 9 (3.16%) Marketing
9 6 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.75%) Advertising
10 5 (1.75%) Automotive
11 4 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.05%) Electronics
12 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.70%) Legal
13 2 (0.70%) 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 34 (11.93%) PySpark
2 24 (8.42%) Kafka
3 17 (5.96%) .NET
4 6 (2.11%) HTML
4 6 (2.11%) PyArrow
5 5 (1.75%) REST
6 4 (1.40%) Dask
6 4 (1.40%) JSON
6 4 (1.40%) Middleware
6 4 (1.40%) Pandas
6 4 (1.40%) Polars
6 4 (1.40%) XML
7 3 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
7 3 (1.05%) NumPy
7 3 (1.05%) Plotly
7 3 (1.05%) PyTorch
7 3 (1.05%) Regular Expression
7 3 (1.05%) Shiny
8 2 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.21%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.11%) Cloud Native
2 6 (2.11%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.11%) Replication
3 5 (1.75%) Data Structures
3 5 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
4 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.40%) IoT
5 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.70%) CCTV
6 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (0.70%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.70%) Legacy Code
6 2 (0.70%) Life Science
6 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.86%) Unix
2 6 (2.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (54.39%) ETL
2 147 (51.58%) Data Engineering
3 126 (44.21%) Data Pipeline
4 110 (38.60%) Analytics
5 108 (37.89%) Business Intelligence
6 101 (35.44%) Data Modelling
7 82 (28.77%) Problem-Solving
8 61 (21.40%) Agile
9 57 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 55 (19.30%) Mentoring
11 49 (17.19%) CI/CD
12 47 (16.49%) Data Science
13 43 (15.09%) Software Engineering
14 42 (14.74%) Data Architecture
15 40 (14.04%) DevOps
16 37 (12.98%) Data Security
17 34 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
17 34 (11.93%) Decision-Making
18 31 (10.88%) Data Analysis
18 31 (10.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 204 (71.58%) SQL
2 168 (58.95%) Python
3 34 (11.93%) C#
3 34 (11.93%) Java
4 15 (5.26%) Scala
5 14 (4.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 14 (4.91%) T-SQL
6 9 (3.16%) R
7 7 (2.46%) C++
8 6 (2.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.40%) Bash
10 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.05%) PROC SQL
10 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.70%) Ruby
11 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.70%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.35%) Bicep
12 1 (0.35%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 40 (14.04%) Degree
2 20 (7.02%) Azure Certification
3 10 (3.51%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.16%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.46%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.11%) DBS Check
7 5 (1.75%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.05%) PhD
9 2 (0.70%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.70%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (25.26%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.61%) GDPR
3 13 (4.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.11%) QA
5 4 (1.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.70%) Dublin Core
6 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.70%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 13 (4.56%) Docker
2 12 (4.21%) HDFS
3 3 (1.05%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.86%) Terraform
3 3 (1.05%) Kibana
3 3 (1.05%) logstash
3 3 (1.05%) Oozie
4 2 (0.70%) Ansible
4 2 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 87 (30.53%) Databricks
2 51 (17.89%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.96%) Oracle
4 16 (5.61%) Informatica
5 15 (5.26%) Google
6 10 (3.51%) SAP
7 9 (3.16%) PayPal
8 6 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.75%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.75%) Palantir
9 5 (1.75%) Talend
10 4 (1.40%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.70%) Dataiku
12 2 (0.70%) MapR
12 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 2 (0.70%) Splunk
12 2 (0.70%) StreamSets
13 1 (0.35%) BiZZdesign
13 1 (0.35%) SnapLogic