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 £63,876 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 168 262
Rank change year-on-year -162 +94 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 286 1,318 732
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 233 750 569
10th Percentile £45,250 £31,250 £41,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £40,688 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,876 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.09% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,000 £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 35,636 75,350 49,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.82% 94.85% 88.84%
Number of salaries quoted 18,303 52,721 29,290
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,750 £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 11 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 11 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 -126 107 £60,000 +9.09% 154
South East -28 59 £70,000 +40.00% 287
North West -137 55 £63,876 +6.46% 90
Yorkshire +20 49 £60,000 +17.65% 35
Midlands -27 45 £60,000 +7.62% 59
South West +9 33 £55,000 -10.20% 94
East of England -5 27 £66,253 +20.46% 18
East Midlands +39 26 £65,000 +36.84% 29
West Midlands -27 19 £59,000 +2.61% 29
Scotland -71 13 £52,500 -21.05% 34
North East -1 7 £62,500 -12.59% 30
Wales +29 1 £36,000 -21.96% 20
Northern Ireland +29 1 - - 14
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 203 (70.98%) SQL
2 169 (59.09%) Python
3 154 (53.85%) ETL
4 151 (52.80%) Azure
5 145 (50.70%) Data Engineering
6 125 (43.71%) Data Pipeline
7 109 (38.11%) Analytics
8 107 (37.41%) Business Intelligence
9 105 (36.71%) Data Warehouse
10 100 (34.97%) Data Modelling
11 99 (34.62%) AWS
12 88 (30.77%) Databricks
13 80 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
14 78 (27.27%) Power Platform
15 77 (26.92%) Social Skills
16 76 (26.57%) Power BI
17 72 (25.17%) Data Quality
18 71 (24.83%) Azure Data Factory
19 62 (21.68%) Agile
20 57 (19.93%) Visualisation
21 55 (19.23%) Mentoring
22 54 (18.88%) Finance
23 52 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 51 (17.83%) Snowflake
24 51 (17.83%) CI/CD
24 51 (17.83%) Microsoft
25 45 (15.73%) Data Science
26 43 (15.03%) Data Lake
26 43 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
26 43 (15.03%) Software Engineering

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 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 30 (10.49%) Apache
3 21 (7.34%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.10%) Confluence
4 6 (2.10%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.70%) Luigi
5 2 (0.70%) SAS
6 1 (0.35%) Appian
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 9 (3.15%) Chatbot
2 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 151 (52.80%) Azure
2 99 (34.62%) AWS
3 78 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 71 (24.83%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 51 (17.83%) Snowflake
7 36 (12.59%) GCP
8 34 (11.89%) Amazon S3
9 26 (9.09%) Serverless
10 19 (6.64%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (5.59%) dbt
12 13 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.55%) Power Automate
13 9 (3.15%) SaaS
14 8 (2.80%) GitHub
15 7 (2.45%) Azure Functions
15 7 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
15 7 (2.45%) PowerApps
16 6 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Network Security
1 2 (0.70%) PuTTY
1 2 (0.70%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (36.71%) Data Warehouse
2 76 (26.57%) Power BI
3 43 (15.03%) Data Lake
4 33 (11.54%) Big Data
5 30 (10.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 30 (10.49%) SQL Server
6 23 (8.04%) BigQuery
7 21 (7.34%) Tableau
8 19 (6.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (5.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 16 (5.59%) MySQL
10 16 (5.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 15 (5.24%) Hadoop
12 14 (4.90%) Relational Database
13 13 (4.55%) NoSQL
14 12 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
15 10 (3.50%) Amazon Athena
15 10 (3.50%) Looker
15 10 (3.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 8 (2.80%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 12 (4.20%) Git
2 8 (2.80%) JIRA
3 6 (2.10%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.10%) 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 77 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 54 (18.88%) Finance
3 43 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (7.69%) Law
5 16 (5.59%) Retail
6 13 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 12 (4.20%) Banking
8 9 (3.15%) Marketing
9 6 (2.10%) Automotive
9 6 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.75%) Advertising
11 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.05%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.70%) Electronics
12 2 (0.70%) Legal
12 2 (0.70%) 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 35 (12.24%) PySpark
2 24 (8.39%) Kafka
3 16 (5.59%) .NET
4 6 (2.10%) HTML
4 6 (2.10%) PyArrow
5 5 (1.75%) REST
6 4 (1.40%) Dask
6 4 (1.40%) JSON
6 4 (1.40%) Pandas
6 4 (1.40%) Polars
6 4 (1.40%) XML
7 3 (1.05%) Middleware
7 3 (1.05%) NumPy
7 3 (1.05%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.70%) Apache Jena
8 2 (0.70%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.70%) Regular Expression
8 2 (0.70%) RESTful
8 2 (0.70%) Shiny
8 2 (0.70%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (2.45%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.10%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.10%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.10%) Replication
4 5 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
5 4 (1.40%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.40%) IoT
6 3 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.70%) CCTV
7 2 (0.70%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.70%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.70%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Legacy Code
7 2 (0.70%) Life Science
7 2 (0.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.50%) Unix
2 6 (2.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (53.85%) ETL
2 145 (50.70%) Data Engineering
3 125 (43.71%) Data Pipeline
4 109 (38.11%) Analytics
5 107 (37.41%) Business Intelligence
6 100 (34.97%) Data Modelling
7 80 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
8 62 (21.68%) Agile
9 57 (19.93%) Visualisation
10 55 (19.23%) Mentoring
11 51 (17.83%) CI/CD
12 45 (15.73%) Data Science
13 43 (15.03%) Software Engineering
14 42 (14.69%) Data Architecture
14 42 (14.69%) DevOps
15 38 (13.29%) Data Security
16 33 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
16 33 (11.54%) Decision-Making
17 32 (11.19%) Data Analysis
17 32 (11.19%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 203 (70.98%) SQL
2 169 (59.09%) Python
3 33 (11.54%) C#
4 31 (10.84%) Java
5 15 (5.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 15 (5.24%) Scala
6 14 (4.90%) T-SQL
7 8 (2.80%) PowerShell
7 8 (2.80%) R
8 7 (2.45%) C++
9 6 (2.10%) JavaScript
10 3 (1.05%) Bash
10 3 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.70%) PROC SQL
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 42 (14.69%) Degree
2 20 (6.99%) Azure Certification
3 10 (3.50%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (3.15%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.45%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.10%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.40%) 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%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.35%) CISSP
10 1 (0.35%) HNC
10 1 (0.35%) HND
10 1 (0.35%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (25.17%) Data Quality
2 16 (5.59%) GDPR
3 14 (4.90%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.75%) 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 (4.55%) Docker
2 11 (3.85%) HDFS
3 2 (0.70%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.85%) Terraform
3 2 (0.70%) Ansible
3 2 (0.70%) Hadoop YARN
3 2 (0.70%) Kibana
3 2 (0.70%) logstash
3 2 (0.70%) Oozie
Vendors
1 88 (30.77%) Databricks
2 51 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.94%) Oracle
4 15 (5.24%) Google
4 15 (5.24%) Informatica
5 9 (3.15%) PayPal
5 9 (3.15%) SAP
6 6 (2.10%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.75%) Cloudera
7 5 (1.75%) Palantir
7 5 (1.75%) Talend
8 3 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
8 3 (1.05%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.70%) Dataiku
9 2 (0.70%) MapR
9 2 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (0.70%) Splunk
9 2 (0.70%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.35%) SnapLogic