Data Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 132 247
Rank change year-on-year -60 +115 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,044 1,583 1,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.49% 2.56% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 2.68% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 496 458 530
10th Percentile £37,500 £39,863 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £61,180 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.24% -5.88% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,938 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,230 59,150 66,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.47% 95.64% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 41,096 30,337 41,441
10th Percentile £27,234 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 -51 322 £60,000 - 41
South East +41 201 £67,500 -3.57% 31
North West -53 176 £55,000 +2.33% 27
Midlands -64 162 £57,500 +1.32% 24
South West -25 158 £75,000 +14.50% 14
Scotland -42 119 £70,000 +3.70% 11
West Midlands -63 102 £60,016 +4.38% 14
Yorkshire -28 94 £65,066 +0.10% 6
East Midlands -12 59 £42,500 -22.73% 10
North East +22 52 £75,000 +11.11% 8
East of England -40 51 £70,000 +21.74% 11
Wales -1 22 £97,500 +118.29% 7
Northern Ireland +26 9 £55,000 - 5
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 92 (8.81%) Apache Spark
2 39 (3.74%) Apache
3 30 (2.87%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.92%) Confluence
5 17 (1.63%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.63%) nginx
6 6 (0.57%) SAS
7 1 (0.096%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 461 (44.16%) Azure
2 447 (42.82%) GCP
3 360 (34.48%) AWS
4 165 (15.80%) Power Platform
5 105 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (9.20%) Snowflake
7 90 (8.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 55 (5.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 54 (5.17%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.93%) dbt
11 39 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (3.07%) Matillion
13 25 (2.39%) Serverless
14 19 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.82%) GitHub
15 18 (1.72%) Amazon Kinesis
16 17 (1.63%) MinIO
16 17 (1.63%) OpenShift
17 15 (1.44%) SaaS
18 13 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.29%) VoIP
2 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.096%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.096%) 5G
4 1 (0.096%) SMS
4 1 (0.096%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 386 (36.97%) Data Warehouse
2 374 (35.82%) BigQuery
3 341 (32.66%) Looker
4 165 (15.80%) Power BI
5 154 (14.75%) Data Lake
6 107 (10.25%) SQL Server
7 60 (5.75%) Big Data
7 60 (5.75%) Tableau
8 56 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 49 (4.69%) Relational Database
10 43 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 42 (4.02%) Hadoop
12 37 (3.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 37 (3.54%) Star Schema
13 31 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
14 28 (2.68%) Metadata
14 28 (2.68%) MySQL
15 24 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
16 21 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 20 (1.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 38 (3.64%) GitLab
3 24 (2.30%) JIRA
4 23 (2.20%) Git
5 17 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.48%) ERwin
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (0.48%) Spinnaker
7 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.096%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.096%) JUnit
9 1 (0.096%) Toad
General
1 399 (38.22%) Analytical Skills
2 206 (19.73%) Finance
3 152 (14.56%) Social Skills
4 106 (10.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.90%) Billing
6 68 (6.51%) Law
7 59 (5.65%) Marketing
8 57 (5.46%) Banking
9 45 (4.31%) Retail
10 31 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.30%) Games
12 23 (2.20%) Public Sector
13 18 (1.72%) Legal
14 16 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.48%) Electronics
16 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.48%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.38%) Agriculture
17 4 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 497 (47.61%) Data Engineer
2 159 (15.23%) Platform Engineer
2 159 (15.23%) Principal Engineer
3 158 (15.13%) Principal Data Engineer
4 141 (13.51%) Data Manager
5 136 (13.03%) Architect
6 132 (12.64%) Lead
7 126 (12.07%) Data Architect
8 122 (11.69%) Senior
9 117 (11.21%) Engineering Manager
10 65 (6.23%) Lead Data Engineer
11 63 (6.03%) Software Engineer
12 47 (4.50%) Senior Data Engineer
13 40 (3.83%) Azure Engineer
14 38 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (3.26%) Lead Software Engineer
16 31 (2.97%) Developer
17 29 (2.78%) Azure Data Engineer
18 28 (2.68%) Head of Engineering
19 27 (2.59%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (4.89%) PySpark
2 42 (4.02%) Kafka
3 33 (3.16%) React
4 24 (2.30%) AngularJS
4 24 (2.30%) Spring
5 20 (1.92%) TensorFlow
6 19 (1.82%) ActiveMQ
6 19 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
7 18 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (1.63%) YAML
9 14 (1.34%) Keras
9 14 (1.34%) NumPy
10 13 (1.25%) Apache Beam
10 13 (1.25%) JPA
10 13 (1.25%) REST
11 12 (1.15%) RESTful
11 12 (1.15%) Web Services
12 11 (1.05%) Spring Boot
12 11 (1.05%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 286 (27.39%) Self-Motivation
2 104 (9.96%) Product Ownership
3 56 (5.36%) Algorithms
4 50 (4.79%) Cloud Native
4 50 (4.79%) Data Structures
5 25 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.53%) Taxonomies
8 14 (1.34%) Reference Data
9 13 (1.25%) Client/Server
10 10 (0.96%) IoT
10 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
11 9 (0.86%) Onboarding
11 9 (0.86%) Online Games
12 8 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
13 7 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.57%) Enterprise Cloud
14 6 (0.57%) NHS
15 5 (0.48%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.59%) Linux
2 10 (0.96%) Windows
3 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.096%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (46.93%) Problem-Solving
2 486 (46.55%) Agile
3 454 (43.49%) ETL
4 420 (40.23%) Data Modelling
5 370 (35.44%) Mentoring
6 358 (34.29%) Platform Engineering
7 349 (33.43%) Data Pipeline
8 345 (33.05%) Analytics
8 345 (33.05%) Data Science
9 344 (32.95%) DevOps
10 217 (20.79%) CI/CD
11 209 (20.02%) Data Governance
12 205 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
13 191 (18.30%) Data Architecture
14 177 (16.95%) Data Integration
15 174 (16.67%) Machine Learning
16 173 (16.57%) DataOps
17 167 (16.00%) Change Management
18 153 (14.66%) Visualisation
19 116 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 346 (33.14%) SQL
2 304 (29.12%) Python
3 109 (10.44%) Java
4 46 (4.41%) T-SQL
5 41 (3.93%) Scala
6 22 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 20 (1.92%) Bash
8 18 (1.72%) C#
9 14 (1.34%) Go
9 14 (1.34%) MATLAB
10 9 (0.86%) Perl
10 9 (0.86%) R
11 8 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 7 (0.67%) Ruby
13 6 (0.57%) C
13 6 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.57%) VBA
14 5 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 102 (9.77%) Degree
2 58 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 41 (3.93%) DV Cleared
4 35 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (2.59%) DBS Check
6 22 (2.11%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.63%) SC Cleared
8 16 (1.53%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.57%) MBA
10 6 (0.57%) OCP
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.57%) PhD
11 4 (0.38%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 264 (25.29%) GDPR
3 90 (8.62%) QA
4 15 (1.44%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) COBIT
7 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.096%) NCSC
System Software
1 43 (4.12%) Docker
2 7 (0.67%) IAG
3 2 (0.19%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.096%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 50 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.69%) Terraform
3 19 (1.82%) Ansible
4 17 (1.63%) Grafana
4 17 (1.63%) HAProxy
4 17 (1.63%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.67%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.096%) Oozie
6 1 (0.096%) Podman
6 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.096%) Puppet
6 1 (0.096%) Rancher
Vendors
1 385 (36.88%) Google
2 121 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 102 (9.77%) Databricks
4 41 (3.93%) Oracle
5 18 (1.72%) Informatica
6 17 (1.63%) Teradata
7 7 (0.67%) Alteryx
7 7 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.67%) Snow
8 6 (0.57%) Dataiku
8 6 (0.57%) F5
8 6 (0.57%) SAP
9 5 (0.48%) Talend
10 4 (0.38%) IBM
11 3 (0.29%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.29%) Confluent
11 3 (0.29%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.096%) Dell
12 1 (0.096%) Splunk
12 1 (0.096%) StreamSets