Data Engineering Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 224 193 181
Rank change year-on-year -31 -12 -56
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 436 403 960
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.82% 1.46% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 1.58% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 295 279 469
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% +4.10%
75th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,184 25,459 50,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 75.18% 92.14% 85.72%
Number of salaries quoted 23,968 13,634 37,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.78%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Engineering

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 16 March 2026.

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 16 March 2026. 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 -65 109 £75,000 +25.00% 99
South East -9 103 £67,500 -3.57% 127
Midlands +11 87 £65,000 +20.93% 49
West Midlands +26 66 £60,000 +33.33% 36
North West -23 52 £77,500 +19.23% 44
East of England +25 50 £59,450 -8.54% 19
Yorkshire -58 50 £70,000 +16.67% 44
Scotland +2 48 £85,000 +47.83% 19
South West -40 33 £55,000 -31.25% 41
East Midlands -38 19 £75,000 +22.45% 13
North East -31 7 £65,000 +13.04% 12
Wales -19 6 £65,000 -18.75% 9
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (9.63%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (6.88%) Apache Spark
3 18 (4.13%) SAS
4 17 (3.90%) Apache
5 6 (1.38%) Moodle
6 3 (0.69%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.46%) Confluence
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.23%) Camunda
8 1 (0.23%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 14 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.46%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.23%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 209 (47.94%) Azure
2 115 (26.38%) AWS
3 88 (20.18%) Snowflake
4 85 (19.50%) Power Platform
5 67 (15.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 42 (9.63%) GCP
7 32 (7.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 29 (6.65%) dbt
9 28 (6.42%) SaaS
10 21 (4.82%) Amazon S3
11 17 (3.90%) GitHub
12 14 (3.21%) Serverless
13 13 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (1.61%) Amazon SageMaker
16 7 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
16 7 (1.61%) Matillion
16 7 (1.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.15%) Broadband
2 2 (0.46%) DAB
3 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (27.06%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (18.81%) Power BI
3 70 (16.06%) Data Lake
4 40 (9.17%) Metadata
5 38 (8.72%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.82%) Tableau
7 20 (4.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (4.13%) MongoDB
9 17 (3.90%) Delta Lake
10 16 (3.67%) Star Schema
11 15 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (3.44%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.44%) Spark SQL
11 15 (3.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 13 (2.98%) Pentaho
13 12 (2.75%) Big Data
14 11 (2.52%) Looker
14 11 (2.52%) Relational Database
15 10 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
15 10 (2.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (4.59%) Git
2 5 (1.15%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (1.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.15%) JIRA
3 4 (0.92%) GitLab
3 4 (0.92%) MLflow
4 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.23%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.23%) JMeter
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (22.48%) Finance
2 61 (13.99%) Social Skills
3 53 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.05%) Retail
6 18 (4.13%) Law
7 17 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (2.98%) Banking
9 11 (2.52%) Legal
10 8 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.61%) Automotive
11 7 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.61%) Marketing
12 6 (1.38%) Games
13 5 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.15%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.69%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.46%) Advertising
15 2 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 203 (46.56%) Data Engineer
2 74 (16.97%) Senior
3 64 (14.68%) Lead
4 61 (13.99%) Architect
5 58 (13.30%) Data Architect
6 56 (12.84%) Senior Data Engineer
7 36 (8.26%) Lead Data Engineer
8 28 (6.42%) Data Manager
9 13 (2.98%) Principal Engineer
10 12 (2.75%) Azure Data Engineer
10 12 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (2.75%) Consultant
10 12 (2.75%) Engineering Manager
11 11 (2.52%) Principal Data Engineer
12 10 (2.29%) Analyst
12 10 (2.29%) Team Leader
13 9 (2.06%) Developer
14 8 (1.83%) AWS Engineer
14 8 (1.83%) Head of Engineering
14 8 (1.83%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.07%) PySpark
2 17 (3.90%) Kafka
3 7 (1.61%) .NET
3 7 (1.61%) JSON
3 7 (1.61%) PyTorch
3 7 (1.61%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.15%) LangChain
5 4 (0.92%) REST
5 4 (0.92%) scikit-learn
6 3 (0.69%) LlamaIndex
6 3 (0.69%) Node.js
6 3 (0.69%) pgvector
6 3 (0.69%) React
6 3 (0.69%) XML
7 2 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (0.46%) Keras
7 2 (0.46%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.23%) GeoPandas
8 1 (0.23%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.23%) Snowpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.96%) Cloud Native
2 13 (2.98%) Data Structures
3 11 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (2.29%) Low-Code
5 9 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.61%) e-Learning
6 7 (1.61%) NHS
7 6 (1.38%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.15%) AI Agents
8 5 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.15%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.92%) Algorithms
9 4 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.69%) Clustering
10 3 (0.69%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (49.31%) Analytics
2 168 (38.53%) Data Pipeline
3 165 (37.84%) Data Modelling
4 154 (35.32%) ETL
5 117 (26.83%) Agile
6 111 (25.46%) Business Intelligence
7 105 (24.08%) Data Architecture
8 100 (22.94%) Data Governance
9 98 (22.48%) AI
10 95 (21.79%) Data Integration
11 84 (19.27%) Mentoring
12 74 (16.97%) CI/CD
13 71 (16.28%) Decision-Making
13 71 (16.28%) DevOps
14 68 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 68 (15.60%) Data Management
14 68 (15.60%) Machine Learning
15 59 (13.53%) Data Science
15 59 (13.53%) Problem-Solving
16 53 (12.16%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 221 (50.69%) SQL
2 197 (45.18%) Python
3 22 (5.05%) T-SQL
4 21 (4.82%) Java
5 18 (4.13%) Scala
6 15 (3.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.29%) C#
7 10 (2.29%) R
8 7 (1.61%) Bash
8 7 (1.61%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.15%) C++
9 5 (1.15%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.15%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.92%) Go
11 2 (0.46%) Groovy
11 2 (0.46%) Julia
11 2 (0.46%) VBA
12 1 (0.23%) ANSI SQL
12 1 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (6.19%) Degree
2 26 (5.96%) Security Cleared
3 17 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (2.75%) SC Cleared
5 11 (2.52%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.29%) DBS Check
7 8 (1.83%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.83%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.15%) CRISC
8 5 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.69%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 1 (0.23%) CISSP
12 1 (0.23%) MCSE
12 1 (0.23%) OCP
12 1 (0.23%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (26.15%) Data Quality
2 39 (8.94%) Accessibility
3 25 (5.73%) GDPR
4 10 (2.29%) HIPAA
5 9 (2.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 7 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.61%) QA
7 6 (1.38%) NIST
8 5 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
9 1 (0.23%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (3.21%) Docker
2 1 (0.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 22 (5.05%) Terraform
2 16 (3.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.46%) Control-M
3 2 (0.46%) Grafana
4 1 (0.23%) Ansible
4 1 (0.23%) Argo
4 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 128 (29.36%) Databricks
2 118 (27.06%) Microsoft
3 24 (5.50%) Informatica
4 21 (4.82%) Oracle
5 16 (3.67%) Google
5 16 (3.67%) Talend
6 9 (2.06%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.83%) Dell
8 7 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 6 (1.38%) MuleSoft
10 5 (1.15%) Netezza
10 5 (1.15%) Palantir
10 5 (1.15%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.92%) Denodo
12 3 (0.69%) Cognos
12 3 (0.69%) Confluent
12 3 (0.69%) IBM
12 3 (0.69%) MicroStrategy
12 3 (0.69%) Teradata
13 2 (0.46%) BMC