Data Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 230 194 144
Rank change year-on-year -36 -50 +109
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 421 1,048 1,475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.14% 1.49% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.77% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 263 502 461
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £61,180
Median % change year-on-year - +6.24% -5.88%
75th Percentile £83,750 £79,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £90,822 £85,000
UK median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -

All Process and 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 33,997 59,372 58,706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.31% 84.44% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 17,723 41,125 30,120
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 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
South East +74 160 £70,000 +3.70% 202
North of England -57 111 £62,500 +4.17% 103
Yorkshire +40 55 £62,500 -3.94% 36
Midlands -22 54 £57,500 - 51
North West -84 46 £67,500 +22.73% 55
West Midlands -17 35 £50,000 -18.85% 29
South West -3 34 £98,420 +31.23% 48
Scotland +46 28 £57,500 -17.86% 29
East of England +34 27 £50,000 -28.57% 32
East Midlands +9 19 £65,000 +52.94% 19
North East +7 10 £52,500 -30.00% 12
Wales +33 7 £80,000 -17.95% 7
Northern Ireland +27 1 - - 10
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 33 (7.84%) SharePoint
2 32 (7.60%) Apache Spark
3 30 (7.13%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (4.04%) Apache
5 6 (1.43%) Confluence
6 4 (0.95%) Luigi
7 2 (0.48%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.48%) SAS
8 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 235 (55.82%) Azure
2 149 (35.39%) AWS
3 97 (23.04%) Power Platform
4 80 (19.00%) GCP
5 69 (16.39%) Snowflake
6 60 (14.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 48 (11.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 39 (9.26%) Power Automate
9 34 (8.08%) PowerApps
10 24 (5.70%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (3.80%) Vertex AI
12 13 (3.09%) Azure API Management
12 13 (3.09%) GitHub
13 12 (2.85%) Amazon S3
13 12 (2.85%) Amazon SageMaker
14 10 (2.38%) dbt
15 9 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
15 9 (2.14%) OpenShift
15 9 (2.14%) Serverless
16 8 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.28%) Firewall
2 4 (0.95%) 5G
2 4 (0.95%) Broadband
3 3 (0.71%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) DNS
4 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (25.65%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (22.57%) Power BI
3 79 (18.76%) Data Lake
4 60 (14.25%) Big Data
5 49 (11.64%) Tableau
6 30 (7.13%) Metadata
7 27 (6.41%) Data Mining
7 27 (6.41%) NoSQL
8 26 (6.18%) BigQuery
8 26 (6.18%) SQL Server
9 23 (5.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 20 (4.75%) Relational Database
11 17 (4.04%) Hadoop
12 15 (3.56%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 10 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
15 10 (2.38%) Delta Lake
15 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 9 (2.14%) Apache Hudi
Development Applications
1 9 (2.14%) Bitbucket
1 9 (2.14%) JIRA
2 8 (1.90%) Git
3 6 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.24%) ERwin
6 1 (0.24%) Gradle
6 1 (0.24%) JUnit
6 1 (0.24%) Maven
6 1 (0.24%) MLflow
6 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.24%) Selenium
6 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.24%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.24%) TestNG
6 1 (0.24%) Toad
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 125 (29.69%) Social Skills
2 114 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
3 112 (26.60%) Finance
4 103 (24.47%) Law
5 54 (12.83%) Banking
6 40 (9.50%) Retail
7 23 (5.46%) Legal
8 21 (4.99%) Manufacturing
9 18 (4.28%) Marketing
10 14 (3.33%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.38%) Retail Banking
12 9 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.43%) Automotive
15 5 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.19%) Investment Banking
16 4 (0.95%) Back Office
16 4 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
17 3 (0.71%) Telecoms
18 2 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 142 (33.73%) Data Engineer
2 135 (32.07%) Lead
3 120 (28.50%) Senior
4 59 (14.01%) Senior Data Engineer
5 26 (6.18%) Data Manager
6 23 (5.46%) Lead Data Engineer
6 23 (5.46%) Software Engineer
7 22 (5.23%) Architect
7 22 (5.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (4.75%) Data Scientist
9 19 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
9 19 (4.51%) Security Engineer
10 18 (4.28%) Graduate
11 16 (3.80%) Cloud Security Engineer
11 16 (3.80%) Data Science Graduate
12 15 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
12 15 (3.56%) Data Architect
13 14 (3.33%) Developer
14 12 (2.85%) Engineering Manager
15 11 (2.61%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (9.50%) PySpark
2 31 (7.36%) Kafka
3 20 (4.75%) .NET
4 16 (3.80%) NumPy
5 12 (2.85%) PyTorch
5 12 (2.85%) TensorFlow
6 10 (2.38%) Pandas
6 10 (2.38%) scikit-learn
7 9 (2.14%) Keras
7 9 (2.14%) Middleware
7 9 (2.14%) PyArrow
8 8 (1.90%) REST
9 6 (1.43%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.43%) React
9 6 (1.43%) RESTful
10 4 (0.95%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.95%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.95%) Dask
10 4 (0.95%) Polars
11 3 (0.71%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 62 (14.73%) Algorithms
2 25 (5.94%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.28%) Cloud Security Posture
3 18 (4.28%) Credit Risk
3 18 (4.28%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.80%) Learning Management System
5 14 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 13 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 12 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
8 11 (2.61%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.66%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.95%) Clustering
10 4 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.95%) Life Science
11 3 (0.71%) AS400
11 3 (0.71%) NHS
12 2 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.48%) Data Fabric
13 1 (0.24%) Legacy Code
13 1 (0.24%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.61%) Unix
2 10 (2.38%) Linux
3 3 (0.71%) Ubuntu
3 3 (0.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (57.01%) Analytics
2 154 (36.58%) Data Science
3 144 (34.20%) Business Intelligence
4 142 (33.73%) Data Pipeline
5 126 (29.93%) Agile
6 123 (29.22%) ETL
7 122 (28.98%) DevOps
8 119 (28.27%) Data Modelling
9 112 (26.60%) Machine Learning
10 109 (25.89%) Artificial Intelligence
11 105 (24.94%) Mentoring
11 105 (24.94%) Problem-Solving
12 102 (24.23%) Visualisation
13 94 (22.33%) Data Governance
13 94 (22.33%) Data Management
14 89 (21.14%) Data Architecture
15 87 (20.67%) Software Engineering
16 76 (18.05%) Roadmaps
17 74 (17.58%) CI/CD
18 73 (17.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 216 (51.31%) SQL
2 215 (51.07%) Python
3 56 (13.30%) Java
4 38 (9.03%) C#
5 30 (7.13%) R
6 19 (4.51%) Scala
7 16 (3.80%) T-SQL
8 13 (3.09%) C++
9 12 (2.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 11 (2.61%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.19%) Bash
11 5 (1.19%) JavaScript
12 3 (0.71%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.48%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.24%) Go
14 1 (0.24%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.24%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 134 (31.83%) Degree
2 30 (7.13%) Master's Degree
3 25 (5.94%) AWS Certification
3 25 (5.94%) PhD
4 18 (4.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 14 (3.33%) Azure Certification
6 11 (2.61%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.14%) SC Cleared
8 6 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (27.79%) Data Quality
2 41 (9.74%) Accessibility
3 31 (7.36%) QA
4 15 (3.56%) GDPR
5 3 (0.71%) NIST
6 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.48%) Dublin Core
7 1 (0.24%) Basel III
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS
7 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (6.65%) Docker
2 10 (2.38%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 33 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.75%) Terraform
3 6 (1.43%) Grafana
3 6 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.24%) Packer
4 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 112 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 92 (21.85%) Databricks
3 41 (9.74%) Google
4 26 (6.18%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.80%) Informatica
6 15 (3.56%) OpenAI
7 12 (2.85%) Red Hat
8 8 (1.90%) Oracle
9 5 (1.19%) Atlassian
10 4 (0.95%) Palantir
11 3 (0.71%) Splunk
12 2 (0.48%) Cloudera
12 2 (0.48%) SAP
12 2 (0.48%) StreamSets
12 2 (0.48%) Talend
13 1 (0.24%) Cribl.io
13 1 (0.24%) Foundry
13 1 (0.24%) Hitachi
13 1 (0.24%) IBM
13 1 (0.24%) MicroStrategy