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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 168 186
Rank change year-on-year -30 +18 +63
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 627 1,263 1,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.56% 1.61% 1.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.69% 1.98% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 229 497 405
10th Percentile £43,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,367 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £77,715
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £87,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 37,082 63,718 53,459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.07% 81.20% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 17,970 43,312 28,496
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.54% +1.33%

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 8 June 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 8 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 -52 281 £66,250 +12.77% 195
North West -65 227 £63,750 +15.91% 80
South East +72 176 £70,000 +3.70% 368
Midlands -58 49 £59,000 +2.61% 88
Yorkshire +14 46 £68,750 +5.66% 74
Scotland +40 39 £55,000 -21.43% 72
South West +6 38 £95,000 +26.18% 60
East of England +25 36 £50,000 -33.33% 39
West Midlands -28 30 £57,500 -3.04% 48
East Midlands -12 19 £65,000 +44.44% 35
North East -10 8 £51,125 -31.83% 41
Wales +37 7 £80,000 -17.95% 17
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 14
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 36 (5.74%) Apache Spark
2 32 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 26 (4.15%) IBM Domino
4 24 (3.83%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (2.39%) Apache
6 6 (0.96%) Confluence
7 2 (0.32%) Luigi
7 2 (0.32%) SAS
8 1 (0.16%) Appian
Applications
1 11 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.16%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 421 (67.15%) Azure
2 337 (53.75%) AWS
3 264 (42.11%) GCP
4 99 (15.79%) Power Platform
5 84 (13.40%) Snowflake
6 57 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (7.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 38 (6.06%) Power Automate
9 33 (5.26%) PowerApps
10 22 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
11 18 (2.87%) Amazon S3
12 15 (2.39%) Azure API Management
12 15 (2.39%) Vertex AI
13 14 (2.23%) Serverless
14 13 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.07%) GitHub
15 11 (1.75%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (1.75%) Datadog
16 9 (1.44%) Cloud Composer
16 9 (1.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.64%) 5G
1 4 (0.64%) Broadband
2 2 (0.32%) ADSL2
2 2 (0.32%) Internet
3 1 (0.16%) Firewall
3 1 (0.16%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (23.44%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (15.79%) Power BI
3 88 (14.04%) Data Lake
4 68 (10.85%) Big Data
5 48 (7.66%) Tableau
6 39 (6.22%) NoSQL
7 36 (5.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 33 (5.26%) Metadata
9 32 (5.10%) SQL Server
10 30 (4.78%) Data Mining
11 25 (3.99%) BigQuery
12 21 (3.35%) Azure SQL Database
13 20 (3.19%) Relational Database
14 19 (3.03%) Hadoop
15 17 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (2.55%) Amazon Redshift
17 11 (1.75%) MongoDB
17 11 (1.75%) MySQL
18 10 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 10 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (2.23%) Git
2 11 (1.75%) JIRA
3 7 (1.12%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
5 3 (0.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.32%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.16%) ERwin
7 1 (0.16%) GitLab
7 1 (0.16%) MLflow
7 1 (0.16%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.16%) Selenium
7 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.16%) Toad
7 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.16%) Vite
General
1 194 (30.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 152 (24.24%) Social Skills
3 118 (18.82%) Finance
3 118 (18.82%) Law
4 91 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (7.34%) Retail
6 43 (6.86%) Banking
7 19 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.39%) Public Sector
9 13 (2.07%) Marketing
10 11 (1.75%) Legal
11 10 (1.59%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (0.96%) Automotive
13 6 (0.96%) Private Banking
14 5 (0.80%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.64%) Back Office
16 3 (0.48%) Front Office
17 2 (0.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 294 (46.89%) Senior
2 210 (33.49%) Software Engineer
3 178 (28.39%) Senior Software Engineer
4 154 (24.56%) Lead
5 142 (22.65%) Data Engineer
6 54 (8.61%) Senior Data Engineer
7 25 (3.99%) Data Manager
8 20 (3.19%) Lead Data Engineer
9 19 (3.03%) Architect
10 17 (2.71%) Developer
10 17 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (2.71%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 17 (2.71%) Python Engineer
11 16 (2.55%) Lead Software Engineer
12 14 (2.23%) Data Architect
12 14 (2.23%) Data Scientist
13 11 (1.75%) Engineering Manager
13 11 (1.75%) Python Data Engineer
14 9 (1.44%) Analyst
14 9 (1.44%) Data Analytics Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (30.94%) .NET
2 177 (28.23%) Node.js
3 40 (6.38%) Kafka
4 33 (5.26%) PySpark
5 17 (2.71%) React
6 12 (1.91%) Middleware
6 12 (1.91%) NumPy
6 12 (1.91%) PyTorch
7 11 (1.75%) scikit-learn
7 11 (1.75%) TensorFlow
8 10 (1.59%) AngularJS
8 10 (1.59%) RESTful
9 9 (1.44%) Keras
9 9 (1.44%) Spring
10 8 (1.28%) REST
11 6 (0.96%) GraphQL
11 6 (0.96%) PyArrow
11 6 (0.96%) Spring Boot
12 5 (0.80%) HTML
12 5 (0.80%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 174 (27.75%) Self-Motivation
2 172 (27.43%) Cyberattack
2 172 (27.43%) Linux Command Line
3 49 (7.81%) Algorithms
4 33 (5.26%) Cloud Native
5 26 (4.15%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.71%) Management Information System
7 14 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.44%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.80%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.64%) Clustering
12 3 (0.48%) AS400
12 3 (0.48%) Derivative
13 2 (0.32%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.32%) IoT
13 2 (0.32%) Legacy Code
13 2 (0.32%) Life Science
14 1 (0.16%) Data Fabric
14 1 (0.16%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 180 (28.71%) Linux
2 9 (1.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (50.24%) Agile
2 273 (43.54%) Mentoring
3 270 (43.06%) Machine Learning
4 263 (41.95%) Software Engineering
5 233 (37.16%) Analytics
6 193 (30.78%) Scrum
7 188 (29.98%) Microservices
8 184 (29.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 183 (29.19%) User Experience
10 175 (27.91%) Cloud Security
11 149 (23.76%) Data Modelling
12 148 (23.60%) Business Intelligence
13 146 (23.29%) ETL
14 140 (22.33%) Data Science
15 137 (21.85%) Data Pipeline
16 114 (18.18%) DevOps
17 109 (17.38%) Data Management
18 107 (17.07%) Data Governance
19 103 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
20 101 (16.11%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 405 (64.59%) Python
2 258 (41.15%) SQL
3 232 (37.00%) Java
4 179 (28.55%) JavaScript
5 178 (28.39%) C++
6 172 (27.43%) Go
6 172 (27.43%) Rust
7 40 (6.38%) C#
8 36 (5.74%) T-SQL
9 19 (3.03%) R
10 13 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 12 (1.91%) Scala
12 7 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 7 (1.12%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.80%) Bash
14 2 (0.32%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.32%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.16%) C
15 1 (0.16%) PHP
15 1 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 188 (29.98%) AWS Certification
2 179 (28.55%) Security Cleared
3 176 (28.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 172 (27.43%) AWS Certified Developer
4 172 (27.43%) DV Cleared
5 115 (18.34%) Degree
6 19 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 19 (3.03%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (1.44%) PhD
9 7 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (0.80%) SC Cleared
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.16%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (18.98%) Data Quality
2 41 (6.54%) Accessibility
3 38 (6.06%) QA
4 24 (3.83%) GDPR
5 9 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.80%) NIST
7 2 (0.32%) Dublin Core
8 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.16%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (4.78%) Docker
2 8 (1.28%) HDFS
3 1 (0.16%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.23%) Terraform
3 7 (1.12%) Grafana
4 6 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.16%) Kibana
5 1 (0.16%) logstash
5 1 (0.16%) Oozie
5 1 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 105 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 96 (15.31%) Databricks
3 48 (7.66%) Google
4 26 (4.15%) ServiceNow
5 21 (3.35%) Informatica
6 19 (3.03%) Oracle
7 15 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.96%) Red Hat
9 5 (0.80%) Palantir
10 4 (0.64%) SAP
10 4 (0.64%) Splunk
10 4 (0.64%) StreamSets
10 4 (0.64%) Talend
11 3 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.48%) IFS
11 3 (0.48%) MicroStrategy
12 1 (0.16%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.16%) DataCore
12 1 (0.16%) Foundry
12 1 (0.16%) RedGate