Data Engineer
UK

The median Data Engineer salary in the UK is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 152 185 196
Rank change year-on-year +33 +11 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,194 2,623 2,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.21% 2.08% 2.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.31% 2.19% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 928 1,859 1,895
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,840 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.49% +10.62% +4.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,668 119,945 122,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 95.32% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 37,837 75,409 83,805
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK

Data Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the UK

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 29 November 2023.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the UK

Data Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 November 2023. 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
England +37 1,134 £70,000 - 493
Work from Home +39 604 £70,000 - 299
London +23 568 £80,000 +3.23% 269
UK excluding London +20 552 £57,500 -5.49% 276
North of England +41 186 £55,000 -18.52% 84
North West +74 122 £50,000 -18.70% 50
South West +47 114 £75,000 +36.36% 31
South East +43 94 £61,750 -5.00% 73
Midlands +26 87 £53,500 -10.83% 32
West Midlands +25 51 £56,750 -7.72% 16
Yorkshire +17 45 £57,500 -20.69% 17
East Midlands +28 36 £50,000 -16.67% 16
East of England +106 30 £71,250 +3.26% 20
Scotland +24 26 £47,557 -20.74% 15
North East +36 19 £55,000 -31.25% 17
Wales -5 15 £46,060 -19.28% 20

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 29 November 2023, 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 featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 781 (65.41%) SQL
2 731 (61.22%) Python
3 586 (49.08%) ETL
4 555 (46.48%) Azure
5 441 (36.93%) Data Engineering
6 434 (36.35%) AWS
7 415 (34.76%) Data Pipeline
8 414 (34.67%) Analytics
9 350 (29.31%) Data Modelling
10 332 (27.81%) Data Warehouse
11 327 (27.39%) Business Intelligence
12 270 (22.61%) Finance
12 270 (22.61%) Agile
13 263 (22.03%) Social Skills
14 259 (21.69%) Data Science
15 250 (20.94%) Databricks
16 245 (20.52%) DevOps
17 243 (20.35%) Power Platform
18 242 (20.27%) Power BI
18 242 (20.27%) GCP
19 229 (19.18%) Azure Data Factory
20 216 (18.09%) Data Lake
21 195 (16.33%) CI/CD
22 187 (15.66%) Big Data
23 179 (14.99%) Machine Learning
24 171 (14.32%) Visualisation
25 161 (13.48%) SQL Server
26 160 (13.40%) Degree
27 153 (12.81%) Data Quality
27 153 (12.81%) Snowflake

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 152 (12.73%) Apache Spark
2 139 (11.64%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (7.62%) Apache
4 30 (2.51%) Jupyter
5 13 (1.09%) SharePoint
6 12 (1.01%) Confluence
6 12 (1.01%) nginx
7 10 (0.84%) SAS
8 8 (0.67%) Luigi
9 6 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.42%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.17%) IIS
12 1 (0.084%) CMS
Applications
1 24 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
1 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 555 (46.48%) Azure
2 434 (36.35%) AWS
3 243 (20.35%) Power Platform
4 242 (20.27%) GCP
5 229 (19.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 153 (12.81%) Snowflake
7 122 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 83 (6.95%) Serverless
9 79 (6.62%) Amazon S3
10 74 (6.20%) Azure DevOps
11 73 (6.11%) dbt
12 60 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (3.60%) GitHub
14 32 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
15 27 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 25 (2.09%) OpenShift
17 22 (1.84%) Amazon EMR
18 18 (1.51%) Azure Stack
18 18 (1.51%) GitHub Actions
19 16 (1.34%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 11 (0.92%) Network Security
2 6 (0.50%) Firewall
2 6 (0.50%) WAN
3 5 (0.42%) DNS
3 5 (0.42%) SMS
4 4 (0.34%) BGP
4 4 (0.34%) OSPF
4 4 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 3 (0.25%) DHCP
5 3 (0.25%) FTP
5 3 (0.25%) SD-WAN
5 3 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.25%) Wireless
6 2 (0.17%) Internet
6 2 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
6 2 (0.17%) MPLS
6 2 (0.17%) RIP
6 2 (0.17%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.17%) VPN
7 1 (0.084%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 332 (27.81%) Data Warehouse
2 242 (20.27%) Power BI
3 216 (18.09%) Data Lake
4 187 (15.66%) Big Data
5 161 (13.48%) SQL Server
6 114 (9.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 101 (8.46%) Hadoop
7 101 (8.46%) NoSQL
8 100 (8.38%) Tableau
9 93 (7.79%) BigQuery
10 92 (7.71%) Amazon Redshift
11 72 (6.03%) Relational Database
12 59 (4.94%) Azure SQL Database
13 57 (4.77%) Delta Lake
14 54 (4.52%) Apache Hive
15 48 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
16 47 (3.94%) Presto
17 46 (3.85%) Metadata
18 44 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
19 34 (2.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 54 (4.52%) Git
2 46 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.51%) JIRA
4 12 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 12 (1.01%) Visual Studio
5 10 (0.84%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (0.67%) ERwin
6 8 (0.67%) GitLab
6 8 (0.67%) Spinnaker
7 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.34%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.34%) CircleCI
8 4 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.25%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.25%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) Eclipse
11 1 (0.084%) Maven
11 1 (0.084%) PEAR
11 1 (0.084%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.084%) TeamCity
General
1 270 (22.61%) Finance
2 263 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 133 (11.14%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (7.45%) Banking
5 57 (4.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (3.35%) Public Sector
7 36 (3.02%) Marketing
8 21 (1.76%) Front Office
9 19 (1.59%) Investment Banking
9 19 (1.59%) Retail
10 17 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 16 (1.34%) Law
12 13 (1.09%) Advertising
13 11 (0.92%) Legal
14 10 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.75%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.75%) Manufacturing
16 8 (0.67%) Games
16 8 (0.67%) Tech for Good
17 7 (0.59%) Agriculture
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (10.55%) PySpark
2 82 (6.87%) Kafka
3 70 (5.86%) Pandas
4 36 (3.02%) NumPy
5 34 (2.85%) .NET
6 31 (2.60%) HTML
7 29 (2.43%) JSON
8 20 (1.68%) Apache Beam
9 18 (1.51%) XML
9 18 (1.51%) YAML
10 17 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
10 17 (1.42%) gRPC
10 17 (1.42%) Protocol Buffers
10 17 (1.42%) RESTful
10 17 (1.42%) SciPy
11 15 (1.26%) scikit-learn
12 14 (1.17%) PyTorch
13 13 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (1.01%) Flask
14 12 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 82 (6.87%) Algorithms
2 68 (5.70%) Data Structures
3 53 (4.44%) Replication
4 45 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
5 37 (3.10%) Cloud Native
6 28 (2.35%) Cyberattack
7 25 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (2.09%) Public Cloud
8 23 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.76%) Hedge funds
9 21 (1.76%) Product Ownership
10 17 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
13 14 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (1.17%) Management Information System
13 14 (1.17%) Reinsurance
14 11 (0.92%) Data Fabric
14 11 (0.92%) Equities
15 10 (0.84%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.19%) Linux
2 13 (1.09%) Windows
3 9 (0.75%) Ubuntu
4 6 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (0.50%) Unix
5 3 (0.25%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 586 (49.08%) ETL
2 441 (36.93%) Data Engineering
3 415 (34.76%) Data Pipeline
4 414 (34.67%) Analytics
5 350 (29.31%) Data Modelling
6 327 (27.39%) Business Intelligence
7 270 (22.61%) Agile
8 259 (21.69%) Data Science
9 245 (20.52%) DevOps
10 195 (16.33%) CI/CD
11 179 (14.99%) Machine Learning
12 171 (14.32%) Visualisation
13 150 (12.56%) Software Engineering
14 132 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
15 128 (10.72%) Data Integration
16 123 (10.30%) Computer Science
17 120 (10.05%) Data Analysis
18 108 (9.05%) Mentoring
19 103 (8.63%) Data Management
20 101 (8.46%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 781 (65.41%) SQL
2 731 (61.22%) Python
3 138 (11.56%) Java
4 92 (7.71%) T-SQL
5 84 (7.04%) Scala
6 75 (6.28%) C#
7 62 (5.19%) JavaScript
8 56 (4.69%) PL/SQL
8 56 (4.69%) R
9 40 (3.35%) Bash
10 29 (2.43%) PowerShell
11 26 (2.18%) C++
12 25 (2.09%) TypeScript
13 22 (1.84%) Go
14 21 (1.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 19 (1.59%) Ruby
15 19 (1.59%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.75%) Rust
16 9 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
16 9 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (13.40%) Degree
2 94 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 81 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 48 (4.02%) DV Cleared
5 44 (3.69%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 26 (2.18%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (0.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 9 (0.75%) CCSP
10 9 (0.75%) CISSP
11 5 (0.42%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.25%) CCNP
12 3 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.17%) HND
13 2 (0.17%) MCSA
13 2 (0.17%) PhD
13 2 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 21 (1.76%) QA
3 8 (0.67%) GDPR
4 6 (0.50%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.25%) GMP
6 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.17%) SLA
7 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
System Software
1 122 (10.22%) Docker
2 7 (0.59%) HDFS
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 128 (10.72%) Kubernetes
2 114 (9.55%) Terraform
3 26 (2.18%) Ansible
4 14 (1.17%) Grafana
4 14 (1.17%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.01%) HAProxy
6 6 (0.50%) Oozie
7 2 (0.17%) Kibana
8 1 (0.084%) Argo
8 1 (0.084%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.084%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.084%) logstash
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (0.084%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.084%) Puppet
8 1 (0.084%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 250 (20.94%) Databricks
2 129 (10.80%) Microsoft
3 77 (6.45%) Google
4 45 (3.77%) Oracle
5 31 (2.60%) SAP
6 26 (2.18%) Informatica
7 25 (2.09%) Talend
8 17 (1.42%) Alteryx
9 15 (1.26%) Splunk
10 10 (0.84%) New Relic
11 9 (0.75%) AppDynamics
11 9 (0.75%) Atlassian
11 9 (0.75%) Teradata
12 8 (0.67%) Dataiku
12 8 (0.67%) YouTube
13 7 (0.59%) Adobe
13 7 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.50%) Red Hat
15 5 (0.42%) Cloudera
15 5 (0.42%) Hyperion