Data Engineering Jobs

Data Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 172 158 154
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,090 1,777 1,949
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 1.72% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 2.08% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 506 920 1,091
10th Percentile £46,368 £43,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £58,000 £55,140 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £99,688 £90,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £105,000 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £65,400 £62,500
% change year-on-year +3.21% +4.64% -7.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 54,039 85,405 81,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 89.90% 82.58% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,455 58,267 52,492
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,862 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
Median % change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 July 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
England -3 1,020 £75,000 +7.14% 751
UK excluding London -20 666 £67,500 +3.21% 339
Work from Home +25 426 £76,250 +8.93% 392
London +28 386 £92,500 +8.82% 500
North of England -55 293 £67,500 +12.50% 85
North West -52 225 £57,500 - 48
South East +86 201 £67,500 - 126
Yorkshire +7 59 £70,000 +7.31% 27
Midlands -31 48 £65,000 +6.12% 43
Scotland +40 46 £57,500 -17.86% 28
South West +12 39 £70,000 -12.50% 38
East of England +28 34 £50,000 -33.33% 13
West Midlands -12 31 £60,000 -4.00% 29
East Midlands -10 17 £68,000 +43.16% 14
North East -18 9 £47,500 -36.67% 10
Wales +15 6 £69,000 -29.23% 4
Northern Ireland +35 1 - - 5

Data Engineering
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
1 118 (10.83%) Apache Spark
2 106 (9.72%) Apache Airflow
3 66 (6.06%) Apache
4 33 (3.03%) SharePoint
5 26 (2.39%) IBM Domino
6 7 (0.64%) Confluence
7 6 (0.55%) SAS
8 1 (0.092%) Appian
8 1 (0.092%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.092%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.092%) Luigi
8 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.18%) Trello
5 1 (0.092%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.092%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.092%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.092%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.092%) Raiser’s Edge
4 1 (0.092%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 646 (59.27%) Azure
2 555 (50.92%) AWS
3 362 (33.21%) GCP
4 173 (15.87%) Power Platform
5 143 (13.12%) Snowflake
6 120 (11.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 106 (9.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 88 (8.07%) dbt
9 87 (7.98%) Serverless
10 65 (5.96%) AWS Lambda
11 52 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
12 49 (4.50%) Amazon S3
13 46 (4.22%) Power Automate
14 41 (3.76%) GitHub
15 39 (3.58%) OpenShift
16 37 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
17 33 (3.03%) PowerApps
18 30 (2.75%) Vertex AI
19 23 (2.11%) SaaS
20 21 (1.93%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.37%) 5G
1 4 (0.37%) Broadband
2 3 (0.28%) PuTTY
3 2 (0.18%) ADSL2
3 2 (0.18%) Internet
3 2 (0.18%) VPN
4 1 (0.092%) DNS
4 1 (0.092%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.092%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (24.13%) Data Warehouse
2 172 (15.78%) Power BI
3 149 (13.67%) Data Lake
4 97 (8.90%) Big Data
5 82 (7.52%) NoSQL
6 72 (6.61%) Metadata
7 68 (6.24%) Tableau
8 65 (5.96%) Amazon Athena
9 60 (5.50%) SQL Server
10 52 (4.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 52 (4.77%) Hadoop
11 47 (4.31%) Apache Iceberg
12 46 (4.22%) Data Mining
13 45 (4.13%) BigQuery
14 43 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 42 (3.85%) Relational Database
16 41 (3.76%) Dremio
17 38 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
18 33 (3.03%) Apache Arrow
18 33 (3.03%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 42 (3.85%) Git
2 36 (3.30%) Artifactory
3 24 (2.20%) JIRA
4 10 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.73%) CircleCI
5 8 (0.73%) MLflow
6 5 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.46%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.18%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.18%) ERwin
8 1 (0.092%) GitLab
8 1 (0.092%) kappa
8 1 (0.092%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.092%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.092%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.092%) Selenium
8 1 (0.092%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.092%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.092%) Subversion
8 1 (0.092%) Vite
General
1 287 (26.33%) Finance
2 279 (25.60%) Social Skills
3 226 (20.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 197 (18.07%) Law
5 175 (16.06%) Analytical Skills
6 83 (7.61%) Retail
7 81 (7.43%) Banking
8 53 (4.86%) Front Office
9 47 (4.31%) Public Sector
10 43 (3.94%) Marketing
11 37 (3.39%) Manufacturing
12 22 (2.02%) Legal
13 12 (1.10%) Advertising
14 11 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (0.83%) Investment Banking
15 9 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (0.83%) Private Banking
16 8 (0.73%) Retail Banking
17 7 (0.64%) Back Office
17 7 (0.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 405 (37.16%) Senior
2 351 (32.20%) Data Engineer
3 240 (22.02%) Software Engineer
4 239 (21.93%) Lead
5 193 (17.71%) Senior Software Engineer
6 104 (9.54%) Senior Data Engineer
7 74 (6.79%) Python Engineer
8 50 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
8 50 (4.59%) Data Manager
9 45 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (3.94%) Architect
11 42 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
11 42 (3.85%) Lead Data Engineer
12 35 (3.21%) Data Architect
13 34 (3.12%) Analyst
13 34 (3.12%) AWS DevOps
13 34 (3.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 33 (3.03%) Developer
15 30 (2.75%) Azure Data Engineer
15 30 (2.75%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (18.99%) .NET
2 184 (16.88%) Node.js
3 132 (12.11%) PySpark
4 108 (9.91%) Kafka
5 33 (3.03%) J2EE
6 23 (2.11%) Pandas
6 23 (2.11%) React
7 22 (2.02%) NumPy
7 22 (2.02%) PyTorch
7 22 (2.02%) TensorFlow
8 19 (1.74%) scikit-learn
9 17 (1.56%) Spring
10 15 (1.38%) Middleware
11 13 (1.19%) REST
12 12 (1.10%) RESTful
13 11 (1.01%) Keras
13 11 (1.01%) Spring Boot
14 10 (0.92%) AngularJS
15 8 (0.73%) pytest
15 8 (0.73%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 181 (16.61%) Linux Command Line
1 181 (16.61%) Self-Motivation
2 178 (16.33%) Cyberattack
3 76 (6.97%) Algorithms
4 75 (6.88%) Product Ownership
5 59 (5.41%) Cloud Native
6 31 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 31 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 18 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (1.65%) FMCG
9 17 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
10 15 (1.38%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.01%) Reference Data
12 8 (0.73%) Derivative
12 8 (0.73%) Equities
12 8 (0.73%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.55%) Life Science
14 5 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
14 5 (0.46%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 186 (17.06%) Linux
2 9 (0.83%) Unix
3 3 (0.28%) Windows
4 2 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (44.50%) Agile
2 411 (37.71%) Analytics
2 411 (37.71%) Machine Learning
3 363 (33.30%) Mentoring
4 359 (32.94%) Software Engineering
5 308 (28.26%) Data Pipeline
6 307 (28.17%) ETL
7 304 (27.89%) DevOps
8 275 (25.23%) Data Modelling
9 260 (23.85%) CI/CD
10 259 (23.76%) Data Science
11 238 (21.83%) Artificial Intelligence
12 233 (21.38%) Business Intelligence
13 226 (20.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 217 (19.91%) Data Governance
15 215 (19.72%) Problem-Solving
15 215 (19.72%) Scrum
16 208 (19.08%) Microservices
17 191 (17.52%) User Experience
18 188 (17.25%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 685 (62.84%) Python
2 486 (44.59%) SQL
3 323 (29.63%) Java
4 216 (19.82%) Go
5 194 (17.80%) JavaScript
6 193 (17.71%) C++
7 180 (16.51%) Rust
8 55 (5.05%) C#
9 43 (3.94%) Scala
9 43 (3.94%) T-SQL
10 29 (2.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 19 (1.74%) R
12 14 (1.28%) Bash
13 11 (1.01%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.64%) PowerShell
14 7 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.46%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.37%) Bicep
17 3 (0.28%) Cypher
17 3 (0.28%) PROC SQL
Qualifications
1 220 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 200 (18.35%) AWS Certification
3 183 (16.79%) DV Cleared
4 181 (16.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 178 (16.33%) AWS Certified Developer
6 171 (15.69%) Degree
7 45 (4.13%) Master's Degree
8 42 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (3.30%) SC Cleared
10 25 (2.29%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.56%) PhD
12 8 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.55%) PMI Certification
13 6 (0.55%) PMP
14 5 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
14 5 (0.46%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.37%) Numerate Degree
15 4 (0.37%) SAP Certification
15 4 (0.37%) SnowPro
16 3 (0.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (19.08%) Data Quality
2 66 (6.06%) QA
3 51 (4.68%) GDPR
4 48 (4.40%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.92%) NIST
6 9 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.18%) Dublin Core
7 2 (0.18%) GRC
7 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.092%) CDISC
8 1 (0.092%) COBIT
8 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.092%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.092%) DICOM
8 1 (0.092%) HL7
8 1 (0.092%) PMO
8 1 (0.092%) SNOMED CT
8 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (9.91%) Docker
2 9 (0.83%) HDFS
3 8 (0.73%) Apache Flume
4 6 (0.55%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 114 (10.46%) Terraform
2 100 (9.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (0.73%) Oozie
4 5 (0.46%) Kubeflow
5 4 (0.37%) Grafana
6 3 (0.28%) Kibana
6 3 (0.28%) logstash
6 3 (0.28%) Packer
6 3 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.092%) Ansible
Vendors
1 224 (20.55%) Databricks
2 202 (18.53%) Microsoft
3 94 (8.62%) Google
4 42 (3.85%) Oracle
5 32 (2.94%) Informatica
6 31 (2.84%) OpenAI
7 29 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 22 (2.02%) SAP
9 19 (1.74%) Palantir
10 14 (1.28%) Foundry
11 10 (0.92%) Talend
12 7 (0.64%) Cloudera
13 6 (0.55%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.46%) StreamSets
14 5 (0.46%) Vertica
15 4 (0.37%) MicroStrategy
15 4 (0.37%) Red Hat
15 4 (0.37%) Teradata
16 3 (0.28%) Dell
16 3 (0.28%) IBM