Data Engineer Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in West Yorkshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 67 95
Rank change year-on-year +12 +28 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 91 42 36
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.22% 2.72% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 3.00% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 76 41 30
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -25.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £70,243
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £76,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% +20.00% -25.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 3,868 1,400 2,312
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 90.67% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,853 794 1,590
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,225 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,888 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Leeds -16 72 £80,000 +33.33% 12
Wakefield - 10 £55,000 -
Huddersfield - 7 - -
Halifax - 1 £55,000 -
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 18 August 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (31.87%) Analytics
2 24 (26.37%) Azure
2 24 (26.37%) SQL
3 23 (25.27%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (25.27%) Python
4 22 (24.18%) Data Engineering
5 17 (18.68%) Data Modelling
5 17 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (18.68%) ETL
6 15 (16.48%) AWS
6 15 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 13 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (13.19%) Data Quality
9 12 (13.19%) Databricks
10 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
10 11 (12.09%) DevOps
10 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
10 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
11 10 (10.99%) GCP
11 10 (10.99%) PySpark
12 9 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 9 (9.89%) Line Management
12 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
13 8 (8.79%) Agile
13 8 (8.79%) AI
13 8 (8.79%) Data Analytics
13 8 (8.79%) Power BI
14 7 (7.69%) BigQuery
14 7 (7.69%) Data Governance

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (5.49%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.40%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.20%) Apache
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (26.37%) Azure
2 15 (16.48%) AWS
3 13 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 9 (9.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.30%) dbt
7 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.10%) Dagster
8 1 (1.10%) GitHub
8 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.10%) Prefect
8 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.68%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (8.79%) Power BI
3 7 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 6 (6.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (6.59%) Data Lake
5 5 (5.49%) Metadata
5 5 (5.49%) Spark SQL
6 2 (2.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.20%) Big Data
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.10%) DataStage
7 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.10%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.10%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.10%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Git
General
1 7 (7.69%) Social Skills
2 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.30%) Finance
5 2 (2.20%) Local Government
6 1 (1.10%) Banking
6 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.10%) Games
6 1 (1.10%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.99%) PySpark
2 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.10%) Kafka
2 1 (1.10%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
2 1 (1.10%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Analytics
2 23 (25.27%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (24.18%) Data Engineering
4 17 (18.68%) Data Modelling
4 17 (18.68%) ETL
5 15 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
7 11 (12.09%) DevOps
7 11 (12.09%) Mentoring
8 9 (9.89%) Line Management
9 8 (8.79%) Agile
9 8 (8.79%) AI
9 8 (8.79%) Data Analytics
10 7 (7.69%) Data Governance
10 7 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (6.59%) Data Architecture
11 6 (6.59%) Data Science
11 6 (6.59%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.37%) SQL
2 23 (25.27%) Python
3 4 (4.40%) Java
4 3 (3.30%) Scala
4 3 (3.30%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.20%) Bicep
6 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (4.40%) Degree
2 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.20%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Databricks
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.40%) Foundry
3 4 (4.40%) Palantir
4 3 (3.30%) Google
5 2 (2.20%) Informatica
6 1 (1.10%) Nintex
6 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow