Data Engineering Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 63 83
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 -9
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 48 35 57
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.65% 2.43% 2.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 2.76% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41 27 45
10th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £43,963
25th Percentile £53,750 £45,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -6.25% +6.35%
75th Percentile £83,500 £67,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £92,500 £88,079 £92,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £68,000 £48,507 £65,066
% change year-on-year +40.19% -25.45% +6.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,458 1,268 1,886
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 80.37% 88.12% 91.55%
Number of salaries quoted 850 629 1,434
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,200 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,500 £87,500
Yorkshire median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -4.34%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 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 +7 44 £70,000 +12.00% 11
Data Engineering
Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 7 (14.58%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.25%) Moodle
3 2 (4.17%) Apache
3 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (45.83%) Azure
2 15 (31.25%) AWS
3 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Purview
3 7 (14.58%) SaaS
4 6 (12.50%) GCP
5 5 (10.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.25%) Azure App Service
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub
6 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.17%) dbt
7 2 (4.17%) IaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.17%) PaaS
7 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.58%) Metadata
2 5 (10.42%) Data Lake
2 5 (10.42%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (10.42%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.42%) MySQL
3 3 (6.25%) Spark SQL
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (4.17%) Power BI
4 2 (4.17%) Power Query
4 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau
General
1 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Retail
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Law
5 2 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (47.92%) Data Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Data Manager
3 10 (20.83%) Engineering Manager
3 10 (20.83%) Senior
4 8 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (12.50%) Lead
5 6 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Principal Data Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Principal Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Support
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Trainer
7 3 (6.25%) Trainer
8 2 (4.17%) Insight Manager
8 2 (4.17%) Junior
8 2 (4.17%) Junior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) Dask
2 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.08%) Kafka
2 1 (2.08%) Next.js
2 1 (2.08%) NumPy
2 1 (2.08%) Pandas
2 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.08%) SciPy
2 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Low-Code
1 4 (8.33%) Virtual Team
2 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) e-Learning
2 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (6.25%) NHS
3 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) Analytics
2 21 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (41.67%) Mentoring
4 16 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 15 (31.25%) CI/CD
6 14 (29.17%) AI
6 14 (29.17%) Machine Learning
7 12 (25.00%) DevOps
7 12 (25.00%) Roadmaps
8 11 (22.92%) Agile
8 11 (22.92%) Data Modelling
8 11 (22.92%) ETL
9 10 (20.83%) Coaching
9 10 (20.83%) Data Security
9 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (18.75%) Data Science
10 9 (18.75%) Data Strategy
10 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
10 9 (18.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 33 (68.75%) SQL
2 30 (62.50%) Python
3 6 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 5 (10.42%) Scala
5 2 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.17%) Java
6 1 (2.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (8.33%) Degree
2 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (58.33%) Databricks
2 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.42%) Oracle
3 5 (10.42%) Palantir
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) OpenAI