Data Engineer Job Trends in Wigan

Data Engineer
Manchester > Wigan

The median Data Engineer salary in Wigan is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Wigan 2.94% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.70% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £65,000 £55,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year +16.59% +1.36% -6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wigan

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wigan. 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 Wigan with a recognized job title 27 47 21
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.41% 95.92% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 10 23 18
10th Percentile - £22,300 £22,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £22,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,151 £39,000 £25,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +56.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £37,062 £47,500 £40,171
90th Percentile £38,625 £56,500 £47,500
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wigan

For the 6 months to 6 February 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 Wigan region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wigan 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft