Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £65,903 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 111 127
Rank change year-on-year +47 +16 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 166 44 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 2.19% 1.33% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 1.55% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 136 43 51
10th Percentile £40,636 £54,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £49,125 £56,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,903 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +35.00% -25.38%
75th Percentile £82,813 £72,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 7,100 2,838 4,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 85.53% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,031 1,599 2,660
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,722 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.82% - -8.33%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 Yorkshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
West Yorkshire +28 99 £75,000 +11.11% 27
South Yorkshire -1 38 £70,903 +5.04% 4
East Yorkshire +3 13 £50,000 -13.04% 2
North Yorkshire +13 9 £63,000 -10.00% 7
Humberside - 2 - - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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 Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (39.16%) SQL
2 59 (35.54%) Analytics
3 53 (31.93%) Data Engineering
4 45 (27.11%) Azure
5 44 (26.51%) ETL
6 40 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
7 38 (22.89%) Data Modelling
7 38 (22.89%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (22.29%) Python
9 36 (21.69%) CI/CD
10 34 (20.48%) Data Quality
11 32 (19.28%) AWS
12 31 (18.67%) Databricks
12 31 (18.67%) Decision-Making
13 30 (18.07%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (18.07%) Lakehouse
14 29 (17.47%) Data Warehouse
15 28 (16.87%) PySpark
16 25 (15.06%) DevOps
17 24 (14.46%) Data Transformation
18 23 (13.86%) Data Governance
19 21 (12.65%) Mentoring
20 20 (12.05%) Spark SQL
21 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
21 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
22 15 (9.04%) Computer Science
22 15 (9.04%) Data Integration
22 15 (9.04%) Power BI
22 15 (9.04%) Power Platform
23 14 (8.43%) Data Science

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 9 (5.42%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.41%) Apache
2 4 (2.41%) Palantir Foundry
3 3 (1.81%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (27.11%) Azure
2 32 (19.28%) AWS
3 30 (18.07%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (9.04%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.43%) Serverless
6 13 (7.83%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (7.23%) GCP
8 10 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (5.42%) Azure Functions
9 9 (5.42%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (4.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (4.82%) dbt
11 5 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.41%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.41%) Azure Databricks
13 3 (1.81%) GitHub
13 3 (1.81%) Snowflake
14 2 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
14 2 (1.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Broadband
1 2 (1.20%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.47%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (12.05%) Spark SQL
3 15 (9.04%) Power BI
4 9 (5.42%) Semantic Layer
5 8 (4.82%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.82%) Metadata
6 7 (4.22%) Big Data
6 7 (4.22%) BigQuery
7 5 (3.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (2.41%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.81%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.20%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (1.81%) Git
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (7.83%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.02%) Finance
3 10 (6.02%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.22%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.41%) Local Government
7 2 (1.20%) Advertising
7 2 (1.20%) Legal
8 1 (0.60%) Banking
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Games
8 1 (0.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.87%) PySpark
2 14 (8.43%) Terraform
3 10 (6.02%) ARM Templates
4 9 (5.42%) REST
5 5 (3.01%) .NET
6 2 (1.20%) JSON
6 2 (1.20%) Kafka
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
1 5 (3.01%) Operational Technology
2 4 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (1.81%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.20%) Blog
4 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.20%) NHS
4 2 (1.20%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.60%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.54%) Analytics
2 53 (31.93%) Data Engineering
3 44 (26.51%) ETL
4 40 (24.10%) Business Intelligence
5 38 (22.89%) Data Modelling
5 38 (22.89%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (21.69%) CI/CD
7 31 (18.67%) Decision-Making
8 30 (18.07%) Lakehouse
9 25 (15.06%) DevOps
10 24 (14.46%) Data Transformation
11 23 (13.86%) Data Governance
12 21 (12.65%) Mentoring
13 17 (10.24%) Infrastructure as Code
13 17 (10.24%) Test Automation
14 15 (9.04%) Computer Science
14 15 (9.04%) Data Integration
15 14 (8.43%) Data Science
16 13 (7.83%) Agile
16 13 (7.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 65 (39.16%) SQL
2 37 (22.29%) Python
3 9 (5.42%) Java
4 5 (3.01%) C#
4 5 (3.01%) C++
4 5 (3.01%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.81%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.81%) Scala
5 3 (1.81%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.20%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (7.83%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (7.83%) Degree
2 10 (6.02%) Security Cleared
3 8 (4.82%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (6.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (18.67%) Databricks
2 14 (8.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.41%) Foundry
3 4 (2.41%) Palantir
4 3 (1.81%) Google
5 2 (1.20%) Informatica
5 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (0.60%) Oracle
6 1 (0.60%) ServiceNow